Doing Conceptual History in Africa: (Making Sense of History)
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Doing Conceptual History in Africa: (Making Sense of History)
Doing Conceptual History in Africa: (Making Sense of History)

Doing Conceptual History in Africa: (Making Sense of History)

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Axel Fleisch (Contributor) Rhiannon Stephens (Contributor)  

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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.
Axel Fleisch is a Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki. His focus is southern Africa, including African languages and historical linguistics. He is the author of Lucazi Grammar: A Morphosemantic Analysis (2000) and the co-editor of Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-East Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter (1999).
  • Contributor: Axel Fleisch
  • Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN13: 9781785338625
  • Number of Pages: 258
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Release Date: 2018-02-21
  • Series: Making Sense of History
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Axel Fleisch is a Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki. His focus is southern Africa, including African languages and historical linguistics. He is the author of Lucazi Grammar: A Morphosemantic Analysis (2000) and the co-editor of Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-East Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter (1999).

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