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African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Trevor R. Getz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Historiography.
- Methodology.
- Africa--Historiography--Methodology.
- Africa.
- Africa--History--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Africa--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Prentice Hall, 2012.
- Summary:
- African Histories gives readers a rich understanding of Africa's complex history through a wide variety of sources while exposing them to the African voice. The text offers examples of how scholars have, over the past 60 years, demonstrated Africa's detailed history. It is about how historians interpret the past by giving full and adequate attention to the stories of Africans in ways that can be meaningful and acceptable to Africans and researchers alike. The text is titled African Histories in recognition of the diversity of sources and ways in which they are examined -- from publisher.
- Contents:
- Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa
- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa
- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion
- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities
- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade
- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins
- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa
- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa
- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa
- Literature and decolonization in Africa
- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises
- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa
- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780136155584
- 0136155588
- OCLC:
- 726150155
- Publisher Number:
- 99970571929
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