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Archaeology, anthropology and community in Africa: lessons from Congo and Ghana

Anthropology and archaeology have a longstanding, if sometimes ambivalent, relationship, and in sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, few archaeologists working in the Holocene, at least, would wish to forego drawing upon ethnographic data as a source of inspiration or more precise analogies. Those ethnographic data are, however, themselves the product of long, complicated histories and cannot be projected onto past societies in any straightforward or unanalysed fashion. Both the well-known Kalahari Debate in southern Africa (in which the author of one of the books under review played a notable part; Wilmsen & Denbow 1990) and studies of the impact on West and Central African societies of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the introduction of New World crops (e.g. Guyer 1991) demonstrate this point. Key questions for archaeologists must therefore include how most productively to interrogate the ethnographic and ethnohistoric data available to them, how to be sure that the parallels on which they draw are robust and linkable to the material record that they excavate, and how their own fieldwork can contribute