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Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken Written Unearthed(Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

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Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first section deals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. The fifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Christian Jennings is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
Marked by high-quality editing and scholarship, this volume is a welcome and important contribution to current African historical studies, deserving of wide readership. Summing Up: Essential. 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title


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  • ISBN-13: 9781580461344
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Sub Title: Spoken Written Unearthed
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1580461344
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
  • Weight: 1 gr


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