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9781781383056: Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories
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ISBN 10 : 1781383057 ISBN 13 : 9781781383056
Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears’ social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

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Éditeur
Liverpool University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781383057
ISBN 13 
9781781383056
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Rossi Benedetta
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Personne responsable
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