Sources and Methods in African History (EPUB) von Toyin Falola

An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history.

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