Adria La Violette
Biographic Data
| ID | 663275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adria La Violette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adria |
| FAMILY NAME | La Violette |
| SIGNATURE | LA VIOLETTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Swahili World
This chapter discusses civilisation, created from a diverse assembly of scholarship about the Swahili, centred in archaeology and complemented by history, linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology. Historical and archaeological work on the Swahili coast was inspired by a misapprehension, born of a more general orientalist vision that guided interaction with contemporary Swahili. Contemporary scholarship has rightly rejected the paradigm, presen…
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…
African Material Culture
Beyond Chiefdoms
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Susan Keech Mclntosh. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.176 pp
Plundering Africa's Past
Iron Age Settlement around Mkiu, south-eastern Tanzania
Prospection et fouille d'une serie de sites d'habitat dont l'occupation s'etale sur un millenaire et demi. Presence de ceramique combinant des caracteristiques Urewe et Kwale. Preuves de la metallurgie du fer dans les sites les plus anciens, avec declin possible au Fer recent
The Swahili World
This chapter discusses civilisation, created from a diverse assembly of scholarship about the Swahili, centred in archaeology and complemented by history, linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology. Historical and archaeological work on the Swahili coast was inspired by a misapprehension, born of a more general orientalist vision that guided interaction with contemporary Swahili. Contemporary scholarship has rightly rejected the paradigm, presen…
Iron Age Settlement around Mkiu, south-eastern Tanzania
Prospection et fouille d'une serie de sites d'habitat dont l'occupation s'etale sur un millenaire et demi. Presence de ceramique combinant des caracteristiques Urewe et Kwale. Preuves de la metallurgie du fer dans les sites les plus anciens, avec declin possible au Fer recent
Beyond Chiefdoms
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Susan Keech Mclntosh. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.176 pp
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…
Iron Age Settlement around Mkiu, south-eastern Tanzania
Prospection et fouille d'une serie de sites d'habitat dont l'occupation s'etale sur un millenaire et demi. Presence de ceramique combinant des caracteristiques Urewe et Kwale. Preuves de la metallurgie du fer dans les sites les plus anciens, avec declin possible au Fer recent
Plundering Africa's Past
African Material Culture
Beyond Chiefdoms
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Susan Keech Mclntosh. ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.176 pp
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…
The Swahili World
This chapter discusses civilisation, created from a diverse assembly of scholarship about the Swahili, centred in archaeology and complemented by history, linguistics and socio-cultural anthropology. Historical and archaeological work on the Swahili coast was inspired by a misapprehension, born of a more general orientalist vision that guided interaction with contemporary Swahili. Contemporary scholarship has rightly rejected the paradigm, presen…
Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work)