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Ethnicity and the colonial state : finding and representing group identifications in a coastal West African and global perspective (1850-1960) /
Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Series: | Studies in global social history ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Group identifications : African and global categories
- Wolof and Wolofisation : statehood, colonial rule, and identification in Senegal
- Fragmentation and the Temne : from war raids into ethnic civil wars
- 'Ethnic identity' as an anti-colonial weapon? Ewe mobilisation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s
- Conclusion.