David William Cohen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77547 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David William Cohen |
| PRENOMES | David William |
| SOBRENOME | Cohen |
| ASSINATURA | COHEN D W |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Womunafu's Bunafu
Perils and Pragmatics of Critique
Barack Obama Sr's 1965 critique of the Kenya government's Sessional Paper number 10: ‘African Socialism and Its Application to Planning in Kenya’ reads today as remarkably shrewd and prescient – shrewd in its efforts to navigate the perilous political differences among the major figures and forces of the day including Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga, as well as the false securities of ideologies, in this case the messy, irresolvable de…
Books
African Words, African Voices
This roundtable discussion among four prominent historians of Africa-Lisa A. Lindsay, Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen-explores the critical practices in oral history. They address the challenges and possibilities of using oral sources, considering issues of interpretation, methodology, and the ethical implications of working with oral testimonies. The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding the specific con…
Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead
The Combing of History
How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social and political forces at play in the production of…
The Combing of History
Journal Article The Combing of History. By David William Cohen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $47.95, ISBN0-226-11277-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-226-11278-0.) Get access David W. Noble David W. Noble University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 672–673, https://doi.org…
Burying SM
Burying SM
Burying SM
Moving the Centre
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Burying SM
The Banalities of Interpretation
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Banalities of Interpretation David William Cohen David William Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 57–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David William Cohen; The Banalities of Interpretation. Public Culture 1 January 1992; 5 (1): 57–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/089923…
Siaya
Siaya
The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of western Kenya, bringing together ideas and debates which Luo express about their past and present with findings, arguments and questions produced by scholars. For the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is correct behaviour, what is history, are questions that are heavily fought over. This is one of those rare books that makes students and other interested readers question their ow…
Siaya
Siaya
The Undefining of Oral Tradition
This paper points to flaws in formalist definitions of which have the capacity to affect reconstructions of the African past. Historical knowledge in regions such as Busoga, Uganda, is not lodged in a distinctive series of texts read as but is engaged in and derives from the everyday critical, lively intelligence which surrounds status, activities, gestures, and speech. Reflections on the organization of knowledge of past in Busoga may help schol…
The Cultural Topography of a ‘Bantu Borderland’
The terrain of Busoga and adjacent areas of eastern Uganda constituted a portion of the boundary of the broad Bantu speech community of southern, central, west-central and eastern Africa. By examining closely the settings and circumstances of contact between Bantu and non-Bantu in this portion of the ‘Bantu line’ between approximately 1500 and 1850, it is possible to see the complexity of the ‘face of contact’ between speech communities in easter…
Colonial Evangelism
Oral Historiography
The History of Busoga
The original article can be retrieved from the JSTOR database at http://www.jstor.org/stable/217701
Conflict and Collaboration
African Kingships in Perspectives
Burying SM
The Chronology of Oral Tradition
Journal Article The Chronology of Oral Tradition Get access The Chronology of Oral Tradition, by David P. Henige. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. xiii+265 pp. £5·50. DAVID WILLIAM COHEN DAVID WILLIAM COHEN The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 308, July 1978, Pages 413–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096998 Published: 01 July 1978
The Undefining of Oral Tradition
This paper points to flaws in formalist definitions of which have the capacity to affect reconstructions of the African past. Historical knowledge in regions such as Busoga, Uganda, is not lodged in a distinctive series of texts read as but is engaged in and derives from the everyday critical, lively intelligence which surrounds status, activities, gestures, and speech. Reflections on the organization of knowledge of past in Busoga may help schol…
The Cwezi Cult
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Siaya
Burying SM
The Cultural Topography of a ‘Bantu Borderland’
The terrain of Busoga and adjacent areas of eastern Uganda constituted a portion of the boundary of the broad Bantu speech community of southern, central, west-central and eastern Africa. By examining closely the settings and circumstances of contact between Bantu and non-Bantu in this portion of the ‘Bantu line’ between approximately 1500 and 1850, it is possible to see the complexity of the ‘face of contact’ between speech communities in easter…
