LEADER 06549nam 22006012 450 001 9911008464503321 005 20171102101414.0 010 $a1-281-77067-1 010 $a9786611770679 010 $a1-58046-617-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781580466172 035 $a(CKB)1000000000536380 035 $a(EBL)2028218 035 $a(OCoLC)666935449 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000248921 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12076900 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248921 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205294 035 $a(PQKB)10733904 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2028218 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781580466172 035 $a(DE-B1597)676353 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781580466172 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000536380 100 $a20150508d2003|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSources and methods in African history $espoken, written, unearthed /$fedited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings 210 1$aRochester, NY :$cUniversity of Rochester Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 409 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora 300 $aSelected 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. 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017). 311 08$a1-78204-754-9 311 08$a1-58046-134-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tArchaeological sources.$tSection introduction: Archaeology and history /$rJames Denbow --$tTrouble with siblings: archaeological and historical interpretation of the West African past /$rChristopher R. DeCorse, Gerard L. Chouin --$tMaterial culture and Cadastral data: documenting the Cedarberg frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 /$rLaura J. Mitchell --$tChronology, material culture, and pathways to the cultural history of Yoruba-Edo region, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 /$rAkinwumi Ogundiran --$tFor trinkets such as beads: a revalorization of Khoisan labor in colonial Southern Africa /$rEdwin N. Wilmsen --$tAfrica and the Atlantic world.$tSection introduction: Methodology through the ethnic lens: the study of Atlantic Africa /$rPaul E. Lovejoy --$tPathways to African ethnicity in the Americas: African national associations in Cuba during slavery /$rMatt D. Childs --$tSlave trade nomenclature and African ethnicities in the Americas: evidence from early eighteenth-century Costa Rica /$rRussell Lohse --$tAfrica in Louisiana: in search of "Bambara" and Creole identities in literary and statistical sources /$rKevin Roberts --$tDocumentary sources.$tSection introduction: New approaches to documentary sources /$rThomas Spear --$tThey called themselves Iloikop: rethinking pastoralist history in nineteenth-century East Africa /$rChristian Jennings --$tInterpreting cases, disentangling disputes: court cases as a source for understanding patron-client relationships in early colonial Lagos /$rKristin Mann --$tCapricious tyrants and persecuted subjects: reading between the lines of missionary records in precolonial Northern Namibia /$rMeredith McKittrick --$tOral tradition.$tSection introduction: Oral tradition: classic questions, new answers /$rDennis D. Cordell --$tNarratives on pilgrimages to Mecca: beauty versus history in Mande oral tradition /$rJan Jansen --$tKingship and the mediators of the past: oral tradition and ritual performance in Nupeland, Nigeria /$rConstanze Weise --$tPassages in a struggle over the past: stories of Maji Maji in Njombe, Tanzania /$rJames Giblin -- Maisha: life history and the history of livelihood along the TAZARA railway in Tanzania /$rJamie Monson --$tInnovative sources and methods.$tSection Introduction: Innovative sources and methods /$rDavid Henige --$tBen and Maggie: consuming data: reassessing scientific and anthropological evidence: historical perspective on nutrition studies /$rCynthia Brantley --$tElectricity networks in Africa: a comparative study, or how to write social history from economic sources /$rCatherine Coquery-Vidrovitch --$t"Rain or shine we gonna' rock": dance subcultures and identity construction in Accra, Ghana /$rSteven J. Salm --$tSample surveys: underexploited sources for African social history /$rDennis D. Cordell. 330 $aSpurred 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 ofwhich 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 isa doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. 410 0$aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora. 607 $aAfrica$xHistory$xMethodology 607 $aAfrica$xHistory$xSources 676 $a960/.01 702 $aFalola$b Toyin 702 $aJennings$b Christian 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008464503321 996 $aSources and methods in African history$91240670 997 $aUNINA