Village Communities: Rethinking Power and Periphery
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Village Communities: Rethinking Power and Periphery - Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Cameron Gokee; Independent Scholar; United States |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Archaeology; Geography; History |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | archaeology of community; West Africa; village; globalization; relational perspective |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Archaeology; History; historical geography |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter introduces the main question motivating the book, namely how village communities in the medieval Western Sudan emerged through interactions at local, regional, and global scales. After situating this question in a broader anthropological discourse about globalization, the chapter first traces how tropes of timelessness and powerlessness have become tied to the concept of the village, then argues for a relational perspective on the active production of time, space, and social being in such local communities. Archaeologists can mobilize this perspective through the study of materiality and space at multiple scales in and around villages—the microscale of social actors and houses, the mesoscale of regional landscapes and cultural traditions, and the macroscale of an interregional political and economic mosaic. The chapter concludes by introducing a relational perspective to the historical production of community in and around the archaeological site of Diouboye, a medieval village in the gold-producing land of Bambuk. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Jul-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24748 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.24748 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Assembling the Village in Medieval Bambuk |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Upper Senegal; Diouboye; Bambuk, medieval period |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |