An African Commitment
Papers in Honour of Peter Lewis Shinnie

Judy Sterner and Nicholas David, editors

About the Book

In this book, colleagues and former students of Peter Lewis Shinnie (1915-2007) at the University of Calgary honour him in a set of topical, provocative and up-to-date papers that explore the social anthropology, archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of Northern, West and Central Africa.

Table of Contents

• D.G. Hatt: A Tribal Saint of the Twentieth Century
• Ali Osman Mohamed Salih: The Folklore of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study from Nawri in the Third Cataract Region
• John H. Robertson: History and Archaeology at Meroe
• Mary M.A. McDonald: Neolithic of Sudanese Tradition or Saharo-Sudanese Neolithic? The View from Dakhleh Oasis, South Central Egypt
• Amal Abu Bakr Mohamed: Three Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages from Central Sudan: A Comparative Study
• Louise de la Gorgendière: Asante Residence: Searching for Norms
• Donald I. Ray: Contemporary Asante Chieftaincy: Characteristics and Development
• Ann Brower Stahl: The Culture History of the Central Volta Basin: Retrospect and Prospect
• Frank Kense: Settlement and Livelihood in Mampurugu: Northern Ghana: Some Archaeological Reflections
• Brian V. Vivian: Sacred to Secular: Transitions in Akan Funerary Customs
• Judy Sterner: Sacred Pots and "Symbolic Reservoirs" in the Mandara Highlands of Northern Cameroon
• Nicholas David: The Archaeology of Ideology: Mortuary Practices in the Central Mandara Highlands, Northern Cameroon
• Schott MacEachern: Ethnicity and Stylistic Variation around Mayo Plata, Northern Cameroon
• Ian G. Robertson: Hoes and Metal Templates in Northern Cameroon

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