The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Herausgeber: Knörr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Herausgeber: Knörr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph
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For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and…mehr
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For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Seitenzahl: 338
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 643g
- ISBN-13: 9781785330698
- ISBN-10: 1785330691
- Artikelnr.: 44731476
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Seitenzahl: 338
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 643g
- ISBN-13: 9781785330698
- ISBN-10: 1785330691
- Artikelnr.: 44731476
Jacqueline Knörr is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, Germany. She was brought up in Ghana and Germany and conducted extensive field research in Indonesia, West Africa and Central Europe. She has worked as Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, University Professor, Scientific Director, Consultant and Political Advisor. Her research and publications focus on the political anthropology of postcolonial societies, decolonization, nationalism, identity politics, ethno-linguistics, gender, and childhood.
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
PART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An
Historical and Micro Perspective
Bruce L. Mouser
Chapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of
Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka
Christoph Kohl
Chapter 3. Freetown's Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and
Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration
Nathaniel King
PART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants' Citizenship
and Role in Guinean Politics
Anita Schroven
Chapter 5. Identity beyond ID - Diaspora within the Nation
Markus Rudolf
Chapter 6. The African 'Other' in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction,
Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy
Pedro F. José-Marcelino
Chapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries - Creole Stratification and the
Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits
Heike Drotbohm
PART III: TRAVELLING MODELS
Chapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the
Atlantic World
Wilson Trajano Filho
Chapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the
Upper Guinea Coast
Joanna Davidson
Chapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and
Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra
Leone
William P. Murphy
Chapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war
Sierra Leone
Sylvanus Spencer
Chapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child
Protection Expertise
Susan Shepler
PART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION
Chapter 13. The 'Mandingo Question': Transnational Ethnic Identity and
Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*
Christian K. Højbjerg+
Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections
and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia
Alice Bellagamba
Chapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth
Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in
the Casamance
Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta
Notes on Contributors
Index
*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights
restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages
255-279.
Introduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
PART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An
Historical and Micro Perspective
Bruce L. Mouser
Chapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of
Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka
Christoph Kohl
Chapter 3. Freetown's Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and
Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration
Nathaniel King
PART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants' Citizenship
and Role in Guinean Politics
Anita Schroven
Chapter 5. Identity beyond ID - Diaspora within the Nation
Markus Rudolf
Chapter 6. The African 'Other' in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction,
Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy
Pedro F. José-Marcelino
Chapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries - Creole Stratification and the
Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits
Heike Drotbohm
PART III: TRAVELLING MODELS
Chapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the
Atlantic World
Wilson Trajano Filho
Chapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the
Upper Guinea Coast
Joanna Davidson
Chapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and
Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra
Leone
William P. Murphy
Chapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war
Sierra Leone
Sylvanus Spencer
Chapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child
Protection Expertise
Susan Shepler
PART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION
Chapter 13. The 'Mandingo Question': Transnational Ethnic Identity and
Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*
Christian K. Højbjerg+
Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections
and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia
Alice Bellagamba
Chapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth
Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in
the Casamance
Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta
Notes on Contributors
Index
*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights
restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages
255-279.
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
PART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An
Historical and Micro Perspective
Bruce L. Mouser
Chapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of
Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka
Christoph Kohl
Chapter 3. Freetown's Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and
Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration
Nathaniel King
PART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants' Citizenship
and Role in Guinean Politics
Anita Schroven
Chapter 5. Identity beyond ID - Diaspora within the Nation
Markus Rudolf
Chapter 6. The African 'Other' in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction,
Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy
Pedro F. José-Marcelino
Chapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries - Creole Stratification and the
Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits
Heike Drotbohm
PART III: TRAVELLING MODELS
Chapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the
Atlantic World
Wilson Trajano Filho
Chapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the
Upper Guinea Coast
Joanna Davidson
Chapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and
Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra
Leone
William P. Murphy
Chapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war
Sierra Leone
Sylvanus Spencer
Chapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child
Protection Expertise
Susan Shepler
PART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION
Chapter 13. The 'Mandingo Question': Transnational Ethnic Identity and
Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*
Christian K. Højbjerg+
Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections
and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia
Alice Bellagamba
Chapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth
Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in
the Casamance
Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta
Notes on Contributors
Index
*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights
restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages
255-279.
Introduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
PART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONS
Chapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An
Historical and Micro Perspective
Bruce L. Mouser
Chapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of
Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka
Christoph Kohl
Chapter 3. Freetown's Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and
Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration
Nathaniel King
PART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants' Citizenship
and Role in Guinean Politics
Anita Schroven
Chapter 5. Identity beyond ID - Diaspora within the Nation
Markus Rudolf
Chapter 6. The African 'Other' in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction,
Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy
Pedro F. José-Marcelino
Chapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries - Creole Stratification and the
Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits
Heike Drotbohm
PART III: TRAVELLING MODELS
Chapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the
Atlantic World
Wilson Trajano Filho
Chapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the
Upper Guinea Coast
Joanna Davidson
Chapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and
Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra
Leone
William P. Murphy
Chapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war
Sierra Leone
Sylvanus Spencer
Chapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child
Protection Expertise
Susan Shepler
PART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION
Chapter 13. The 'Mandingo Question': Transnational Ethnic Identity and
Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*
Christian K. Højbjerg+
Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections
and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia
Alice Bellagamba
Chapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth
Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in
the Casamance
Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta
Notes on Contributors
Index
*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights
restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages
255-279.