Author: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Shaping States, Subverting Frontiers: Social Conflict and Political Consolidation Among the Ewe Dukowo in the Togoland Mandates, 1919-1945
Author: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Activating the Past
Author: Andrew Apter
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443817902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in “fetishized” forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have retreated, so to speak, within ritual associations as restricted, repressed, even secret histories that are activated during public festivals and through different styles of spirit possession. In West Africa, our focus on selected port cities along the coast extends into the hinterlands, where slave raiding occurred but is poorly documented and rarely acknowledged. In the Caribbean, regional contrasts between coastal and hinterland communities relate figures of the jíbaro, the indio and the caboclo to their ritual representations in Santería, Vodou, and Candomblé. Highlighting the spatial association of memories with shrines and the ritual “condensation” of regional geographies, we locate local spirits and domestic terrains within co-extensive Atlantic horizons. The volume brings together leading scholars of the African Diaspora who not only explore these ritual archives for significant echoes of the past, but also illuminate a subaltern historiography embedded within Atlantic cultural systems.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443817902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in “fetishized” forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have retreated, so to speak, within ritual associations as restricted, repressed, even secret histories that are activated during public festivals and through different styles of spirit possession. In West Africa, our focus on selected port cities along the coast extends into the hinterlands, where slave raiding occurred but is poorly documented and rarely acknowledged. In the Caribbean, regional contrasts between coastal and hinterland communities relate figures of the jíbaro, the indio and the caboclo to their ritual representations in Santería, Vodou, and Candomblé. Highlighting the spatial association of memories with shrines and the ritual “condensation” of regional geographies, we locate local spirits and domestic terrains within co-extensive Atlantic horizons. The volume brings together leading scholars of the African Diaspora who not only explore these ritual archives for significant echoes of the past, but also illuminate a subaltern historiography embedded within Atlantic cultural systems.
African Economic History
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A Handbook of Eweland
Author: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Coordinated by the West African Organisation for Research on Eweland, this publication constitutes a first and much needed English language survey of the history and cultures of the Ewe peoples in the former French colonies, Benin and Togo.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Coordinated by the West African Organisation for Research on Eweland, this publication constitutes a first and much needed English language survey of the history and cultures of the Ewe peoples in the former French colonies, Benin and Togo.
African Studies Review
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Annual Commencement
Author: Stanford University
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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ASA News
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Inconvenient Indigenous
Author: Sidsel Saugestad
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064752
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Saugestad examines the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, variously known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently Noakwe.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064752
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Saugestad examines the relationship between the government of Botswana and its indigenous minority, variously known as Bushmen, San, Basarwa, or more recently Noakwe.