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Roderick James McIntosh - The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold - 9780631173618 - V9780631173618
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The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold

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Description for The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold Hardback. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English--speaking scholar. Series: Peoples of Africa S. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 764.
The Peoples of the Middle Niger

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English-speaking scholar. ‘The Island of Gold’ was the medieval Muslim and later European name for a fabled source of gold and other tropical riches. Although the floodplain of the Niger river lies far from the goldfields, the mosaic of peoples along the Middle Niger created a wealth of grain, fish, and livestock that supported some of Africa’s oldest cities, including Timbuktu. These ancient cities of the region that came to be known as Western Sudan were ... Read more

In this book, Roderick James McIntosh uses the latest archaeological and anthropological research to provide a bold overview of the distant origins of life for the inhabitants of the Middle Niger, and an explanation for their social evolution. He shows, for instance, the difficulties the peoples faced in adapting to an unpredictable climate, and how their particular social organization determined the unusual nature of their responses to that change. Throughout the book oral traditions are integrated into the story, providing vivid insights into the inhabitants' complex culture and belief systems.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Peoples of Africa S.
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631173618
SKU
V9780631173618
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Ref
99-50

About Roderick James McIntosh
Roderick J. McIntosh The author is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, Texas. As an undergraduate at Yale he excavated in Ghana, and his PhD research involved extensive work at Jenne-jeno. He has now worked for twenty years in Mali, and two years in Senegal. In 1990 he was Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for the Advanced ... Read more

Reviews for The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold
"McIntosh's contribution is an immensely scholarly and in some ways a subversive book. The great strength of McIntosh's book is in its implicit demand that we re-examine the comfortable old taxonomies." History Today "A splendid achievement ... this volume sets a new standard of thoroughness in the presentation of West African history." Bulletin of the School of ... Read more

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