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Author : Dele Layiwola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Methodology in African Studies written by Dele Layiwola and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Udobata R. Onunwa
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434953971
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Methodologies of African Studies written by Udobata R. Onunwa and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uoldelul Chelati Dirar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789819757664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Africa as Method written by Uoldelul Chelati Dirar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This methods handbook investigates the multiple sources and interdisciplinary methodologies employed by scholars working on Africa. It illuminates how scholars of Africa locate, select, interpret, and combine sources to reconstruct Africa’s past. Each contributor presents a specific typology of source or body of sources. Focusing on specific case studies, the chapters offer a broad overview of the methods and sources employed by historians, anthropologists, linguists, and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, working on Africa. The topics covered are diverse and include the significance of oral sources and how they relate to written sources; the perspectives provided by female writings on and from Africa; the relevance of Islamic court records for the study of Africa; the use of songs and poetry for the understanding of contemporary political protests; the employment of photographs and other visual sources for the study of the African past; how new sources or new interpretations of existing ones can provide different historical periodization; and finally, how biographies and autobiographies, including personal experiences with fieldwork in Africa, can contribute to shed light on Africa’s past. The book is a valuable resource for graduate students and academics interested in doing research on Africa. It provides a sweeping but rich understanding of the methodologies in the field of African studies, and for historians in general. Ultimately, this book contends that the specific methodologies developed for the study of Africa are relevant not only for the understanding of the continent itself, but can also contribute significantly to the historical method more widely.
Author : Serie McDougal (III)
Publisher : Black Studies and Critical Thinking
ISBN 13 : 9781433124600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Africana Studies written by Serie McDougal (III) and published by Black Studies and Critical Thinking. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science.
Author : James L. Conyer, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527519406
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Africana Methodology written by James L. Conyer, Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. The necessity of interpretive Afrocentric research is relevant to position agency and to locate Africana studies in place, space, and time. This study will provide readers with a compilation of literary, historical, philosophical, and social science essays that describe and evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective. Paradoxically, the collection presents measurable and qualitative research, in order to flush out a global Pan–Africanist consciousness.
Author : Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Research Methodology and African Studies written by Abdul Karim Bangura and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761928405
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Black Studies written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : James L. Conyers
Publisher : UPA
ISBN 13 : 0761867538
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies written by James L. Conyers and published by UPA. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies. Correlating this book to research and writing in Africana Studies, helps to extend the perplexity, paradox, and parley of social science and humanistic research. This book attempts to answer, what is Africana Studies with reference to an interdisciplinary body of knowledge? Africana Studies is the global Pan-Africanist study of African phenomena interpreted from an Afrocentric perspective. Among those scholars who contribute to this interdisciplinary body of knowledge, perspective signals the commonality in the school of thought. This book offers general definitions and descriptions of the qualitative and quantitative research.
Author : Norman K. Denzin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412918030
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies written by Norman K. Denzin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on the foundation of their landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, it extends beyond the investigation of qualitative inquiry itself to explore the indigenous and non-indigenous voices that inform research, policy, politics, and social justice.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461405
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Sources and Methods in African History written by Toyin Falola and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort throughsome of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first sectiondeals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. Thefifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Christian Jennings is a Doctoral Candidatein History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author : Serie McDougal (III)
Publisher : Black Studies and Critical Thinking
ISBN 13 : 9781433124617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Research Methods in Africana Studies written by Serie McDougal (III) and published by Black Studies and Critical Thinking. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical research on Africana communities in the American context, in addition to the African diaspora. It contains a collection of the most widely used theories and paradigms designed for exploring, explaining, and advancing Africana communities through science.
Author : Jennifer L. De Maio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666917249
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Critical Dimensions of African Studies written by Jennifer L. De Maio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together top researchers, thinkers, and activists from across disciplines to reflect on the study of Africa. Critical Dimensions of African Studies: Re-Membering Africa emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa. The editors, Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters, organize the book around three related key themes: international/transnational, humanistic, and combined critical theory and practice perspectives. They argue that each theme represents an important dimension of contemporary African and African diaspora studies and re-centering these themes within the discipline will help to advance the field. The diverse contributors capture the goal and method for re-membering Africa by reflecting and defining the field from various disciplines in order to consider the history, the critical debates, and the challenges to current views of the status and future direction of African studies.
