Moving through and Passing On
Subtitle: Fulani Mobility, Survival, and Identity in Ghana
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780765801265
Subjects: Ethnography; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Social groups & communities; Social Science; Ethnic identity; Sociology; Ghana; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Cattle herders; Fula (African people); Migrations
Description: "The Fulani are one of West Africa's most populous and geographically dispersed ethnic groups. Commonly thought of as a pastoral people, primarily engaged in cattle herding, Fulani peoples are in reality highly differentiated in livelihood and patterns of mobility. Despite having a long history of residence in Ghana, Fulani are considered "aliens" in the eyes of the state and "strangers" by the various ethnic groups among whom they reside.

Among Fulani themselves, differences of place, circumstance, and experience have generated parallel ambiguities on matters off identity and survival. In Moving Through and Passing On, Yaa P. A. Oppong focuses on the Fulani of the Greater Accra region to offer the first detailed account of the lives of this transnational community in Ghana."--BOOK JACKET.