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Title: | The Documentary Impulse: Archives in the Bush |
Author: | Zeitlyn, David |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 32 |
Pages: | 415-434 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | documents historical sources rural society villages Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_in_africa/v032/32.1zeitlyn.pdf |
Abstract: | In order to find out what sorts of evidence currently exist and may survive to provide the raw materials for future historical studies, the author presents a survey of the available types of documents that are currently found in Somié, a Mambila village on the Tikar Plain near the Nigeria border of Cameroon. These include school registers; registers of birth and death certificates; dispensary records; personal medical records; Royal Palace archives; records related to communal work, rotating credit society meetings, coffee (the local cash crop) and graves; financial records; church documents; records of the 15th of August meetings; agricultural post documents; shop signs; posters and calendars; funerary photographs; and letters. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |