Doing Conceptual History in Africa

2. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-862-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleisch, Axel

Stephens, Rhiannon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures and Tables                            

Acknowledgements

Notes on Language

Introduction: Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History

Rhiannon Stephens and Axel Fleisch

Chapter 1. ‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Oral Contexts: Uganda from c. 1000 C.E.

Rhiannon Stephens

Chapter 2. Conceptual Continuities: About ‘Work’ in Nguni

Axel Fleisch

Chapter 3. Tracking the Concept of ‘Work’ on the North Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa

Anne Kelk Mager

Chapter 4. Understanding the Concept ‘Marriage’ in Afrikaans during the Twentieth Century

Marné Pienaar

Chapter 5. Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations

Pamela Khanakwa

Chapter 6. The Concept of ‘Land’ in Bioko: ‘Land as Property’ and ‘Land as Country’

Ana Lúcia Sá

Chapter 7. Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism

Pieter Boele van Hensbroek

Chapter 8. An Untimely Concept: Decolonization and the Works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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).