%0 Book
%A Alexander Keese
%D 2021
%C Lausanne, Switzerland
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2235-591X
%T Ethnicity and the long-term perspective
%B The African experience
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1135992
%X The debate about ethnicity in sub-Saharan Africa has come to an uneasy consensus in the 1990s, but it has to be asked if we are really close to a solution. How can comparative and historical views help to inform the debate? In this work, seven scholars bring in a long-term perspective to ethno-cultural solidarities, which they explore within a multi-disciplinary framework. This return to the ‘heart of the ethnic group’, twenty-five years after Elikia M’Bokolo’s and Jean-Loup Amselle’s path-breaking reinterpretation of ethnicity in Africa, argues for a reappraisal of approaches to ethnicity that have been adopted in recent decades. Focusing on two major geographical regions of the African continent – Senegambia including Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, and the area of Southern Tanzania and the northern half of Mozambique –, the chapters in this volume provide a new historical interpretation of the processes of identity-building in sub-Saharan Africa.
%K Schwarzafrika, Ethnische Identität, Porto (Portugal, 2007), Kongress, Gruppenidentität
%G English