Ethnicity and the colonial state :
Keese, Alexander,
Ethnicity and the colonial state : finding and representing group identifications in a coastal West African and global perspective (1850-1960) / by Alexander Keese. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] - 1 online resource (ix, 377 pages) - Studies in global social history ; volume 22 . - Studies in global social history ; v. 22. .
"An earlier version of this monograph was accepted as habilitation thesis by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 2010"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which "ethnicity" has so far remained a badly defined concept.
9789004307353 9004307354
Ethnicity--History.--Africa, West
Group identity--History.--Africa, West
Wolof (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Ewe (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Temne (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Ethnicité--Histoire.--Afrique occidentale
Identité collective--Histoire.--Afrique occidentale
Ouolof (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
Éwé (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
Temné (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
HISTORY / Social History
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Africa, West--Ethnic relations.
Afrique occidentale--Relations interethniques.
West Africa.
Electronic books.
History.
GN652.5 / .K44 2016
Ethnicity and the colonial state : finding and representing group identifications in a coastal West African and global perspective (1850-1960) / by Alexander Keese. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] - 1 online resource (ix, 377 pages) - Studies in global social history ; volume 22 . - Studies in global social history ; v. 22. .
"An earlier version of this monograph was accepted as habilitation thesis by the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 2010"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which "ethnicity" has so far remained a badly defined concept.
9789004307353 9004307354
Ethnicity--History.--Africa, West
Group identity--History.--Africa, West
Wolof (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Ewe (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Temne (African people)--Ethnic identity.
Ethnicité--Histoire.--Afrique occidentale
Identité collective--Histoire.--Afrique occidentale
Ouolof (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
Éwé (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
Temné (Peuple d'Afrique)--Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
HISTORY / Social History
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Africa, West--Ethnic relations.
Afrique occidentale--Relations interethniques.
West Africa.
Electronic books.
History.
GN652.5 / .K44 2016