African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present / edited by Ettore Morelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morelli, Ettore, editor.

Series:

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Studies in Global Social History ; 56/5.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Studies in Global Social History ; 56/5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Boundaries.

Africa.

African Studies.

Roads--Africa--Africa.

Roads.

History.

Local Subjects:

African Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage , this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen , made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-72697-7

OCLC:

1525621993