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Doing Conceptual History in Africa / ed. by Rhiannon Stephens, Axel Fleisch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Making Sense of History ; 25Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785338625
  • 9781785339523
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  • 960 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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