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Conference paper | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | A place in the world: new local historiographies from Africa and South Asia |
Editor: | Harneit-Sievers, Axel |
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 conference papers (form) |
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] |