Language as a Tool in Reconstructing the African Past
Author | : Bernd Heine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bernd Heine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Ehret |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520314751 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author | : Bernd Heine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Edward Philips |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580462563 |
A comprehensive evaluation of how to read African history. Writing African History is an essential work for anyone who wants to write, or even seriously read, African history. It will replace Daniel McCall's classic Africa in Time Perspective as the introduction to African history for the next generation and as a reference for professional historians, interested readers, and anyone who wants to understand how African history is written. Africa in Time Perspective was written in the 1960s, when African history was a new field of research. This new book reflects the development of African history since then. It opens with a comprehensive introduction by Daniel McCall, followed by a chapter by the editor explainingwhat African history is [and is not] in the context of historical theory and the development of historical narrative, the humanities, and social sciences. The first half of the book focuses on sources of historical data while thesecond half examines different perspectives on history. The editor's final chapter explains how to combine various sorts of evidence into a coherent account of African history. Writing African History will become the most important guide to African history for the 21st century. Contributors: Bala Achi, Isaac Olawale Albert, Diedre L. Badéjo, Dorothea Bedigian, Barbara M. Cooper, Henry John Drewal, Christopher Ehret, Toyin Falola, David Henige, Joseph E. Holloway, John Hunwick, S. O. Y. Keita, William G. Martin, Daniel McCall, Susan Keech McIntosh, Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu, Kathleen Sheldon, John Thornton, and Masao Yoshida. John Edwards Philips is professor of international society, Hirosaki University, and author of Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria [Madison, University of Wisconsin African Studies Center, 2000].
Author | : Christopher Ehret |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2022-05-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520314743 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Author | : Derek Nurse |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2017-06-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1512821667 |
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies
Author | : Wilhelm J. G. Möhlig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : 9783896450937 |
Author | : Roger Blench |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2006-06-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0759114218 |
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past is an overview of theories and methods, a fusion of African linguistics and archaeology. Roger Blench provides a comprehensive look at the history of all African language families, incorporating the latest linguistic classifications, current evidence from archaeology, genetic research, and recorded history. This original and definitive volume examines the economic culture of the continent_from major crops and plant life to animals and livestock_from a multi-dimensional perspective. It provides students of linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology with a critical discussion on the history of African languages and the cultures they articulate.
Author | : Jaspal Kaur Singh |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Apartheid in literature |
ISBN | : 9781433107009 |
The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe. The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of apartheid policies and consequently shifting social relations from a traumatized past to a reconstructed future. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore, within the literary imagination and cultural production of a post-apartheid nation and its people, how the trauma and violence of the past are reconciled through textual strategies. What role does memory play for the remembering subject working through the trauma of a violent past?
Author | : Victor N. Webb |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027218490 |
A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.