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Sources and methods in African history : spoken, written, unearthed
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- ISBN: 9781580461405
- ISBN: 9781580461344
- ISBN: 1580461409
- ISBN: 1580461344
- ISBN: 9781580466172
- ISBN: 1580466176
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1 online resource (xxi, 409 pages) : maps
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Computer data. - Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
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| General Note: | CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User. Selected and revised papers originally presented at a conference on sources and methods held at the University of Texas at Austin from Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2001. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
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| Genre: | History Sources |
