Table of Contents
Introduction
François Richard.- Part 1: Circulations: Scale, Value, Entanglement.- Chapter 1: The devolution of a currency: Cowries as ‘entangled objects’ in the Northern Territories of colonial Ghana
Natalie Swanepoel.- Chapter 2: Circulations through ‘worlds apart’: Predation and wealth in the Atlantic era
Ann B. Stahl.- Part 2: Mediations: Things, Texts, Oral Traditions.- Chapter 3: Language and historical archaeology: Colonial writing at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795
Yvonne Brink.- Chapter 4: The signs of mission: Rethinking archaeologies of representation
Zoe Crossland.- Part 3: Memory: Imagining and Remembering Colonial Worlds.- Chapter 5: Remembering and reworking the Swahili Diwanate: The role of objects and places at Vumba Kuu
Stephanie Wynne-Jones.- Chapter 6: Margins of difference: A study of the collapse and restoration of the Kekana chiefdom under the rule of chief Mugombane
Amanda Esterhuysen.- Part 4: Power: Politics, Capitalism, and the Making of Colonial Worlds.- Chapter 7: The ‘dirty’ business of state building in central Madagascar: From indigenous state to indigenous colonial power to external colonial imposition
Susan Kus and
Victor Raharijaona.- Chapter 8: The politics of absence: The longue durée of state-peasant interactions in the Siin (Senegal), 1850s-1930s
François G. Richard.- Chapter 9: Colonial encounters in the South African diamond fields: Exploring the materiality of finance capital
Lindsay Weiss.- Part 5: Discussion.- Chapter 10: On
Materializing Colonial Encounters: A commentary
Ibrahima Thiaw.- Chapter 11: African archaeologies in transition: Hybrid knowledges of colonial pasts
Michael Rowlands.