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.
- ISBN10 1785338625
- ISBN13 9781785338625
- Publish Date 21 February 2018 (first published 23 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 258
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/FleischDoing