Doing Conceptual History in Africa Contributor(s): Fleisch, Axel (Editor), Stephens, Rhiannon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785338625 ISBN-13: 9781785338625 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - History | Historiography |
Dewey: 960 |
LCCN: 2018300512 |
Series: Making Sense of History |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 258 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fleisch, Axel: - Axel Fleisch is a Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki. His focus is southern Africa, including African languages and historical linguistics. He is the author of Lucazi Grammar: A Morphosemantic Analysis (2000) and the co-editor of Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-East Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter (1999). Stephens, Rhiannon: -Rhiannon Stephens is an Associate Professor of African History at Columbia University. Her work focuses on East Africa, particularly Uganda. She is the author of A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (2013) and has published work in the Journal of African History and Past and Present. |