| Author/Contributor(s): | Fleisch, Axel ; Stephens, Rhiannon |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Date: | 02/21/2018 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.