Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 521 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004380189
Series Statement:
African history volume 6
Content:
Introduction -- Archaeology and material landscapes -- All that glitters is not gold : facing the myths of ancient trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa / Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita -- African archaeology and the 'chalk line effect' : a consideration of Mali city and Sigilmasa / Francois-Xavier Fauvelle -- The 'Pays Do' and the origins of the Empire of Mali / Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita -- Imagined landscapes and moral topographies -- Imitation and creativity in the establishment of Islam in Oyo / Insa Nolte -- Fante 'origins' : the problematic evidence of 'tradition' / Robin Law -- The unknowns of the modern era in the greater Western Sahara : reassessing the territorial location of the Wlad Dlaym (15th-17th centuries) / Benjamin Acloque -- Contextualising writing and written sources -- Inscribing the now and the hereafter : first writings in early African history / Ghislaine Lydon -- New reinventions of the Sahel : reflections on the ta'ri' genre in the Timbuktu historiographical production, seventeenth to twentieth centuries / Mauro Nobili -- Calibrating the scholarship of Timbuktu / Charles C. Stewart -- Rethinking the place of Timbuktu in the intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Bruce S. Hall -- Examples of Sahelian book collectors over two centuries / Shamil Jeppie -- Contextualising orature and traditionalists -- The time-tested traditionist : intellectual trajectory and mediation from the early empires to the present day / Mamadou Diawara -- The next generation : young griots' quest for authority / Jan Jansen -- In praise of history; history as praise / Karin Barber -- From essentialism to pluralisms : new directions in precolonial West African history from the oral history archive at Fajara, The Gambia / Toby Green -- Dreamworlds : cultural narrative in Asante visionary experience / Thomas C. McCaskie -- Projects, texts, and representations -- The life of a text : Carsten Niebuhr and 'Abd al-ra'man Aga's Das Innere von Afrika / Camille Lefebvre -- The Kano Chronicle revisited / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slavery or death in Sokoto and Borno : tactics, legalities and sources / Murray Last -- A story of exile, a story in exile : Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and 'un forfait colonial' (revisited) / E. Ann McDougall -- Edmond Fortier (1862-1928) : photographer, documentarian and creator of stereotypes in West Africa / Daniela Moreau -- Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' publications and interview / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias -- Interpreting sources of the African past : an interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / by Benedetta Rossi
Note:
Festschrift Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. - Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004348837
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004348837
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004348837
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Westafrika
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Farias, P. F. de Moraes
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Festschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004380189
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