TY - BOOK AU - Brizuela-Garcia,Esperanza AU - Getz,Trevor R. TI - African histories: new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts SN - 0136155588 AV - DT19 .B75 U1 - 960.072 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Boston PB - Prentice Hall KW - Africa KW - History KW - Historiography KW - Methodology N1 - 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 ER -