{"product_id":"landscapes-sources-and-intellectual-projects-of-the-west-african-past-essays-in-honour-of-paulo-fernando-de-moraes-farias-9789004348837","title":"Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLandscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book’s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.     Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[...] The editors have done a very good job of bringing together a wide range of scholars to engage with Moraes Farias’ ideas and give them new life. This book is a useful and welcome contribution that overcomes traditional disciplinary divides and makes for a very fitting tribute to this great scholar and his work.[...]    Sirio Canós-Donnay, Institute of Heritage Sciencies, Spanish National Research Council, in African Archaeology Review (2020) 37:315–316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors     Introduction     Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes  1 All that Glitters is not Gold: Facing the Myths of Ancient Trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa   Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita  2 African Archaeology and the ‘Chalk Line Effect’: A Consideration of Māli City and Siğilmāsa   François-Xavier Fauvelle  3 The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali   Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita    Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies  4 Imitation and Creativity in the Establishment of Islam in Oyo   Insa Nolte  5 Fante ‘Origins’: The Problematic Evidence of ‘Tradition’   Robin Law  6 The Unknowns of the Modern Era in the Greater Western Sahara: Reassessing the Territorial Location of the Wlād Dlaym (15th–17th Centuries)   Benjamin Acloque  7 The Almoravids and Ašʿarism: Regarding the Work of al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī   Abdel Wedoud Ould-Cheikh    Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources  8 Inscribing the Now and the Hereafter: First Writings in Early African History   Ghislaine Lydon  9 New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Taʾrīḫ Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries   Mauro Nobili  10 Calibrating the Scholarship of Timbuktu   Charles C. Stewart  11 Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa   Bruce S. Hall  12 Two Examples of Sahelian Book Collectors Over Two Centuries   Shamil Jeppie    Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists  13 The Time-Tested Traditionist: Intellectual Trajectory and Mediation from the Early Empires to the Present day   Mamadou Diawara  14 The Next Generation: Young Griots’ Quest for Authority   Jan Jansen  15 In Praise of History; History as Praise   Karin Barber  16 From Essentialism to Pluralisms: New Directions in Precolonial West African History from the Oral History Archive at Fajara, the Gambia   Toby Green  17 Dreamworlds: Cultural Narrative in Asante Visionary Experience   Thomas C. McCaskie    Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations  18 The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika   Camille Lefebvre  19 The Kano Chronicle Revisited   Paul E. Lovejoy  20 Slavery or Death in Sokoto and Borno: Tactics, Legalities and Sources   Murray Last  21 A Story of Exile, a Story in Exile: Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and ‘Un Forfait Colonial’ (Revisited)   E. Ann McDougall  22 Edmond Fortier (1862–1928): Photographer, Documentarian and Creator of Stereotypes in West Africa   Daniela Moreau    Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias’ Publications and Interview   Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias  Interpreting Sources of the African Past: An Interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias by   Benedetta Rossi","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210725744983,"sku":"9789004348837","price":83.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscapes-sources-and-intellectual-projects-of-the-west-african-past-essays-in-honour-of-paulo-fernando-de-moraes-farias-9789004348837","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}