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The Temne of Sierra Leone : African agency in the making of a British colony /
An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Historical epistemology
- Introduction: Rethinking history and Freetown historiography
- Frontiers of identity: the Creoles and the politics of belonging
- Beyond the colonial Sphinx: African agency in the making of the colony
- Realpolitik and boundaries of power: the Temne in local administration
- Intergroup relations and genealogies of conflict: the Temne and Freetonian dichotomy
- Ethnocentrism and new frames of popular culture
- Temne cultural associations and popular representations
- Islamic triumphalism in a Christian colony: Temne agency in the spread and Sierra Leonization of Islam
- From the margins to the center: the role of Temne market women traders
- Conclusion: Nexus of microhistory: new perspective on the colony's historical landscape.