Writing African history
By: edited by John Edward Philips.
Contributors: Philips, John Edward, 1952-
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora,
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Africa -- Historiography.; Africa -- History.
Description: "Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written."--Jacket.
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 Ehret; title: Physical anthropology and African history / Shomarka 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 Hunwick; 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 Yorùbá oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre Bádéjo; 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.