Encyclopedia of precolonial Africa: archaeology, history, languages, cultures, and environments

Abstract

This encyclopedia affords a welcome, if ambitious, summation of the multidisciplinary scholarship of precolonial Africa to date.Joseph Vogel successfully brings together 81 specialists covering archaeological, historical, linguistic, sociocultural anthropological and environmental data and research.The volume covers a range of issues that will be of interest to the Africanist and non-Africanist alike, helping to dispel many of the myths and mysteries surrounding the "Dark Continent" (p.17).Such introductory essays will hopefully be of use in addressing the lack of African material used in comparative research and anthropological theory building (for example on state formation or urbanism), and the Eurocentric view that historical archaeology begins with European expansion and colonization in the 15th century in most world areas.

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