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Africa as Method

A Handbook of Sources and Epistemologies

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This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa. It illuminates how scholars of Africa locate, select, interpret, and combine sources to reconstruct Africa’s past. Each contributor presents a specific typology of source or body of sources. Focusing on specific case studies, the chapters offer a broad overview of the methods and sources employed by historians, anthropologists, linguists, and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, working on Africa. The topics covered are diverse and include the significance of oral sources and how they relate to written sources; the perspectives provided by female writings on and from Africa; the relevance of Islamic court records for the study of Africa; the use of songs and poetry for the understanding of contemporary political protests; the employment of photographs and other visual sources for the study of the African past; how new sources or new interpretations of existing ones can provide different historical periodization; and finally, how biographies and autobiographies, including personal experiences with fieldwork in Africa, can contribute to shed light on Africa’s past. The book is a valuable resource for graduate students and academics interested in doing research on Africa. It provides a sweeping but rich understanding of the methodologies in the field of African studies, and for historians in general. Ultimately, this book contends that the specific methodologies developed for the study of Africa are relevant not only for the understanding of the continent itself, but can also contribute significantly to the historical method more widely.
Pages
318 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2024-11-01
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Springer
EAN papier
9789819757664
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9789819757671
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31
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6164 Ko
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210,99 €
EAN EPUB
9789819757671
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
3
Nombre pages imprimables
31
Taille du fichier
5407 Ko
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Uoldelul Chelati Dirar is Associate Professor of African History at the Department of Political science, communication and international relations, University of Macerata, where he teaches African History and History of International Relations. His main research interests are focused on the impact of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa and on the process of elites formation in the region.

Karin Pallaver is Associate Professor of African History at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, where she teaches African History and Indian Ocean History. Her main research interest is the history of money in currency in East Africa. On this topic, she has coordinated two research projects and published several articles and book chapters.

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