Ethnicity and the colonial state
Subtitle: finding and representing group identifications in a coastal West African and global perspective (1850-7960)
By: by Alexander Keese
Series: Studies in global social history -- volume 22; Studies in global social history -- v. 22.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789004307346; 9789004307353
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Temne (African people); Ewe (African people); Ethnic relations; Wolof (African people); Group identity; Ethnicity; History
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."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Group identifications : African and global categories; title: Wolof and Wolofisation : statehood, colonial rule, and identification in Senegal; title: Fragmentation and the Temne : from war raids into ethnic civil wars; title: 'Ethnic identity' as an anti-colonial weapon? Ewe mobilisation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s; title: Conclusion.