{"product_id":"the-individual-in-african-history-the-importance-of-biography-in-african-historical-studies-9789004407817","title":"The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history and historiography. Consisting of 10 case studies, it is preceded by an introductory prologue, which deals with the relationship between historiography and different forms of biographical study in the context of Western history-writing but especially African (historical and anthropological) studies. The first three case studies deal with the methodological insights of biographical studies for African history. This is followed by three case studies dealing with personas living through fundamental societal transitions, and four case studies focusing on the discursive dimensions of biographical subjects (including religion, cosmology and ideology). Countries or regions discussed include South Africa, Zambia, Gold Coast, Cameroon, Tanganyika, Congo-Kinshasa and the Central African Republic in colonial times.    Contributors are Lindie Koorts, Elena Moore, Iva Peša, Paul Glen Grant, Jacqueline de Vries, Duncan Money, Morgan Robinson, Eve Wong, Klaas van Walraven, Erik Kennes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgements    List of Illustrations     Notes on Contributors      Prologue: Reflections on Historiography and Biography and the Study of Africa’s Past     Klaas van Walraven      Part 1: Methodological Insights     1 Human Symbols    The Biographical Pursuit and the Language of Symbolism in Contemporary South Africa     Lindie Koorts     2 ‘Your Surroundings Don’t Make You; You Must Rise above all that’    The Home in Life Histories as Site of Resistance to Racial Violence, Cape Town, South Africa     Elena Moore     3 From Life Histories to Social History    Narrating Social Change through Multiple Biographies     Iva Peša      Part 2: Persons in Transitions     4 The Effervescence of Individual Life: Cornelius Badu, Born 1847 in Elmina, Gold Coast     Paul Glen Grant     5 The Leopard that Came to Laikom: Michael Timneng in Colonial Cameroon     Jacqueline de Vries     6 Underground Struggles: The Early Life of Jack Hodgson     Duncan Money      Part 3: Discursive Worlds     7 Binding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion     Morgan Robinson     8 A Muslim Boy in Sunday School    Abdullah Abdurahman’s Early Childhood and Education in Cape Town at the End of the Nineteenth Century     Eve Wong     9 Barthélémy Boganda between Charisma and Cosmology    Interpretive Perspectives on Biography in Equatorial African History     Klaas van Walraven     10 A Road not Taken? The Biography of Laurent Kabila (1939-2001)     Erik Kennes      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210780205399,"sku":"9789004407817","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-individual-in-african-history-the-importance-of-biography-in-african-historical-studies-9789004407817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}