African histories :
Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza.
African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Trevor R. Getz. - Boston : Prentice Hall, 2012. - xviii, 284 p : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0136155588 9780136155584
2011017727
Africa--History.
Historiography--Methodology.
DT19 / .B75
960.072
African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Trevor R. Getz. - Boston : Prentice Hall, 2012. - xviii, 284 p : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0136155588 9780136155584
2011017727
Africa--History.
Historiography--Methodology.
DT19 / .B75
960.072