Author: Musa Wawu na Hammandikko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
History of Ga'anda
Author: Musa Wawu na Hammandikko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
Author: Ivan Gaskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197500137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197500137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 679
Book Description
Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.
Kingship and State
Author: Christopher Wrigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch
Publisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Visible Self
Author: Joanne B. Eicher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1609018702
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1609018702
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Author:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola
Author: Laura Habgood
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 0855984112
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
An account of an Oxfam project with a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities use health services and to involve communities in the research. The author evaluates the limitations as well as the advantages of participatory research methods.
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 0855984112
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
An account of an Oxfam project with a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities use health services and to involve communities in the research. The author evaluates the limitations as well as the advantages of participatory research methods.