Doing Conceptual History in Africa
Author | : Axel Fleisch |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018-02-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781785339523 |
ISBN-13 | : 1785339524 |
Rating | : 4/5 (524 Downloads) |
Download or read book Doing Conceptual History in Africa written by Axel Fleisch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.