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.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (537 pages). |
| Notes: | Festschrift for Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. |
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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.