| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Making sense of history ; v. 23 |
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Making sense of history ; v. 25.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
"This volume is the product of a series of collaborative meetings and workshops between 2010 and 2014"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
Semantics, Historical
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African languages -- Semantics, Historical
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Social change -- Africa -- History
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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Intellectual life
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Semantics, Historical
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Social change
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Intellectual life -- History
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Africa -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fanego Palat, Axel, editor
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Stephens, Rhiannon, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781785331640 |
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1785331647 |
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