Sources and Methods in African History
Spoken Written Unearthed
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2003
432 pages
978-1-58046-617-2 (ISBN)
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An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history.
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Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
Content
Section Introduction: Archaeology and History - James Denbow
Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the West African Past - Christopher DeCorse
Material Culture and Cadastral Data: Documenting the Cedarberg Frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 - Laura J. Mitchell
Chronology, Material Culture, and Pathways to the Cultural History of Yoruba-Edo Regioin, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 - Akin Ogundiran
For Trinkers Such As Beads: A Revalorization of Khosian Labor in Colonial Southern Africa - Edwin Wilmsen
Section Introduction: Methodology through the Ethnic Lens: The Study of Atlantic Africa - Paul Lovejoy
Pathways to African Ethnicity in the Americas: African National Associations in Cuba during Slavery - Matt Childs
Slave Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth-Century Costa Rica - Russell Lohse
Africa in Louisiana: In Search of "Bambara" and Creole Identities in Literary and Statistical Sources - Kevin Roberts
Section Introduction: New Approaches to Documentary Sources - Thomas Spear
They Called Themselves Iloikop: Rethinking Pastoralist History in East Africa - Christian Jennings
Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding Patron-Client Relationships in Early Colonial LagosColonial Lagos - Kristin Mann
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects: Reading between the Lines of Missionary Records in Precolonial Northern Namibia - Meredith McKittrick
Narratives on Pilgrimages to Mecca: Beauty versus History in Mande Oral Tradition - Jan Jansen
Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria - Constanze Weise
Passages in a Struggle over the Past: Stories of Maji Maji in Njombe, Tanzania - James Giblin
Maisha: Life History and the History of Livelihood along the TAZARA Railway in Tanzania - Jamie Monson
Section Introduction: Innovative Sources and Methods - David Henige
Ben and Maggie: Consuming Data: Reasessing Scientific and Anthropological Evidence: Historical Perspective on Nutrition Studies - Cynthia Brantley
Electricity Networks in Africa: A Comparative Study, or How to Write Social History from Economic Sources - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
"Rain or Shine We Gonna' Rock": Dance Subcultures and Identity Construction in Accra, Ghana - Steven J. Salm
Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social History - Dennis Cordell
Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the West African Past - Christopher DeCorse
Material Culture and Cadastral Data: Documenting the Cedarberg Frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 - Laura J. Mitchell
Chronology, Material Culture, and Pathways to the Cultural History of Yoruba-Edo Regioin, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 - Akin Ogundiran
For Trinkers Such As Beads: A Revalorization of Khosian Labor in Colonial Southern Africa - Edwin Wilmsen
Section Introduction: Methodology through the Ethnic Lens: The Study of Atlantic Africa - Paul Lovejoy
Pathways to African Ethnicity in the Americas: African National Associations in Cuba during Slavery - Matt Childs
Slave Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth-Century Costa Rica - Russell Lohse
Africa in Louisiana: In Search of "Bambara" and Creole Identities in Literary and Statistical Sources - Kevin Roberts
Section Introduction: New Approaches to Documentary Sources - Thomas Spear
They Called Themselves Iloikop: Rethinking Pastoralist History in East Africa - Christian Jennings
Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source for Understanding Patron-Client Relationships in Early Colonial LagosColonial Lagos - Kristin Mann
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects: Reading between the Lines of Missionary Records in Precolonial Northern Namibia - Meredith McKittrick
Narratives on Pilgrimages to Mecca: Beauty versus History in Mande Oral Tradition - Jan Jansen
Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria - Constanze Weise
Passages in a Struggle over the Past: Stories of Maji Maji in Njombe, Tanzania - James Giblin
Maisha: Life History and the History of Livelihood along the TAZARA Railway in Tanzania - Jamie Monson
Section Introduction: Innovative Sources and Methods - David Henige
Ben and Maggie: Consuming Data: Reasessing Scientific and Anthropological Evidence: Historical Perspective on Nutrition Studies - Cynthia Brantley
Electricity Networks in Africa: A Comparative Study, or How to Write Social History from Economic Sources - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
"Rain or Shine We Gonna' Rock": Dance Subcultures and Identity Construction in Accra, Ghana - Steven J. Salm
Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social History - Dennis Cordell
