Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory

Stephanie Wynne-Jones is a Swahili archaeologist at the University of York, specializing in East African coastal urbanism, material culture and social practice.Jeffrey B. Fleisher is Associate Professor at Rice University and Director of the Rice University Archaeological Field School.

• I. Disciplinary engagements with Africa1 Theory in Africa: Africa in theoryStephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher2 African models in global historiesScott MacEachern 3 The Problem of equifinality in archaeologyFelix Chami4 The place of Africa in theoryHenrietta MooreII. Theory in Africa5 Problems with practice: Dynamic interpretation in African archaeologyStephanie Wynne-Jones6 Situating the Swahili houseJeffrey Fleisher7 Pioneers of archaeological thought and practice in postcolonial Nigeria Akin Ogundiran 8 Settlements and culture: Cognitive models in African prehistoryThomas Huffman 9 Material expressions of religious identity in GhanaKodzo Gavua 10 What kind of science is archaeology? Iron Age studies in southern AfricaPer Ditlef FredriksenIII. Africa in Archaeological Theory: Impacts beyond the Continent11 Iron Age imaginaries and barbarian encounters: European prehistory's African pastPaul Lane12 The African State in Theory: Thoughts on Political Landscapes and the Limits of Rule in Atlantic Senegal (and elsewhere)François G. Richard 13 Broadening the phenomenological perspective? Lessons from the African landscapeTimothy Insoll14 Off the coast, but hopefully not too off-the-cuff: Thoughts on anthropological archaeology and theory in Africa and Africa in theory and in practiceSusan KusIV. Commentary15 Joost Fontein16 Wendy Ashmore

"The chapters it collates are well written, the volume itself well produced and the paperback edition solidly bound. The book is more reasonably priced than many edited volumes and the electronic edition particularly so... Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory is recommended for its lively, if inevitably partial, engagement with contemporary theory in African archaeology, along with its resonances and effects beyond the continent." — Ann B. Stahl, AZANIA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA