Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past : : essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / / edited by Toby Green, Benedetta Rossi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Green, Toby, 1974-; Rossi, Benedetta.; Farias, P. F. de Moraes.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: African History 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (537 pages).
• Notes: Festschrift for Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias.

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book’s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Thick Contextualisation: Interpreting West African Landscapes, Sources, and ProjectsBenedetta Rossi and Toby Green -- Archaeology and Material Landscapes -- All that Glitters is Not Gold: Facing the Myths of Ancient Trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa by Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita -- African Archaeology and the ‘Chalk Line Effect’: A Consideration of Māli City and Siğilmāsa by François-Xavier Fauvelle -- The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali by Kevin C. MacDonald , Nikolas Gestrich , Seydou Camara and Daouda Keita -- Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies -- Imitation and Creativity in the Establishment of Islam in Oyo by Insa Nolte -- Fante ‘Origins’: The Problematic Evidence of ‘Tradition’ by Robin Law -- The Unknowns of the Modern Era in the Greater Western Sahara: Reassessing the Territorial Location of the Wlād Dlaym (15th–17th Centuries) by Benjamin Acloque -- The Almoravids and Ašʿarism: Regarding the Work of al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī by Abdel Wedoud Ould-Cheikh -- Contextualising Writing and Written Sources -- Inscribing the Now and the Hereafter: First Writings in Early African History by Ghislaine Lydon -- New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Taʾriḫ Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries by Mauro Nobili -- Calibrating the Scholarship of Timbuktu by Charles C. Stewart -- Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa by Bruce S. Hall -- Two Examples of Sahelian Book Collectors Over Two Centuries by Shamil Jeppie -- Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists -- The Time-Tested Traditionist: Intellectual Trajectory and Mediation from the Early Empires to the Present Day by Mamadou Diawara -- The Next Generation: Young Griots’ Quest for Authority by Jan Jansen -- In Praise of History; History as Praise by Karin Barber -- From Essentialism to Pluralisms: New Directions in Precolonial West African History from the Oral History Archive at Fajara, The Gambia by Toby Green -- Dreamworlds: Cultural Narrative in Asante Visionary Experience by Thomas C. McCaskie -- Projects, Texts, and Representations -- The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika by Camille Lefebvre -- The Kano Chronicle Revisited by Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slavery or Death in Sokoto and Borno: Tactics, Legalities and Sources by Murray Last -- A Story of Exile, a Story in Exile: Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and ‘Un Forfait Colonial’ (Revisited) by E. Ann McDougall -- Edmond Fortier (1862–1928): Photographer, Documentarian and Creator of Stereotypes in West Africa by Daniela Moreau -- Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias’ Publications by Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias -- Interview. Landscapes, Sources, and Intellectual Projects by Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias and Benedetta Rossi.