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X-WR-CALNAME:Microhistory and Researching the African Past: The Heretic of
  Cacheu and Historical Methods - Dr. Toby Green
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DESCRIPTION:Session Description\n\nIn this session\, historian Toby Green e
 xamines his new book\, The Heretic of Cacheu (University of Chicago Press)
 \, through the lens of historical methods for studying the African past. I
 n an era of big data\, what is the significance of taking a micro-historic
 al approach\, and why is it significant as a means of recovering different
  approaches that are not constrained by the coloniality of data mining? Gr
 een will discuss how focusing on the life biography of an African woman of
  the 17th century can illuminate aspects of the past that are increasingly
  significant\, yet also increasingly overlooked.\n\nRegister Here\n\nSpeak
 er Biography\n\nToby Green is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professo
 r of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s Col
 lege\, London. His books include the award-winning A Fistful of Shells. He
  is a member of the Advisory Board of the Lagos-based Global Africa Instit
 ute\, and was also an advisory board member for the Amilcar Cabral Centena
 ry Conference of 2024 (Bissau/Praia). Green has worked on curriculum chang
 e in the teaching of African history both in the UK and in West Africa\, a
 nd has been a member of the UK government’s Model History Curriculum Adv
 isory Group.
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SUMMARY:Microhistory and Researching the African Past: The Heretic of Cach
 eu and Historical Methods - Dr. Toby Green
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/microhistory-and-researchin
 g-the-african-pastthe-heretic-of-cacheuand-historical-methods
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