Explorations in African history : reading Patrick Harries.
This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the University of Basel since 2001. It thus pays tribute to fourteen years of research and teaching by Patrick Harries at the Department of History and the Centre for African Studies Basel. The Festschrift covers a...
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Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- The Making of a Transnational Historian: Patrick Harries in Lausanne
- From Swiss Imperialism to Postcolonial Switzerland
- Hildagonda Duckitt's (and Patrick Harries') Contribution to Namibian History
- Cultural Reproduction and Memory: Past, Present and Future
- Photography and the Demise of Anthropology
- Staying for Gold or Joining the Rebellion? South West African Migrant Workers on the Rand During War and Genocide, 1904-1905
- From Mining Pit to Missionary Bungalow: Trading Spaces in the Writing of Patrick Harries
- Of Wives, Slaves and Commerce, or: The Price of Things
- Notes on the Basel Mission's Production of Knowledge in the Kannada Language in Nineteenth Century South India
- Of Birds and (Wo)Men
- German Natural History Collectors and the Appropriation of Human Skulls and Skeletons in Early Nineteenth Century Southern Africa: Towards a Discursive Analysis of Collecting
- Who Cut Down Margaret Thatcher's Tree?
- 'Reluctant Bonds': On the Role of Narrative in Post-Apartheid South Africa1
- South African Jazz: The Basel Connection
- The Game Plan for a Successful Career
- Notes on Contributors
- Back cover.
