Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa by Ustorf, Werner

Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631527795)

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Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa by Ustorf, Werner

Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa

$85.80
Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa by Ustorf, Werner

Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation: Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa

$85.80
Format: Paperback
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This book explores the first encounter in the mid-fifteenth century between Western Europe and the West African Coast, arguing that it did not produce hostility, but rather a climate of beneficial mutual exchange. It examines West African pre-colonial social history and asserts that around the year 1500 West Africa became a safe haven for those fleeing political or religious persecution in Europe. Among them were mercantile settlers, Tangomãos or Lançados, known to have arrived on the West African Coast after the Portuguese explorers in 1446. They exchanged commodities, culture, religious ideas and practices with West African people. These events raise searching questions on the nature of identity and space.

Author: Werner Ustorf, José Lingna Nafafé
ISBN-10: 3631527799
ISBN-13: 9783631527795
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.49d
By Werner Ustorf
By Werner Ustorf
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The Author: José Lingna Nafafé achieved the degree of B.D. from London University and a Ph.D. from Birmingham University in 2001. The author regularly publishes on Lusophone subjects. He also teaches on honours programmes in the European Research Institute and Department of Sociology, and contributes key modules to the BA Joint Honours in Portuguese Studies, in Birmingham University.

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