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13 produkter
Combing of History
Häftad, 1994
359 kr
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How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions …
African Words, African Voices
Critical Practices in Oral History
Av Luise S. White, Stephan F. Miescher m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
295 kr
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Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history.In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources are …
Womunafu's Bunafu
A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community
Häftad, 2015
766 kr
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This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy …
Womunafu's Bunafu
A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community
Inbunden, 2016
1662 kr
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This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy …
Siaya
The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Häftad, 1989
289 kr
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The authors of this highly original book set out to remove the persistent boundary between the authors and readers of ethnography on one hand and the subjects of ethnography on the other – those who observe and those who are observed.The authors use stories to reveal Siaya, the Luo-speaking area of …
Risks of Knowledge
Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Inbunden, 2004
927 kr
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In February 1990 assailants murdered Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko. The horror of the attack, the images of his mutilated and burned corpse, the evidence of a notorious cover-up, and the revelations of the pressures, conflicts, and …
Risks of Knowledge
Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Häftad, 2004
395 kr
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In February 1990 assailants murdered Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko. The horror of the attack, the images of his mutilated and burned corpse, the evidence of a notorious cover-up, and the revelations of the pressures, conflicts, and …
Womunafu's Bunafu
A Study of Authority in a Nineteenth-Century African Community
E-bok, 2015
503 kr
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This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy …
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Av William T. Rowe, William B. Taylor m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
524 kr
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Five historians uncover the ties between people''s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in …
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Av William T. Rowe, William B. Taylor m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1099 kr
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Five historians uncover the ties between people''s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in …
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Av William T. Rowe, William B. Taylor m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
535 kr
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Five historians uncover the ties between people''s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in …
Reliving the Past
The Worlds of Social History
Av William T. Rowe, William B. Taylor m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1385 kr
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Five historians uncover the ties between people''s daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in …
Combing of History
Inbunden, 1994
897 kr
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How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions …
