| Description |
x, 246 p. maps. 22 cm. |
| Series |
African research studies, no. 8
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| Note |
Consists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
History -- Research.
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Africa -- Historiography.
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| Added Author |
Gabel, Creighton.
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Bennett, Norman Robert, 1932-
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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
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