Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1555-2462|13|1|23-34
ISSN: 0002-0206
Source: African Studies Review, Vol.13, Iss.1, 1970-04, pp. : 23-34
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Abstract
One of the most attractive and stimulating features about research in African history has been its eclecticism. Grounded particularly in the extensive and fertile field of social anthropology, Africanists have explored the implications of cultural relativism and the techniques of structural-functional analysis. Now, when some of the basic assumptions which have undergirded social sciences are being questioned, historians might re-examine their own orientations toward the men and societies about which they write.