Author : Axel Fleisch
Release : 2018-02-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 524/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Doing Conceptual History in Africa by : Axel Fleisch
Download or read book Doing Conceptual History in Africa written by Axel Fleisch. This book was released on 2018-02-21. 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.