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Article: Landscape, transformations and the archaeology of impact: social disruption and state formation in southern Africa. (Archaeology).
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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PERRY, WARREN R. Landscape, transformations and the archaeology of impact: social disruption and state formation in southern Africa. xv, 180 pp., maps, tables. New York, London: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 1999. $62.00
For most southern African archaeologists, particularly those who work on the archaeolngy of second millennium agropastoralists, I suspect that this book on the archaeology of the Pre- and Post-Mfecane period will disappoint. While the questions Perry asks about the role of European expansion and the changes evident in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political geography of South Africa are valid, most archaeologists will have reservations about ...