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Doing conceptual history in Africa / edited by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Making Sense of History ; 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics, Historical.
- African languages--Semantics, Historical.
- African languages.
- Social change--Africa--History.
- Social change.
- Africa--Intellectual life--History.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Revised paperback edtion.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Berghahn, [2018]
- Summary:
- Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” take shape.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Language
- Introduction. Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History
- Chapter 1. ‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Oral Contexts: Uganda from c. 1000 CE
- Chapter 2. Conceptual Continuities: About ‘Work’ in Nguni
- Chapter 3. Tracking the Concept of ‘Work’ on the North-Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa
- Chapter 4. Understanding the Concept of ‘Marriage’ in Afrikaans during the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 5. Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations
- Chapter 6. The Concept of ‘Land’ in Bioko: ‘Land as Property’ and ‘Land as Country’
- Chapter 7. Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism
- Chapter 8. An Untimely Concept: Decolonization and the Works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang
- Index
- MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785339523
- 1785339524
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