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African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history
- Title
- African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history / edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen.
- Publication
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 322 p. cm.
- Series Statement
- African systems of thought
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Voices, words, and African history / David William Cohen, Stephan F. Miescher, and Luise White -- The construction of Luo identity and history / Bethwell A. Ogot -- Reported speech and other kinds of testimony / Megan Vaughan -- John Bunyan, his chair, and a few other relics : orality, literacy, and the limits of area studies / Isabel Hofmeyr -- The dialogue between academic and community history in Nigeria / E.J. Alagoa -- The birth of the interview : the thin and the fat of it / Abdullahi A. Ibrahim -- Conversations and lives / Corinne A. Kratz -- The life histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi, Kwawu) : exploring the subjectivity and "voices" of a teacher-catechist in colonial Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher -- Lives, histories, and sites of recollection / Tamara Giles-Vernick -- Senegalese women in politics : a portrait of two female leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945-1996 / Babacar Fall -- Nana Ampadu, the sung-tale metaphor, and protest discourse in contemporary Ghana / Kwesi Yankah -- Voice, authority, and memory : the Kiswahili recordings of Siti binti Saadi / Laura Fair -- In a nation of white cars...one white car, or "a white car," becomes a truth / David William Cohen -- True stories : narrative, event, history, and blood in the Lake Victoria basin / Luise White.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-796
- ISBN
- 0253339480 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253214688 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001001889
- OCLC
- 46769312
- Title
- African words, African voices : critical practices in oral history / edited by Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen.
- Imprint
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2001.
- Series
- African systems of thought
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- White, Luise.Miescher, Stephan.Cohen, David William.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-796