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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
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.
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Autorenporträt
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.
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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.
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.
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