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A companion to African history /

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Group Author: Worger, William H. (Editor); Ambler, Charles H. (Editor); Achebe, Nwando, 1970- (Editor)
Published: Wiley Blackwell,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, NJ :
Publication Dates: 2019.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to world history
Subjects:
Christianity and other religions > Africa > Islam.
Africa > History.
Africa > Historiography.
Africa > Civilization.
Africa > Religion.
Africa > Religious life and customs.
Africa > Social conditions.
Africa > Economic conditions.
Carrier Form: xiii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470656310
047065631X
Index Number: DT14
CLC: K4
Call Number: K4/C737
Contents: 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.

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