TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gabel,Creighton
AU  - Bennett,Norman Robert,1932-
AU  - 
TI  - Reconstructing African culture history
PY  - 1967///
CY  - Boston University Press
PB  - Boston
KW  - History
KW  - Research
KW  - Africa
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Consists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962; TRUNCATED; Bibliographical footnotes; A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark.--Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis.--African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott.--The use of oral tradition in African culture history, by J. Vansina.--The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam.--African art and culture history, by R. Sieber.--The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone.--The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson.--Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan.--Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture histor
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