African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation.What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it.Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-26
Mått:155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt:788 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social History of the Global South
Antal sidor:381
Förlag:Brill
Medarbetare:Ettore Morelli
ISBN:9789004726963

Utforska kategorier

Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Ettore Morelli, Ph.D. (2019), SOAS, is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Basel. His research focuses on the history of central southern Africa from Mapungubwe to the lifaqane (c. 1200–1830s). He has published on various themes in African history.

Recensioner i media

"For readers engaged with borderlands, mobility, and West African history, the volume offers substantial insights that meaningfully contribute to the expansion and refinement of the concepts of borders and thresholds." – Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Centre for African and Development Studies, University of Lisbon, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists 06.02.2026.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceLists of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The ThresholdEttore Morelli1 Merchants without Borders: Lançados and Luso-Africans in Upper Guinea, 1450s–1600sFernando Mouta2 Gyzikoa: Twin-Folk and Threshold on the Orange River Border, Southern Africa 1686–1796Ettore Morelli3 ‘No Palaver about 1 or 2 Villages with 10 or 20 inhabitants’Pierluigi Valsecchi4 Thresholds, Borders and Cowries: the Problem of Small Change in West Africa and the Spread of Single Currencies in Northern GhanaMaría José Pont Cháfer5 Border Crossing, Strategies of Resistance and Colonial Violence: Narratives from Northern Ghana and Togo (1920s–1940s)Giulia Casentini6 Borderities and Freedom in Colonial and Post-Colonial African Borderlands: a Case Study of the Borders in the Lake Chad BasinAimé Raoul Sumo TayoConclusion: Places of PassageEttore MorelliBibliographyIndex