Politics Of Religious Change On The Upper Guinea Coast
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Politics Of Religious Change On The Upper Guinea Coast
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Author : Ramon Sarro
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-18
Politics Of Religious Change On The Upper Guinea Coast written by Ramon Sarro and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-18 with Political Science categories.
Winner of the 2009 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology. The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim preacher among coastal Baga farmers in the French colonial period. With an ethnographic approach that listens as carefully to those who suffered iconoclastic violence as to those who wanted to 'get rid of custom', this work discusses the extent to which iconoclasm produces a rupture of religious knowledge and identity, and analyses its relevance in the making of modern nations and citizens.The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, particularly those with an interest in the anthropology of religion, iconoclasm, the history and anthropology of West Africa, or the politics of heritage.* This book examines the historical complexity of the interface between Islam, tradition religions and Christianity in west Africa, and how this interface links with dramatic political changes* It gives a detailed ethnographic approach through which such complex history is unveiled and analysed* It presents a dialogue between the field findings, a long tradition of anthropology and the most recent anthropological debates
Atlantic Perspectives
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Author : Markus Balkenhol
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-11-04
Atlantic Perspectives written by Markus Balkenhol and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with Religion categories.
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.
The Upper Guinea Coast In Global Perspective
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Author : Jacqueline Knörr
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-02-01
The Upper Guinea Coast In Global Perspective written by Jacqueline Knörr and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Social Science categories.
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation.
Politics And Policies In Upper Guinea Coast Societies
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Author : Christian K. Højbjerg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Politics And Policies In Upper Guinea Coast Societies written by Christian K. Højbjerg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on ‘crises’ in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region – whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.
Playing The Marginality Game
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Author : Anita Schroven
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-03-27
Playing The Marginality Game written by Anita Schroven and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-27 with Social Science categories.
In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.
Unmasking The State
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Author : Mike McGovern
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013
Unmasking The State written by Mike McGovern and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
"... A historical ethnography of the socialist period in Guinea"--Page 5.
The Powerful Presence Of The Past
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Author : Jacqueline Knörr
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-10-25
The Powerful Presence Of The Past written by Jacqueline Knörr and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Social Science categories.
This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.
Integrating Strangers
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Author : Anaïs Ménard
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-04-14
Integrating Strangers written by Anaïs Ménard and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-14 with Social Science categories.
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.
Encyclopedia Of Global Religion
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Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2012
Encyclopedia Of Global Religion written by Mark Juergensmeyer and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Computers categories.
Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.
From Africa To Brazil
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Author : Walter Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-13
From Africa To Brazil written by Walter Hawthorne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-13 with History categories.
From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures.