The Powerful Presence of the Past

Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast
Herausgeber: Knörr, Jacqueline; Trajano Filho, Wilson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9789004190009
• ISBN-10: 9004190007
• Artikelnr.: 33833932

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Knörr (PhD 1994, Bayreuth; Habilitation 2006, Halle/Saale) is an anthropologist and head of the research group "Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. She has done extensive field research in West Africa, Indonesia and Germany and has published widely on identity in postcolonial contexts, creolization and creoleness, childhood and migration, initiation and identity, and on expatriate communities. Regionally her research focusses on West Africa, Indonesia and Germany Wilson Trajano Filho (PhD 1998, University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia in Brasil. His research concentrates on processes of creolization, the role of creole groups in nation-building, the history of (Portuguese) colonialism and popular culture in Africa and Brazil. He has published widely on these themes and has conducted extensive field research in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome.