基本信息
中文名: 非洲通史：編史方法及非洲史前史第一卷
原名: General History of Africa, ⅠMethodology and African prehistory
作者: J. KI-Zerbo
圖書分類: 歷史
出版社: HEINEMANN CALIFORNIA UNESCO
書號: 0435948075
發行時間: 1981年
語言: 英文
內容簡介
該書為聯合國教科文組織負責、以非洲學者為主編寫的八卷本《非洲通史》的第一卷。為非洲史前史和一篇介紹本書編寫的方法的前言。
聯合國教科文版《非洲通史》是一部集中世界各國，特別是非洲國家學者共同精心完成的歷史巨著。是一部與西方傳統非洲史著作有明顯區別的歷史巨著。
目錄
Contents
List of figures ix
List of plates xi
List of tables xv
Preface xvii
AMADOU-MAHTAR M'BOW, Director-General of Unesco
Description of the Project xxiii
B. A. OGOT, President of the International Scientific Committee for
the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Note on chronology xxvii
General introduction i
J. KI-ZERBO
i The development of African historiography 25
J. D. FAGE
2 The place of history in African society 43
BOUBOU HAMA and J. KI-ZERBO
3 Recent trends in African historiography and their
contribution to history in general 54
P. D. CURTIN
4 Sources and specific techniques used in African history:
general outline 72
T. OBENGA
5 Written sources before the fifteenth century 87
H. DJAIT
6 Written sources from the fifteenth century onwards 114
I. HRBEK
7 Oral tradition and its methodology 142
J. VANSINA
8 The living tradition 166
A. HAMPATÉ BÂ
9 African archaeology and its techniques including dating
techniques 206
Z. ISKANDER
v Contents
io History and linguistics 233
P. DIAGNE
Editorial note: theories on the 'races' and history of Africa 261
J. KI-ZERBO
11 Migrations and ethnic and linguistic differentiations 271
D. OLDEROGGE
12 African linguistic classification 292
J. H. GREENBERG
Appendix to Chapter 12: the language map of Africa 309
D. DALBY
13 Historical geography: physical aspects 316
S. DIARRA
14 Historical geography: economic aspects 333
A. L. MABOGUNJE
15 The interdisciplinary methods adopted in this study 348
J. KI-ZERBO
16 Chronological framework: African pluvial and glacial epochs 359
Part I R. SAID
Part II H. FAURE
17 Hominization: general problems 400
Part I Y. COPPENS
Part II L. BALOUT
18 African fossil man 437
R. Leakey
19 The prehistory of East Africa 451
J. E. G. SUTTON
20 Prehistory in southern Africa 487
J. D. CLARK
21 The prehistory of Central Africa 530
Part I R. DE BAYLE DES HERMENS
Part II F. VAN NOTEN
with the collaboration of P. de Maret, J. Moeyersons,
K. Muya and E. Roche
vi Contents
22 The prehistory of North Africa 568
L. BALOUT
23 The prehistory of the Sahara 585
H. J. HUGOT
24 The prehistory of West Africa 611
C. T. SHAW
25 Prehistory in the Nile valley 634
F. DEBONO
26 African prehistoric art 656
J. KI-ZERBO
27 Origins, development and expansion of agricultural 687
techniques
R. PORTÈRES and J. BARRAU
28 Discovery and diffusion of metals and development of social
systems up to the fifth century before our era 706 J. VERCOUTTER
Conclusion: from nature in the raw to liberated humanity 730
J. KI-ZERBO
List of Members of the International Scientific Committee
for the Drafting of a General History of Africa 747
Biographies of Authors 749
Bibliography 753
Indexes 801
