Sources and methods in African history : spoken, written, unearthed /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Falola, Toyin, Jennings, Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004.
Edition:Soft cover ed.
Series:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 15.
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505 0 0 |t Archaeological sources.  |t Section introduction: Archaeology and history /  |r James Denbow --  |t Trouble with siblings: archaeological and historical interpretation of the West African past /  |r Christopher R. DeCorse, Gerard L. Chouin --  |t Material culture and Cadastral data: documenting the Cedarberg frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 /  |r Laura J. Mitchell --  |t Chronology, material culture, and pathways to the cultural history of Yoruba-Edo region, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 /  |r Akinwumi Ogundiran --  |t For trinkets such as beads: a revalorization of Khoisan labor in colonial Southern Africa /  |r Edwin N. Wilmsen --  |t Africa and the Atlantic world.  |t Section introduction: Methodology through the ethnic lens: the study of Atlantic Africa /  |r Paul E. Lovejoy --  |t Pathways to African ethnicity in the Americas: African national associations in Cuba during slavery /  |r Matt D. Childs --  |t Slave trade nomenclature and African ethnicities in the Americas: evidence from early eighteenth-century Costa Rica /  |r Russell Lohse --  |t Africa in Louisiana: in search of "Bambara" and Creole identities in literary and statistical sources /  |r Kevin Roberts --  |t Documentary sources.  |t Section introduction: New approaches to documentary sources /  |r Thomas Spear --  |t They called themselves Iloikop: rethinking pastoralist history in nineteenth-century East Africa /  |r Christian Jennings --  |t Interpreting cases, disentangling disputes: court cases as a source for understanding patron-client relationships in early colonial Lagos /  |r Kristin Mann --  |t Capricious tyrants and persecuted subjects: reading between the lines of missionary records in precolonial Northern Namibia /  |r Meredith McKittrick --  |t Oral tradition.  |t Section introduction: Oral tradition: classic questions, new answers /  |r Dennis D. Cordell --  |t Narratives on pilgrimages to Mecca: beauty versus history in Mande oral tradition /  |r Jan Jansen --  |t Kingship and the mediators of the past: oral tradition and ritual performance in Nupeland, Nigeria /  |r Constanze Weise --  |t Passages in a struggle over the past: stories of Maji Maji in Njombe, Tanzania /  |r James Giblin -- Maisha: life history and the history of livelihood along the TAZARA railway in Tanzania /  |r Jamie Monson --  |t Innovative sources and methods.  |t Section Introduction: Innovative sources and methods /  |r David Henige --  |t Ben and Maggie: consuming data: reassessing scientific and anthropological evidence: historical perspective on nutrition studies /  |r Cynthia Brantley --  |t Electricity networks in Africa: a comparative study, or how to write social history from economic sources /  |r Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch --  |t "Rain or shine we gonna' rock": dance subcultures and identity construction in Accra, Ghana /  |r Steven J. Salm --  |t Sample surveys: underexploited sources for African social history /  |r Dennis D. Cordell. 
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