Egalitarian revolution in the Savanna : the origins of a West African political system / Stephen A. Dueppen.
Material type: TextSeries: Approaches to anthropological archaeologyPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- Political customs and rites -- Africa, West
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Africa, West
- Human settlements -- Africa, West -- History
- Archaeology and history -- Africa, West
- Africa, West -- Antiquities
- Mœurs politiques -- Afrique occidentale
- Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Afrique occidentale
- Établissements humains -- Afrique occidentale -- Histoire
- Archéologie et histoire -- Afrique occidentale
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Antiquities
- Archaeology and history
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Human settlements
- Political customs and rites
- West Africa
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- GN492.3 .D84 2014eb
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Originally published: Equinox Publishing, Ltd., 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Decentralization and the evolution of egalitarian behaviors in sedentary societies -- Ancient villages in the Niger bend: context and methods for exploring the Voltaic region -- Ethnographic perspectives on western Burkina Faso: a survey -- Kirikongo: an introduction to the site, the setting, and the research design -- The West Africa environmental setting: Kirikongo in ecological context -- Stratigraphies and depositional episodes: the excavations -- Relative chronology: ceramics -- Community growth at Kirikongo: the spatial and temporal setting -- Early sedentary life in the Voltaic region: defining a "Voltaic tradition" -- Craft production at Kirikongo: the origins, development and reinterpretation of specialization -- Herding, farming, and ritual sacrifice: the economy from Kirikongo.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 22, 2014).
Many West African societies have egalitarian political systems, with non-centralised distributions of power. ''Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna'' analyses a wide range of archaeological data to explore the development of such societies. The volume offers a detailed case study of the village settlement of Kirikongo in western Burkina Faso. Over the course of the first millennium, this single homestead extended control over a growing community. The book argues that the decentralization of power in the twelfth century BCE radically transformed this society, changing gender roles, public acti.
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