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A History of African Motherhood
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107547193
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.03.2015
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Rhiannon Stephens
Gewicht:
408 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rhiannon Stephens is Assistant Professor of African History at Columbia University. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Past and Present and the Journal of African History. She received her PhD in history from Northwestern University.
This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa.
Introduction; 1. Writing pre-colonial African history: words and other historical fragments; 2. Motherhood in North Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century; 3. Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and South Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century; 4. Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga, and East Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century; 5. Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Conclusion.