SAfA: 18-21 June, 2018
SAfA's organizing committee
is delighted to announce that the 24th biennial SAfA conference
will take place 18-21 June, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. Full
information is presented on the conference website:
English: http://www.safa2018conference.org/
français: http://www.safa2018conference.org/francais/
Please send inquiries about the conference directly to the
SAfA 2018 Organizing Committee at
safa2018conference@gmail.com
Graduate Travel Application - download here - due March 30
We anticipate a wonderful
conference in Toronto!
Panafrican Association 2018: 10-14 September, 2018, Rabat, Morocco.
PAA conference website
Second circular and thematic sessions approved so far are available at these links:
Panaf 2018 2nd circular - call for papers
Panaf 2018 2eme circulaire
Panaf 2018 Thematic sessions
Previous (2016) SAfA Conference
SAfA 2016 Toulouse information is now archived on the SAfA webpage - click
the tab "About SAfA" and scroll down to the list of biennial
meetings to find the link.
2016 SAfA Book Prize
Alfredo González Ruibal, 2014,
An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an
African Borderland. Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers.
This work studies the tactics of
resistance deployed by a variety of indigenous communities in the
borderland between Sudan and Ethiopia. The Horn of Africa is an
early area of state formation and at the same time the home of many
egalitarian, small scale societies, which have lived in the buffer
zone between states for the last three thousand years. For this
reason, resistance is not something added to their sociopolitical
structures: it is an inherent part of those structures-a mode of
being. The main objective of the work is to understand the diverse
forms of resistance that characterizes the borderland groups, with
an emphasis on two essentially archaeological themes, materiality
and time, by combining archaeological, political and social theory,
ethnographic methods and historical data to examine different
processes of resistance in the long term (text from amazon.com).
2016 Prize for Outstanding
Student Presentation:
Mareike Brenner, Artifact
distributions and intra-site spatial analysis of the Sibudan layers
at the MSA site of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa