02763ctm a2200349 a 4500 13837617 OSt 20250509164334.0 ta 220810s2005 nyua b 001 0 eng 2005000377 1580461646 (pbk) : ETB1550.00 DLC DLC DLC f------ DT19 .W75 2005 AFR 960.072 Wri 2005 22 Writing African history / edited by John Edward Philips. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, c2005. xii, 532 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 / Shomarka 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 -- 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 Yorb̮ òral historiography and aesthetics / Diedre Bd̀ǰo -- 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. Africa Historiography. Africa History. Philips, John Edward., 1952- Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000377.html Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e4y2-aa 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK ddc 12467 12467 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 AFR 960.072 Wri 2005 21925 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 AFR