Section Introduction: Archaeology and History - James Denbow
Trouble with Siblings: Archaeological and Historical Interpretation
of the West African Past - Christopher DeCorse
Material Culture and Cadastral Data: Documenting the Cedarberg
Frontier, South Africa, 1725-1740 - Laura J. Mitchell
Chronology, Material Culture, and Pathways to the Cultural History
of Yoruba-Edo Regioin, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1800 - Akin Ogundiran
For Trinkers Such As Beads: A Revalorization of Khosian Labor in
Colonial Southern Africa - Edwin Wilmsen
Section Introduction: Methodology through the Ethnic Lens: The
Study of Atlantic Africa - Paul Lovejoy
Pathways to African Ethnicity in the Americas: African National
Associations in Cuba during Slavery - Matt Childs
Slave Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas:
Evidence from Early Eighteenth-Century Costa Rica - Russell
Lohse
Africa in Louisiana: In Search of "Bambara" and Creole Identities
in Literary and Statistical Sources - Kevin Roberts
Section Introduction: New Approaches to Documentary Sources -
Thomas Spear
They Called Themselves Iloikop: Rethinking Pastoralist History in
East Africa - Christian Jennings
Interpreting Cases, Disentangling Disputes: Court Cases as a Source
for Understanding Patron-Client Relationships in Early Colonial
LagosColonial Lagos - Kristin Mann
Capricious Tyrants and Persecuted Subjects: Reading between the
Lines of Missionary Records in Precolonial Northern Namibia -
Meredith McKittrick
Narratives on Pilgrimages to Mecca: Beauty versus History in Mande
Oral Tradition - Jan Jansen
Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual
Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria - Constanze Weise
Passages in a Struggle over the Past: Stories of Maji Maji in
Njombe, Tanzania - James Giblin
Maisha: Life History and the History of Livelihood along the TAZARA
Railway in Tanzania - Jamie Monson
Section Introduction: Innovative Sources and Methods - David
Henige
Ben and Maggie: Consuming Data: Reasessing Scientific and
Anthropological Evidence: Historical Perspective on Nutrition
Studies - Cynthia Brantley
Electricity Networks in Africa: A Comparative Study, or How to
Write Social History from Economic Sources - Catherine
Coquery-Vidrovitch
"Rain or Shine We Gonna' Rock": Dance Subcultures and Identity
Construction in Accra, Ghana - Steven J. Salm
Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social History -
Dennis Cordell
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.
Marked by high-quality editing and scholarship, this volume is a
welcome and important contribution to current African historical
studies, deserving of wide readership. Summing Up: Essential.
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