<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mods xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" version="3.1" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd">
  <titleInfo>
    <title>Writing African history</title>
  </titleInfo>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Philips, John Edward.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1952-</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource manuscript="yes">text</typeOfResource>
  <genre authority="marc">bibliography</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">nyu</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Rochester, NY</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>University of Rochester Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2005</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2005</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>xii, 532 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <tableOfContents>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 --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by John Edward Philips.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject>
    <geographicCode authority="marcgac">f------</geographicCode>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
    <topic>Historiography</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">DT19 .W75 2005</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">AFR 960.072 Wri 2005</classification>
  <relatedItem type="series">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora</title>
    </titleInfo>
  </relatedItem>
  <identifier type="isbn">1580461646 (pbk) :</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2005000377</identifier>
  <identifier type="uri">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000377.html</identifier>
  <identifier type="uri">http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e4y2-aa</identifier>
  <location>
    <url displayLabel="Table of contents">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000377.html</url>
  </location>
  <location>
    <url displayLabel="Book review (H-Net)">http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e4y2-aa</url>
  </location>
  <recordInfo>
    <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">DLC</recordContentSource>
    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">220810</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20250509164334.0</recordChangeDate>
    <recordIdentifier source="OSt">13837617</recordIdentifier>
  </recordInfo>
</mods>
