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Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks : African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa /
Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants co...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: African Intermediaries and the "Bargain" of Collaboration
- Benjamin N. Lawrence, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts; The Formative Period of Colonial Rule, ca. 1800-1920; An Interpreter Will Arise: Resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe's Diplomatic and Evangelical Contributions as a Cultural Intermediary on South Africa's Eastern Cape Frontier, 1816-1818
- Roger S. Levine; Interpreting Colonial Power in French Guinea: The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot Affair of 1905
- Emily Lynn Osborn.
- Interpretation and Interpolation: Shepstone as Native Interpreter
- Thomas McClendonPetitioners, "Bush Lawyers," and Letter Writers: Court Access in British-Occupied Lome, 1914-1920
- Benjamin N. Lawrence; Negotiating Legal Authority in French West Africa: The Colonial Administration and African Assessors, 1903-1918
- Ruth Ginio; The Maturing Phase of Colonial Rule, ca. 1920-1960; "Collecting Customary Law": Educated Africans, Ethnographic Writings, and Colonial Justice in French West Africa
- Jean-Herve Jezequel.
- Interpreters Self-Interpreted: The Autobiographies of Two Colonial Clerks
- Ralph A. AustenAfrican Court Elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya, ca. 1930-1960: From "Traditional" to "Modern"
- Brett L. Shadle ; Power and Influence of African Court Clerks and Translators in Colonial Kenya: The Case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946-1956
- Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi; The District Clerk and the "Man-Leopard Murders": Mediating Law and Authority in Colonial Nigeria
- David Pratten; Cultural Commuters: African Employees in Late Colonial Tanzania
- Andreas Eckert; Afterword.
- African Participation in Colonial Rule: The Role of Clerks, Interpreters, and Other Intermediaries
- Martin KleinAppendix: Personnel Files and the Role of Qadis and Interpreters in the Colonial Administration of Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1857-1911
- Saliou Mbaye; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.