Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

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Label: Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

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Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa

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Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-317) and index

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Contents: An interpreter will arise : resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe's diplomatic and evangelical contributions as cultural intermediary on South Africa's eastern Cape frontier, 1816-1818 / Roger S. Levine -- Interpreting colonial power in French Guinea : The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot affair of 1905 / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Interpretation and interpolation : Shepstone as native interpreter / Thomas McClendon -- Petitioners, "bush lawyers," and letter writers : court access in British-occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Negotiating legal authority in French West Africa : the colonial administration and African assessors, 1903-1918 / Ruth Ginio -- "Collecting customary law" : educated Africans, ethnographic writings, and colonial justice in French West Africa / Jean-Hervé Jézéquel -- Interpreters self-interpreted : the autobiographies of two colonial clerks / Ralph A. Austen -- African court elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya, ca. 1930-1960 : from "traditional" to "modern" / Brett L. Shadle -- Power and influence of African court clerks and translators in colonial Kenya : the case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946-1956 / Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi -- The district clerk and the "man-leopard murders" : mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria / David Pratten -- Cultural commuters : African employees in late colonial Tanzania / Andreas Eckert -- African participation in colonial rule : the role of clerks, interpreters, and other intermediaries

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Dimensions: 24 cm

Extent: viii, 332 pages

Isbn: 9780299219543

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