Publication Details

Editor

Landau, Paul Stuart, 1962-

Contributor

Henige, David P.

Date

2011

Publisher

Madison, Wisconsin: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries

Language

English

Collection

African Studies Collection

Series

Parallel Press chapbook

Description of Original

281 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Subjects

Africa — Historiography

Africa — History

For Staff

METS

Available Contents

1. [Cover] The Power of doubt: essays in honor of David Henige
2. [Half-title] The Power of doubt
3. [Title Page] The Power of doubt: essays in honor of David Henige
4. Contents
5. List of figures
6. "How do you know?": an introduction to David Henige
7. Hidden transfers: Luso-Africans as European explorers' experts in nineteenth-century west-central Africa
8. Violence and its sources: European witnesses to the military revolution in nineteenth-century eastern Africa
9. The Osmosis of the gazes: anthropologists and historians through the prism of field work
10. Promiscuous translation: working the word at Antananarivo
11. Portraits of Akan and Cameroonian grassfield kings and chiefs in the Basel Mission Archive
12. "I often shed my tears about this": "freed" slave children and "apprenticeship" in colonial Ghana, ca. 1890 to ca. 1930
13. Historical tradition and the situational deployment of story
14. Modern oral tradition and the historic kingdom of Kongo
15. Shaka's military expeditions: survival and mortality from Shaka's impis
16. Bibliography
17. Appendix: David Henige's publications
18. [Cover]