Writing African history / edited by John Edward Philips.

Other author Philips, John Edward, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Descriptionxii, 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesRochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 20, 1092-5228
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora v. 20. ^A494126
Contents What is African history? / John Edward Philips -- Archaeology and the reconstruction of the African past / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Writing African history from linguistic evidence / Christopher Ehret -- Physical anthropology and African history / S.Y.O. Keita -- The importance of botanical data to historical research on Africa / Dorothea Bedigian -- Oral tradition as a means of reconstructing the past / David Henige -- Oral sources and the challenge of African history / Barbara M. Cooper -- Arabic sources for African history / John Hunwick -- European documents and African history / John Thornton -- Mission and colonial documents / Toyin Falola -- Data collection and interpretation in the social history of Africa / Isaac Olawale Albert --
Contents African economic history : approaches to research / Masao Yoshida -- Signs of time, shapes of thought : the contributions of art history and visual culture to historical methods in Africa / Henry John Drewal -- Methodologies in Yorùbá oral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre Bádéjo -- Local history in post-independent Africa / Bala Achi -- Africa and world-systems analysis : a post-nationalist project? / William G. Martin -- "What Africa has given America" : African continuities in the North American diaspora / Joseph E. Holloway -- History and memory / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu -- Writing about women : approaches to a gendered perspective in African history / Kathleen Sheldon -- Writing African history / John Edward Philips.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005000377
ISBN1580461646 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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