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Author Pugach, Sara Elizabeth Berg

Title Africa in translation : a history of colonial linguistics in Germany and beyond, 1814-1945 / Sara Pugach
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Contents Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: African Studies and the Classification of Humanity -- 1. Before the Fact: The Beginnings of African Studies on the Mission Field, 1814-87 -- 2. Beyond the Missionary Field: The Development of African Studies at the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin -- 3. The Making of a "Great Africanist": Carl Meinhof in Zizow and Berlin, 1886-1909 -- 4. Anthropology and Linguistics United? Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and the Hamitic Hypothesis
5. Experimenting in the Metropole: The Theory and Practice of African Studies, 1908-19 6. Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: African Teaching Assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919 -- 7. After the Colonial Moment: German Influences on South African Linguistics and Ethnology, 1920-45 -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Afrikanistik -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Africa
Translating and interpreting -- Germany
Multilingualism -- Africa
Intercultural communication -- Africa
Sociolinguistics -- Africa
Sociolinguistics -- Germany
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
HISTORY -- General.
Intercultural communication
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Translating and interpreting
Africa
Germany
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020707410
ISBN 9780472027774
0472027778
9786613410948
6613410942