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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories series Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016Description: viii, 340 pages : maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780821422106 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896395   23
Contents:
Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of wester n Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Ethnic patrioti sm in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and politic al imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmop olitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic g eographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond th e ethnos and the nation.
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 305.896395 MA CA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001270655
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 305.896395 MA CA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001270836

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-327) and index.

Mapping political communities in Africa -- The geographies of wester n Kenya -- Land, gold, and commissioning the "tribe" -- Ethnic patrioti sm in the interwar years -- Speaking Luyia: linguistic work and politic al imagination -- Mapping gender: moral crisis and the limits of cosmop olitan pluralism in the 1940s -- Between loyalism and dissent: ethnic g eographies in the era of Mau Mau -- Mapping decolonization -- Beyond th e ethnos and the nation.

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