Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism

Reid, Andrew; Lane, Paul; Segobye, Alinah Kelo; Börjeson, Lowe; Mathibidi, N.; Sekgarametso, Princess

doi:10.1080/00438243.1997.9980354

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“…Apart from the work by the Comaroffs, a number of historical accounts have given the production of place a primary focus in their analyses ðe.g., Grove 1989;Landau 1995;Morton 2004;Gulbrandsen 2007Þ. These accounts can be juxtaposed with the careful archaeological work that has been carried out at key mission sites among the northwestern Tswana in present-day Botswana ðBör-jeson and Lane 1996; Reid et al 1997;Lane 1999;Sekgarametso 2001Þ and in South Africa ðHall 1997Þ, as well as ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological research into the use of space among Tswana communities ðFrescura 1981; Larsson and Larsson 1984;Schapera 1984;Fewster 2006Þ. The scholarship around the missions to the Tswana provides an example of the ways in which historical, archaeological, and ethnographic strands of research can work together productively to explore how changes in routine activities and practical understandings of place were semeiotically grounded.…”

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Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture

Crossland

2013

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Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture

Crossland

2013

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“…The centrality of research on the various developments and expressions of sociopolitical complexity in the region (e.g., Boeyens 2016;Chirikure et al 2014;Denbow 1999;Huffman 2009;Loubser 1991;Pikirayi 2013;Reid et al 1997;Schoeman 2013) was also evident in the survey responses. Respondents indicated several future research directions under this theme: development of complex societies, urbanism, gender studies, migration and the movement of people, as well as continued focus on social and material transitions linked to sociopolitical development and the mechanisms that drive such changes-all topics that archaeozoology has shown to be of relevance elsewhere (e.g., Ashby 2004;deFrance 2009;Hockett 1998;Paris 2015;Teeter 2004;Weissbrod et al 2014).…”

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“…Hall 1984; 1986; S. Hall 1998; Huffman 1982; 1986 a ; 1986 b ; 1993; 2001; Lane 1994/5; 1998; 2004; Pistorius 1992; Reid et al 1997; Stahl 1993).…”

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“… Plan of Molokwane SEL1 (fifteenth‐seventeenth century) (after Pistorius 1992: 18, Fig. 7; Reid et al 1997: 373) showing a roughly circular arrangement of scalloped outer walls with two entrances that surrounded houses and grain bins which were arranged in a ring around a central cattle kraal. …”

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The potential of analogy in post‐processual archaeologies: a case study from Basimane ward, Serowe, Botswana

Fewster

2006

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article presents the results of an ethnoarchaeological study of Basimane ward in Serowe, Botswana. It is argued that African archaeology is currently at the forefront of the debate on theory-building in ethnoarchaeology and that this debate is exemplified in the argument about the use of the Central Cattle Pattern (CCP) model as a direct historical analogy to Iron Age settlement in southern Africa. My case study demonstrates that the continuities of settlement architecture that are evident for the past century in Basimane ward should not be interpreted as the persistence of the cultural forms that are described in the CCP. Rather, the persistence of elements of the physical form of the CCP to post-colonial settlement is a testimony to the interplay between structure and human agency, to the capacity of people constantly to renegotiate the rules -past and present, social and architectural -in order to make sense of the lives they live. The value of ethnoarchaeology to post-processual archaeology is not to provide a contemporary 'pattern' of material culture that may be compared to an ancient one in the form of a uniformitarian analogy, but rather to demonstrate that, according to the discursive nature of Giddens's duality of structure, archaeologists would be wrong to disengage structure and agency in order to 'find' them as separate archaeologically identifiable components.J. Roy. Anthrop. Inst. (N.S.) , - © Royal Anthropological Institute  of Basimane, Serowe, cannot be understood in terms of agency alone or in terms of structure alone. It is important to address the debate about the CCP model because some of the most thought-provoking work on the potential role of ethnoarchaeology in the post-processual context has been generated as a result of it.In its original inception ethnoarchaeology was a product of the processual archaeology of the s. Binford (: ) had employed analogy in his work by means of Middle Range Theory, which involved the objective testing of hypotheses about the past in order to produce a quantitative proof that would lead to the production of law-like generalizations. Since the post-processual critique in archaeology in the s rejected processualism for its aspirations to objectivity and its reliance on the philosophy of science as a source of theoretical inspiration, ethnoarchaeology, in Britain especially, has been largely neglected as a methodology by virtue of its association with the 62 Kathryn J. Fewster J. Roy. Anthrop. Inst. (N.S.) , -

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Tswana architecture and responses to colonialism

Cited by 30 publications

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Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture

Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture

New Directions in South African Archaeozoology of the Last 2,000 Years

The potential of analogy in post‐processual archaeologies: a case study from Basimane ward, Serowe, Botswana

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