Doing conceptual history in Africa

Introduction: theories and methods of African conceptual history / Rhiannon Stephens and Axel Fleisch -- "Wealth", "poverty" and the question of conceptual history in oral contexts : Uganda from c. 1000 C.E. / Rhiannon Stephens -- Conceptual continuities : about "work"...

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Weitere Verfasser: Fanego Palat, Axel (HerausgeberIn), Stephens, Rhiannon (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: New York, Oxford Berghahn 2016
Schriftenreihe:Making sense of history volume 25
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: theories and methods of African conceptual history / Rhiannon Stephens and Axel Fleisch -- "Wealth", "poverty" and the question of conceptual history in oral contexts : Uganda from c. 1000 C.E. / Rhiannon Stephens -- Conceptual continuities : about "work" in Nguni / Axel Fleisch -- Tracking the concept of "work" on the North Eastern Cape frontier, South Africa / Anne Kelk Mager -- Understanding the concept "marriage" in Afrikaans during the twentieth century / Marné Pienaar -- Male circumcision among the Bagisu of eastern Uganda : practices and conceptualizations / Pamela Khanakwa -- The concept of "land" in Bioko : "land as property" and "land as country" / Ana Lúcia Sá -- Conceptualizing "land" and "nation" in early Gold Coast nationalism / Pieter Boele van Hensbroek -- Ujamaa : the evasive translation of an elusive concept / Bo Stråth -- An untimely concept : decolonization and the works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
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"This volume is the product of a series of collaborative meetings and workshops between 2010 and 2014."...Acknowledgements. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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