Ethnicity and the long-term perspective

The African experience

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The debate about ethnicity in sub-Saharan Africa has come to an uneasy consensus in the 1990s, but it has to be asked if we are really close to a solution. How can comparative and historical views help to inform the debate? In this work, seven scholars bring in a long-term perspective to ethno-cultural solidarities, which they explore within a multi-disciplinary framework. This return to the ‘heart of the ethnic group’, twenty-five years after Elikia M’Bokolo’s and Jean-Loup Amselle’s path-breaking reinterpretation of ethnicity in Africa, argues for a reappraisal of approaches to ethnicity that have been adopted in recent decades. Focusing on two major geographical regions of the African continent – Senegambia including Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, and the area of Southern Tanzania and the northern half of Mozambique –, the chapters in this volume provide a new historical interpretation of the processes of identity-building in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Reihe: CEAUP Studies on Africa
• ISBN: 9783034303378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2010
• Genre: Geschichte/Regionalgeschichte, Ländergeschichte
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Alexander Keese