Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Jacqueline Knörr is a social anthropologist. She is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale), Germany.

“The contributions to this volume cover a great diversity of topics from multiple perspectives. It constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on the Upper Guinea Coast, particularly by taking an anthropological approach to a region that has for the most part been studied historically.” · Philip Jan Havik, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal“This collection’s list of contributors and interdisciplinary scope are impressive. Gathered here are chapters from historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, all of which mesh together well in a volume that will attract the attention of regional specialists and scholars interested in the continent more broadly.” · Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global PerspectiveJacqueline Knörr and Christoph KohlPART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONSChapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An Historical and Micro PerspectiveBruce L. MouserChapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri LankaChristoph KohlChapter 3. Freetown’s Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social IntegrationNathaniel KingPART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTSChapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants‘ Citizenship and Role in Guinean PoliticsAnita SchrovenChapter 5. Identity beyond ID – Diaspora within the NationMarkus RudolfChapter 6. The African ‘Other’ in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction, Integration and the Forging of an Immigration PolicyPedro F. José-MarcelinoChapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries – Creole Stratification and the Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return VisitsHeike DrotbohmPART III: TRAVELLING MODELSChapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the Atlantic WorldWilson Trajano FilhoChapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the Upper Guinea CoastJoanna DavidsonChapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra LeoneWilliam P. MurphyChapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war Sierra LeoneSylvanus SpencerChapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child Protection ExpertiseSusan SheplerPART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 13. The ‘Mandingo Question’: Transnational Ethnic Identity and Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*Christian K. Højbjerg*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition spanning pages 255-279Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century GambiaAlice BellagambaChapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in the CasamancePeter Mark and José da Silva HortaNotes on ContributorsIndex*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 255-279.