Reconstructing African culture history.
By: Edited by Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett.
Contributors: Gabel, Creighton, ed.; Bennett, Norman Robert, 1932- ed.; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Series: African research studies,; no. 8
Publisher: Boston University Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: History -- Research; Africa -- Historiography
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Consists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962.
Table of contents: title: A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark.; title: Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis.; title: African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott.; title: The use of oral tradition in African culture history, by J. Vansina.; title: The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam.; title: African art and culture history, by R. Sieber.; title: The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone.; title: The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson.; title: Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan.; title: Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture history, by C. Gabel.