Echoes from an Abandoned Drum: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into Cordyla pinnata and Spiritual Culture in South-eastern Senegal
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12210%2F25%3A43910600" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12210/25:43910600 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910600
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.academia.edu/144180611/Echoes_from_an_Abandoned_Drum_Ethnoarchaeological_Insights_into_Cordyla_pinnata_and_Spiritual_Culture_in_South_eastern_Senegal" target="_blank" >https://www.academia.edu/144180611/Echoes_from_an_Abandoned_Drum_Ethnoarchaeological_Insights_into_Cordyla_pinnata_and_Spiritual_Culture_in_South_eastern_Senegal</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2025.2.5" target="_blank" >10.24916/iansa.2025.2.5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Echoes from an Abandoned Drum: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into Cordyla pinnata and Spiritual Culture in South-eastern Senegal
Original language description
This study presents an interdisciplinary investigation into a fragmentary wooden drum found in the abandoned village of Sibi Kili, located in the Niokolo Koba National Park in Senegal. Combining ethnobotanical and ethnoarchaeological research, qualitative ethnographic interviews and wood anatomical analyses, the study offers new insights into the material and spiritual culture of Mandinka communities. Drum-related information emerged through open-ended and follow-up conversations during fieldwork in villages near the park. The drum - historically used as a communicative and ritual instrument - was identified through microscopic analysis and ethnographic evidence as being crafted from Cordyla pinnata, a culturally significant and increasingly endangered tree species. The study reveals the material's durability, symbolic resonance, and ecological context. More than a musical object, the drum served as a medium of spiritual, social, and political communication, deeply embedded in rites of passage, community mobilisation, and traditional authority. This case highlights the importance of ephemeral artefacts in African archaeology and calls attention to the preservation of wooden cultural materials as repositories of intangible heritage. The findings affirm the value of integrative research approaches for understanding the long-term human-environment interactions and the cultural biographies of objects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica-Natural Sciences in Archaeology
ISSN
1804-848X
e-ISSN
2336-1220
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
nestránkováno
UT code for WoS article
001594485700005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105027132532