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

基本介紹

• 書名：非洲通史：編史方法及非洲史前史第一卷
• 作者：J.KI-Zerbo
• 出版社：HEINEMANNCALIFORNIAUNESCO
• 裝幀：平裝
• 圖書分類：歷史
• 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