The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea CoastThis 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 the region of the Upper Guinea Coast, authors take into account the impact and repercussions of specific historical experiences as well as the continuities and changes of social patterns affected by the interaction of local and globalized values, institutions, and models of social organization. Rather than providing an(other) analysis of wars and violence as such, contributors aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms that affect both the processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels. |
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Table des matières
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A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict Collusion and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity | 101 |
From the Perspective of an Historian and an Anthropologist | 137 |
Revisiting the Politics of Elite Culture | 155 |
Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity | 205 |
The Power and Politics of Memories | 229 |
The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem and their Neighbours | 231 |
The Invention of Bulongic Identity GuineaConakry | 253 |
Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflictridden Border Region LiberiaGuinea | 273 |
Continuity and Change in Intergenerational and Gender Relations | 295 |
Are Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon? | 297 |
On the SocioEconomic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War | 323 |
The Case of GuineaBissau | 157 |
The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics | 185 |
Index | 357 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
African alliance Americo-Liberian Anthropology authority Baga Baga Sitem became Bopolu British Bulongic Casamance chiefdom chiefs child soldiers civil coastal colonial context Côte d’Ivoire Creole Creole society creolization cultural d’Azevedo economic elders elite ethnic European forces Freetown Fula Fulbe groups Guiné Guinea-Bissau hinterland identity incorporation indigenous institutions integration and conflict interior Islam Jlao Jola Kamara Kouankan Kpelle Krio kroomen labour land landlord-stranger landlords Liberia lineage Lofa County Loma LURD Manding Mandingo Manya Monrovia Moria Mouser Musadu narratives nineteenth century Oussouye past patrimonial people’s political population Poro Portuguese rebel rebellion refugees region relations Reno rice Richards ritual role rulers rural Sarró Sasstown secret societies settlement settlers Siaka Stevens Sierra Leone Sierra Leoneans slave trade social strangers structures Studies Susu territory tion Toma Tonkin town traditional University Press Upper Guinea Coast village violence warriors West Africa women young youth
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast Volume 24 de African Social Studies Series |
| Rédacteurs | Jacqueline Knörr, Wilson Trajano Filho |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | BRILL, 2010 |
| ISBN | 9004190007, 9789004190009 |
| Longueur | 375 pages |
| Exporter la citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |