Sada Mire
Somaliland archaeologist
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Sada Mire's Degrees
- Masters Archaeology University of East Anglia
- Bachelors Archaeology University of Hargeisa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter from Arap clan who currently serves as an assistant professor at the faculty of archeology, Leiden University. She is a public intellectual and heritage activist who has argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need in her 2014 TEDxEuston talk. In 2017, Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts selected Mire as one of their 30 international thinkers and writers. She became the Director of Antiquities pf Somaliland in 2007. Raised in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Mire fled the country at the start of the civil war at the age of 15. She then traveled to Sweden seeking asylum. She has since returned to the Horn of Africa as an archaeologist.
Sada Mire's Published Works
Published Works
- The transition to farming in eastern Africa: new faunal and dating evidence from Wadh Lang'o and Usenge, Kenya (2007) (79)
- Preserving Knowledge, not Objects: A Somali Perspective for Heritage Management and Archaeological Research (2007) (37)
- The Knowledge-Centred Approach to the Somali Cultural Emergency and Heritage Development Assistance in Somaliland (2011) (28)
- Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire (2015) (15)
- The Discovery of Dhambalin Rock Art Site, Somaliland (2008) (11)
- Wagar, Fertility and Phallic Stelae: Cushitic Sky-God Belief and the Site of Saint Aw-Barkhadle, Somaliland (2015) (8)
- Comment 2: The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Basic Needs of East African Pastoralists (2017) (3)
- The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Basic Needs of East African Pastoralists. African Study Monographs (2017) (3)
- Divine Fertility (2020) (3)
- ‘The child that tiire doesn't give you, God won't give you either.’ The role of Rotheca myricoides in Somali fertility practices (2016) (2)
- Somaliland: archaeology in a breakaway state (2010) (2)
- Mapping the Archaeology of Somaliland: Religion, Art, Script, Time, Urbanism, Trade and Empire (2015) (1)
- The Republic of Somaliland: Stability, International Recognition and Economic Development (2008) (1)
- An ideology of fertility in the archaeology of the Horn of Africa (2020) (1)
- Somaliland: Cultural Heritage Management (2020) (0)
- Thursday , 9 th November 2017 Session One 3 D Reconstruction of Niniveh Naphur van Apeldoorn (2017) (0)
- Wagar, Fertility and Phallic Stelae: Cushitic Sky-God Belief and the Site of Saint Aw-Barkhadle, Somaliland (2015) (0)
- The Future of Somaliland Cultural Resources (2007) (0)
- Evaluation Report for UNESCO-Nairobi Office on Somali performance art in the North Eastern Provinces of Kenya (2009) (0)
- In the name of divine fertility (2020) (0)
- Sacred landscapes, materiality and fertility rituals (2020) (0)
- Material culture, fertility and sacrifice at the sacred landscape of Aw-Barkhadle (2020) (0)
- Shellmiddens on the shores of Lake Victoria (2006) (0)
- In the name of divine kinship (2020) (0)
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