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

• Autore: MacArthur Julie <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs, tables
• Disciplina: 305.896395
• Soggetto topico: Luyia (African people) - Kenya - History; Ethnicity - Political aspects - Kenya; Cartography - Political aspects - Kenya; Cartography - Social aspects - Kenya
• Soggetto geografico: Kenya Ethnic relations History
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cartography and the political imagination
• ISBN: 0-8214-4556-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798468203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New African histories series.