Sources and Methods in African History
Subtitle: Spoken, Written, Unearthed
Contributors: Toyin Falola (Editor); Christian Jennings (Editor)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 15
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781580461405
Subjects: African history; Historiography; History; History - General History; History: World; Africa; Africa - General; Essays; Study & Teaching; History / Africa; Literary Collections / African; Literature: History & Criticism
Table of contents: title: Section Introduction: Archaeology and History - James Denbow; title: Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the West African Past - Christopher DeCorse; title: Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the West African Past - Gerard Chouin; title: Material Culture and Cadastral Data: Documenting the Cedarberg Frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 - Laura J. Mitchell; title: Chronology, Material Culture, and Pathways to the Cultural History of Yoruba-Edo Region, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 - Akin Ogundiran; title: For Trinkets Such as Beads: A Revalorization of Khoisan Labor in Colonial South Africa - Edwin Wilmsen; title: Section Introduction: Methodology through the Ethnic Lens: The Study of Atlantic Africa - Paul Lovejoy; title: Pathways to African Ethnicity in the Americas: African National Associations in Cuba during Slavery - Matt Childs; title: Slave Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth Century Costa Rica - Russell Lohse; title: Africa in Louisiana: In Search of "Bambara" and Creole Identities in Literary and Statistical Sources - Kevin Roberts; title: Section Introduction: New Approaches to Documentary Sources - Thomas Spear; title: They Called Themselves Iloikop: Rethinking Pastoralist History in Nineteenth Century East Africa - Christian Jennings; title: Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding Patron-Client relationships in Early Colonial Lagos - Kristin Mann; title: Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects: Reading Between the Lines of Missionary Records in Precolonial Northern Namibia - Meredith McKittrick; title: Section Introduction: Oral Tradition: Classic Questions, New Answers - Dennis Cordell; title: Narratives on Pilgrimmages to Mecca: Beauty versus History in Mandé Oral Tradition - Jan Jansen; title: Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria - Constanze Weise; title: Passages in a Struggle over the Past: Stories of Maji Maji in Njombe, Tanzania - James Giblin; title: Maisha: Life History and the History of Livelihood along the TAZARA Railway in Tanzania - Jamie Monson; title: Section Introduction: Innovative Sources and Methods - David Henige; title: Ben and Maggie: Consuming Data: Reassessing Scientific and Anthropological Evidence: Historical Perspective on Nutrition Studies - Cynthia Brantley; title: Electricity Networks in Africa: A Comparative Study, or How to Write Social History from Economic Sources - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch; title: "Rain or Shine We Gonna' Rock": Dance Subcultures and Identity Construction in Accra, Ghana - Steven J. Salm; title: Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social History - Dennis Cordell