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001 67025932 //r852
003 DLC
005 19850513000000.0
008 711005s1967 maub b 000 0 eng
010 $a 67025932 //r852
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $af------
050 00 $aDT19$b.R4
082 00 $a916/.03/072
245 00 $aReconstructing African culture history.$cEdited by Creighton Gabel and Norman R. Bennett.
260 0 $aBoston,$bBoston University Press,$c1967.
300 $ax, 246 p.$bmaps.$c22 cm.
440 0 $aAfrican research studies,$vno. 8
500 $aConsists chiefly of papers presented at a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962.
504 $aBibliographical footnotes.
505 0 $aA 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 history, by C. Gabel.
651 0 $aAfrica$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aHistory$xResearch.
700 10 $aGabel, Creighton,$eed.
700 10 $aBennett, Norman Robert,$d1932-$eed.
710 20 $aNorthwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)