Liptako Speaks

Author : Paul Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855519
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liptako Speaks written by Paul Irwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians today turn increasingly to oral tradition as a source of data on the history of non-literate peoples, Paul Irwin cautions them against uncritical use of such evidence. In an attempt to determine how much historians can learn about the past from oral traditions, he studies those of Liptako, now a part of Upper Volta hut in the nineteenth century an emirate in one of West Africa's great imperial systems. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Paul Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835736954
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liptako Speaks written by Paul Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan M. Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299102130
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral Tradition as History written by Jan M. Vansina and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985-09-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Vansina’s 1961 book, Oral Tradition, was hailed internationally as a pioneering work in the field of ethno-history. Originally published in French, it was translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Hungarian. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise of Vansina’s success in subjecting oral traditions to intense functional analysis. Now, Vansina—with the benefit of two decades of additional thought and research—has revised his original work substantially, completely rewriting some sections and adding much new material. The result is an essentially new work, indispensable to all students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history who are concerned with the transmission and potential uses of oral material. “Those embarking on the challenging adventure of historical fieldwork with an oral community will find the book a valuable companion, filled with good practical advice. Those who already have collected bodies of oral material, or who strive to interpret and analyze that collected by others, will be forced to subject their own methodological approaches to a critical reexamination in the light of Vansina’s thoughtful and provocative insights. . . . For the second time in a quarter of a century, we are profoundly in the debt of Jan Vansina.”—Research in African Literatures “Oral Traditions as History is an essential addition to the basic literature of African history.”—American Historical Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Selected Bibliography--Sub-Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Baker
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064011
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural-urban Dynamics in Francophone Africa written by Jonathan Baker and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents some examples of the richness and variety of contemporary research on rural-urban interactions by francophone researchers. Case studies are drawn from Burkina Faso, Ctte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal and Togo.

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445839
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions written by Paul E. Lovejoy and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in the context of the age of revolutions—commonly associated with the American and French revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powers—and shows how West Africa, too, experienced a period of profound political change in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Paul E. Lovejoy argues that West Africa was a vital actor in the Atlantic world and has wrongly been excluded from analyses of the period. Among its chief contributions, the book reconceptualizes slavery. Lovejoy shows that during the decades in question, slavery expanded extensively not only in the southern United States, Cuba, and Brazil but also in the jihād states of West Africa. In particular, this expansion occurred in the Muslim states of the Sokoto Caliphate, Fuuta Jalon, and Fuuta Toro. At the same time, he offers new information on the role antislavery activity in West Africa played in the Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora. Finally, Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions provides unprecedented context for the political and cultural role of Islam in Africa—and of the concept of jihād in particular—from the eighteenth century into the present. Understanding that there is a long tradition of jihād in West Africa, Lovejoy argues, helps correct the current distortion in understanding the contemporary jihād movement in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Africa.

Author : Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315505150
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Africa written by Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism and imperialism and cultural development in the third world. It begins by providing a historical introduction to the main regional traditions, and then builds on this to discuss major issues, such as oral tradition, the significance of `literature' as a western import, representations of Africa in western writing, African writing against colonialism and its themes and politics in a post-colonial world, popular writing and the representation of women.

Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0192893173
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voice of the Past written by Paul Thompson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers advice on designing an oral history project and discusses the reliability of oral evidence. This third edition considers the use of new technologies, including video, in the recording of historical information.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book The International Journal of African Historical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John O. Hunwick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004124448
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4 written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria, including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings.