Doing Conceptual History in Africa

230 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Making Sense of History
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Afrikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781785338625
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2018
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Axel Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens