Writing African history
By: edited by John Edward Philips.
Contributors: Philips, John Edward, 1952-
Edition: Softcover ed.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- [v.20]
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781580462563
Subjects: Africa -- Historiography.; Africa -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is African history? / John Edward Philips; title: Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech Mcintosh; title: Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehert; title: Physical anthropology and African history / S.O.Y. Keita; title: The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian; title: Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige; title: Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper; title: Arabic sources for African history / John Thornton; title: European documents and African history / John Thornton; title: Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola; title: Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert; title: African economic history: approaches to research / Masao Yoshida; title: Signs of time, shapes of thought: the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal; title: Methodologies in Yoruba oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre L. Badejo; title: Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi; title: Africa and world-systems analysis: a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin; title: "What Africa has given America": African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway; title: History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu; title: Writing about women: approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon; title: Writing African history / John Edward Philips.