非洲过去的全球联系和互联社区：来自Cowrie Shells的故事

IF 2 3区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

African Archaeological Review Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI:10.1007/s10437-023-09546-5

Anne Haour, Abigail Moffett

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通过四个携带或交易牛仔壳的人的故事，本文探讨了从一千年前到现在世界各地之间的联系。这些连接跨越了遥远的距离，将西非和马尔代夫印度洋岛屿的社区连接在一起，并揭示了这一时期将非洲大陆不同地区与更广阔世界连接在一起的广阔陆地和海洋联系。我们用牛仔壳来探索物体如何参与创造社会关系，塑造自我和身份感。从联系的主题来看，这为思考事物及其传记如何融入我们今天的生活提供了一个跳板。

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Global Connections and Connected Communities in the African Past: Stories from Cowrie Shells

Through the stories of four people who carried or traded cowrie shells, this article examines the connections between various parts of the world from a thousand years ago to the present. These connections spanned great distances, linking communities in West Africa and the Indian Ocean islands of the Maldives, and they bring to light the vast land and sea links that connected different regions of the African continent to the wider world in this period. We use cowrie shells to explore how objects participate in creating social relations, shaping senses of self and identity. When viewed in relation to the theme of connections, this offers a springboard for thinking about how things and their biographies fit within our lives today.

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African Archaeological Review Multiple-

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2.90

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期刊介绍： African Archaeological Review publishes original research articles, review essays, reports, book/media reviews, and forums/commentaries on African archaeology, highlighting the contributions of the African continent to critical global issues in the past and present. Relevant topics include the emergence of modern humans and earliest manifestations of human culture; subsistence, agricultural, and technological innovations; and social complexity, as well as topical issues on heritage. The journal features timely continental and subcontinental studies covering cultural and historical processes; interregional interactions; biocultural evolution; cultural dynamics and ecology; the role of cultural materials in politics, ideology, and religion; different dimensions of economic life; the application of historical, textual, ethnoarchaeological, and archaeometric data in archaeological interpretation; and the intersections of cultural heritage, information technology, and community/public archaeology.