Includes bibliographical references (p.285-307) and index.

Issues of representation, social memory, and oral traditions -- Ques tions that count : Africa and beyond -- Oral traditions and archaeology : first perspectives -- Critical historical archaeologies and historic al representations / with Jonathan Walz -- Social memory, mnemonics, an d historical archaeology -- Tropes, space, and historical archaeology - - Moving historical archaeology to symbolic space -- Historical archaeo logy and representations of iron technology in Africa -- The politics o f history making and historical representation of indigenous production -- Historical representations of the Cwezi "dynasty" : how oral tradit ions and historical archaeology came to support a historical "House of Cards" -- The Cwezi myth of statehood : its resurrection and demise / w ith Kharyssa Rhodes -- Foreigners or endogenous development in the Horn of Africa? new representations from historical archaeology.