Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past

• Titel: Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past
• Titelzusatz: essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
• Mitwirkende: Green, Toby [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Rossi, Benedetta [HerausgeberIn]
• Gefeierte Person: Farias, P. F. de Moraes [GefeierteR]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Toby Green, Benedetta Rossi
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2018
• Jahr: [2018]
• Umfang: XV, 521 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: African history ; volume 6
• Fussnoten: Festschrift Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. - Literaturangaben. - Bibliografie Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias: Seite 492-497 (Seite 492 ungezählt). - Mit Register
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34883-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)Westafrika / (s)Geschichtsschreibung / (z)Geschichte
• Schlagwörter: (p)Farias, P. F. de Moraes
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Dokumenttyp: Festschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past. - Leiden : Brill, 2018. - 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 521 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: EP 13015
• K10plus-PPN: 1024868761

Abstract

Introduction -- Archaeology and material landscapes -- All that glitters is not gold : facing the myths of ancient trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa / Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita -- African archaeology and the 'chalk line effect' : a consideration of Mali city and Sigilmasa / Francois-Xavier Fauvelle -- The 'Pays Do' and the origins of the Empire of Mali / Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita -- Imagined landscapes and moral topographies -- Imitation and creativity in the establishment of Islam in Oyo / Insa Nolte -- Fante 'origins' : the problematic evidence of 'tradition' / Robin Law -- The unknowns of the modern era in the greater Western Sahara : reassessing the territorial location of the Wlad Dlaym (15th-17th centuries) / Benjamin Acloque -- Contextualising writing and written sources -- Inscribing the now and the hereafter : first writings in early African history / Ghislaine Lydon -- New reinventions of the Sahel : reflections on the ta'ri' genre in the Timbuktu historiographical production, seventeenth to twentieth centuries / Mauro Nobili -- Calibrating the scholarship of Timbuktu / Charles C. Stewart -- Rethinking the place of Timbuktu in the intellectual history of Muslim West Africa / Bruce S. Hall -- Examples of Sahelian book collectors over two centuries / Shamil Jeppie -- Contextualising orature and traditionalists -- The time-tested traditionist : intellectual trajectory and mediation from the early empires to the present day / Mamadou Diawara -- The next generation : young griots' quest for authority / Jan Jansen -- In praise of history; history as praise / Karin Barber -- From essentialism to pluralisms : new directions in precolonial West African history from the oral history archive at Fajara, The Gambia / Toby Green -- Dreamworlds : cultural narrative in Asante visionary experience / Thomas C. McCaskie -- Projects, texts, and representations -- The life of a text : Carsten Niebuhr and 'Abd al-ra'man Aga's Das Innere von Afrika / Camille Lefebvre -- The Kano Chronicle revisited / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slavery or death in Sokoto and Borno : tactics, legalities and sources / Murray Last -- A story of exile, a story in exile : Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and 'un forfait colonial' (revisited) / E. Ann McDougall -- Edmond Fortier (1862-1928) : photographer, documentarian and creator of stereotypes in West Africa / Daniela Moreau -- Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' publications and interview / Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias -- Interpreting sources of the African past : an interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias / by Benedetta Rossi