The African Studies Program is excited to announce that Emeritus Professor Thomas Spear’s (et. al.) Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources has been awarded the Waldo G. Leland Prize by the American Historical Association for the best reference work published over the past five years.
The volumes are a collection of over 80 critical studies of the unusual methods and sources historians use to research and write African history. As such, it is a component of the larger Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, a comprehensive online collection of articles critically assessing major topics of African history. This award is thus also a wonderful recognition by the profession of the larger project as a new critical resource for students and scholars of African History.
The prize will be awarded at the AHA Annual Meeting in New Orleans at 6:00 pm on Thursday, January 6th.
Congratulations Professor Spear!
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources
Thomas Spear, Peter Limb, Kathryn M. de Luna, Peter Mitchell, Olufemi Vaughan, Richard Waller (eds.)
Introduction
- Introduction: Researching African History, Thomas Spear
- Early African Pasts: Sources, Interpretations, Meanings, David Schoenbrun
- Kingdoms of South-Central Africa: Sources, Historiography, and History, David Gordon
Methods and Sources of African History
- Archaeological Methods and Sources
- Introduction: Archaeological Methods & Sources, Peter Mitchell
- Archaeobotany: Methods, Dorian Fuller & Louis Champion
- Archaeozoology: Methods, Veerle Linseele
- Ceramics, Foodways and Consumption: Methods, Lisa Gijanto
- Pottery chaînes opératoires as Historical Documents, Oliver P. Gosselain
- Scientific Dating Methods in African Archaeology, Vincent J. Hare & Emma Loftus
- Paleoenvironmental Science: Methods, David R. Wright
- African Iron Production and Iron Working Techniques: Methods, Louis Iles
- Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa, Shadreck Chirikure
- Ethnographic Analogy in Archaeology: Methodological Insights from Southern Africa, Mark McGranaghan
- Primary Historical Sources in Archaeology: Methods, Rachel King
- Rock Art Research Methods, Jeremy Hollmann
- Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa, Shadreck Chirikure
- Interactions among Precolonial Foragers, Herders, and Farmers in Southern Africa, James Denbow
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Precolonial Sub-Saharan African Farming and Herding Communities, Paul Lane & Anna Shoemaker
- The Archaeology of Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa, Lyn Wadley
- Biological and Environmental Sciences Methods and Sources
- Introduction: Biological and Environmental Sciences Methods, Richard Waller
- African Historical Geography, Landscapes, and Environmental Change, Katherine Homewood
- Climatology: Methods, Sharon E. Nicolson
- Genetics and Southern African History, Christian Capelli & Francesco Montinaro
III. Language Methods and Sources
- Introduction: Language Methods, Kathryn M. de Luna
- Historical Linguistics: Classification, Constanze Weise
- Historical Linguistics: Words and Things, Rhonda M. Gonzales
- Historical Linguistics: Loanwords and Borrowing, Birgit Riquier
- The Bantu Expansion, Koen Bostoen
- Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources
- Introduction: Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources, Thomas Spear
- Anthropology and the Study of Africa, Jessica Johnson
- Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources, Constance Smith
- Bodily Ways of Knowing: Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Affect and the Senses, Kathryn Linn Guerts
- Documentary and Written Sources
- Introduction: Documentary and Written Sources for African History, Olufemi Vaughan
- Reading the Archives as Sources, David Gordon
- Documentary Sources and Methods for Precolonial African History, Christina Mobley
- West African Manuscripts in Arabic and African Languages and Digital Preservation, Fallou Ngom
- Islamic Historical Sources: Manuscripts and Online, Amidu Olalekan Sanni
- Travellers’ Accounts as Sources, Adam Jones
- Business Records as Sources for African History, Dmitri van den Bersselaar
- Newspapers as Sources for African History, Emma Hunter
- Digital and Numerical Sources
- Introduction: Digital and Numerical Sources, Peter Limb
- Numerical Data and Statistical Sources, Leign Gardner
- Quantitative Methods and Economic Statistical Sources for African History, Morton Jerven
- Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Daryle Williams
- Digital Sources for the History of the Horn of Africa, Massimo Zaccaria
- The Internet and Social Media as Sources, Aubrey Bloomfield & Sean Jacobs
VII. Oral Sources
- Introduction: Oral Sources, Thomas Spear
- Oral Traditions as Sources, Stephen Belcher
- Oral History and Life History as Sources, Mary Dillard
VIII. Cultural Sources
- Introduction: Cultural Sources, Richard Waller
- Material Culture as a Historical Source, Robert Ross
- Heritage and the Use of the Past in East Africa, John Giblin
- Exploring Present Pasts: Popular Arts as Historical Sources, Bogumil Jewsiewicki & Allen Roberts
- Photographs as Sources, Robert Gordon & Jonathan Kurzwelly
- Film and Video as Historical Sources, Mahir Saul
- Animating African History: Digital and Visual Trends, Paula Callus
Histories and Historiographies of African History
- Schools of African History
- Introduction: Schools of African History, Olufemi Vaughan
- African Philosophies of History and Historiography, Toyin Falola & Abikal Borah
- The SOAS School of African History, Shobana Shankar
- Writing African History in France during the Colonial Era, Sophie Dulucq
- The Wisconsin School of African History, Joseph Miller
- The Dakar School of African History, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
- The Dar es Salaam School of African History, Gregory Maddox
- South African Historical Writing to the End of the Apartheid Era, Christopher Saunders
- Histories and Historiographies
- Introduction: African Histories and Historiographies, Thomas Spear
- Africa in the World: History and Historiography, Experanza Brizuela-Garcia
- Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade: History and Historiography, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva & Philip Misevich
- African Diasporas: History and Historiography, Mohammed Bashir Salau
- Environmental History, Emmanuel Krieke
- African Economic History and Historiography, Alois Mlambo
- Ethnicity in Africa, Gabrielle Lynch
- African Biography and Historiography, Heather Hughes
- Migration History and Historiography, Benedetta Rossi
- African Urban History and Historiography, Eric Ross
- Sport History and Historiography, Michelle Sikes
- Colonial History and Historiography, Marie-Albane de Suremain
- Legal History and Historiography, Richard Waller
- African Military History and Historiography, Timothy Parsons
- Intellectual History and Historiography, Jonathon Earle
- Christian History and Historiography, Joel Cabrita
- History and Historiography of Science, Helen Tilley
- Historiography in the Maghrib in the 19th and early 20th Century, Sahar Bazzaz
- Community-based Approaches to African History, Peter R. Schmidt & Kathryn Weedman Arthur
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