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| 100 | 1 | _aWorger, William H. | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | _aA Companion to African History. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNewark : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, _c2018. |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2016. | |
| 300 | _a1 online resource (542 pages) | ||
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| 490 | 1 | _aWiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series | |
| 505 | 0 | _aIntro -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 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 Societies -- Notes -- 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aAfrican courtship traditions -- Types 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 Africa -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Southern African liberation wars and after -- Sources -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Africans and Their Environment -- Chapter 14 Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology -- Examining historical ideas -- How ethnoarchaeology contributed to indices that assess ancient preheating -- What is preheating? -- Reprising objections -- Reification of objections -- Where are we now? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Africa and Environmental History -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Health and Medicine in African History -- Political economists of health. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aSocial-cultural history of medicine -- Medical pluralism -- Reconstructing histories of health, healing, and medicine in Africa -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17 Wealth and Poverty in African History -- History matters? -- Approaching the African past: historians versus economists -- What do we now know that we did not know before? -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part V Africans and the World -- Chapter 18 The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective -- References -- Chapter 19 Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Africa and the Cold War -- The first Congo crisis -- Southern Africa during the Cold War -- Shifting Cold War support in the Horn of Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 21 The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror -- The horn of Africa before and during the Cold War -- Cold war interests and dynamics -- The horn of Africa and the global war on terror -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part VI African Self-Representations -- Chapter 22 The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered -- Removing the black voice -- White conversations about black actions -- Forgetting -- Remembering -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Chapter 24 Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa -- Review of related literature -- Robben island songs: experiences of PAC political prisoners in the post‐Sharpeville Era, 1960-1969 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 African Historians and Popular Culture -- References -- Index -- EULA. | |
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aAfrica-History. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aAfrica-Civilization. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aAfrica-Social conditions. | |
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aAmbler, Charles. | |
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