An Archaeology of Resistance
Materiality and Time in an African Borderland- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2014
Summary
An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland studies the tactics of resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical structures: it is an inherent part of those structures—a mode of being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory, ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different processes of resistance in the long term.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-3090-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-3091-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 382
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Outline of the Book No access
- Ch01. Time and Materiality No access Pages 1 - 44
- Ch02. Ecology of a Shatter Zone No access Pages 45 - 90
- Ch03. Direct Action against the State: The Gumuz No access Pages 91 - 172
- Ch04. Between Domination and Resistance: The Bertha No access Pages 173 - 240
- Ch05. Of Mimicry and Mao No access Pages 241 - 324
- Epilogue No access Pages 325 - 334
- References No access Pages 335 - 362
- Index No access Pages 363 - 380
- About the Author No access Pages 381 - 382