Burying SM
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The Banalities of Interpretation
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Banalities of Interpretation David William Cohen David William Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 57–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David William Cohen; The Banalities of Interpretation. Public Culture 1 January 1992; 5 (1): 57–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/089923…
The History of Busoga
The original article can be retrieved from the JSTOR database at http://www.jstor.org/stable/217701
Agenda for African Economic History
It is frequently remarked that Africa is so diverse as to defy generalization. Perhaps one generalization that can legitimately be made is that today there exists in every sphere of government in every African country a “development consciousness,” preeminent within this consciousness a dependence on economic planning for growth. The historical lessons of Europe and America are proffered and the lessons are studied and more than occasionally appl…
The Cwezi Cult
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Agenda for African Economic History
It is frequently remarked that Africa is so diverse as to defy generalization. Perhaps one generalization that can legitimately be made is that today there exists in every sphere of government in every African country a “development consciousness,” preeminent within this consciousness a dependence on economic planning for growth. The historical lessons of Europe and America are proffered and the lessons are studied and more than occasionally appl…
Pre-Colonial Trade
Journal Article Pre-Colonial Trade: essays on trade in central and eastern Africa before 1900 Get access Pre-Colonial Trade: essays on trade in central and eastern Africa before 1900, edited by Richard Gray and David Birmingham, OUP, 1970. 308pp. 16 maps. £2.50. DAVID WILLIAM COHEN DAVID WILLIAM COHEN Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 281, October 19…
The Historical Tradition of Busoga
"Pre-Colonial History as the History of the "Society
The Historical Tradition of Busoga
Precolonial Africa
African Kingships in Perspectives
The Chronology of Oral Tradition
Journal Article The Chronology of Oral Tradition Get access The Chronology of Oral Tradition, by David P. Henige. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. xiii+265 pp. £5·50. DAVID WILLIAM COHEN DAVID WILLIAM COHEN The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 308, July 1978, Pages 413–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096998 Published: 01 July 1978
Trends in African Historical Studies
Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century. Edward A. Alpers.The Traditional History of the Jie of Uganda. John Lamphear. Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Joseph C. Miller. Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.Asante in the Nineteenth Cen…
Conflict and Collaboration
The History of Busoga
The original article can be retrieved from the JSTOR database at http://www.jstor.org/stable/217701
Oral Historiography
Colonial Evangelism
The Cultural Topography of a ‘Bantu Borderland’
The terrain of Busoga and adjacent areas of eastern Uganda constituted a portion of the boundary of the broad Bantu speech community of southern, central, west-central and eastern Africa. By examining closely the settings and circumstances of contact between Bantu and non-Bantu in this portion of the ‘Bantu line’ between approximately 1500 and 1850, it is possible to see the complexity of the ‘face of contact’ between speech communities in easter…
Siaya
The Undefining of Oral Tradition
This paper points to flaws in formalist definitions of which have the capacity to affect reconstructions of the African past. Historical knowledge in regions such as Busoga, Uganda, is not lodged in a distinctive series of texts read as but is engaged in and derives from the everyday critical, lively intelligence which surrounds status, activities, gestures, and speech. Reflections on the organization of knowledge of past in Busoga may help schol…
Siaya
Siaya
The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of western Kenya, bringing together ideas and debates which Luo express about their past and present with findings, arguments and questions produced by scholars. For the Luo, what constitutes culture, what is correct behaviour, what is history, are questions that are heavily fought over. This is one of those rare books that makes students and other interested readers question their ow…
Siaya
Burying SM
The Banalities of Interpretation
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Banalities of Interpretation David William Cohen David William Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 57–59. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David William Cohen; The Banalities of Interpretation. Public Culture 1 January 1992; 5 (1): 57–59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/089923…
Moving the Centre
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The Combing of History
Journal Article The Combing of History. By David William Cohen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $47.95, ISBN0-226-11277-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-226-11278-0.) Get access David W. Noble David W. Noble University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 672–673, https://doi.org…
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