An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 - Couverture rigide

DeCorse, Christopher R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560989718 ISBN 13 : 9781560989714

Editeur : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Christopher R Decorse

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

[A]n account of the significance of Elmina in West African history, showing how archaeological evidence can be integrated with documentary sources and oral evidence to cast new light on this phase of Africas history. --Martin Hall, University of Cape Town

[E]legantly reveals a town where West Africans dealt on equal terms with Europeans... DeCorse brings alive a town which was more African than European in its diet, burial practice, religious rites, and spatial relations, a town with trading connections with four continents. --Merrick Posnansky, University of California, Los Angeles

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'DeCorse uses well-dated European artifacts to help establish what is certainly the most comprehensive archaeological sequence of historic period West Africa...Descriptions and analyses of potting, metalwork, bead making, ivory carving, and salt making provide much new information and in some cases demand reevaluation of previously held ideas.' Leland Ferguson, University of South Carolina

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1560989718
• ISBN 13: 9781560989714
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296