Paths toward the past / Robert W. Harms ; Joseph Calder Miller ; David S. Newbury ; Michele D. Wagner ; Jan Vansina

Public ISBD Titre : Paths toward the past : African historical essays in honor of Jan Vansina Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Robert W. Harms, Editeur scientifique ; Joseph Calder Miller (1939-....), Editeur scientifique ; David S. Newbury, Editeur scientifique ; Michele D. Wagner, Editeur scientifique ; Jan Vansina (1929-2017), Dédicataire Editeur : Atlanta - Georgie -- États-Unis : African Studies Association Press Année de publication : 1994 Importance : viii-482 p. Présentation : ill., cartes Format : 23 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-918456-72-4 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Afrique -- Histoire Index. décimale : 960 Note de contenu : JAN VANSINA: AN APPRECIATION: An African view of the legendary Vansina / Felix K. Ekechi.–-An editorial appreciation of Jan Vansina / Robert Harms, Joseph C. Miller, David Newbury & Michèle Wagner.–-PROBING THE EVIDENCE OF THE MEMORY: An African philosophy of history in the oral tradition / E.J. Alagoa.-–Expressive culture and oral tradition: clues to African influences on Swahili history / Carol. M. Eastman.–-Migration, conflict, and leadership in early nineteenth-century South Africa: the case of the Matiwane / Elizabeth A. Eldredge.-–Gambit declined: pervasive doubt about systematic doubt / David Henige.-–A chronology of the dikgosi chiefs of the Baphalane people / J.S. Mohammé.-–Blood on the land: stories of conquest / Thomas T. Spear.–-EXPLORING MENTALITIES: “Beasts of burden” revisited: interpretations of women and gender in southern African societies / Iris Berger.–-Somali perceptions of colonial rule: testimonies to the 1948 Four Power Commission / Lee Cassanelli.–-Neo-traditionalism in colonial Buhaya: a Kenneth R. Curtis.–-Competing determinisms and the demography of twentieth-century Africa / Bruce Fetter.–-Letter-writing, nursing men and bicycles in the Belgian Congo: notes toward the social identity of a colonial category / Nancy Rose Hunt.–-Revelation, illumination, and the image of Christ in the Kgalagadi / Paul Landau.-–Verbal and visual imagery in Kitara (western Uganda) interpreting “The story of Isimbwa and Nyinamwiru”/ Renee L. Tantala.–-CRITICAL USES OF WRITTEN SOURCES: Looking westward: the relations of Hausaland with Western Sudan in pre-colonial times / Ismail H. Abdalla.–-Liberty and labor: the origins of Libreville reconsidered / Henry Bucher.–-The western West African and European frontier: contributions from former Archbihop of Conakry Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo’s autobiography for West African history / Victoria Bomba Coifman.-–Black Americans, Pan-Africanism and economic uplift in South Africa in the nineteenth century / Joyce F. Kirk.–-The Central Sudan and the Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy.–-Hausa blacksmiths and the great train robbery: iron theft and the moral economy of technological change in Northern Nigeria, 1910-1940 / Peter A. Rogers.-–Soldiers and smallpox: the 1626 Portuguese campaign against Njinga of Matamba in Angola / Cathy Skidmore-Hess.–-METHODOLOGICAL FRONTIERS: Putting the color back in the history / Carolyn Keyes Adenaike.–Asking the right questions: reconstructing history from the subtext / Chris Bierworth.–-Cultural history: path in academic forests / Patrick Manning.-–Rice as metaphor of the Japanese self / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.--APPENDIX: The writings of Jan Vansina.-–Dissertations in history supervised by Jan Vansina. Paths toward the past : African historical essays in honor of Jan Vansina [texte imprimé] / Robert W. Harms, Editeur scientifique ; Joseph Calder Miller (1939-....), Editeur scientifique ; David S. Newbury, Editeur scientifique ; Michele D. Wagner, Editeur scientifique ; Jan Vansina (1929-2017), Dédicataire . - Atlanta - Georgie -- États-Unis (Atlanta - Georgie -- États-Unis) : African Studies Association Press, 1994 . - viii-482 p. : ill., cartes ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-918456-72-4 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Afrique -- Histoire Index. décimale : 960 Note de contenu : JAN VANSINA: AN APPRECIATION: An African view of the legendary Vansina / Felix K. Ekechi.–-An editorial appreciation of Jan Vansina / Robert Harms, Joseph C. Miller, David Newbury & Michèle Wagner.–-PROBING THE EVIDENCE OF THE MEMORY: An African philosophy of history in the oral tradition / E.J. Alagoa.-–Expressive culture and oral tradition: clues to African influences on Swahili history / Carol. M. Eastman.–-Migration, conflict, and leadership in early nineteenth-century South Africa: the case of the Matiwane / Elizabeth A. Eldredge.-–Gambit declined: pervasive doubt about systematic doubt / David Henige.-–A chronology of the dikgosi chiefs of the Baphalane people / J.S. Mohammé.-–Blood on the land: stories of conquest / Thomas T. Spear.–-EXPLORING MENTALITIES: “Beasts of burden” revisited: interpretations of women and gender in southern African societies / Iris Berger.–-Somali perceptions of colonial rule: testimonies to the 1948 Four Power Commission / Lee Cassanelli.–-Neo-traditionalism in colonial Buhaya: a Kenneth R. Curtis.–-Competing determinisms and the demography of twentieth-century Africa / Bruce Fetter.–-Letter-writing, nursing men and bicycles in the Belgian Congo: notes toward the social identity of a colonial category / Nancy Rose Hunt.–-Revelation, illumination, and the image of Christ in the Kgalagadi / Paul Landau.-–Verbal and visual imagery in Kitara (western Uganda) interpreting “The story of Isimbwa and Nyinamwiru”/ Renee L. Tantala.–-CRITICAL USES OF WRITTEN SOURCES: Looking westward: the relations of Hausaland with Western Sudan in pre-colonial times / Ismail H. Abdalla.–-Liberty and labor: the origins of Libreville reconsidered / Henry Bucher.–-The western West African and European frontier: contributions from former Archbihop of Conakry Raymond-Marie Tchidimbo’s autobiography for West African history / Victoria Bomba Coifman.-–Black Americans, Pan-Africanism and economic uplift in South Africa in the nineteenth century / Joyce F. Kirk.–-The Central Sudan and the Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy.–-Hausa blacksmiths and the great train robbery: iron theft and the moral economy of technological change in Northern Nigeria, 1910-1940 / Peter A. Rogers.-–Soldiers and smallpox: the 1626 Portuguese campaign against Njinga of Matamba in Angola / Cathy Skidmore-Hess.–-METHODOLOGICAL FRONTIERS: Putting the color back in the history / Carolyn Keyes Adenaike.–Asking the right questions: reconstructing history from the subtext / Chris Bierworth.–-Cultural history: path in academic forests / Patrick Manning.-–Rice as metaphor of the Japanese self / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.--APPENDIX: The writings of Jan Vansina.-–Dissertations in history supervised by Jan Vansina.

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