HIST 49B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yaa Asantewaa, Terence Ranger, Yellow Fever
Document Summary
Images of africa: exotic, broken afro-pessimism, crises (civil war, famine, disease, developing africa, dependent on north and need of outside help, a symbol of difference, objectification, see: curtis keim (reader), chimanada adichie"s the danger of a single. Story : described as barbaric and false, african history, local: carol reindorf (1895) & samuel johnson (1921, academic: j. f. Ogot, a. adu boahen, terence ranger a usable african past (1976) Objectives: historian"s questions, persia, p = state formation (1) political leaders legitimacy: collective or autocratic? conflicts: war and mediation; forms of power and authoritiy. I & a = music, arts, cultures, oracy/literacy: sources/methodologies. Images, oral, written records, archaeology: written = merchants, letters, diaries, missionaries, gov. , travelogues, oral = (non)narrative, personal recollections, life histories , historiography = gathering for evidence, revisions, historical methods/interpretations. Geography: 800 million people, 54 countries, 63 ppl. /mi^2, urban, actually huge, environmental challenges, poor soils, cyclical rainfall, disease (malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness)
