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The Powerful Presence of the Past [Elektronische Ressource] : Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast

Knörr, Jacqueline,i1960- ; Trajano Filho, Wilson

Leiden : BRILL, 2010

390 p.

African Social Studies Series

Description based upon print version of record

978-90-04-19000-9

MI 20086 NW 3700 QM 331 MI 20090

 

f Aufsatzsammlung  Guinea, Landschaft  Westafrika  Ethnische Identität  Sozialer Konflikt  Erinnerung 

 

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Online-Ressource

978-90-04-19140-2

 

This 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. Rathe...