Doing conceptual history in Africa
By: edited by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens
Series: Making sense of history ; v. 23; Making sense of history -- v. 25.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781785331633; 9781785331640
Subjects: African languages; Intellectual life; History; Social change; Historical Semantics
Notes: "This volume is the product of a series of collaborative meetings and workshops between 2010 and 2014."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: theories and methods of African conceptual history / Rhiannon Stephens and Axel Fleisch; title: "Wealth", "poverty" and the question of conceptual history in oral contexts : Uganda from c. 1000 C.E. / Rhiannon Stephens; title: Conceptual continuities : about "work" in Nguni / Axel Fleisch; title: Tracking the concept of "work" on the North Eastern Cape frontier, South Africa / Anne Kelk Mager; title: Understanding the concept "marriage" in Afrikaans during the twentieth century / Marné Pienaar; title: Male circumcision among the Bagisu of eastern Uganda : practices and conceptualizations / Pamela Khanakwa; title: The concept of "land" in Bioko  : "land as property" and "land as country" / Ana Lúcia Sá; title: Conceptualizing "land" and "nation" in early Gold Coast nationalism / Pieter Boele van Hensbroek; title: Ujamaa : the evasive translation of an elusive concept / Bo Stråth; title: An untimely concept : decolonization and the works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang / Pierre-Philippe Fraiture.