Pub Date : 2016-04-20DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2016.1139660
John Sandlos
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Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2015.1116170
David McDermott Hughes
McMahon highlights how slaves and slaveholders adapted to shifting identities in the age of emancipation. Throughout the book she locates the differences between Pemba and Unguja to local conceptions of honour, class and race/ethnicity. she shows shifts in the meaning of the swahili word heshima, which traditionally meant “honour” but became more associated with “respect” after abolition. in addition, the book reveals how former slaves utilized colonial and indigenous resources from education, reputation, kinship, gossip and witchcraft in attempts to form their identity and a sense of belonging. For instance, during the age of slavery heshima was acquired at birth and linked to wealth, lineage and good behaviour. emancipation forced a transition in the meaning of heshima from “honour” to “respect”; no longer aristocratic heritage but personal achievement. ex-slaves and free citizens acquired heshima by converting to islam and through material acquisition, work, education, new kinship alliances, reputation and conspicuous consumption. ex-slaves built new houses, forged new social ties and appropriated old aristocratic privileges and coastal mannerisms. As the British concentrated power in the colonial courts, the courts became a form of local agency and venue for social contestations between men and women, between slaves and their owners, who were all seeking to claim or affirm their reputation. At the same time a number of people, usually members of the old elite, resorted to uchawi, which McMahon sees as all forms of religio-ritual manifestations ranging from “witchcraft” to healing and spirit possession. The Pembans would not necessarily acknowledge they were wachawi (“witchdoctors”) but uchawi came with respect and admiration from the community as a wachawi had the ability to control people (sometimes through fear/violence). in a sense, uchawi became an avenue of renewed power negotiations between the colonizer and colonial subjects, and among the latter a source of alternative power to British rule. This raises some questions. Did the practice of uchawi actually increase during the course of emancipation? were there more witchdoctors in Pemba during the colonial period than the period before 1897 or were there simply more reports due to growing european – colonial and missionary – interest? Could european interest in uchawi have come from a desire to undermine a perceived challenge to their power? McMahon draws on a range of sources and methods. extensive secondary literature on slavery in Africa is enriched by materials from British, Tanzanian and missionary archives, newspapers and personal interviews. By focusing on culture, McMahon takes us on an informative and well-documented exploration of Pemba society. we see clearly how cultural transformations and rituals tie past and present together, and how one particular cultural concept – heshima – is used in negotiating new ideas, new experiences and new forms of social relations. This study
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Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2016.1141588
Oscar Gakuo Mwangi
Inside African Anthropology is a powerful collaborative outcome of the intersections between history and anthropology – intersections that animated much of Monica wilson’s intellectual work and career. what emerges from this volume is that she was a south African woman of incredible intellectual and personal tenacity, devotion and enduring loyalty to both family and career. Her decision to stay on in apartheid south Africa despite more tempting and lucrative offers outside the continent is evidence of her determination to make a difference in the discipline and the academic communities with which she was associated. spiced with appropriately labelled photographs and maps, this volume is a formidable tribute to a giant of her time. The book adds a great deal to our knowledge of the making of anthropological scholarship in the colonial era as well as the intellectual and personal sacrifices that often remain “hidden” but are nevertheless significant in shaping all scholarly endeavours. i highly recommend this volume as essential reading for researchers and students of African anthropology.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-29DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2015.1049006
Neil ten Kortenaar
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{"title":"Foreign intervention in Africa: from the Cold War to the war on terror","authors":"Chris W.J. Roberts","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2015.1065072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2015.1065072","url":null,"abstract":"Review Number: 1702 Publish date: Thursday, 11 December, 2014 Author: Elizabeth Schmidt ISBN: 9780521709033 Date of Publication: 2013 Price: £55.00 Pages: 284pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/african-history/foreign-intervention-africa-cold-warwar-terror?format=PB Place of Publication: Cambridge Reviewer: Jason Robinson","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"504 - 506"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2015.1065072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2015.1043712
Heather J. Sharkey
In 1826, Mehmet Ali of Egypt sent a giraffe from somewhere in what is now the Republic of the Sudan to King Charles X of France. The first live giraffe ever to reach France, she arrived when public museums and zoos were emerging, inspiring scholarly and popular interest in science and the world beyond French borders. This article studies the career and “afterlives” of this giraffe in France and relative to giraffes at large in the Sudan, in order to trace a Franco-Sudanese history that has stretched from the early nineteenth century to the present. At the same time, viewing this connected history in the aftermath of the 2011 secession of South Sudan, when colonial and national borders appear contingent and subject to change, this article approaches the Sudan as a zone (as opposed to a fixed country) within global networks of migration involving people, other animals, things, and ideas.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2015.1026369
Anne-Claire de Gayffier-Bonneville
The complicated relations between Egypt and Great Britain concerning Sudan invite an examination of the influences that the dealings of the Condominium powers in Sudan were able to exercise over the formation of modern Sudan. The specific purpose of this article is to clarify one of the aspects of this problem by examining, over the long term, the evolution of the Egyptian discourse on Sudan. From the Egyptian point of view, Sudan was clearly exploited; it was at the same time an issue of rivalry with the British and an issue of power. Furthermore, it was, at the time of the Egyptian monarchy, a central element of the identity of the ruling power, a kind of heritage to defend in memory of the founder of the ruling dynasty, Méhémet Ali.
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{"title":"Engaging with a legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)","authors":"E. Mcdougall","doi":"10.4324/9781315873152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315873152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"42 1","pages":"213-608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70458529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nomadism and mobility in the Sahara-Sahel","authors":"E. Boesen, Laurence Marfaing","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-08-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.830396
P. Limb
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