Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Respectably Married Man and the Servant Girl -- Chapter Two A Village Scandal is Born -- Chapter Three A Grisly Murder -- Plates -- Chapter Four The Investigation and Inquiry -- Chapter Five The First Trial -- Chapter Six The Second Trial -- Chapter Seven After the Second Trial -- Chapter Eight Case Summary and Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index -- Back Cover.
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AbstractAnthropologists and archaeologists have long been interested in the intersection of social, political, and religious institutions and landscape features. Recent efforts have been aimed at elucidating the tensions between the perception and description of such features among Western and non‐Western groups. This article seeks to contribute to this project through an analysis of a series of massive ditches (c. 17th–19th centuries A.D.) in southern Bénin, West Africa. In their accounts of the region, European travelers described these features through tropes and terminology that ascribe Western military designs and exploits. With insights drawn from archaeological and anthropological data, we argue a different perspective: that groups from the West African kingdoms of Hueda and Dahomey used the built landscape to reference cosmological factors, in attempts to negotiate and shape the political landscape of the region.
