Neil Norman, Professsor of Archaeology"
Publications
Publications (In Preparation)
Norman, Neil L.
On Drinking God and Binding a Polity: Micro-monuments, Ethnic Pluralism, and the Political Landscape of Hueda, 1650-1727. In Ethnic Ambiguity and Archaeology in Africa. K. MacDonald and F. Richard (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Norman, Neil L.
Sacred Vortices of the African Atlantic: Towards an Archaeology of Huedan (Whydah) Vodun, 1650-1727. International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Norman, Neil L.
Hueda (Whydah) Country and Town: Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise and Collapse of an Atlantic Countryside and Entrepôt. International Journal of African Historical Studies.
Norman, Neil L.
Feasting the People and the Ancestors: Archaeological Views of Parades, Ancestral Pageants, and Socio-Political Process in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 A.D. Journal of World Prehistory.
Publications (Peer Reviewed)
Norman, Neil L.
Under Review
Citadels But Not Cities?: West African Urban Forms During the Age of the African Atlantic. In State and Society in the West African Atlantic. Cameron Monroe and Akin Ogundrian (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kelly, Kenneth G. and Norman, Neil L.
2007
Historical Archaeology of Landscape in Atlantic Africa. In Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Dan Hicks, Laura McAtackney, Graham Fairclough (eds.) Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Kelly, Kenneth G. and Norman, Neil L.
2006
Medium Vessels and the Longue Durée. In African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues of the African Diaspora. Jay Haviser and Kevin McDonald (eds.) London: University College of London Press (One World Archaeology Series).
Norman, Neil L. amd Kelly, Kenneth G.
2004
Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa. American Anthropologist. 106(1): 98-110.
Publications (Non-Peer Reviewed}
Norman, Neil L.
2008
An Archaeology of West African Atlanticization: Regional Analysis of the Huedan Palace Districts and Countryside (Bénin), 1650-1727. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia.
Norman, Neil L.
2006
Savi Countryside Archaeological Project. Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter. 39(3): 53.
Kelly, Kenneth G., Peggy Brunache, and Neil L. Norman
1999
Archaeological Fieldwork at Savi, Republic of Bénin: the 1999 Season. Nyame Akuma 52: 2-10.
Norman, Neil L.
1998
“The Gold is There and Don’t You Forget It!” Historical Research and Archeological Data Recovery at the Sixes Gold Mine (9CK537). R.S. Webb and Associates, Holly Springs, GA.
Journal Advisory Board Service
2008
African Archaeological Review
Web Publications (Non-Peer Reviewed)
Handler, J. and Norman, Neil L.
2007
September 2007 African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. From West Africa to Barbados: A Rare Pipe from a Plantation Slave Cemetery http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0907/news0907.html
Norman, Neil L.
2007
June 2007 African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. Preliminary Report on Survey, Ethnohistory, and Excavation in the Savi Townscape and Hinterland. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0607/news0607.html
Norman, Neil L. and Hope Norman
2006
Designers and webmaster for Ouidah Museum of History website:
http://www.museeouidah.org/xweda, and
Lost Communities of the Kingdom of the Hueda website: http://www.museeouidah.org/xweda/accueil.htm