The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and e...
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| description | This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, how do the specifics of personality and contingency affect knowledge production? An obvious challenge in addressing this sort of question is the frequent lack of African-produced source material; here, we must work within the ‘archives of oppression’ and read both along and against the colonial grain in an attempt to restore African agency to this process of knowledge production. Drawing on the previously never-used diaries of explorer Frank Oates, who travelled throughout Matabeleland in the 1870s, the use of a single traveller’s experiences in detail affords us the means to consider the fine details of the interactions between Europeans and Africans. Therefore, this study seeks to enhance existing work on race and empire of the nineteenth century by asking: what place do the fragilities, uncertainties, and contingencies of encounters between individuals have in our understanding of how knowledge is made? |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1512262025-05-20T07:03:41Z The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s Prior, Christopher Higgins, Joseph Africa Colonial Encounter British Empire Exploration Knowledge Production Knowledge Ndebele Frank Oates Colonialism European powers Zimbabwe Travellers King Lobengula Race Victorian Cultural history Colonial expansion Southern Africa thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, how do the specifics of personality and contingency affect knowledge production? An obvious challenge in addressing this sort of question is the frequent lack of African-produced source material; here, we must work within the ‘archives of oppression’ and read both along and against the colonial grain in an attempt to restore African agency to this process of knowledge production. Drawing on the previously never-used diaries of explorer Frank Oates, who travelled throughout Matabeleland in the 1870s, the use of a single traveller’s experiences in detail affords us the means to consider the fine details of the interactions between Europeans and Africans. Therefore, this study seeks to enhance existing work on race and empire of the nineteenth century by asking: what place do the fragilities, uncertainties, and contingencies of encounters between individuals have in our understanding of how knowledge is made? 2025-02-13T12:37:26Z 2025-02-13T12:37:26Z 2025-01-13T13:44:48Z 2025 book ONIX_20250113_9783031759642_26 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97006 9783031759642 9783031759635 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151226 eng Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97006/1/9783031759642.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97006/1/9783031759642.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/97006/1/9783031759642.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-75964-2 10.1007/978-3-031-75964-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a UK Research and Innovation 4c0c0c72-854a-4692-aa5c-12ec2339edf8 9783031759642 9783031759635 Palgrave Macmillan 125 Cham [...] open access |
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