TY - BOOK ID - 5311477 TI - Sources and methods in African history : spoken, written, unearthed AU - Falola, Toyin. AU - Jennings, Christian. PY - 2003 VL - 15 SN - 1580461344 1782047549 9786611770679 1281770671 1580466176 PB - Rochester, NY : Woodbridge, Suffolk : University of Rochester Press ; Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Africa KW - Afrique KW - History KW - Methodology KW - Sources. KW - Historiography KW - Histoire KW - Méthodologie KW - Sources KW - Historiographie KW - Méthodologie KW - Methodology. KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - HISTORY / Africa / General. KW - African historiography. KW - African history. KW - African sources. KW - archaeological research. KW - historical data. KW - oral tradition. KW - research methods. KW - trans-Atlantic slave trade. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5311477 AB - Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.<BR><BR> This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort through some of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each ofwhich begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first section deals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. The fifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research.<BR><BR> Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research.<BR><BR> Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.<BR> Christian Jennings isa doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. ER -