African models in global histories

This chapter explains where Africa can be located in global human histories and especially archaeologies, and will argue that this intellectual positioning of Africa may stem at least in part from continuing Western assumptions about the passage of time or its lack in African societies. Archaeological research in Africa is certainly not disseminating assumptions of evolutionary stasis and timelessness among sub-Saharan African populations in the ideologically loaded manner noted for some of the research agendas in other disciplines, especially psychometrics. Africanist archaeologists must become more proactive in situating the work that one do within a number of wider milieux. The goal of 'Locating Theory' in Africa is a valuable and necessary one, but too much emphasis on local knowledge and local models misses the larger interpretive contexts through which one understand the history of all humans

Geography · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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