Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 236 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
ISBN:
9781349623372
Content:
Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781349623396
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780312224059
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781349623396
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781349623389
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-62337-2
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