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Title:Archaeology and Modes of Production in Pre-Colonial Southern Africa
Author:Hall, MartinISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:14
Issue:1
Period:October
Pages:1-17
Language:English
Geographic term:Southern Africa
Subjects:modes of production
historiography
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Anthropology and Archaeology
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636694
Abstract:An alternative road to conventional historiography is that of historical materialism. Materialist analysis is no stranger in the study of precolonial southern Africa. This article extends this approach to the early first millennium and shows that materialist theory, operationalized as a set of modes of production (the primitive communist, the lineage, and the tributary modes of production), can advance understanding of the precolonial history of southern Africa, and that material culture can be used to identify the nature of relations of production. Ref.
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