Thomas Spear
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106957 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas Spear |
| NOMBRES | Thomas |
| APELLIDO | Spear |
| FIRMA | SPEAR T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 487 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography
The difficulties of exploring African history, especially for earlier periods, have spurred the development of a wide range of methodologies and approaches, such that Wyatt McGaffey once termed it “the decathlon of the social sciences.” Historians have long utilized archaeology, ethnography, historical linguistics, and oral traditions, but are only beginning to explore the possibilities of genetics or many of the new techniques used by archaeolog…
The Swahili world
Coming some sixty years after the birth of the modern field, this encyclopaedic survey of the state of Swahili studies heralds the emergence of a third generation. The first generation was marked b
Supporting Haiti
Poles and Centers
Introduction
Independent since 1968, Mauritius is often cited as a unique example of peaceful and proud multiculturalism and multilingualism. Political scientists, sociologists and cultural critics have stressed the nation's enviable diversity and its cosmopolitan Creole culture. A British Crown colony between 1810 and 1968, Mauritius is part of the Commonwealth but remains strangely invisible in Anglophone postcolonial discourse. Even the 2004 Cambridge Comp…
Culture, History and Identity
Patrimoine haïtien (Ayiti Toma)
Émile Ollivier
Cette étude met en question le statut de l'écrivain « marginal », choisissant le nom d'un quartier de Montréal pour décrire la « marge » d'où il écrit, se situant comme un trait d'union entre Haïti et le Québec, le rêve et la réalité. L'oeuvre d'Émile Ollivier est considérée dans son ensemble, imbriquant les frontières entre l'essai et la fiction, entre le concret et l'imaginaire. Le terme « enracinerrant » (de Jean-Claude Charles) est employé po…
Section Introduction New Approaches to Documentary Sources
Sources and Methods in African History
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is…
East African Expressions of Christianity
Thomas Spear and Isariah N. Kimambo (eds) East African Expressions of Christianity. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuti na Nyota; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1999, 340 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 7361 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 758 2 paperback. - Volume 73 Issue 2
Neo-Traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa
Exploring a range of studies regarding the 'invention of tradition', the 'making of customary law' and the 'creation of tribalism' since the 1980s, this survey article argues that the case for colonial invention has often overstated colonial power and ability to manipulate African institutions to establish hegemony. Rather, tradition was a complex discourse in which people continually reinterpreted the lessons of the past in the context of the pr…
Priests, Witches, and Power
"Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History
Roland Oliver, Thomas Spear, Kairn Klieman, Jan Vansina, Scott MacEachern, David Schoenbrun, James Denbow, Yvonne Bastin, H. M. Batibo, Bernd Heine, Michael Mann, Derek Nurse, Simiyu Wandibba, Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2001), pp. 43-81
Edmund White on Queer Autofiction, Biography, and Sidafiction
(2000). Edmund White on Queer Autofiction, Biography, and Sidafiction. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 261-276
Introduction
(2000). Introduction: Autobiographical, Queer We's. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 167-170
Introduction
(2000). Introduction: Autobiographical Que(e)ries. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 1-4
Swahili History and Society to 1900
Several years ago, Derek Nurse and I began to consider the increasing need to make revisions to our book, The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 . We knew there had been significant archeological finds subsequent to its publication in 1985, but we were surprised to discover that hundreds of new books and articles had appeared. It therefore seemed expedient, not simply to revise the earlier work, but t…
Early Swahili History Reconsidered
Mountain Farmers
The Swahili
Moutain Farmers
East African Expressions of Christianity
Mountain Farmers
Celine and the Politics of Difference
Neo-Traditionalism and the Limits of Invention in British Colonial Africa
Exploring a range of studies regarding the 'invention of tradition', the 'making of customary law' and the 'creation of tribalism' since the 1980s, this survey article argues that the case for colonial invention has often overstated colonial power and ability to manipulate African institutions to establish hegemony. Rather, tradition was a complex discourse in which people continually reinterpreted the lessons of the past in the context of the pr…
The Swahili
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."— International Journal of African Historical Studies
Being Maasai
Early Swahili History Reconsidered
East African Expressions of Christianity
The Shirazi in Swahili Traditions, Culture, and History
“Strange foreign jewels on a mournful silent shore” Historians have frequently viewed the Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast as members of an Arab diaspora that spread around the Indian Ocean with trade over the last two thousand years. The interpretation flowed easily from the apparent “Arab” nature of Swahili culture--a written language using Arabic script, elaborate stone buildings and mosques constructed in urban settings, Isl…
Kenya's past
Mountain Farmers
Development for Exploitation
Being Maasai
Horn and Crescent
Introduction
Independent since 1968, Mauritius is often cited as a unique example of peaceful and proud multiculturalism and multilingualism. Political scientists, sociologists and cultural critics have stressed the nation's enviable diversity and its cosmopolitan Creole culture. A British Crown colony between 1810 and 1968, Mauritius is part of the Commonwealth but remains strangely invisible in Anglophone postcolonial discourse. Even the 2004 Cambridge Comp…
