TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fleisch,Axel
AU  - Fraiture,Pierre-Philippe
AU  - Hensbroek,Pieter Boele Van
AU  - Khanakwa,Pamela
AU  - Mager,Anne Kelk
AU  - Pienaar,Marné
AU  - Stephens,Rhiannon
AU  - Sá,Ana Lúcia
TI  - Doing Conceptual History in Africa
T2  - Making Sense of History
SN  - 9781785338625
U1  - 960 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - African languages
KW  - Semantics, Historical
KW  - Social change
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785339523?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785339523
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785339523/original
ER  -