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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820655103321

Autore

MacArthur Julie <1982->

Titolo

Cartography and the political imagination : mapping community in colonial Kenya / / Julie MacArthur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8214-4556-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs, tables

Collana

New African Histories

Disciplina

305.896395

Soggetti

Luyia (African people) - Kenya - History

Ethnicity - Political aspects - Kenya

Cartography - Political aspects - Kenya

Cartography - Social aspects - Kenya

Kenya Ethnic relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of western Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Ethnic patriotism in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and political imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmopolitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic geographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond the ethnos and the nation.

Sommario/riassunto

Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of western Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe"--Ethnic patriotism in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and political imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmopolitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic geographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond the ethnos and the nation