Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges
Abstract
- Abstract
- Letters were one of the major means of communication during the 19th-20th Century British colonialism of Africa. Through them, the instructions, intensions, decisions, complaints, justifications and agenda of resident British colonial officers, local colonial administrators and collaborators, colonial officials in Britain and colonised subjects were transmitted across time and space. These letters offer extraordinary access to the mindset and overall agenda of the entities producing them. The ways of life of these entities, their patterns of social order, repertoires and constellations of knowledges, linguistic voices, world views and cosmologies are projected, both directly and indirectly, in these letters. In themselves, these letters embody the contact zone of colonial-precolonial structures, coloniser-colonised entities, indigenous-foreign knowledges, cultural and linguistic practices, etc. This research project studies, from a predominantly linguistic perspective, the instantiations of colonial contact and postcolonial heritages that are embodied in, and transmitted through, letters written during British colonisation of Southern Cameroons (1916-1961). Markers of the construction of multiple identities, the discursive enactment of (social, political, hereditary) power and the coalescence of colonial and precolonial social norms of interaction (hierarchy, respect forms, kinship affiliation) found in these correspondences are studied from sociolinguistic, critical discourse analysis, discourse-historical, postcolonial linguistics, literary and historical perspectives.
People & roles
- Principal Investigator(s)
- Anchimbe, Eric
Origins & context
- Title
- Colonial Letters and the Contact of Knowledges
- Alternative Title
- abj
- Type
- Research project
- Is Part Of
- Knowledges
- is funded by
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University of Bayreuth
- Temporal Coverage
- July 1, 2020 – October 31, 2023
Identifiers & sources
- DRE ID
- UBT_CLnCK2019
Further details
- WissKI URL
- 46271
Linked resources
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- Affray between Benatidi and Benabinga Villages, Age Clan Area, Bamenda Division, Cameroons Province
- An Assessment Report on the Kaka-Ntem Area of the Bamenda Division of the Cameroons Province by Mr. E. H. F. Gorges Assistant District Officer
- An Assessment report on the Mungo Riverian District of the Victoria Division Cameroons Province
- Anthropology. Correspondence Re., Cameroon Province
- Assessment and reassessment: General correspondences
- Assessment of Ngonu Area – Bamenda Division – Cameroons Province, 2. Re-assessment of (1924-1930)
- Assessment Report on Bafut Area Bamenda Division Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report on Bali Clan (Two maps), Bamenda Division
- Assessment Report on Banso District, Bamenda Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report on definite Lines 1926
- Assessment Report on Etung Clan, Ikom Division by J.Y. Bewhurst, Esqr A.D.O
- Assessment Report on Mbonge & Bakundu Tribal Areas – Kumba Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report on Mbonge & Bakundu Tribal Areas – Kumba Division, Cameroons Province 2
- Assessment Report on the Bakossi Elung and Niwong Districts, Kumba Division, Cameroons
- Assessment Report on the Ngi Families, Bamenda Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report on the Ngolo-Batanga Tribal Areas, Kumba Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report on the Tribal area of Balue, Kumba Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report, Banso District, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report, Banso District, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report, Keaka Area Mamfe Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report, Mkom District, Bamenda Division, Cameroons Province
- Assessment Report, Rio del Rey Area Cameroons Province
- Assessment – Instructions: Intelligence Reports and Handing over notes 1932-1948 (Source: NAC Buea; Collector: OGE; Date: 2021)
- Atabong Native Authority and Native Court Establishment Mamfe Division
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