Doing Conceptual History in Africa

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785338625
• ISBN13: 9781785338625
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"