Stephanie Wynne-Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5657563 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephanie Wynne-Jones |
| NOMBRES | Stephanie |
| APELLIDO | Wynne-Jones |
| FIRMA | WYNNE-JONES S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Petrographic insights into Indian Ocean earthenwares
Connecting the Dots
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Eastern African Coast
This chapter offers an overview of historical and archaeological research on Islam and Islamic practice on the pre-colonial eastern African coast during the late first and early second millennium ce. Due to the visible remains of mosques, tombs, and other stylistic elements influenced by the Islamic heartlands, researchers have always regarded Islam as important to the emergence of Swahili coastal towns. In this way, the archaeology of the Swahil…
The social composition of Swahili society
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara - 1
The Swahili world
The Swahili World
Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
Vumba Kuu
Identity and society in Swahili towns have tended to be considered on the scale of a settlement or region; as discussed in the previous chapter, it is possible to understand urban Swahili identity relative to surrounding populations. At Kilwa Kisiwani, one way that this can be recognized is in the relationship between the town and its wider hinterland, as this creates a sense of the urbanism of Kilwa through the practices that went on there. Disp…
Swahili Material Worlds
The abiding importance of objects and spaces in the Swahili world makes this a fertile ground for archaeological exploration, as well as for material ethnography. This volume therefore picks up on a rich history of writing on objects and settings on the coast, and in the Indian Ocean world more generally. As such, the eastern African coast has potential for broader considerations of the role of objects in social life, an important field of both a…
Kilwa Kisiwani
Kilwa Kisiwani is an iconic Swahili stone town, its status and international renown exceeding any other. As discussed, it is also the town that has seen some of the largest-scale archaeological work, recovering a material record that bespeaks a thriving urban setting. Archaeological interest came on the heels of historical scholarship relating to the area; Kilwa is one of the few Swahili towns mentioned by both indigenous and foreign histories. T…
Moving Inland from the Coast
It is immediately clear that the towns of the Swahili coast could not have existed without a web of connections linking them to a deeper African hinterland. This is a complex network to recover: a lack of historical documents and an extremely patchy archaeological record have meant that interaction has been understood only in very general terms. This is often cited as a major lacuna in our understandings of the coast (Horton 1987a; Sinclair 1995)…
Objects in the Swahili World
The stone towns of the Swahili coast define and embody both contemporary Swahili society and the ways that the archaeology of that region is known. The series of large-scale projects that have explored their architecture and changing material culture provide the means through which the past is conceived, even though these stone towns were themselves a particular material expression of a broader eastern African society, linked through networks of …
Community and Identity in Material Culture
The identification of a cultural grouping termed ‘Swahili’ has long rested on the ability to discern a commonality of material and social environment across an enormous region, aspects of which have been discussed in previous chapters. Clearly, the coast and offshore islands of eastern Africa have been interconnected to a significant degree throughout the precolonial period, in a similar way to that noted in colonial histories. One of the key dat…
The Indian Ocean before the Arrival of Europeans
The precolonial Swahili coast was thus a region united through particular material practices. In this volume, consumption and display have been emphasized as aspects that are very clearly evident in the archaeological record. More ephemeral practices, such as ritual, dance, or public acts of memorialization, are only now being incorporated into our understandings, bringing the picture of the precolonial coast into line with what is known of more …
A Material Culture
Africa’s eastern littoral borders the Indian Ocean, providing the setting for the settlements, people, and language known collectively as Swahili, which have been a key part of that ocean’s trading networks for at least two millennia. Graeco-Roman sailors visited the now-forgotten metropolis of Rhapta, and their voyages were recorded in the narratives that later became the first-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Casson 1989). Traces of that…
A Material Culture
A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice. These theoreti…
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory
Biographies of Practice and the Negotiation of Swahili at Nineteenth-Century Vumba
Conservation, community archaeology, and archaeological mediation at Songo Mnara, Tanzania
During archaeological fieldwork at Songo Mnara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the southern Tanzanian coast, a storm caused the collapse of a graveyard’s retaining wall. The process initiated by the rebuilding of that wall serves as a case study in addressing the dialogue among researchers, community members, and national and international organizations concerning heritage. During the process of rebuilding the wall, the Village Ruins Committee w…
Swahili Urban Spaces of the Eastern African Coast
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Making Ancient Cities
This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities. The book's primary goal is to examine how ancient cities were made by the people who lived in them. The authors argue that …
The public life of the Swahili stonehouse, 14th–15th centuries AD
Houses are an important subject of archaeological research, normally explored through the households they contain. This has established a deliberately social agenda for the archaeology of houses, yet has had the unintended consequence of creating bounded worlds for study. Although household archaeologies explore the ways that households contributed to broader social and economic realms, it is rare to think through the public role of houses for no…
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina , Retsihisatse , Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy & Helen Smith. Pastoralists, warriors and colonists
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy & Helen Smith. Pastoralists, warriors and colonists: the archaeology of southern Madagascar (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2139). xxxvi+726 pages, 509 figures, 70 tables. 2010. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0680-3 paperback £ 95. - Volume 86 Issue 331
Creating urban communities at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, AD 800-1300
Urban communities on the medieval East African coast have been previously discussed in terms of ethnicity and migration. Here assemblages from coastal towns and from surface survey in the interior are used to paint a different picture of urban (Swahili) origins. The author shows that coast and interior shared a common culture, but that coastal sites grew into 'stonetowns' thanks to the social impact of imports: the material culture structured the…
Authorisation and the Process of Power
A Material Culture
A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice. These theoreti…
Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Conservation, community archaeology, and archaeological mediation at Songo Mnara, Tanzania
During archaeological fieldwork at Songo Mnara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the southern Tanzanian coast, a storm caused the collapse of a graveyard’s retaining wall. The process initiated by the rebuilding of that wall serves as a case study in addressing the dialogue among researchers, community members, and national and international organizations concerning heritage. During the process of rebuilding the wall, the Village Ruins Committee w…
Creating urban communities at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, AD 800-1300
Urban communities on the medieval East African coast have been previously discussed in terms of ethnicity and migration. Here assemblages from coastal towns and from surface survey in the interior are used to paint a different picture of urban (Swahili) origins. The author shows that coast and interior shared a common culture, but that coastal sites grew into 'stonetowns' thanks to the social impact of imports: the material culture structured the…
Authorisation and the Process of Power
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina , Retsihisatse , Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy & Helen Smith. Pastoralists, warriors and colonists
Mike Parker Pearson with Karen Godden, Ramilisonina, Retsihisatse, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Georges Heurtebize, Chantal Radimilahy & Helen Smith. Pastoralists, warriors and colonists: the archaeology of southern Madagascar (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2139). xxxvi+726 pages, 509 figures, 70 tables. 2010. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-4073-0680-3 paperback £ 95. - Volume 86 Issue 331
The public life of the Swahili stonehouse, 14th–15th centuries AD
Houses are an important subject of archaeological research, normally explored through the households they contain. This has established a deliberately social agenda for the archaeology of houses, yet has had the unintended consequence of creating bounded worlds for study. Although household archaeologies explore the ways that households contributed to broader social and economic realms, it is rare to think through the public role of houses for no…
Swahili Urban Spaces of the Eastern African Coast
A summary 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.
