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Author : Bassey W. Andah
Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis The Epistemology of West African Settlements by : Bassey W. Andah
Download or read book The Epistemology of West African Settlements written by Bassey W. Andah. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bassey W. Andah
Release : 1995
Genre : Africa
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Book Synopsis The Epistemology of West African Settlements by : Bassey W. Andah
Download or read book The Epistemology of West African Settlements written by Bassey W. Andah. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2016-08-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Knowledge Cultures by :
Download or read book Knowledge Cultures written by . This book was released on 2016-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares the western ideas of knowledge with the African. It aims at creating a mirror through which the western knowledge culture can look at itself through an unusual and interesting angle. The culture of Sub-Saharan Africa is the substance from which we, in this book, have tried to construe an epistemological mirror.
Author : Toyin Falola
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Sources and Methods in African History by : Toyin Falola
Download or read book Sources and Methods in African History written by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort throughsome of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first sectiondeals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. Thefifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Christian Jennings is a Doctoral Candidatein History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author : Augustin Holl
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements by : Augustin Holl
Download or read book Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements written by Augustin Holl. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements demonstrates the imperative need for ethnoarchaeology to include a deep sense of the history of the specific social group under analysis for its findings to truly impact archaeological thinking. Based on research from a long-term archaeological and ethnoarchaeological project conducted in the northernmost part of Cameroon, Augustin Holl's new work probes the ethnic survival of the Shuwa-Arab descendants of generations of pastoralists who migrated from Arabia to the Chad basin. The book robustly engages macro issues connected to processes of sedentarization, ethnic interaction in a multi-ethnic setting, and relations of power and dominion. On the micro level the work deciphers clues for the cultural survival and later prosperity of the Shuwa-Arab hidden in the material record of their daily settlement life. This book will be of great interest to students of African history, African studies, archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and ethnic and cultural studies seeking to understand how to successfully integrate history into the interpretation of the archaeological record.
