ISBN:
9781800738409
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (358 p)
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9.00 6.00 in
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Integration and Conflict Studies 28
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Keywords:
coastal communities;Sierra Leone;reciprocal relations;socio-ethnic groups;social arrangement;landlords;frontier region;Freetown Peninsula;individual mobility;social interaction;multiple origins;ethnic crossovers;political anthropology;development studies;Africa;Rurban space;colonialism;settlers;civilized man;concealment;disclosure;social dynamics;ethnic transformation;livelihoods;integration;ethnic identity;West Africa
Abstract:
Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions. She showcases the processes by which Sherbro identity emerged as a flexible category of practice, allowing individuals the possibility to claim multiple origins and perform ethnic crossovers while remaining Sherbro
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Rurban Space -- Chapter 2. Narratives of Colonial Encounters -- Chapter 3. Framing Reciprocity: From Settlers to Strangers -- Chapter 4. Discourses of the 'Civilized Man' -- Chapter 5. The Tactics of Concealment and Disclosure -- Chapter 6. The Social Dynamics of Double Membership -- Chapter 7. Initiation as Ethnic Transformation -- Chapter 8. Lands, Livelihoods and Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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