David P Henige
Biographic Data
| ID | 546655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Henige |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Henige |
| SIGNATURE | HENIGE D P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Commas, Christians, and Editors
Good scholarship depends as much on good editing as on good research. Editors serve as indispensable interpreters by improving consistency, clarity, and accuracy, without which research would fall on thorny ground or, worse, prove to be inadequate. In this essay the author discusses several ways in which editors can transform discourse, sometimes to its disadvantage, and suggests that the importance of the function requires applying the highest p…
Born to Die
The Chronology of Oral Tradition
Do Africans Have a Sence of Time
Some phantom dynasties of early and medieval India
Conventionally, the history of early and medieval India is viewed against a framework of a large number of dynasties, some local, others 'imperial', some ephemeral, others extending over several centuries.3In this paper I argue that such a conceptualization is to some extent illusory, at least if a dynasty is defined as a series of genetically related rulers succeeding to a given office over time. The purpose of the paper is not to deny that many…
Reflections on Early Interlacustrine Chronology
The scholar interested in the early history of the interlacustrine area has an unusually large corpus of traditional evidence available. These sources are among the most detailed in tropical Africa and several full-scale works have been based on them. This paper seeks, through textual analysis, to demonstrate that some of the most important of these sources have been influenced by the content of earlier writings and by each other, and that their …
The James Phipps papers in the Public Records Office
Recently I was able to describe briefly the collection of the papers of James Phipps housed in the Chancery Masters Exhibits collection in the Public Record Office. At that time it was not possible to do more than suggest the salient characteristics of this collection since the materials were completely unorganized and in exactly the same condition as when they were deposited some two centuries ago. This collection has now been organized, albeit …
The problem of feedback in oral tradion
Little attention has been devoted to the uncritical and almost reflexive incorporation of available printed information into allegedly oral historical materials. This inclination is particularly strong when oral traditions attempt to cope with material more than a century old. The present paper discusses the mechanisms by which such ‘feedback’ materials were incorporated into the traditional accounts of four coastal Fante stools, and the ambience…
African Folklore
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. A Comprehensive List
Abrem Stool
The National Archives of Ghana
The resources of the National Archives of Ghana, both in their breadth and in their accessibility, offer an invaluable tool for the student of the history of that country. Regrettably, however, no guide to these resources is presently available, although an office has recently been established by the chief archivist to prepare such a guide. Nor, with but a few exceptions, has any attention been devoted in the literature to the holdings of the arc…
Two Sources for the History of the Guinea Coast, 1680-1722
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Oral Tradition and Chronology
Perhaps the weakest aspect of oral tradition is its inability to establish and maintain an accurate assessment of the length of the past it purports to relate. As time passes, societies without calendrical systems tend to become either very vague about this time depth or to relate it to present, changing circumstances. The most common method of measuring the past in many societies is in terms of king lists or genealogies. A comparison of orally t…
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
The problem of feedback in oral tradion
Little attention has been devoted to the uncritical and almost reflexive incorporation of available printed information into allegedly oral historical materials. This inclination is particularly strong when oral traditions attempt to cope with material more than a century old. The present paper discusses the mechanisms by which such ‘feedback’ materials were incorporated into the traditional accounts of four coastal Fante stools, and the ambience…
Reflections on Early Interlacustrine Chronology
The scholar interested in the early history of the interlacustrine area has an unusually large corpus of traditional evidence available. These sources are among the most detailed in tropical Africa and several full-scale works have been based on them. This paper seeks, through textual analysis, to demonstrate that some of the most important of these sources have been influenced by the content of earlier writings and by each other, and that their …
Oral Tradition and Chronology
Perhaps the weakest aspect of oral tradition is its inability to establish and maintain an accurate assessment of the length of the past it purports to relate. As time passes, societies without calendrical systems tend to become either very vague about this time depth or to relate it to present, changing circumstances. The most common method of measuring the past in many societies is in terms of king lists or genealogies. A comparison of orally t…
Born to Die
Some phantom dynasties of early and medieval India
Conventionally, the history of early and medieval India is viewed against a framework of a large number of dynasties, some local, others 'imperial', some ephemeral, others extending over several centuries.3In this paper I argue that such a conceptualization is to some extent illusory, at least if a dynasty is defined as a series of genetically related rulers succeeding to a given office over time. The purpose of the paper is not to deny that many…
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. A Comprehensive List
The National Archives of Ghana
The resources of the National Archives of Ghana, both in their breadth and in their accessibility, offer an invaluable tool for the student of the history of that country. Regrettably, however, no guide to these resources is presently available, although an office has recently been established by the chief archivist to prepare such a guide. Nor, with but a few exceptions, has any attention been devoted in the literature to the holdings of the arc…
Abrem Stool
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Oral Tradition and Chronology
Perhaps the weakest aspect of oral tradition is its inability to establish and maintain an accurate assessment of the length of the past it purports to relate. As time passes, societies without calendrical systems tend to become either very vague about this time depth or to relate it to present, changing circumstances. The most common method of measuring the past in many societies is in terms of king lists or genealogies. A comparison of orally t…
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present
Two Sources for the History of the Guinea Coast, 1680-1722
The James Phipps papers in the Public Records Office
Recently I was able to describe briefly the collection of the papers of James Phipps housed in the Chancery Masters Exhibits collection in the Public Record Office. At that time it was not possible to do more than suggest the salient characteristics of this collection since the materials were completely unorganized and in exactly the same condition as when they were deposited some two centuries ago. This collection has now been organized, albeit …
The problem of feedback in oral tradion
Little attention has been devoted to the uncritical and almost reflexive incorporation of available printed information into allegedly oral historical materials. This inclination is particularly strong when oral traditions attempt to cope with material more than a century old. The present paper discusses the mechanisms by which such ‘feedback’ materials were incorporated into the traditional accounts of four coastal Fante stools, and the ambience…
African Folklore
Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. A Comprehensive List
Abrem Stool
The National Archives of Ghana
The resources of the National Archives of Ghana, both in their breadth and in their accessibility, offer an invaluable tool for the student of the history of that country. Regrettably, however, no guide to these resources is presently available, although an office has recently been established by the chief archivist to prepare such a guide. Nor, with but a few exceptions, has any attention been devoted in the literature to the holdings of the arc…
Reflections on Early Interlacustrine Chronology
The scholar interested in the early history of the interlacustrine area has an unusually large corpus of traditional evidence available. These sources are among the most detailed in tropical Africa and several full-scale works have been based on them. This paper seeks, through textual analysis, to demonstrate that some of the most important of these sources have been influenced by the content of earlier writings and by each other, and that their …
Do Africans Have a Sence of Time
Some phantom dynasties of early and medieval India
Conventionally, the history of early and medieval India is viewed against a framework of a large number of dynasties, some local, others 'imperial', some ephemeral, others extending over several centuries.3In this paper I argue that such a conceptualization is to some extent illusory, at least if a dynasty is defined as a series of genetically related rulers succeeding to a given office over time. The purpose of the paper is not to deny that many…
The Chronology of Oral Tradition
Born to Die
Commas, Christians, and Editors
Good scholarship depends as much on good editing as on good research. Editors serve as indispensable interpreters by improving consistency, clarity, and accuracy, without which research would fall on thorny ground or, worse, prove to be inadequate. In this essay the author discusses several ways in which editors can transform discourse, sometimes to its disadvantage, and suggests that the importance of the function requires applying the highest p…
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