West African Culture Dynamics : : Archaeological and Historical Perspectives / / ed. by B. K. Swartz, Raymond E. Dumett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AFIGBO, A. E.,; ANDAH, BASSEY W.,; ARMSTRONG, ROBERT G.,; ATHERTON, JOHN H.,; ATKINSON, RONALD R.,; BAIER, STEPHEN,; BEDAUX, R. M. A.,; Barrows, Leland Conley,; COOKEY, S. J. S.,; COURSEY, D. G.,; DAVID, NICHOLAS,; DAVIES, OLIVER,; DUMETT, RAYMOND E.,; ELLIS, DAVID V.,; FLIGHT, COLIN,; HARTLE, DONALD D.,; HAYS, T. R.,; HERBERT, EUGENIA,; HOGENDORN, JAN S.,; HUNWICK, J. O.,; MOUSER, BRUCE L.,; MUNSON, PATRICK J.,; PERINBAM, B. MARIE,; RUSTAD, JOHN A.,; SWARTZ, Β. K.,; WEISKEL, TIMOTHY C.,; WILSON, HENRY S.,; ΚΕΑ, RAY Α.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dumett, Raymond E.,; Swartz, B. K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (626 p.) :; 10 plates

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• General Editor's Preface
• Preface
• PART ONE Archaeology
• Introduction: Some Formulations on the Prehistory of West Africa
• Processes of Coastal Evolution in West Africa During the Quaternary
• The Status of Guinea Coast Ρaleoarchaeological Knowledge as Seen from Legon
• Excavations at Rim, North-Central Upper Volta: A Paleoecological Study
• The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa
• The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa
• Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa
• Comments on the Advent of Plant Cultivation in West Africa
• History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900
• The Sahara as a Center of Ceramic Dispersion in Northern Africa
• Archaeology East of the Niger: A Review of Cultural-Historical Developments
• The Ntereso Culture in Ghana
• The Emergence of Iron Technology in West Africa, with Special Emphasis on the Νok Culture of Nigeria
• The Geographic Distribution of Footed Bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger Region
• Speculations on Functions of Some Prehistoric Archaeological Materials from Sierra Leone
• PART TWO History
• Introduction: Research Trends in West African History
• Prolegomena to the Study of the Culture History of the Igbo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria
• An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Traditional Igbo Society
• Old Akyem and the Origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotoku 1675-1775
• Administration and Trade in the Akwamu Empire, 1681-1730
• The Dynamics and Symbolism of Idoma Kingship
• Gao and the Almoravids: A Hypothesis
• Timbuktu: A Case Study of the Role of Legend in History
• The Julas in Western Sudanese History: Long-Distance Traders and Developers of Resources
• Slave Acquisition and Delivery in Precolonial Hausaland
• Accommodation and Assimilation in the Landlord-Stranger Relationship
• Some Paradoxes of Pacification: Senegal and France in the 1850's and 1860's
• Changing Perspectives on African Resistance Movements and the Case of the Baule Peoples
• Nation Building, Ethnicity, And the New Imperialism: Dilemmas of Political Development in Liberia
• Long-Term Structural Change in the Economy of Central Niger
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects