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Dear all, I have found that Falola and Jennings' edited volume "Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, and Unearthed" (2003: Univ. Rochester Press) contains numerous chapters that are appropriate and current readings for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. This edited volume contains some excellent case studies of scholars using oral histories, archaeological evidence, and colonial or missionary documents, as well as innovative sources drawn from methods in cognate disciplines. Critical reviews of methods are briefly included in some chapters, but the contributions in Toyin and Falola are more valuable for their illustration of specific historical/archaeological case studies. For my African history survey courses I have one lecture dedicated to looking at multidisciplinary approaches to the African past, and I have assigned chapters from this book in the past (DeCorse & Chouin, Mitchell on archaeological data; Jennings, McKittrick on documentary sources; Giblin, Monson on oral histories). cheers, Sarah Sarah Walshaw, Ph.D. SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Archaeology Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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