Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Doing Conceptual History in Africa
ISBN-10
1785339524
ISBN-13
9781785339523
Category
History
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2018-02-21
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Axel Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens

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.

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