Reconfiguring Slavery

West African Trajectories

AvBenedetta Rossi

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del 2 i serien Liverpool Studies in International Slavery

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Beskrivning

Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears’ social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Liverpool Studies in International Slavery
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781781383056

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Dr Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

Recensioner i media

Reviews'This stimulating collection for West African scholars provides an abundance of examples of the transformations in traditional forms of slavery covering the range of possibilities, from formerly subjugated groups that now have the upper hand over their former masters to situations where traditional forms of symbolic and financial domination still prevail.'

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefaceA note on Language1. Introduction: Rethinking Slavery in West Africa - Benedetta Rossi2. Slave descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan - Martin A. Klein3. African American psychologists, the atlantic Slave trade and Ghana: a History of the present - Tom McCaskie4. After abolition: Metaphors of Slavery in the political History of the Gambia - Alice Bellagamba5. Islamic patronage and republican emancipation: The Slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal river valley - Jean Schmitz6. Curse and Blessing: on post-slavery Modes of perception and agency in Benin - Christine Hardung7. Contemporary trajectories of Slavery in Haalpulaar Society (Mauritania) - Olivier Leservoisier8. Slavery and politics: Stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin - Eric Komlavi Hahonou9. Slavery and Migration: Social and physical Mobility in ader (Niger) - Benedetta Rossi10. Discourses on Slavery: reflections on forty years of research - Philip BurnhamGlossary of Foreign WordsIndex