Echoes from an Abandoned Drum: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into Cordyla pinnata and Spiritual Culture in South-eastern Senegal

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/25:43910600

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Echoes from an Abandoned Drum: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into Cordyla pinnata and Spiritual Culture in South-eastern Senegal

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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&apos;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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Echoes from an Abandoned Drum: Ethnoarchaeological Insights into Cordyla pinnata and Spiritual Culture in South-eastern Senegal

Popis výsledku anglicky

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&apos;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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica-Natural Sciences in Archaeology

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

2336-1220

Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

nestránkováno

Kód UT WoS článku

001594485700005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105027132532