Autofiction and national identity
Politics and Literature
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography
The difficulties of exploring African history, especially for earlier periods, have spurred the development of a wide range of methodologies and approaches, such that Wyatt McGaffey once termed it “the decathlon of the social sciences.” Historians have long utilized archaeology, ethnography, historical linguistics, and oral traditions, but are only beginning to explore the possibilities of genetics or many of the new techniques used by archaeolog…
Mutesa, The Missionaries, and Christian Conversion in Buganda
The closing decades of the nineteenth century were eventful ones for the kingdom of Buganda. Under the dynamic leadership of Kabaka Suna II (d. 1856), the kingdom had achieved unprecedented size and influence among the many kingdoms to the north and west of Lake Victoria at just the time when new, and troubling, forces began to impinge on the lake region. By the mid-1840s trade routes from the east coast had been extended beyond Karagwe around an…
Oral Traditions
Historians rarely pause to reflect on the history and theory of our own discipline, but it is a salutary exercise, particularly when the discipline is as young as African history. Twenty years ago a majority of African peoples emerged from colonial domination and acquired their independence. In that same year their history was also symbolically liberated from domination by the activities of Europeans in Africa through the inauguration of the Jour…
Mountain Farmers
The Interpretation of Evidence in African History
In the preceding essay Janet Ewald has rightly stressed the critical importance of field work in revealing the manifold relations among different factors, institutions, and events in the past as well as those between the past and the present. She has also noted the disparate, eclectic, and even anarchic nature of the data obtained, making interpretation and analysis of the data a second, a perhaps even more difficult, hurdle that African historia…
A State in the Making
Shungwaya, the Mijikenda, and the Traditions
Oral traditions
Historians rarely pause to reflect on the history and theory of our own discipline, but it is a salutary exercise, particularly when the discipline is as young as African history. Twenty years ago a majority of African peoples emerged from colonial domination and acquired their independence. In that same year their history was also symbolically liberated from domination by the activities of Europeans in Africa through the inauguration of the Jour…
Africa's Population History
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Peasant Intellectuals
Maasai Farmers
Oral Traditions
Historians rarely pause to reflect on the history and theory of our own discipline, but it is a salutary exercise, particularly when the discipline is as young as African history. Twenty years ago a majority of African peoples emerged from colonial domination and acquired their independence. In that same year their history was also symbolically liberated from domination by the activities of Europeans in Africa through the inauguration of the Jour…
Oral traditions
Historians rarely pause to reflect on the history and theory of our own discipline, but it is a salutary exercise, particularly when the discipline is as young as African history. Twenty years ago a majority of African peoples emerged from colonial domination and acquired their independence. In that same year their history was also symbolically liberated from domination by the activities of Europeans in Africa through the inauguration of the Jour…
Books/Livres
From Slaves to Squatters
Chiefship and Cosmology
Lamu in the Nineteenth Century
A State in the Making
Shungwaya, the Mijikenda, and the Traditions
The Shirazi in Swahili Traditions, Culture, and History
“Strange foreign jewels on a mournful silent shore” Historians have frequently viewed the Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast as members of an Arab diaspora that spread around the Indian Ocean with trade over the last two thousand years. The interpretation flowed easily from the apparent “Arab” nature of Swahili culture--a written language using Arabic script, elaborate stone buildings and mosques constructed in urban settings, Isl…
Kenya's past
The Swahili
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."— International Journal of African Historical Studies
Bemba Myth and Ritual
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Swahili
Maps Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1 Swahili and Their History 2 The African Background of Swahili 3 The Emergence of the Swahili-Speaking Peoples 4 Early Swahili Society, 800-1100 5 Rise of the Swahili Town-States, 1100-1500 Appendices Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
The Swahili
Africa
The Interpretation of Evidence in African History
In the preceding essay Janet Ewald has rightly stressed the critical importance of field work in revealing the manifold relations among different factors, institutions, and events in the past as well as those between the past and the present. She has also noted the disparate, eclectic, and even anarchic nature of the data obtained, making interpretation and analysis of the data a second, a perhaps even more difficult, hurdle that African historia…
Mutesa, The Missionaries, and Christian Conversion in Buganda
The closing decades of the nineteenth century were eventful ones for the kingdom of Buganda. Under the dynamic leadership of Kabaka Suna II (d. 1856), the kingdom had achieved unprecedented size and influence among the many kingdoms to the north and west of Lake Victoria at just the time when new, and troubling, forces began to impinge on the lake region. By the mid-1840s trade routes from the east coast had been extended beyond Karagwe around an…
Horn and Crescent
People and Production in Late Precolonial Tanzania
The Swahili
Peasant Intellectuals
Maasai Farmers
The Landscapes of Alienation
Politics and Literature
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