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The power of doubt : essays in honor of David Henige
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- 2011
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- Madison, Wisconsin: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries
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- Editor
- Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-
- Contributor
- Henige, David P.
- Publisher
- Madison, Wisconsin: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries
- Date
- 2011
- Description of Original
- 281 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
- Format
- Text
- Language
- English
- Collection
- African Studies Collection
- [Cover] The Power of doubt: essays in honor of David Henige
- [Half-title] The Power of doubt
- [Title Page] The Power of doubt: essays in honor of David Henige
- Contents
- List of figures
- "How do you know?": an introduction to David Henige
- Hidden transfers: Luso-Africans as European explorers' experts in nineteenth-century west-central Africa
- Violence and its sources: European witnesses to the military revolution in nineteenth-century eastern Africa
- The Osmosis of the gazes: anthropologists and historians through the prism of field work
- Promiscuous translation: working the word at Antananarivo
- Portraits of Akan and Cameroonian grassfield kings and chiefs in the Basel Mission Archive
- "I often shed my tears about this": "freed" slave children and "apprenticeship" in colonial Ghana, ca. 1890 to ca. 1930
- Historical tradition and the situational deployment of story
- Modern oral tradition and the historic kingdom of Kongo
- Shaka's military expeditions: survival and mortality from Shaka's impis
- Bibliography
- Appendix: David Henige's publications
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