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Outsiders and Strangers

By Anne Haour

Outsiders and Strangers

By Anne Haour

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Description
Studies of liminality have a long history in anthropology. In archaeology, identifying past people - rather than faceless entities - through material culture is still a work in progress, but a project that has seen increased attention in recent years. Focusing on West Africa, this book argues that we should explore what happens when the primary label assigned to a person's identity is that of an outsider - when he or she is of, but not in, society. Such outsiders canbe found everywhere in the West African past: rulers show off their foreign descent, traders migrate to new areas, potters and blacksmiths claim to be apart from society.
Thus far, however, it is mainly historians and anthropologists who have tackled the question of outsiders or liminal people. This book asks what archaeology can bring to the debate, and drawing together for the first time the extensive literature on the subject of outsiders, looks in detail at the role they played in the past 1 years of the West African past, in particular in the construction of great empires.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
2013-09-15
Publication Date:
2013-10-31
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199697744
ISBN13:
9780199697748
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[email protected]
Weight:
479 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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