Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborn, Emily Lynn.

Series:

New African histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Administration.

Colonization.

Social aspects.

Women.

Social conditions.

History.

Mandingo (African people).

Kankan (Guinea : Region)--History.

Kankan (Guinea : Region).

Kankan (Guinea : Region)--Politics and government.

Mandingo (African people)--Guinea--Kankan (Region)--History.

Households--Political aspects--Guinea--Kankan (Region).

Households.

Guinea.

Guinea--Kankan (Region).

Women--Guinea--Kankan (Region)--Social conditions--History.

Guinea--Colonization--Social aspects.

France--Colonies--Africa--Administration.

France.

Samory, approximately 1830-1900.

Samory.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Original and stimulating, Our New Husbands Are Here challenges traditional historical accounts of gender and tests new concepts and frameworks that promise insightful openings in African studies." -Mamadon Diouf

"Emily Osborn gives us a deep and fascinating insight into the important inland center of Kankan, which has been sadly and strangely neglected in the historiography and anthropology of West Africa. She makes an enduring contribution to African history with ripples into the political science and anthropology of household and gender." -David Robinson

"Pathbreaking in its findings and approach this elegantly written study explores the intimate relationship between household-building and state-building in West Africa over a span of three centuries. Through a sophisticated interrogation of oral and archival sources. Osborn has produced a new understanding statecraft that bridges the artificial divide between the precolonial and colonia and anchors women firmly at the core." -Elizabeth Schmidt

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of powe and politics in West African history Why do women figure frequently in the politic narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa present-day Guinea-Conakry). Osborn shows that the household, and women with it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté enabling it to endure the predations of the transatlantic slave trade and become a major trading cent in the nineteenth century. But French colonization introduced a radical new metho of statecraft to the region one that separated the household from the state and women's domestic roles. This book will be of interest to scholars of politic gender, the household, slavery and Islam in African history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : households, gender, and politics in West African history

Origins : the founding of Baté, 1650-1750

Growth : warfare and exile, commerce and expansion, 1750-1850

Conflict : warfare and captivity, 1850-81

Occupation : Samori Touré and Baté, 1881/-91

Conquest : warfare, marriage, and French statecraft

Colonization : households and the French occupation

Separate spheres? : colonialism in practice

Conclusion : making states in the Milo River Valley, 1650/1910.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821419830

0821419838

9780821443972

0821443976

OCLC:

724662865