Gilbert Pwiti
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Gilbert Pwiti's Degrees
- Bachelors Archaeology University of Zimbabwe
- Masters Archaeology University of Cape Town
Why Is Gilbert Pwiti Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gilbert Pwiti is an archaeologist. He is a pioneer of modern archaeological and heritage management research in southern Africa and Zimbabwe. Pwiti was amongst the first generation of indigenous historians to be trained in archaeology in postcolonial southern Africa and he was the first professor of Archaeology in Zimbabwe.
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- Community Involvement in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management (2008) (168)
- Unfulfilled promises? Heritage management and community participation at some of Africa's cultural heritage sites (2010) (156)
- The Legacy of Colonialism: Perceptions of the Cultural Heritage in Southern Africa, with Special Reference to Zimbabwe (1999) (78)
- Continuity and change : an archaeological study of farming communities in northern Zimbabwe AD 500-1700 (1996) (69)
- Heritage management in southern Africa: Local, national and international discourse (2001) (63)
- Let the ancestors rest in peace? New challenges for cultural heritage management in Zimbabwe (1996) (40)
- TRADE AND ECONOMIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE* (1991) (38)
- Legal frameworks for the protection of immovable cultural heritage in Africa (2005) (31)
- African Archaeology (3rd edition). By David W. Phillipson , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 406 pp., ISBN 052154002X (paperback), 0521832365 (hardback). Price 24.99 £ (paperback), 65.00 £ (hardback). (2006) (22)
- NITIES IN THE MID-ZAMBEZI VALLEY, NORTHERN ZIMBABWE* (1996) (18)
- Taking African cultural heritage management into the twenty-first century: Zimbabwe’s masterplan for cultural heritage management (1997) (16)
- Caves, monuments and texts : Zimbabwean archaeology today (1997) (13)
- People, Contacts, and the Environment in the African Past (2002) (12)
- Marketing the past: The ‘Shana village’ at Great Zimbabwe (1997) (11)
- Makasva: archaeological heritage, rainmaking and healing in Southern Africa with special reference to Eastern Zimbabwe (2007) (10)
- Southern Africa and the Swahili world (2002) (9)
- Prehistory, archaeology and education in Zimbabwe (2003) (9)
- States, traders, and colonists: Historical archaeology in Zimbabwe (1999) (9)
- Shona ethnography and the interpretation of Iron Age Zimbabwe burials: the significance of burial location (1991) (8)
- People, Contact and the Environment in the African Past (2002) (6)
- Economic change, ideology and the development of cultural complexity in northern Zimbabwe (2004) (6)
- Prehistoric farming communities of the mid-Zambezi valley, northern Zimbabwe (1994) (6)
- Embracing indigenous knowledge systems in the management of dryland ecosystems in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: the case of Chibememe and Tshovani communities, Chiredzi, Zimbabwe (2014) (5)
- Early farming communities of the middle Zambezi Valley (1994) (4)
- Southern Africa and the Swahili World. Studies in the African Past 2 (2003) (4)
- The African archaeology network : reports and a review (2004) (3)
- Faunal remains from Kasekete, a Zimbabwe tradition site in the Zambezi Valley, northern Zimbabwe (1997) (3)
- Ancient Urban Assemblages and Complex Spatial and Socio-Political Organization in Iron Age Archaeological Sites from Southern Africa (2021) (1)
- Investigating incorporation of community cultural values in archaeological impact assessment processes (2017) (1)
- Trade and economies in Southern Africa c. AD 700-1200 (1991) (1)
- The ancestral landscape of Manyikaland archaeology research project: an overview (2007) (1)
- THOMAS N. HUFFMAN. Snakes and crocodiles: power and symbolism in ancient Zimbabwe . x+228 pages, 16 colour plates, 260 illustrations. 1996. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand Univesity Press; 1-86814-254-X paperback. (1997) (1)
- Chronology of Early Farming Communities of northern Zimbabwe – a reappraisal (2017) (1)
- Preliminary report on excavations at Kamukombe, a farming community village site in the mid-Zambezi Valley, Northern Zimbabwe (2006) (1)
- The iron age in northern Zimbabwe: the Guruve project (1991) (0)
- Book Review: Ditswa Mmung: The Archaeology of Botswana. Edited by Paul Lane, Andrew Reid and Alinah Segobye. Botswana Society, Gaborone (ISBN 99912 60 39 0) and Pula Press (ISBN 99912 61 58 3), 1998, 263 pp. (2000) (0)
- Book Review: Archaeology Africa. By Martin Hall. David Phillip, Cape Town, 1996, 277 pp. (ISBN 0 86486 302 0); James Curry, London, 1996 (ISBN 0 85255 735 3; paperback) (2000) (0)
- David Phillipson: An Illustrious Synthesizer of African Archaeology (2023) (0)
- The Iron Age in northern Zimbabwe (1990) (0)
- Dynamics of populations, movements and responses to climatic changes in eastern, central and southern Africa (1997) (0)
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