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• catalog abstract ""Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change. Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large." "Readership: Historians and social anthropologists of Africa and India and all those interested in modern intellectual history, in the interactions between orality and literacy, and in local/global and local/state relationships."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12445975.
• catalog contributor b12445976.
• catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog coverage "Africa, Sub-Saharan History, Local.".
• catalog coverage "India History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog coverage "India History, Local.".
• catalog coverage "Nepal History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog coverage "Nepal History, Local.".
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""Local histories, written and published by non-academic historians, constitute a rapidly expanding genre in contemporary non-Western societies. However, academic historians and anthropologists usually take little notice of them. This volume takes a comparative look at local historical writing. Thirteen case studies, set in seven different countries of sub-Saharan Africa, India and Nepal, examine the authors, their books and their audiences. From different perspectives, they analyse the genre's intellectual roots, its relationship to oral historical narratives, and its relevance and impact in local and wider arenas. Local histories, it turns out, pursue a variety of agendas. They (re)construct local and communal identities affected by rapid social change.".
• catalog description "Contests of time : Kikuyu historiographies, old and new / John Lonsdale -- The paper memory of East Africa : ethnohistories and biographies written in Swahili / Thomas Geider -- African local historiographies : a negative case / Terence Ranger -- A consecrated land : local constructions of history in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas, North India / Antje Linkenbach -- Contesting the 'great' traditions : remakings of the Kiranti past / Martin Gaenszle -- Assessing the past in search for a future : the changing of caste and the writing of caste history in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao.".
• catalog description "Igbo local histories : constructing community in southeastern Nigeria / Axel Harneit-Sievers -- Yoruba town histories / Toyin Falọla -- A 'New York city of Ibibioland'? : local historiography and power conflict in Calabar / Ute Röschenthaler -- Intricacies of a great past : a survey of the non-academic historiography of Benin / Osarhieme Benson Osadolor -- 'All pipol komot fo Kimi, all' : interfaces and dynamics between local and administrative histories among the Wiya (Cameroon) / Brigitte Bühler -- The Central African Historical Research Project / Robert Papstein -- From oral tradition to local history textbook : two examples from the Kavango Region, Namibia / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Often, they (re)write history as part of cultural and political struggles. Openly or implicitly, all of them place local communities on the map of the world at large." "Readership: Historians and social anthropologists of Africa and India and all those interested in modern intellectual history, in the interactions between orality and literacy, and in local/global and local/state relationships."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "vii, 384 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Place in the world.".
• catalog identifier "9004123032 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Place in the world.".
• catalog isPartOf "African social studies series ; v. 2".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
• catalog relation "Place in the world.".
• catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog spatial "Africa, Sub-Saharan History, Local.".
• catalog spatial "India History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog spatial "India History, Local.".
• catalog spatial "Nepal History, Local Congresses.".
• catalog spatial "Nepal History, Local.".
• catalog subject "967 21".
• catalog subject "DT352.5 .H37 2002".
• catalog subject "Local history Congresses.".
• catalog subject "Local history.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Contests of time : Kikuyu historiographies, old and new / John Lonsdale -- The paper memory of East Africa : ethnohistories and biographies written in Swahili / Thomas Geider -- African local historiographies : a negative case / Terence Ranger -- A consecrated land : local constructions of history in the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas, North India / Antje Linkenbach -- Contesting the 'great' traditions : remakings of the Kiranti past / Martin Gaenszle -- Assessing the past in search for a future : the changing of caste and the writing of caste history in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Igbo local histories : constructing community in southeastern Nigeria / Axel Harneit-Sievers -- Yoruba town histories / Toyin Falọla -- A 'New York city of Ibibioland'? : local historiography and power conflict in Calabar / Ute Röschenthaler -- Intricacies of a great past : a survey of the non-academic historiography of Benin / Osarhieme Benson Osadolor -- 'All pipol komot fo Kimi, all' : interfaces and dynamics between local and administrative histories among the Wiya (Cameroon) / Brigitte Bühler -- The Central African Historical Research Project / Robert Papstein -- From oral tradition to local history textbook : two examples from the Kavango Region, Namibia / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig.".
• catalog title "A place in the world : new local historiographies from Africa and South Asia / edited by Axel Harneit-Sievers.".
• catalog type "Berlin (2000) swd".
• catalog type "Local history. fast".
• catalog type "text".