Colleen E Kriger
Biographic Data
| ID | 103321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen E Kriger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kriger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIGER C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
African Women in the Atlantic World
An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migrationin the context of the Euro-African encounter. HONORABLE MENTION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW BEST AFRICA-FOCUSED ANTHOLOGY OR EDITED COLLECTION, 2019 While there have been studies of women's roles in African societies and o…
Words and Things and “The Kuba Miracle”
The essay revisits Vansina’s work on the Kuba kingdom, drawing together art historical, historical linguistic, written documents, and oral sources. It argues that Vansina’s eclectic methodology fostered continual revision to his historical conclusions as new material in one of those threads forced rethinking interpretations of the others. Vansina’s captions to images of material forms from Kuba exemplify skilled compression while figuring African…
African voices on slavery and the slave trade, volume 2
Histories of slavery in Africa have much to reveal not only about Africa’s social and economic past but also about slavery itself as an ancient and global institution. An exemplar on this score is
Afro-European trade in the Atlantic world
Introduction – Material Culture and Commerce in Precolonial Africa
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Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stage…
The Fante and the Transatlantic slave trade
The Fante and the Transatlantic slave trade, by Rebecca Shumway, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2011, xii pp., 232 pp., US$85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58046-391-1http://dx.doi.org/10.10
The Importance of Mande Textiles in the African Side of the Atlantic Trade, Ca. 1680-1710
Production and trade of cotton textiles in West Africa go back at least a millennium, creating a 'cotton culture' that spawned centers producing cottons for export. This article focuses on a number of such centers that were located in the hinterlands of Senegambia and the Southern Rivers regions of the Upper Guinea Coast in the seventeenth century. Speakers of Mande languages were among the producers and traders of these textiles, which Europeans…
Slavery and the Birth of an African City
by Kristin Mann, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2007, xii, 474 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-34884-5, $55.00 (cloth) Drawing on her own research going back over thirty years, and also the work of maj...
Cloth in West African History
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with M…
Captive passage
Ethno-Archaeology in Jenne, Mali
An ethnoarchaeological study of the social and economic lives of three secialised producers based in Jenne, Mali: blacksmiths, potters and masons. These three were chosen for the long history of their existence and the wide variety of information they provide on, not only issues of production, workshops, social and economic networks and strategies, but also social status, the control of information and knowledge, gender, apprenticeship, and the m…
Pride of Men
Pride of Men
Part 1 The work and the setting: African history, ironworking and the mystique of the blacksmith iron production in central Africa - building a craft tradition, ca 600 BCE to 1920. Part 2 Social and econoic values of ironworking - regional patterns: smelting iron - fathers of the furnace making and changing money - iron currencies the work of the finishing forge. Part 3 Social and economic values of ironworking - localhistories: patronage and inn…
Ancient African Metallurgy
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What ro…
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (review)
Thornton, John. 1998. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. 2d Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 340 Pp
Decolonization and African Society
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
Iron Technology in East Africa
Reviewed by: Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology* Colleen Kriger (bio) Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology. By Peter R. Schmidt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+328; illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). For over twenty years, Peter Schmidt has been thinking and writing about ironworking in n…
Pride of Men
Pride of Men
Crown and Ritual
African Material Culture
Cloth in West African History
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with M…
Textile Production and Gender in the Sokoto Caliphate
Men and women, trained in the occupations of spinner, weaver, dyer, tailor and embroiderer, manufactured the renowned textile products of the Sokoto Caliphate, a nineteenth-century state in the central Sudan region of West Africa. The numerical distributions of men and women within these occupations were uneven, but not in accordance with the pattern described most frequently in the literature. Offered here is another, more detailed view of texti…
Robes of the Sokoto Caliphate
Ethno-Archaeology in Jenne, Mali
An ethnoarchaeological study of the social and economic lives of three secialised producers based in Jenne, Mali: blacksmiths, potters and masons. These three were chosen for the long history of their existence and the wide variety of information they provide on, not only issues of production, workshops, social and economic networks and strategies, but also social status, the control of information and knowledge, gender, apprenticeship, and the m…
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
Pride of Men
Decolonization and African Society
Textile Production in the Lower Niger Basin
(1990). Textile Production in the Lower Niger Basin: New Evidence from the 1841 Niger Expedition Collection. Textile History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 31-56
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Introduction – Material Culture and Commerce in Precolonial Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Importance of Mande Textiles in the African Side of the Atlantic Trade, Ca. 1680-1710
Production and trade of cotton textiles in West Africa go back at least a millennium, creating a 'cotton culture' that spawned centers producing cottons for export. This article focuses on a number of such centers that were located in the hinterlands of Senegambia and the Southern Rivers regions of the Upper Guinea Coast in the seventeenth century. Speakers of Mande languages were among the producers and traders of these textiles, which Europeans…
Slavery and the Birth of an African City
by Kristin Mann, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2007, xii, 474 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-34884-5, $55.00 (cloth) Drawing on her own research going back over thirty years, and also the work of maj...
