16 KINGSHIP AND THE MEDIATORS OF THE PAST: ORAL TRADITION AND RITUAL PERFORMANCE IN NUPELAND, NIGERIA

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION xiii
5. PART I Archaeological Sources
6. 1 SECTION INTRODUCTION ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 3
7. 2 TROUBLE WITH SIBLINGS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE WEST AFRICAN PAST 7
8. 3 MATERIAL CULTURE AND CADASTRAL DATA: DOCUMENTING THE CEDARBERG FRONTIER, SOUTH AFRICA, 1725–1740 16
9. 4 CHRONOLOGY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND PATHWAYS TO THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF YORUBA-EDO REGION, 500 B.C.–A.D. 1800 33
10. 5 FOR TRINKETS SUCH AS BEADS: A REVALORIZATION OF KHOISAN LABOR IN COLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA 80
11. PART II Africa and the Atlantic World
12. 6 SECTION INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGY THROUGH THE ETHNIC LENS: THE STUDY OF ATLANTIC AFRICA 105
13. 7 PATHWAYS TO AFRICAN ETHNICITY IN THE AMERICAS: AFRICAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN CUBA DURING SLAVERY 118
14. 8 SLAVE TRADE NOMENCLATURE AND AFRICAN ETHNICITIES IN THE AMERICAS: EVIDENCE FROM EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COSTA RICA 145
15. 9 AFRICA IN LOUISIANA: IN SEARCH OF “BAMBARA” AND CREOLE IDENTITIES IN LITERARY AND STATISTICAL SOURCES 156
16. PART III Documentary Sources
17. 10 SECTION INTRODUCTION NEW APPROACHES TO DOCUMENTARY SOURCES 169
18. 11 THEY CALLED THEMSELVES ILOIKOP: RETHINKING PASTORALIST HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EAST AFRICA 173
19. 12 INTERPRETING CASES, DISENTANGLING DISPUTES: COURT CASES AS A SOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS IN EARLY COLONIAL LAGOS 195
20. 13 CAPRICIOUS TYRANTS AND PERSECUTED SUBJECTS: READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF MISSIONARY RECORDS IN PRECOLONIAL NORTHERN NAMIBIA 219
21. PART IV Oral Tradition
22. 14 SECTION INTRODUCTION ORAL TRADITION: CLASSIC QUESTIONS, NEW ANSWERS 239
23. 15 NARRATIVES ON PILGRIMAGES TO MECCA: BEAUTY VERSUS HISTORY IN MANDE ORAL TRADITION 249
24. 16 KINGSHIP AND THE MEDIATORS OF THE PAST: ORAL TRADITION AND RITUAL PERFORMANCE IN NUPELAND, NIGERIA 268
25. 17 PASSAGES IN A STRUGGLE OVER THE PAST: STORIES OF MAJI MAJI IN NJOMBE, TANZANIA 295
26. 18 MAISHA: LIFE HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF LIVELIHOOD ALONG THE TAZARA RAILWAY IN TANZANIA 312
27. PART V Innovative Sources and Methods
28. 19 SECTIONAL INTRODUCTION INNOVATIVE SOURCES AND METHODS 331
29. 20 BEN AND MAGGIE: CONSUMING DATA REASSESSING SCIENTIFIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NUTRITION STUDIES 335
30. 21 ELECTRICITY NETWORKS IN AFRICA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY, OR HOW TO WRITE SOCIAL HISTORY FROM ECONOMIC SOURCES 346
31. 22 “RAIN OR SHINE WE GONNA’ ROCK” DANCE SUBCULTURES AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN ACCRA, GHANA 361
32. 23 SAMPLE SURVEYS: UNDEREXPLOITED SOURCES FOR AFRICAN SOCIAL HISTORY 376
33. CONTRIBUTORS 393
34. INDEX 399