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Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond
Fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5)
Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Abstract
Announcement
Fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 5), Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 June 2013
Panel 152 : Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2091
Proposed by Dr. Anaïs Wion (CNRS / CFEE, Ethiopia)
Presentation
Historians, anthropologists as well as specialists of various scholarly traditions are invited to reflect on the question of production, transmission and preservation of administrative and legal documentation in pre-colonial Africa.
The aim of this panel,which can be held in three sessions of half a day each, is to foster dialogue between scholars working on non-narrative sources, whether land charters, weddings contracts, deeds, funerary inscriptions or other archival materials. Presentations of methodological issues rather than case-studies would facilitate a comparative approach leading to a renewed understanding of the social organizations that produced these documents.
Practices of writing, history of local and state administration, and prosopography are among the particular themes organizing this interdisciplinary dialogue. Colleagues working in different regions of Africa and on Muslim, Christian or Jewish sources will share their methods with Western Medievalist(s). While often required in Medieval studies, a comparative approach within Africa is long overdue. This panel ambitions to build bridges between wellknown methods for the critical study of legal documents, called diplomatic, and sources produced in the African context that would benefit from such a methodology.
Experiences about the critical edition of such sources would be a relevant contribution to this panel.
Submissions
Call for papers will close on 16th January and proposal must be done on-line (see http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/cfp.shtml).
Nevertheless, I encourage any interested scholar who would like to begin a discussion before applying to contact me directly <anais.wion@univ-paris1.fr>.
Subjects
- Africa (Main category)
- Periods > Middle Ages
- Periods > Early modern
- Society > History
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Auxiliary sciences of history
- Society > Political studies > Political institutions
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Corpus approaches, surveys, archives
Places
- Lisbon, Portugal
Date(s)
- Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Attached files
Keywords
- diplomatique, Afrique, pratique de l'écrit, prosopographie, critique textuelle
Contact(s)
- Anaïs Wion
courriel : anais [dot] wion [at] univ-paris1 [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Anaïs Wion
courriel : anais [dot] wion [at] univ-paris1 [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Administrative and Legal Documentation in Pre-colonial Africa and Beyond », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, https://doi.org/10.58079/mgu
