ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ivory Carving, Kingdom Of Mapungubwe, Shona People
16 Aug 2020
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From the late 1st millennium ad: development of iron age villages: marks the beginning of socio-political complexity: schroda associated with long-distance trade; centralised control of ritual; ivory carving etc. Schroda monopolised the proxies and used this wealth as a springboard to sp power: centres of power (schroda etc. ) = more evidence of exotic goods than lesser-order good (schroda = level 3 capital more glass beads than you would find in a different village) Local factors on one hand; external factors on the other hand. Identities changed; and identities did not remain static throughout the eia and lia people were always migrating, were always intermixing etc. Venda people = passed through a number of developmental stages. Archaeological and historical sources = nb in our understanding of the venda. Archaeologically: 3 layers/phases associated with venda identity: when map disintergrates: movement of map people into other areas (venda heartland) along with.
