Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Language
Introduction: Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History Rhiannon Stephens and Axel Fleisch
Chapter 1. ‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Oral Contexts: Uganda from c. 1000 C.E. Rhiannon Stephens
Chapter 2. Conceptual Continuities: About ‘Work’ in Nguni Axel Fleisch
Chapter 3. Tracking the Concept of ‘Work’ on the North Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa Anne Kelk Mager
Chapter 4. Understanding the Concept ‘Marriage’ in Afrikaans during the Twentieth Century Marné Pienaar
Chapter 5. Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations Pamela Khanakwa
Chapter 6. The Concept of ‘Land’ in Bioko: ‘Land as Property’ and ‘Land as Country’ Ana Lúcia Sá
Chapter 7. Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism Pieter Boele van Hensbroek
Chapter 8. An Untimely Concept: Decolonization and the Works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
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