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 Fleisch, Axel Stephens Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens
• Assisted by: Axel Fleisch (Editor), Rhiannon Stephens (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781785331633
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-163-3
• Series: Making Sense of History
• Subject: Non-fiction book