CLASSICS OF THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN HUMANITIES
Below are links to selections of (English translations of) the sources and texts introduced in the Theme issue of History of Humanities, 9(2), “Classics of the Humanities II: Classics of the History of the African Humanities”.
Ọrúnmìlà, Odù Ifá, ca. 1100.
Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddima, 1377.
Al-Suyūtī, Bughyat Al-Wuʿāh, 1467.
Zara Yacob, Hatata, 1667.
Nana Asma’u, Wa’kar Gewaye (Filitago), 1839.
Carl Christian Reindorf, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1895.
Samuel Johnson, The History of the Yorubas: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning
of the British Protectorate, 1921.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.
Cheikh Anta Diop, Antériorité des civilisations nègres: Mythe ou vérité historique?, 1967.
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, The Music of Africa, 1974.
Fatima Mernissi, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society, 1975.
Mohamed H. Abdulaziz, Muyaka: 19th Century Swahili Popular Poetry, 1979.
Mouloud Mammeri, Poèmes kabyles anciens, (in French), 1980. For an English source: Mouloud Mammeri and Pierre Bourdieu, Dialogue on Oral Poetry.
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986.
The General History of Africa, 1964–1998.
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Re-creating Ourselves: African Women & Critical Transformations, 1994.
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CLASSICS OF THE HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES IN EUROPE
Below are links to electronic editions of the texts introduced and discussed in the Theme issue of History of Humanities, 4(2), on “Classics of the Humanities I: From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age”
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums. Dresden: In der Waltherischen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1764.
Gibbon, Edward, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Strahan & Cadell, vol. I, 1776; vol. II, vol. III, 1781; vol. IV, vol. V, vol. VI, 1788–1789.
Jones, William, The Third Anniversary Discourse, “On the Hindus”, delivered 2 February 1786, Asiatick Researches, V. 1 (1788): 415-431
Schlegel, Friedrich. “Gespräch über die Poesie,” Athenaeum 3, no. 1 (1800): 58-128 and 3, no. 2: 169-187.
Wolf, Immanuel. ”Über den Begriff einer Wissenschaft des Judenthums”, Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. Berlin: Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden, 1822, 1-24.
Ranke, Leopold, Geschichten der romanischen und germanischen Völker von 1494 bis 1535, vol. 1. Leipzig and Berlin: G. Reimer, 1824.
Ranke, Leopold. Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber: Eine Beylage zu desselben romanischen und germanischen Geschichten. Leipzig and Berlin: G. Reimer, 1824.
Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen. “Kortfattet Udsigt over Mindesmærker og Oldsager fra Nordens Fortid,” in Ledetraad til nordisk Oldkyndighed udgiven af det kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab. Copenhagen: Møllers Bogtrykkeri,1836, 27-90.
Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen. “Cursory View of the Monuments and Antiquities of the North,” in Guide to Northern Archæology by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, trans. the Earl of Ellesmere. London and Copenhagen: Berling Brothers, 1848, 25-104.
Lachmann, Karl, ed., In T. Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libros Commentarius. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1850.
Sweet, Henry. A Handbook of Phonetics .Oxford: Clarendon, 1877.
Goldziher, Ignaz. “The Progress of Islamic Science in the Last Three Decades.” In: Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, Volume II: History of Politics and Economics, History of Law, History of Religion, edited by Howard J. Rogers. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge: 1906, 497-517.
Warburg, Aby, Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten, Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 26. Abhandlung. Heidelberg; Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1920.
Mauss, Marcel, “Les techniques du corps”, Journal de psychologie normale et pathologique 32/3-4 (1935): 271-293.
Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur. Bern: A. Francke Verlag, 1946. <<to be added>>
Busa, Roberto. Sancti Thomae Aquinatis hymnorum ritualium varia specimina concordantiarum: a first example of word index automatically compiled and printed by IBM punched card machines. Fratelli Bocca, Editori, 1951.
Miles, Josephine. Style and Proportion: The Language of Prose and Poetry. Boston: Brown & Little, 1967.
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OTHER RESOURCES:
Proceedings of ‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference series (Open Access):
The Making of the Humanities Volume I: Early Modern Europe
The Making of the Humanities Volume II: From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines
The Making of the Humanities Volume III: The Modern Humanities
The journal History of Humanities
Editorial paper: A New Field: History of Humanities by Rens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat and Thijs Weststeijn, History of Humanities, 1(1), 2016, pp. 1-8.
Essay on the History of the Humanities in the Chronicle: How a New Field Could Help Save the Humanities by Rens Bod, The Chronicle Review, 24 February 2017.
Useful Reference Books and Textbooks:
Rens Bod, A New History of the Humanities. The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013)
Jan Eckel, Geist der Zeit: Deutsche Geisteswissenschaften seit 1870 (VandenHoeck & Ruprecht 2008)
Michel Foucault, Les Mots et Les Choses. Une Archéologie des Sciences Humaines (Paris: Editions Gallimard 1966)
Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in 15th and 16th Century Europe (London: Duckworth 1986)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham, The Humanities and the Dream of America (Chicago: Chicago University Press 2011)
Susan Hockey, Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Principles and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000)
Jerome Kagan, The Three Cultures. Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009)
G.E.R. Lloyd, Disciplines in the Making. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning and Innovation (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009)
Robert E. Proctor, Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve our Schools. Second edition with a curriculum for today’s students (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1998)
Helen Small, The Value of the Humanities (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
Roger Smith, Being Human. Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (New York: Columbia University Press 2007)
Hans Joachim Störig, Kleine Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaft (new edition, Fischer Taschenbuch 2007)
James Turner, Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2014)