B. K. Swartz & Raymond E. Dumett 
West African Culture Dynamics [PDF ebook] 
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

I-IV — General Editor’s Preface — Preface — PART ONE Archaeology — Introduction: Some Formulations on the Prehistory of West Africa — Processes of Coastal Evolution in West Africa During the Quaternary — The Status of Guinea Coast ?aleoarchaeological Knowledge as Seen from Legon — Excavations at Rim, North-Central Upper Volta: A Paleoecological Study — The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa — The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa — Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa — Comments on the Advent of Plant Cultivation in West Africa — History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 — The Sahara as a Center of Ceramic Dispersion in Northern Africa — Archaeology East of the Niger: A Review of Cultural-Historical Developments — The Ntereso Culture in Ghana — The Emergence of Iron Technology in West Africa, with Special Emphasis on the ?ok Culture of Nigeria — The Geographic Distribution of Footed Bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger Region — Speculations on Functions of Some Prehistoric Archaeological Materials from Sierra Leone — PART TWO History — Introduction: Research Trends in West African History — Prolegomena to the Study of the Culture History of the Igbo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria — An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Traditional Igbo Society — Old Akyem and the Origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotoku 1675-1775 — Administration and Trade in the Akwamu Empire, 1681-1730 — The Dynamics and Symbolism of Idoma Kingship — Gao and the Almoravids: A Hypothesis — Timbuktu: A Case Study of the Role of Legend in History — The Julas in Western Sudanese History: Long-Distance Traders and Developers of Resources — Slave Acquisition and Delivery in Precolonial Hausaland — Accommodation and Assimilation in the Landlord-Stranger Relationship — Some Paradoxes of Pacification: Senegal and France in the 1850’s and 1860’s — Changing Perspectives on African Resistance Movements and the Case of the Baule Peoples — Nation Building, Ethnicity, And the New Imperialism: Dilemmas of Political Development in Liberia — Long-Term Structural Change in the Economy of Central Niger — Biographical Notes — Index of Names — Index of Subjects