Author : Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher : Cognella
ISBN 13 : 9781609270865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book African-Centered Research Methodologies written by Abdul Karim Bangura and published by Cognella. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After almost three centuries of employing Western research methodologies, many African communities, both on the continent and throughout the world, remain marginalized in contemporary discourse. It is obvious that these Western methodologies have done relatively little good for Africans. To rectify this oversight and bring these African communities to the fore, a shift in perspective is needed, and this book posits the adoption of alternative, African-centered research methodologies as a solution. Employing such methodologies would enable African communities to define their unique identities from their unique perspectives and would help offer a long-overdue challenge to entrenched European paradigms of Africans as the "other." To enable readers to apply a methodology systematically in investigating a phenomenon of interest to him/her, chapters in African-Centered Research Methodologies include: - An introduction to the method discussed - A definition of the method - The sub-areas of the method - A brief history and brief backgrounds of the pioneers of the method - Major research questions investigated by the method - Major concepts and/or theories of the method - Major research topics covered by the method - Types of methodological approaches employed - Major academic journals and publications that publish works utilizing the method - A sample of outstanding scholarly works that have employed the method - A conclusion Abdul Karim Bangura is Professor of Research Methodology and Political Science at Howard University and Researcher-in-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace in the School of International Service at American University. He holds a PhD in Political Science, a PhD in Development Economics, a PhD in Linguistics, a PhD in Computer Science, and a PhD in Mathematics. He is the author and editor/contributor of 63 books and more than 500 scholarly articles. He was president and United Nations Ambassador of the Association of Third World Studies, and Dr. Bangura is a member of many other scholarly and civic organizations. The winner of many teaching and other scholarly and community service awards, he is fluent in about a dozen African and six European languages, and is studying to strengthen his proficiency in Arabic, Hebrew, and hieroglyphics.
Author : Margaret Peil
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 9780340262054
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Social Science Research Methods written by Margaret Peil and published by London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1982 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S.N. Nyeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351141945
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies written by S.N. Nyeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia. The Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies incorporates a range of unique perspectives, reflecting ongoing struggles between regimes of inclusion and those of transformation premised upon different relational and reflexive engagements between queer embodiment and Africa’s subjectivities. All sections of this handbook blend contributions from public intellectuals and practitioners with academic reflections on topics not limited to neoliberalism, social care, morality and ethics, social education, and technology, through the lens of queer African studies. The book renders visible the ongoing transformations and resistance within African societies as well as the inventiveness of queer presence in negotiating belonging. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Africa, queer studies, and African culture and society.
Author : Donna M. Mertens
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412949181
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Social Research Ethics written by Donna M. Mertens and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together international scholars across the social and behavioural sciences and education to address those ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live.
Author : Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869785178
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Readings in Methodology written by Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the weaknesses of research in Africa is the little consideration that is given to questions of epistemology and methodology. What we see is the trivialization of research protocols which, consequently, are reduced to fantasy prescriptions that detach social studies from universal debates over the validity of science rather than an interrogation of research procedures induced by the complexity of social dynamics. As a result, social sciences have become an imitative discourse and a recital of exotic anecdotes without perspectives. Knowledge production therefore loses any heuristic bearing. It is on the basis of this reality that attempts to correct this tendency have been made in this book by discussing the methodological foundation of social science knowledge. This volume is a collection of papers presented during methodological workshops organized by CODESRIA. Its objective is to revitalize theory and methodology in field work in Africa while contributing to the creation of a critical space hinged upon the mastery of epistemological bases which are indispensable to any scientific imagination. Far from being a collection of technical certainties and certified methods, this book interrogates the uncertain itinerary of the process of social logics discovery. In that sense, it is a decisive step towards a critical systemization of ongoing theories and practices within the African scientific community. The reader can, therefore, identify the philosophical, historical, sociological and anthropological foundations of object construction, field data exploitation and research results delivery. This book explains the importance of the philosophical and social modalities of scientific practice, the influence of local historical contexts, the different usages of new investigative tools, including the audiovisual tools. Finally, the book, backed by classical theories, serves as an invitation toward considering scientific commitment to African field research from a reflective perspective.
