African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History
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Book Description
Recent efforts to restore African expression to African history have characterized of much of postcolonial historical research and writing, but questions about the use of oral sources in the quest for truth continue to plague interpreters and interpretations of the African past. AFRICAN WORDS, AFRICAN VOICES shows African historians involved with and committed to developing unique methodologies for dealing with history on their own terms. For readers at all levels, these lively and provocative essays evoke the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past.
About the Author
Luise White teaches African history at the University of Florida. She is author of The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (for which she won the Herskovits Prize) and Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa.
Stephan F. Miescher Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-editor (with Lisa Lindsay) of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa and is preparing a book on the construction of masculinities in twentieth-century Ghana.
David William Cohen is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Historical Tradition of Busoga, Uganda: Mukama and Kintu; Womunafus Bunafu; and Towards a Reconstructed Past: Historical Texts from Busoga, Uganda. He is co-author of Siaya: A Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape; Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa; and The Combing of History (all with E. S. Atieno Odhiambo). With E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, he is writing on the multiple investigations into the disappearance and death of Kenya s Foreign Minister, Robert Ouko.
African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History,Luise White,Stephan Miescher,David William Cohen,Indiana University Press,0253214688,Africa,Africa - General,Historiography,History,History - General History,History: World,Oral tradition,African history,Anthropology,History: theory & methods,Oral history
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