ISBN:
978-90-04-34883-7
,
978-90-04-38018-9 /eBook
ISSN:
2211-1441
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 521 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
African History 6
Keywords:
Westafrika Afrika, Subsahara
;
Mali
;
Gambia
;
Oyo
;
Barden
;
Ashanti
;
Sokoto
;
Bornu (NO-Nigeria)
;
Historiographie
;
Mythos und Legende
;
Sklaverei
;
Nigeria
;
Fortier, Edmond [Leben und Werk]
;
Timbuktu 〈Mali〉
Abstract:
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book`s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes -- Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies -- Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources -- Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists -- Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations -- Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' Publications -- Interview: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects -- Index
Note:
Enthält 22 Beiträge, eine Introduction der Herausgeber und ein Interview
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