Africa as Method A Handbook of Sources and Epistemologies /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dirar, Uoldelul Chelati (Editor), Pallaver, Karin (Editor)
Summary:IX, 318 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-5767-1
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Field as an Archive
  • Recherche des Sources en Afrique Equatoriale
  • Moments of Sharing: Fieldwork in Ethiopia (1988–2008)
  • Rethinking Periodisations
  • Which Middle Ages for Ethiopia?
  • Ousanas, A Ruler at the Crossroad of Aksum’s History / (RIÉ 186 = DAE 8)
  • The First Muslims in Africa? Sources and Methods Regarding the Hijra to Abyssinia
  • Questioning the Archive
  • Islamic Legal Documents and Social Histories of Muslims in Eritrea and Ethiopia- Missionary Sources and African History: the Case of two Swedish Lutheran Missions
  • Military Campaigning Abroad and Women’s Writing in Colonial Eritrea (1912–1918)
  • The Private and the Public in the Colonial Archive
  • Colonial Encounters and Land Tenure in Early Italian Rule in Africa. A Critical Enquiry into Recently Rediscovered Personal Papers of Leopoldo Franchetti
  • The “Reaction from Below”: Colonial Archives, Communist Propaganda and Messianic Movements in French Equatorial Africa
  • Biographies and Autobiographies as Epistemological Challenges
  • Songs, Poems and Left-Wing “Heroes”: The Soft Power of the Sudanese Left
  • Somali Biography and Autobiography in the 20th Century
  • Biography, Ethnography and Education in Colonial Libya. Panetta’s Papers at Florence State Archives
  • Visualizing Africa’s Past
  • Imaginaries and Self-representations: Coins as a Source for African History
  • Photography of Colonial Libya in the former Fototeca del Museo Africano: a Provisional Appraisal
  • Historical Sources and Political Trajectories
  • Building the State in Eritrea: Notes on Epistemologies and Sources
  • Imagining the Trajectories of the 2018 Peace Agreement Between Eritrea and Ethiopia
  • Sources and Research on Liberation and Revolutionary Movements in the Horn of Africa.