Sources And Methods In African History
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Sources and Methods in African History
Author | : Toyin Falola,Christian Jennings |
Publsiher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580461409 |
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An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. 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 throughsome 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 sectiondeals 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. Thefifth 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 Candidatein History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Writing African History
Author | : John Edward Philips |
Publsiher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580462561 |
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A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
African History A Very Short Introduction
Author | : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192802484 |
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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography
Author | : Thomas T. Spear |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0190699078 |
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Sources and Methods for African History and Culture Essays in Honour of Adam Jones
Author | : Geert Castryck,Silke Strickrodt,Katja Werthmann |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 3865839266 |
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Doing Conceptual History in Africa
Author | : Axel Fleisch,Rhiannon Stephens |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781785339523 |
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Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” take shape.
UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition
Author | : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520066960 |
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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
African History through Sources
Author | : Nancy J. Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107030893 |
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A collection of primary source documents on sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period.