Power and permanence in precolonial Africa: a case study from the central Sahel

Haour, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0844-4867 (2005) Power and permanence in precolonial Africa: a case study from the central Sahel. World Archaeology, 37 (4). pp. 552-565. ISSN 1470-1375

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Abstract

This paper draws on a long-standing area of academic debate – archaeological manifestations of social complexity – with reference to the specific case of the Tsotsebaki Hausa of Niger. Tsotsebaki dynastic lists record a bewildering array of locations for early rulers of the polity, a situation which find parallels in oral and historical records of many parts of Africa. The present discussion links observations made through archaeological and oral tradition research in Niger with European and African parallels and with recent theoretical reconsiderations of the nature of power and of urbanism.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Centre for African Art and Archaeology
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:55
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2023 00:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8611
DOI:	10.1080/00438240500412816

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