Making Ancient Cities
This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities. The book's primary goal is to examine how ancient cities were made by the people who lived in them. The authors argue that …
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory
Biographies of Practice and the Negotiation of Swahili at Nineteenth-Century Vumba
Conservation, community archaeology, and archaeological mediation at Songo Mnara, Tanzania
During archaeological fieldwork at Songo Mnara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the southern Tanzanian coast, a storm caused the collapse of a graveyard’s retaining wall. The process initiated by the rebuilding of that wall serves as a case study in addressing the dialogue among researchers, community members, and national and international organizations concerning heritage. During the process of rebuilding the wall, the Village Ruins Committee w…
Vumba Kuu
Identity and society in Swahili towns have tended to be considered on the scale of a settlement or region; as discussed in the previous chapter, it is possible to understand urban Swahili identity relative to surrounding populations. At Kilwa Kisiwani, one way that this can be recognized is in the relationship between the town and its wider hinterland, as this creates a sense of the urbanism of Kilwa through the practices that went on there. Disp…
Swahili Material Worlds
The abiding importance of objects and spaces in the Swahili world makes this a fertile ground for archaeological exploration, as well as for material ethnography. This volume therefore picks up on a rich history of writing on objects and settings on the coast, and in the Indian Ocean world more generally. As such, the eastern African coast has potential for broader considerations of the role of objects in social life, an important field of both a…
Kilwa Kisiwani
Kilwa Kisiwani is an iconic Swahili stone town, its status and international renown exceeding any other. As discussed, it is also the town that has seen some of the largest-scale archaeological work, recovering a material record that bespeaks a thriving urban setting. Archaeological interest came on the heels of historical scholarship relating to the area; Kilwa is one of the few Swahili towns mentioned by both indigenous and foreign histories. T…
Moving Inland from the Coast
It is immediately clear that the towns of the Swahili coast could not have existed without a web of connections linking them to a deeper African hinterland. This is a complex network to recover: a lack of historical documents and an extremely patchy archaeological record have meant that interaction has been understood only in very general terms. This is often cited as a major lacuna in our understandings of the coast (Horton 1987a; Sinclair 1995)…
Objects in the Swahili World
The stone towns of the Swahili coast define and embody both contemporary Swahili society and the ways that the archaeology of that region is known. The series of large-scale projects that have explored their architecture and changing material culture provide the means through which the past is conceived, even though these stone towns were themselves a particular material expression of a broader eastern African society, linked through networks of …
Community and Identity in Material Culture
The identification of a cultural grouping termed ‘Swahili’ has long rested on the ability to discern a commonality of material and social environment across an enormous region, aspects of which have been discussed in previous chapters. Clearly, the coast and offshore islands of eastern Africa have been interconnected to a significant degree throughout the precolonial period, in a similar way to that noted in colonial histories. One of the key dat…
The Indian Ocean before the Arrival of Europeans
The precolonial Swahili coast was thus a region united through particular material practices. In this volume, consumption and display have been emphasized as aspects that are very clearly evident in the archaeological record. More ephemeral practices, such as ritual, dance, or public acts of memorialization, are only now being incorporated into our understandings, bringing the picture of the precolonial coast into line with what is known of more …
A Material Culture
Africa’s eastern littoral borders the Indian Ocean, providing the setting for the settlements, people, and language known collectively as Swahili, which have been a key part of that ocean’s trading networks for at least two millennia. Graeco-Roman sailors visited the now-forgotten metropolis of Rhapta, and their voyages were recorded in the narratives that later became the first-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Casson 1989). Traces of that…
A Material Culture
A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees both people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice. These theoreti…
The social composition of Swahili society
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara - 1
The Swahili world
The Swahili World
Understanding the layout of early coastal settlement at Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
Eastern African Coast
This chapter offers an overview of historical and archaeological research on Islam and Islamic practice on the pre-colonial eastern African coast during the late first and early second millennium ce. Due to the visible remains of mosques, tombs, and other stylistic elements influenced by the Islamic heartlands, researchers have always regarded Islam as important to the emergence of Swahili coastal towns. In this way, the archaeology of the Swahil…
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (23 obras) · History (19 obras) · Archaeology (17 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Swahili (17 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (14 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · African history and culture studies (11 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Art (10 obras)