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The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa provides the first detailed description of the prehistory of the Loango coast of west-central Africa over the course of more than 3,000 years. The archaeological data presented in this volume comes from a pivotal area through which, as linguistic and historical reconstructions have long indicated, Bantu-speaking peoples expanded before reaching eastern and southern Africa. Despite its historical importance, the prehistory of the Atlantic coastal regions of west-central Africa has until now remained almost unknown. James Denbow offers an imaginative approach to this subject, integrating the scientific side of fieldwork with the interplay of history, ethnography, politics, economics, and personalities. The resulting 'anthropology of archaeology' highlights the connections between past and present, change and modernity, in one of the most inaccessible and poorly known regions of west-central and southern Africa.

Ethnology --- Africa, Central --- Antiquities. --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Furniture --- Genghis Khan, --- Zone rurale --- Secteur secondaire --- Secondary sector --- Africa, Equatorial. --- Geography --- Sociology --- Rural areas --- economics --- Africa --- Ecuador --- Afrique centrale

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Examining the history of warfare and political development through a technological lens, Macola relates the study of military technology to the history of gender.

Firearms --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:327.5H22 --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- History. --- Social aspects --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Ontwapeningsproblemen - bewapening --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Central Africa. --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Africa, Central --- Equatorial

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In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods the history of Central Africa is reassessed.

Sociology of culture --- Social change --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1999 --- Central Africa --- Material culture --- Economic anthropology --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Africa, Central --- Africa, Equatorial --- Equatorial Africa --- Commerce --- History.

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"Following the publication in 2008 of Dictionnaire des emprunts arabes dans les langues de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et en Swahili, Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa completes and offers the results of over 20 years of research on Arabic loanwords. The volume reveals the impact Arabic has had on African languages far beyond the area of its direct influence. As in the previous volume, the author analyses the loans in the greatest possible number of languages spoken in the area, based on the publications he found in the most important libraries of the main universities and academic institutions specialised in the field. By suggesting the most frequently used Arabic loanwords, the dictionary will be an invaluable guide to African-language lexicon compilers, amongst others"--

African languages --- Arabic language --- Semitic languages --- Foreign elements --- Arabic --- Foreign words and phrases --- Arabic. --- Influence on African languages --- Dictionaries. --- Dictionaries --- Africa, Central --- Africa, East --- Africa, British East --- British East Africa --- East Africa --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Languages