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Through the integration of oral history and ethnographic and historical data with archaeological evidence, attempts have been
made to understand and reconstruct the settlement history of Katamansu, a late eighteenth-century historic town located on
the Accra Plains of Ghana. Two seasons of archaeological excavations at the Koowule site of the town yielded some evidence
of the 1826 Battle of Katamansu, a battle that was fought on the site between the Asante and the Ga and their coastal allies
of the Gold Coast. The excavations also yielded two spectacular features, whose configuration and content appear to be the
remains of a shrine of the Ga people. The features correlate well with ethnographic parallels described by Margaret Field,
an anthropologist, in her research on the religion and medicine of the Ga in the 1930s. This paper presents the historical
and material evidence of the 1826 battle as well as the analysis of the shrine contents. The shrine features provide insights
into an archaeological shrine's mundane materiality. They also expose how local (Neolithic and historic) and European artifacts
were recrafted and imbued with medicinal, magical, and spiritual properties to possibly cure and impress patients and supplicants
in shrine ritual practices. 相似文献
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Wazi Apoh 《International Journal of Historical Archaeology》2013,17(2):351-375
In talking about the cultural diversity of Africa’s past, the archaeological assessment of West African sites with mangled tangible and intangible fragments of German and British and/or French colonial encounters should not be ignored but rather discussed. This research explores how specific daily material cultural practices of German and British colonizers and Kpando indigenes in the Volta Region of Ghana were enmeshed in a medley of geopolitical, ideological and exchange connections. Through the use of archaeological, archival and ethnographic sources, this paper examines how daily practices of the people of Kpando were impacted by pre-colonial and dual colonial political economic pressures from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. This paper archaeologically explores how colonial officials maintained and renegotiated the norms of domesticity/gentility/Europeaness in their encounter with Akpini domestic technology, foodways and cultural practices. 相似文献
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