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Title:A place in the world: new local historiographies from Africa and South Asia
Editor:Harneit-Sievers, AxelISNI
Year:2002
Issue:2
Pages:384
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series (ISSN 1568-1203)
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:9004123032
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:1997
historiography
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Abstract:Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume, the product of a workshop held at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, 10-12 October 1997, takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine authors, their books and their audiences. Two of the three parts focus on Africa: 1. Contested identities: local historiographies in Nigeria and Cameroon (chapters by Axel Harneit-Sievers, Toyin Falola, Ute Röschenthaler, Osarhieme Benson Osadolor, Brigitte Bühler); 2. Production and context: local historiographies in eastern and south-central Africa (chapters on the Central African Historical Research Project, by Robert Papstein; the Kavango region of Namibia, by Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig; Kikuyu historiographies, by John Lonsdale; biographies written in Swahili, by Thomas Geider; and the absence of local written histories or local historians in northern Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, by Terence Ranger). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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