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Reconstructing African culture history.

Title
Reconstructing African culture history. Edited by Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett.
Publication
Boston, Boston University Press, [c1967]

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Additional Authors
  • Gabel, Creighton.
  • Bennett, Norman Robert, 1932-
  • Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Description
x, 246 p. maps.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
African research studies ; no. 8
Subjects
Note
  • Consists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark.--Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis.--African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott.--The use of oral tradition in African culture history, by J. Vansina.--The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam.--African art and culture history, by R. Sieber.--The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone.--The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson.--Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan.--Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture history, by C. Gabel.
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Sc 960.07-R (Reconstructing African culture history)
LCCN
67025932 //r852
OCLC
  • 414387
  • NYPGR414387-B
Title
Reconstructing African culture history. Edited by Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett.
Imprint
Boston, Boston University Press, [c1967]
Series
African research studies ; no. 8
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Gabel, Creighton.
Bennett, Norman Robert, 1932-
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Research Call Number
Sc 960.07-R (Reconstructing African culture history)
D-19 3463
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