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The powerful presence of the past : integration and conflict along the upper Guinea Coast /
This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | African social studies series ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; (Pre- )Colonial Legacies; Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast; Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century; Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border; A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity; 'Traditional' Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspective of an Historian and an Anthropologist; Revisiting the Politics of Elite Culture.
- The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-BissauThe Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics; Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity; The Power and Politics of Memories; Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours); The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry); Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea).
- Continuity and Change in Intergenerational and Gender RelationsAre 'Child Soldiers' in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon?; Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War; Index.