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Africa in translation : a history of colonial linguistics in Germany and beyond, 1814-1945 / Sara Pugach.
LIBRA P306.8.A35 P84 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugach, Sara Elizabeth Berg.
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting--Africa.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Translating and interpreting--Germany.
- Intercultural communication.
- Multilingualism.
- Germany.
- Multilingualism--Africa.
- Intercultural communication--Africa.
- Sociolinguistics--Africa.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Africa.
- Sociolinguistics--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- x, 303 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Before the fact : the beginnings of African studies on the mission field, 1814-87
- Beyond the missionary field : the development of African studies at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin
- The making of a "great Africanist" : Carl Meinhof in Zizow and Berlin, 1886-1909
- Anthropology and linguistics united? : Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and the Hamitic hypothesis
- Experimenting in the metropole : the theory and practice of African studies, 1908-19
- Of conjunctions, comportment, and clothing : African teaching assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919
- After the colonial moment : German influences on South African linguistics and ethnology, 1920-45
- Conclusion : the legacy of Afrikanistik.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780472117826
- 0472117823
- 9780472027774
- 0472027778
- OCLC:
- 712780969
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