ISBN:
9780470656310
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xiii, 525 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Serie:
Blackwell companions to history
Serie:
Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
Paralleltitel:
Online version Companion to African history
Paralleltitel:
Online version Companion to African history
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als A companion to African history
DDC:
960
Schlagwort(e):
Civilization
;
Social conditions
;
Africa
;
History
;
Africa History
;
Africa Civilization
;
Africa Social conditions
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Geschichte
Kurzfassung:
Introduction: Identity and (mis)representations / Worger -- Tracing the roots of common sense about sexuality in Africa / Marc Epprecht -- Masculinities / Stephan Miescher -- Colonialism, Christianity, and personhood / Nimi Wariboko -- Settler societies / Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson -- Women, authority and power in southeast Africa during pre-colonial times / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu -- Love, courtship and marriage in Africa / Nwando Achebe -- Slavery and women in Africa : changing definitions, continuing problems / Claire Robertson -- Kinship in African history / James Giblin -- Ethnicity in southern Africa / Michael Mahoney -- Ethnicity and race in African thought / Jonathan Glassman -- Islam in African history / Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar -- Refugees in African history / Brett Shadle -- Science in Africa : a history of ingenuity and invention in African iron technology / Peter Schmidt -- Africa and environmental history / Greg Maddox -- Health and medicine in African history / Karen Flint -- Wealth and poverty in African history / Morten Jerven -- The idea of the Atlantic world from an Africanist perspective / Walter Hawthorne -- Swahili literature and the writing of African history / Ann Bierstecker -- Africa and the Cold War / Tim Scarnecchia -- The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Awet Weldemichael -- The art of memory and the Chancery of Sinnar / Jay Spaulding -- Remembering and forgetting Apartheid / Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger -- Cultural resistance on Robben Island : songs of struggle and liberation in southern Africa / Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi -- African historians and popular culture / Charles Ambler
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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