Pride of Men
Pride of Men
Part 1 The work and the setting: African history, ironworking and the mystique of the blacksmith iron production in central Africa - building a craft tradition, ca 600 BCE to 1920. Part 2 Social and econoic values of ironworking - regional patterns: smelting iron - fathers of the furnace making and changing money - iron currencies the work of the finishing forge. Part 3 Social and economic values of ironworking - localhistories: patronage and inn…
Museum Collections as Sources for African History
A vast store of untapped primary sources for African history sits waiting to be exploited in museum collections around the world—the products made by African hands, or, if you will, African “material culture.” Within this general category I include not only the masterpieces of African artists and manufacturers, but also the more humble and mundane products used as everyday objects or as items of trade or currency, and everything in between. Altho…
Robes of the Sokoto Caliphate
Textile Production in the Lower Niger Basin
(1990). Textile Production in the Lower Niger Basin: New Evidence from the 1841 Niger Expedition Collection. Textile History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 31-56
Science and Technology in African History with Case Studies from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
Textile Production and Gender in the Sokoto Caliphate
Men and women, trained in the occupations of spinner, weaver, dyer, tailor and embroiderer, manufactured the renowned textile products of the Sokoto Caliphate, a nineteenth-century state in the central Sudan region of West Africa. The numerical distributions of men and women within these occupations were uneven, but not in accordance with the pattern described most frequently in the literature. Offered here is another, more detailed view of texti…
Museum Collections as Sources for African History
A vast store of untapped primary sources for African history sits waiting to be exploited in museum collections around the world—the products made by African hands, or, if you will, African “material culture.” Within this general category I include not only the masterpieces of African artists and manufacturers, but also the more humble and mundane products used as everyday objects or as items of trade or currency, and everything in between. Altho…
Metalworking in Africa South of the Sahara
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 241 Metalworking in Africa South of the Sahara: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by Ibironke O. Lawai. African Special Bibliographic Series, no. 19. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. 270; index. $79.50 (cloth). The study of technology in Africa falls under several academic rubrics, with so-called traditional or indigenous technical knowledge and craft traditions largely the domain of anthropology and…
Metalworking in Africa South of the Sahara
Preface Introduction Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa West Africa Western Sudan Western Guinea Coast Eastern Guinea Coast Central Africa Southern Africa Republic of South Africa and Madagascar East Africa Index
Crown and Ritual
African Material Culture
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
Iron Technology in East Africa
Reviewed by: Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology* Colleen Kriger (bio) Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology. By Peter R. Schmidt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+328; illustrations, maps, figures, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). For over twenty years, Peter Schmidt has been thinking and writing about ironworking in n…
Pride of Men
Pride of Men
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (review)
Thornton, John. 1998. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. 2d Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 340 Pp
Decolonization and African Society
Pride of Men
Pride of Men
Part 1 The work and the setting: African history, ironworking and the mystique of the blacksmith iron production in central Africa - building a craft tradition, ca 600 BCE to 1920. Part 2 Social and econoic values of ironworking - regional patterns: smelting iron - fathers of the furnace making and changing money - iron currencies the work of the finishing forge. Part 3 Social and economic values of ironworking - localhistories: patronage and inn…
Ancient African Metallurgy
Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What ro…
Ethno-Archaeology in Jenne, Mali
An ethnoarchaeological study of the social and economic lives of three secialised producers based in Jenne, Mali: blacksmiths, potters and masons. These three were chosen for the long history of their existence and the wide variety of information they provide on, not only issues of production, workshops, social and economic networks and strategies, but also social status, the control of information and knowledge, gender, apprenticeship, and the m…
Captive passage
Cloth in West African History
In this holistic approach to the study of textiles and their makers, Colleen Kriger charts the role cotton has played in commercial, community, and labor settings in West Africa. By paying close attention to the details of how people made, exchanged, and wore cotton cloth from before industrialization in Europe to the twentieth century, she is able to demonstrate some of the cultural effects of Africa's long involvement in trading contacts with M…
The Importance of Mande Textiles in the African Side of the Atlantic Trade, Ca. 1680-1710
Production and trade of cotton textiles in West Africa go back at least a millennium, creating a 'cotton culture' that spawned centers producing cottons for export. This article focuses on a number of such centers that were located in the hinterlands of Senegambia and the Southern Rivers regions of the Upper Guinea Coast in the seventeenth century. Speakers of Mande languages were among the producers and traders of these textiles, which Europeans…
Slavery and the Birth of an African City
by Kristin Mann, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2007, xii, 474 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-34884-5, $55.00 (cloth) Drawing on her own research going back over thirty years, and also the work of maj...
The Fante and the Transatlantic slave trade
The Fante and the Transatlantic slave trade, by Rebecca Shumway, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2011, xii pp., 232 pp., US$85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-58046-391-1http://dx.doi.org/10.10
Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stage…
History (26 works) · Geography (19 works) · History (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · African history and culture studies (14 works) · Ancient history (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (12 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (12 works)