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Bloomsbury Academic Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Social History of Africa)

Name: Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the Native Mind in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 (Social History of Africa)
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This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of translation work in Mt Selinda, an evangelical mission; it also examines formal and informal court hearings, to contrast the perceptions and meanings ascribed to cases by white adjudicators and by African participants. This leads into an initial attempt to map out the birth of ethnography in Southern Rhodesia and to contrast it with anthropology in South Africa. By the 1920s, Africans' expertise in their own languages and culture had been usurped by self-referential white linguists and ethnographers. This account suggests that there is a tendency among archive-oriented historians to overestimate how far white missionaries and administrators really understood what Africans said and did. In addition to making a contribution to our empirical knowledge of Zimbabwe's history, the book focuses on how and why investigators first began to make claims to such knowledge. It urges those studying African history to be self-reflective about their practice, examining the historical roots of their claims to expertise. such claims

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 032507108X
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2006
Listed Since: 05 February 2007

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