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Sources and Methods for African History and Culture - Essays in Honour of Adam Jones
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The conversation with sources is at the heart of the historical profession. Men and women of past times have left messages and traces in a variety of forms - orally transmitted, written, material, visual etc. Men and women of today try to interpret these sources in an attempt to understand human action in its historical context. What may, at first sight, seem like a straightforward dialogue between source and historian, hardly ever is. Neither the messages and traces, nor the historical interpretation, nor the availability and accessibility of the source itself turn out to be self-evident.This...