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A Companion to African History.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Identities and (Mis)Representations; Part I: The personal; Part II: Women's roles in institutions of power; Part III: Family and community; Part IV: Africans and their environment; Part V: Africans and the world; Part VI: African self-representations; Part I The Personal; Chapter 2 Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa; Four notes of caution; The age of "discovery" (and diversity); The age of "science"; The age of coming out and the backlash; Discussion and conclusion.
- AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; Chapter 3 Masculinities; Conceptual issues; African gender systems; Big men; Remaking men under colonialism; Urban gangs; The gendered elder state; Development; Postcolonial interventions and anxieties; Sexualities; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 4 Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood; Christianity, colonialism, and the weight of blackness; African personhood and Western discursive practices; Everyday assaults on African personhood; Crisis of African personhood: From the traditional to hybrid forms; Conclusion; Notes; References.
- Chapter 5 Settler SocietiesNotes; References; Further Reading; Part II Women's Roles in Institutions of Power; Chapter 6 Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe; Zulu cultural brokers and the obliteration of Queen Mother Ntombazi's image; The production of literary texts on queen mother Ntombazi; In defense of queen mother Ntombazi; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa; The language of love in Africa; A tradition of love.
- African courtship traditionsTypes of marriages; Love, courtship, and marriage archive; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems; Notes; References; Part III Family and Community; Chapter 9 Kinship in African History; Individual creativity and kinship; Kinship as a life of negotiation; Kinship in some recent works of African history; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10 Ethnicity in Southern Africa; Theoretical starting points; Ethnicity in precolonial Southern Africa; Ethnicity under white rule in Southern Africa.
- Ethnicity in postcolonial South AfricaAcknowledgments; References; Chapter 11 Ethnicity and Race in African Thought; Instrumentalism and constructivism; Beyond modernism; Racial entanglements; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 12 Islam in African History; Religion, Islam, Africa: problematic terms; Major currents of research; Neoliberalism: new vistas, old problems?; Possible future directions; References; Chapter 13 Refugees in African History; Who is a refugee?; Research questions; Eastern Africa, 1850s-1920s; Colonialism and refugee management.