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Plastic Action Figures: Recent Improvisational Processes and Deep Ancestral Desires in the Gbe Area of Benin by Norman, Neil L

“…Archaeological evidence suggests that for at least 300 years, people along the Bight of Benin placed ceramic figures in household shrines. These domestic…”
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Feasts in Motion: Archaeological Views of Parades, Ancestral Pageants, and Socio-Political Process in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650–1727 AD by Norman, Neil L.

“…This paper examines the socio-political processes surrounding spectacular religious parades and more private acts of veneration and supplication within the…”
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Powerful Pots, Humbling Holes, and Regional Ritual Processes: Towards an Archaeology of Huedan Vodun, ca. 1650-1727 by Norman, Neil L.

“…Situated along the "Slave Coast" of West Africa, the international coastal trading entrepôt of Ouidah is infamous as the point of embarkation for hundreds of…”
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Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago by Faulkner, Patrick, Sarathi, Akshay, Crowther, Alison, Smith, Tam, Harris, Matthew, Ali, Abdallah K., Haji, Othman, LaViolette, Adria, Norman, Neil L., Horton, Mark, Boivin, Nicole

“…The intertidal zone, covering the nearshore fringe of coasts and islands and extending from the high-water mark to areas that remain fully submerged,…”
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Liquid gods within cellular landscapes: micro-monuments, ethnic pluralism and the political landscape of Hueda, Bénin, 1650-1727 by Norman, Neil L.

“…The polity of Hueda is well known for its rapid appearance on the world stage in the mid-seventeenth century and its spectacular collapse in 1727. Given its…”
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Hueda (Whydah) Country and Town: Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise and Collapse of an African Atlantic Kingdom by Norman, Neil L.

“…[...] the archaeological explorations that are the subject of this paper19 revealed contemporary layers of heavy burning at four settlement centers and one…”
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Collective and interpretive openings: perforated Gbe ritual ceramics at local, regional and Diasporic spheres of interpretation by Norman, Neil L.

“…Archaeologists use hand-built, low-fired, earthenware ceramics to build analogies connecting Africa to diasporic locales. Yet, the degree of specificity with…”
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Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa by Norman, Neil L., Kelly, Kenneth G.

“…Anthropologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the intersection of social, political, and religious institutions and landscape features…”
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An archaeology of West African atlanticization: regional analysis of the Huedan Palace districts and countryside (Bénin), 1650-1727 by Norman, Neil L.

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Hueda (Whydah) Country and Town: Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise and Collapse of an African Atlantic Kingdom: Current Trends in the Archaeology of African History by NORMAN, Neil L

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The Social Construction of Communities: Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest by Norman, Neil L.

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An archaeology of West African Atlanticization: Regional analysis of the Huedan palace districts and countryside (Bénin), 1650–1727 by Norman, Neil L

“…The present study explores the urban past of coastal West Africa, describing the cultural and historical dynamics between palace centers, surrounding towns,…”
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Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives by Norman, Neil L.

“…Norman reviews Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives edited Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern…”
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African Historical Archaeologies by Norman, Neil L.

“…Norman reviews African Historical Archaeologies edited by Andrew M. Reid and Paul J. Lane…”
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An archaeology of West African Atlanticization: Regional analysis of the Huedan palace districts and countryside (Benin), 1650--1727 by Norman, Neil L

“…The present study explores the urban past of coastal West Africa, describing the cultural and historical dynamics between palace centers, surrounding towns,…”
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African sacred groves: ecological dynamics and social change by Norman, Neil L.

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The Social Construction of Communities: Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest. 2008. VarienMark D. and PotterJames M., editors. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD. ix + 334 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN-978-0-7591-1008-3 by Norman, Neil L.

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The Social Construction of Communities: Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest. 2008. Mark D. Varien and James M. Potter, editors. AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD. ix + 334 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN-978-0-7591-1008-3 by Norman, Neil L.

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