African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts /

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Main Author: Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza
Other Authors: Getz, Trevor R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Prentice Hall, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.