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The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige

Paul S. Landau

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Description:In his introduction to the Festschrift honoring historian and African Studies bibliographer David Henige, editor Paul S. Landau writes that “the open-endedness of the formulation, The Power of Doubt, is deliberate, and has always been central to David Henige’s notion of practicing history. One does not know where one is going to end up, if one is really honest in doing research. Not long ago most Africanist historians used not to suppose that their primary concern lay in turning out a product. They were instead desirous to uncover and demonstrate hypotheses about the past, with evidence from the past, when and where this was possible. The separation of expert knowledge and ecrits of quality from popular accounts of the past is central to the progressivism of academic pioneers such as Henige; the massification of half-knowledge in popular culture (anywhere: here or in Africa) was to be denied history’s status. It is possible to get the past right.”Through his critical examination of oral traditions, Henige “insisted on something scholars should by now all recognize, that history is not sealed and preserved in oral traditions like a package….The lessening of our expectation of historicity in oral transmissions meant, above all, that we needed to know as much as possible about the internal dynamics of the societies that perpetuated and reproduced oral traditions we collected or studied.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige. To get started finding The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Parallel Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 1934795305

Description: In his introduction to the Festschrift honoring historian and African Studies bibliographer David Henige, editor Paul S. Landau writes that “the open-endedness of the formulation, The Power of Doubt, is deliberate, and has always been central to David Henige’s notion of practicing history. One does not know where one is going to end up, if one is really honest in doing research. Not long ago most Africanist historians used not to suppose that their primary concern lay in turning out a product. They were instead desirous to uncover and demonstrate hypotheses about the past, with evidence from the past, when and where this was possible. The separation of expert knowledge and ecrits of quality from popular accounts of the past is central to the progressivism of academic pioneers such as Henige; the massification of half-knowledge in popular culture (anywhere: here or in Africa) was to be denied history’s status. It is possible to get the past right.”Through his critical examination of oral traditions, Henige “insisted on something scholars should by now all recognize, that history is not sealed and preserved in oral traditions like a package….The lessening of our expectation of historicity in oral transmissions meant, above all, that we needed to know as much as possible about the internal dynamics of the societies that perpetuated and reproduced oral traditions we collected or studied.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige. To get started finding The Power of Doubt: Essays in Honor of David Henige, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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