The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004190009)

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The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast

$97.00

The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict Along the Upper Guinea Coast

$97.00
Format: Paperback
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This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction, social relationships and alliances, identifications and identity constructions within society at large. In order to reach an in-depth understanding of integrative and violent forms of interaction in the region of the Upper Guinea Coast, authors take into account the impact and repercussions of specific historical experiences as well as the continuities and changes of social patterns affected by the interaction of local and globalized values, institutions, and models of social organization. Rather than providing an(other) analysis of wars and violence as such, contributors aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms that affect both the processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.

Author: Jacqueline Knörr
ISBN-10: 9004190007
ISBN-13: 9789004190009
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2010
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d
By Jacqueline Knörr
By Jacqueline Knörr
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Jacqueline Knörr (PhD 1994, Bayreuth; Habilitation 2006, Halle/Saale) is an anthropologist and head of the research group "Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. She has done extensive field research in West Africa, Indonesia and Germany and has published widely on identity in postcolonial contexts, creolization and creoleness, childhood and migration, initiation and identity, and on expatriate communities. Regionally her research focusses on West Africa, Indonesia and Germany.
Wilson Trajano Filho (PhD 1998, University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia in Brasil. His research concentrates on processes of creolization, the role of creole groups in nation-building, the history of (Portuguese) colonialism and popular culture in Africa and Brazil. He has published widely on these themes and has conducted extensive field research in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome.

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