European Conference on African Studies

ECAS 2009
3^rd European Conference on African Studies

Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

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Panel 106: Writing the oral: The building of history and the notions of 'past' and 'present' (Manuela Palmeirim / Manuel JOÃO RAMOS)

Panel Organisers: Manuela Palmeirim / Manuel JOÃO RAMOS

The panel aims at convoking both Africanist historians and anthropologists to address issues concerning the impact of written history in the ‘re-shaping’ of Africa, that is, in the transformation of social memory, symbolic thought and former notions of ‘historical’ time. Additionally, it aims at looking at the continuous cognitive interaction and flux of information between oral and written sources in the production of historical knowledge.

Accepted Abstracts

Anais Wion - Abstract

Eva Sebestyen - Abstract

Writing memory overwrites oral tradition

Isabel Boavida - Abstract

Different traditions, different places - the same story?

Jean-Gabriel Leturcq - Abstract

Classical anthropology vs. Local History in Gambella (Ethiopia)

Manuel Joao Ramos - Abstract

The Space of the Oral in the History of the construction of kingly territories in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia

Manuela Palmeirim - Abstract

Writing the oral, and the oral use of written medicines: Ruwund and Zanzibar cases

Ngade Ivo N. Mesumbe - Full Paper

Ntiege Mesumbe Ivo Ngade - Abstract

Writing the oral to build African history: reflections on the (Ba)nyanga story - telling traditions

Shiferaw Bekele - Abstract

Orality and written sources in the writing of the 18th century history of Ethiopia