- Title
- Language as source of revitalisation and reclamation of Indigenous epistemologies.
- Creator
- Maseko, Pamela
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468413
- Identifier
- vital:77052
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928314110
- Description
- While history, art and archaeology, for example, have been used to present evidence of socio-cultural and other practices of precolonial Africa, the contribution of language as a source from which one can make presuppositions and conjectures about its speakers’ past has not been sufficiently explored. In a context where African knowledge has been undermined and misinterpreted by scholars whose inclination is to scrutinise African experience from a prejudiced cultural standpoint, the study of the meanings embedded in the lexicon of African languages cannot be overlooked when lifting the veil from Africa’s past. Although meanings of words in a language may shift because of contact with other linguistic societies, or because of new domains of language use, one is able to study the etymology of words to elicit original meanings and their evolution in form and meaning, and also make correspond-ence of such meanings to the thoughts of society as early as present memory can recall.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- African Sun Media
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Maseko, P., 2018. Language as source of revitalisation and reclamation of Indigenous epistemologies. Whose history counts: Decolonising African pre-colonial historiography, 3, pp.35-55
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African Sun Media Statement (https://africansunmedia.co.za/publishing-house/)
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