Peter Mark, Jose Da Silva Horta

The Forgotten Diaspora

Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petit C te.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192866
• ISBN-10: 0521192862
• Artikelnr.: 32311706

Autorenporträt

Peter Mark is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. He is the author of several books, including 'Portuguese' Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries (2002) and The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest: Form, Meaning and Change in Senegambian Initiation Masks of the Diola (Cambridge University Press, 1992), as well as multiple scholarly articles. Professor Mark has twice been an Alexander von Humboldt research Fellow at the Frobenius-Institut, Goethe Universität (Frankfurt). He has also held National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright Fellowships.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Two Sephardic communities on Senegal's Petite Côte
2. Jewish identity in Senegambia
3. Religious interaction: Catholics, Jews, and Muslims in early 17th-century Upper Guinea
4. The blade weapons trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
5. The Luso-African ivories as historical source for the weapons trade and for the Jewish presence in Guinea of Cape Verde
6. The later years: merchant mobility and the evolution of identity
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II.