Constructions of Belonging

Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century

AvAxel Harneit-Sievers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state.Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local communities living in Southeastern Nigeria since the late nineteenth century, examining the processes that have defined, changed, and re-produced these communities. Harneit-Sievers explores both the meanings and the uses that the community members have given to their particular areas, while also looking at the processes that have shaped local communities, and have made them work and continue tobe relevant, in a world dominated by the modern territorial state and by worldwide flows of people, goods, and ideas.Axel Harneit-Sievers is a Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, and Director ofthe Nigeria Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Lagos.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:746 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Antal sidor:399
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781580461672

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Recensioner i media

Anyone wanting sources on the Igbo and the intellectual and cultural context of these works, and hard to find information about their authors, will find this book invaluable. However one delimits this region . . . tracing the continuities from precolonial to the present is a worthy and immensely difficult scholarly task. This work, drawing on multidisciplinary studies, is a brilliant contribution to Igno and Nigerian studies.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThe Igbo Local Community: Historical and Anthropological ApproachesTrans-local Connections and Precolonial Spheres of Influence: Nri "Hegemony" and ArochukwuDrawing Boundaries, Making Chiefs: The Colonial State"Town People" and "Church People": The Impact of ChristianityMaking a Larger Community: Igbo EthnicityFederalism and Fear: Impact of Postcolonial State and Society since the 1970sInstitutionalizing Community I: Town UnionsInstitutionalizing Community II: Traditional Rulers and Autonomous CommunitReconceptualizing Community: Local HistoriesThe Politics of Competition and Fragmentation: Umuopara and Ohuhu"History" as Politics by Other Means: Enugwu-Ukwu in Umunri ClanPost-slavery and Marginalization: NikeConclusion: Making the Igbo "Town" in the Twentieth Century