J Cameron Monroe: 2 books
The Precolonial State in West Africa
Building Power in Dahomey
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin,...
The Archaeology of Slavery
A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...