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Encounter, Transformation and Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Encounter, Transformation and Identity

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Cameroon and the Nigerian borderlands, this volume presents critical and analytical approaches to the production of ethnic, political, religious, and gendered identities in the region. The contributors examine a range of issues relating to identity, including first encounters and conflict as well as global networking, trans-national families, enculturation, gender, resistance, and death. In addition to a number of very striking illustrations of ethnographic and material culture, this volume contains key maps from early German sources and other original cartographical materials.

AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland und schwarze Deutsche
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland und schwarze Deutsche

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This study shows how power was constructed, enacted, and contested by discursive and non-discursive strategies and practices. It emphasizes the local and historic divergence of these processes and illustrates how Germans and Africans were able to produce exclusive power arenas but also engaged in a reciprocal extraversion of the respective power of the other. Stefanie Michels teaches at the University of Cologne, Germany.

African Agency in China’s Tea Trade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

African Agency in China’s Tea Trade

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study highlights the agency of African economic actors in the green tea trade between China and West Africa, their unique tea brand designs, their challenges and successes, and the social and cultural context in which they conduct their work.

The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Volume 2, Migrations, 1800–Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 693

The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Volume 2, Migrations, 1800–Present

Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between 'skilled' and 'unskilled' workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

Other People's Anthropologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Other People's Anthropologies

Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called 'great' traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). With contributions from anthropologists and social scientists from different countries and anthropological traditions, this text gives voice to scholars outside these 'great' traditions.

Confronting Colonial Objects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 593

Confronting Colonial Objects

  • Categories: Law

The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and retu...

Destination Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Destination Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume challenges received ideas of Africa as a marginal continent and a place of exodus by considering the continent as a centre of global connectivity and confluence.

China and Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

China and Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book encapsulates the ‘New Normal Policy’ which has changed the regional policy between China and the African continent. This volume emphasises China’s role in Africa as a collaborator in an attempt to fulfil the Beijing consensus in emerging countries. The contextual research encompasses how one can comprehend the influence of the Chinese model in Africa and her diplomatic relations with the continent. China and Africa: A New Paradigm of Global Business endeavours to define whether or not the Washington model has become weathered, and the Beijing consensus more relevant in this specific continent.

Afrasian Transformations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Afrasian Transformations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Afrasian Transformations explores a dynamic nexus of transregional interactions that is reshaping political relations, economic flows and increasingly mobile lifeworlds on the one hand, and academic practices in African and Asian Studies as well as transregional research on the other.

The Book in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

The Book in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa, ranging from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications.