ISBN:
9780511557620
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
966.7
Keywords:
Einwanderer
;
Migration
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Immigrants / Ghana / Kumasi
;
Mossi (African people)
;
Ethnology / Ghana / Kumasi
;
Mossi
;
Einwanderung
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Ghana / Emigration and immigration
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Burkina Faso / Emigration and immigration
;
Ghana
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Ghana
;
Einwanderung
;
Mossi
Abstract:
Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511557620
URL:
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URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557620
