African histories
Subtitle: new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts
By: Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Trevor R. Getz
Contributors: Getz, Trevor R.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Historiography; Sources; Methodology; Study and teaching (Higher); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa; title: Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa; title: Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion; title: Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities; title: African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade; title: Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins; title: Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa; title: Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa; title: Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa; title: Literature and decolonization in Africa; title: Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises; title: Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa; title: Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.