Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Axel Stephens Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens, Axel Fleisch
• Assisted by: Rhiannon Stephens (Editor), Axel Fleisch (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.05.2016
• Subject: Non-fiction book
• EAN: 9781785331633
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-163-3
• Series: Making Sense of History > 25