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The Temne of Sierra Leone : African agency in the making of a British colony / Joseph J. Bangura, Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
Van Pelt Library DT516.45.T45 B36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bangura, Joseph J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temne (African people)--History.
- Temne (African people).
- Temne (African people)--Political activity.
- Temne (African people)--Ethnic identity.
- Colonial influence.
- Historiography.
- Ethnicity.
- Political participation.
- History.
- Sierra Leone--History.
- Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone--Historiography.
- Sierra Leone--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- v, 217 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- African agency in the making of a British colony
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Historical epistemology
- Introduction: Rethinking history and Freetown historiography
- Frontiers of identity: the Creoles and the politics of belonging
- Beyond the colonial Sphinx: African agency in the making of the colony
- Realpolitik and boundaries of power: the Temne in local administration
- Intergroup relations and genealogies of conflict: the Temne and Freetonian dichotomy
- Ethnocentrism and new frames of popular culture
- Temne cultural associations and popular representations
- Islamic triumphalism in a Christian colony: Temne agency in the spread and Sierra Leonization of Islam
- From the margins to the center: the role of Temne market women traders
- Conclusion: Nexus of microhistory: new perspective on the colony's historical landscape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107197985
- 1107197988
- 9781316647967
- 131664796X
- OCLC:
- 989057200
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