Doing Conceptual History in Africa / / ed. by Axel Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Fleisch, Axel,; Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe,; Hensbroek, Pieter Boele Van,; Khanakwa, Pamela,; Mager, Anne Kelk,; Pienaar, Marné,; Stephens, Rhiannon,; Sá, Ana Lúcia,
• HerausgeberIn: Fleisch, Axel,; Stephens, Rhiannon,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Maps, Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Language --; Introduction. Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History --; Chapter 1. ‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Oral Contexts: Uganda from c. 1000 CE --; Chapter 2. Conceptual Continuities: About ‘Work’ in Nguni --; Chapter 3. Tracking the Concept of ‘Work’ on the North-Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa --; Chapter 4. Understanding the Concept of ‘Marriage’ in Afrikaans during the Twentieth Century --; Chapter 5. Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations --; Chapter 6. The Concept of ‘Land’ in Bioko: ‘Land as Property’ and ‘Land as Country’ --; Chapter 7. Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism --; Chapter 8. An Untimely Concept: Decolonization and the Works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang --; Index --; MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339523; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339523
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Axel Fleisch, Rhiannon Stephens.

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.