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An Archaeology of Resistance : Materiality and Time in an African Borderland / Alfredo González-Ruibal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeology in SocietyPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 381 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442230910
  • 1442230916
  • 9781442230910
  • 1306551609
  • 9781306551601
  • 1442230908
  • 9781442230903
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Archaeology of Resistance.DDC classification:
  • 963.3 23
LOC classification:
  • DT380
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Contents:
Time and materiality -- Ecology of a shatter zone -- Direct action against the state : the Gumuz -- Between domination and resistance : the Bertha -- Of mimicry and Mao -- Epilogue and conclusions.
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 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-361) and index.

Time and materiality -- Ecology of a shatter zone -- Direct action against the state : the Gumuz -- Between domination and resistance : the Bertha -- Of mimicry and Mao -- Epilogue and conclusions.

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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 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.

English.

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