Sources and methods in African history : spoken, written, unearthed /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | Soft cover ed. |
| Series: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ;
v. 15. |
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Table of Contents:
- Archaeological sources. Section introduction: Archaeology and history / James Denbow
- Trouble with siblings: archaeological and historical interpretation of the West African past / Christopher R. DeCorse, Gerard L. Chouin
- 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 region, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 / Akinwumi Ogundiran
- For trinkets such as beads: a revalorization of Khoisan labor in colonial Southern Africa / Edwin N. Wilmsen
- Africa and the Atlantic world. Section introduction: Methodology through the ethnic lens: the study of Atlantic Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy
- Pathways to African ethnicity in the Americas: African national associations in Cuba during slavery / Matt D. 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
- Documentary sources. Section introduction: New approaches to documentary sources / Thomas Spear
- They called themselves Iloikop: rethinking pastoralist history in nineteenth-century East Africa / Christian Jennings
- Interpreting cases, disentangling disputes: court cases as a source for understanding patron-client relationships in early colonial Lagos / Kristin Mann
- Capricious tyrants and persecuted subjects: reading between the lines of missionary records in precolonial Northern Namibia / Meredith McKittrick
- Oral tradition. Section introduction: Oral tradition: classic questions, new answers / Dennis D. Cordell
- 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
- Innovative sources and methods. Section Introduction: Innovative sources and methods / David Henige
- Ben and Maggie: consuming data: reassessing 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 D. Cordell.