precolonial

Hofmeyr related women's tradition of "institutionalized speaking" through storytelling to "the institutionalized silencing that characterized [their] subordination in precolonial ... societies."

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

By "here," Valentina told us she meant "Khoseni," a "country" (tiko) that exists on neither colonial - nor postcolonial-era administrative maps but whose remembered territorythe area ruled by Khosa chiefs in precolonial timesencompasses all of the critical sites of Valentina's life story: her birthplace and childhood homes (Xisangwana, Nyongane, Makuvulane); where she married (Timanguene); and the place she "was shown" when as a widow with two young daughters she moved to Facazisse, a place she choseand where she feels doubly securebecause of her lifelong association with (and marriage into) the Swiss Mission church.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

11According to this first British account, the prices of fruit and nuts harvested locally appear quite accessible for everyday consumers in precolonial Kabul.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

62 A similarly weighted balance of oral and archival evidence drives Arlindo Chilundo's research on colonial transportation history, Elizabeth MacGonagle's creative exploration of Ndau identity in precolonial Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and Teresa Cruz e Silva's detailed look at the relationship between Protestant missions and Mozambican nationalism during the late colonial period.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Khoseni (literally, the place of the Khosa) recalled the precolonial political grandeur of the Khosa clan.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

23The term precolonial, applied to regions that would become colonies of European states, implicitly suggests a time or a place of waiting, peoples somehow living in anticipation of their subordination to an external power.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Note 27: For a clear articulation of "precolonial" persistence into later periods, see Gareth Austin, "'Developmental' Divergences and Continuities Between Colonial and Pre-Colonial Regimes: The Case of Asante, Ghana, 1701 – 1957," paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11 – 14 Nov.,

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

26 Admittedly, "precolonial" imperfectly describes Europe, but it is equally uncomfortable for Africa.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Nike would never sponsor a brand of Mexican-made, handcrafted leather footwear, as traditional and old as our precolonial ancestors.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

It is an electronic clearinghouse created by industry to bypass the property registration system developed in precolonial days to ensure that the King could not easily rob the subjects of their land.

Mary Bottari: Full Catastrophe Banking in 2011 Mary Bottari 2011