Reconstructing African culture history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Other Authors: Gabel, Creighton, Bennett, Norman R. (Norman Robert), 1932-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Boston University Press, 1967.
Series:African research studies, no. 8.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark
  • Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis
  • African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott
  • The use of oral tradition in African culture history, by J. Vansina
  • The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam
  • African art and culture history, by R. Sieber
  • The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone
  • The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson
  • Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan
  • Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture history, by C. Gabel.