The powerful presence of the past : integration and conflict along the upper Guinea Coast /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : maps
Language:	English
Series:	African social studies series ; v. 24 African social studies series ; v. 24.
Subject:	Social integration -- Africa, West. Social conflict -- Africa, West. Intergroup relations -- Africa, West. Intergroup relations. Social conflict. Social integration. Africa, West -- History. Guinea, Gulf of, Region -- History. West Africa. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256738

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Other authors / contributors:	Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- Trajano Filho, Wilson.
ISBN:	9789004191402 9004191402 9789004190009 9004190007
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Powerful presence of the past. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004190009
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004190009.i-375

Table of Contents:

Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; (Pre- )Colonial Legacies; Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast; Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century; Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border; A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity; 'Traditional' Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspective of an Historian and an Anthropologist; Revisiting the Politics of Elite Culture.
The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-BissauThe Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics; Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity; The Power and Politics of Memories; Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours); The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry); Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea).
Continuity and Change in Intergenerational and Gender RelationsAre 'Child Soldiers' in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon?; Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War; Index.

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