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Title

  • Ethnicity and the colonial state : Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850-1960)

Names

  • Keese, Alexander, author

Created / Published

  • Boston : Brill, 2016.

Contents

  • Introduction -- Group identifications : African and global categories -- Wolof and Wolofisation : statehood, colonial rule, and identification in Senegal -- Fragmentation and the Temne : from war raids into ethnic civil wars -- 'Ethnic identity' as an anti-colonial weapon? Ewe mobilisation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s -- Conclusion.

Headings

  • -  Ethnicity--Africa, West--History
  • -  Ewe (African people)--Ethnic identity
  • -  Group identity--Africa, West--History
  • -  Temne (African people)--Ethnic identity
  • -  Wolof (African people)--Ethnic identity
  • -  Africa, West--Ethnic relations

Notes

  • -  "An earlier version of this monograph was accepted as habilitation thesis by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 2010."
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

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  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GN652.5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015040771

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Chicago citation style:

Keese, Alexander, Author. Ethnicity and the colonial state: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective -1960. Boston: Brill, 2016. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2015040771/.

APA citation style:

Keese, A. (2016) Ethnicity and the colonial state: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective -1960. Boston: Brill. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2015040771/.

MLA citation style:

Keese, Alexander, Author. Ethnicity and the colonial state: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective -1960. Boston: Brill, 2016. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2015040771/>.