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CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY

Journal of African history, 2005-01, Vol.46 (2), p.189-207 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2005 Cambridge University Press ;Copyright 2005 Cambridge University Press ;2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Cambridge University Press, Publishing Division 2005 ;ISSN: 0021-8537 ;EISSN: 1469-5138 ;DOI: 10.1017/S002185370400043X

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Title:
CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY
Author: MACGAFFEY, WYATT
Subjects: African culture ; African history ; Anthropology ; Central Africa ; Central African history ; Clans ; Critical path analysis ; Descent ; Epistemology ; Ethnology ; Historical source materials ; Historiographical Reflections: Historians and Archaeologists at Work ; Historiography ; History ; Ideology ; Interpersonal relationships ; Kinship ; Migration ; Narratives ; Political anthropology ; Politics ; Priests ; Regional studies ; Religion ; Religious rituals ; Slavery ; Social structure ; Sources and methods ; Specific concepts ; State ; Value
Is Part Of: Journal of African history, 2005-01, Vol.46 (2), p.189-207
Description: This article examines how historiography makes its objects and includes critical reflections on the epistemological frames that have shaped historical representations of Central African states and social structures. The article examines the seductive quality of migration narratives; mythical features of some classical models, creating order from reduced totalities; historiographic burdens imposed by questionable anthropological models of kinship and matrilineal descent; and asks if the prevalence of dual regimes of priest and king is a product more of ideology than history. The article argues for increasing recognition of the value in political studies of data relating to religion and art.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0021-8537
EISSN: 1469-5138
DOI: 10.1017/S002185370400043X
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY

2005 Cambridge University Press ;Copyright 2005 Cambridge University Press ;2008 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Cambridge University Press, Publishing Division 2005 ;ISSN: 0021-8537 ;EISSN: 1469-5138 ;DOI: 10.1017/S002185370400043X

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