"An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent s prime archeological sites generate little concern in the art world." Foreign Affairs
"This benchmark publication challenges all of us to be part of the solution. Plundering Africa s Past cannot help but raise the level of discourse and consciousness about the looting problem, what needs to be done to stop it and about the relationship between Africa and the West." African Studies Review
"Plundering Africa s Past should be required reading for all...
"An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent s prime archeologica...
..". one of the best books yet written on preindustrial African ironworking." Geoarchaeology
"Peter Schmidt has written an important synthesis of two decades' work on the iron technology of the Haya people of Tanzania." African Studies Review
..". essential reading for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of East Africa... " International Journal of African Historical Studies
"In Schmidt s skillful and sensitive hands... the topic comes alive as a vital sociology of knowledge in ways that will interest a great many readers, both in and outside of archaeology...
..". one of the best books yet written on preindustrial African ironworking." Geoarchaeology
"Peter Schmidt has written an important synthesi...
Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iron smelting over two thousand years in East and Central Africa. North America: Indiana U Press
Through a cross-cultural and comparative approach, it reveals both changes and significant continuities in the symbolism that conferred meaning to iro...
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained concept of prehistory--deeply entrenched in European minds up to the...
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking writt...
