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‘For King and Empire’: The Changing Political, Economic, and Cultural Identities of Kru Mariners in Atlantic Africa, 1460–1945 “为了国王和帝国”:1460–1945年大西洋非洲克鲁水手不断变化的政治、经济和文化身份
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000567
M. Crutcher
This article traces histories of the Kru in West Africa from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, arguing that divergent identities of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Kru canoers became unified when that unified identity was necessary for maintaining political, economic, and cultural autonomy during and after the slave trade. In conjunction with earlier multilingual work on the Kru mariners of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article seeks to place the narrative of Kru identity and labor in a larger context of maritime history across the region at large. This article argues that the Kru relied on longstanding maritime traditions from localized groups to capitalize on the need for work and cash in a capitalist economy driven by growing European imperialism. The historical narrative of Kru maritime power shows how local and global identities in Atlantic Africa shifted in response to exploitation, blurring the lines between response and resistance.
本文追溯了15世纪到19世纪西非克鲁人的历史,认为15世纪到18世纪克鲁人不同的身份认同在奴隶贸易期间和之后成为统一的,而统一的身份认同对于维持政治、经济和文化自治是必要的。结合早期关于19世纪和20世纪克鲁水手的多语言工作,本文试图将克鲁身份和劳动的叙述置于整个地区海事历史的更大背景下。本文认为,克鲁人依赖于当地群体长期以来的海上传统,以利用日益增长的欧洲帝国主义驱动的资本主义经济对工作和现金的需求。克鲁海上力量的历史叙述表明,大西洋非洲的地方和全球身份如何随着剥削而发生变化,模糊了回应和抵抗之间的界限。
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Deconconstructing Colonial Population Anxiety 解构殖民地人口焦虑
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853723000476
Sarah A. Walters
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William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life 威廉·A·布朗与学术生活评价
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000427
O. Kobo, Sean Hanretta
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Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History 非洲的埃及:威廉·a·布朗和解放非洲的历史
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000440
Sean Hanretta
In the spring of 1998, I had the privilege of sitting in on William A. Brown’s undergraduate research seminar on the history of Ancient Egypt (Kemet). Although technically a seminar, all fifteen weekly class meetings began with a substantial lecture by Brown. This provided an unusual opportunity to see some of the results of a lesser-known phase of Brown’s career: the decades he spent training himself in Egyptology (including learning the Egyptian language) and staying current with that field. Brown’s lectures that year offered a timely hybrid of the interests and commitments of Afrocentric Egyptologists, the data and reconstructions of more traditional Egyptology, and the general approaches of longue durée Africanist history. The result was an example of how an engaged historicism can produce accounts that respond to a wide range of political projects. While it does not always come through clearly in his published work, those who knew him personally know that Brown was firmly and explicitly committed to what he called a ‘liberated or liberating African history’. In a 1972 talk at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, he told his audience, ‘the thing which concerns me very deeply indeed is what I call the mis-writing and mis-casting of American and generally European scholarship about Africa... and the implications of this kind of work for the Black liberation struggle in Africa and overseas, indeed for the world generally’. An analysis of this misleading scholarship had, he insisted, ‘real relevance to the struggle of Black and white peoples or other peoples of the world for various kinds liberation and self-determination’. The causal connection between scholarship and liberation passed through the representations of Africa produced in Europe and the US and their effect on global consciousness. ‘We’ve been conditioned’, he noted, ‘to expect bizarre or presumably barbaric behavior out of Africa and this is directly attributable to the scholarship on Africa which is available in the western world’. Africanist history was particularly to blame insofar as ‘the image that the world has of Africa is based upon the world’s understanding or misunderstanding of Africa’s past.... [P]olitical science, sociology, economics, all of the other disciplines adopt the assumptions which are provided by African history’. At the core of Brown’s idea of a liberating African history were two deceptively obvious convictions: that the motives and logics animating all historical agents could be approached via their
1998年春天,我有幸参加了威廉·A·布朗关于古埃及史的本科生研究研讨会(Kemet)。虽然从技术上讲是一个研讨会,但所有十五次每周班会都以布朗的一次实质性演讲开始。这提供了一个不同寻常的机会,让我们看到布朗职业生涯中一个鲜为人知的阶段的一些成果:他花了几十年的时间在埃及学方面进行培训(包括学习埃及语),并在该领域保持最新。布朗当年的演讲及时地融合了以非洲为中心的埃及学家的兴趣和承诺、更传统的埃及学的数据和重建,以及长期非洲主义历史的一般方法。这一结果是一个例子,说明了一个积极的历史主义如何能够对广泛的政治项目做出回应。虽然这在他出版的作品中并不总是清晰可见,但了解他的人都知道,布朗坚定而明确地致力于他所说的“解放或解放的非洲历史”。1972年,在亚特兰大跨教派神学中心(ITC)的一次演讲中,他告诉听众,“事实上,我非常担心的是,我所说的美国和欧洲关于非洲的学术的写错和选错……”。。。以及这类工作对非洲和海外黑人解放斗争的影响,甚至对整个世界的影响”。他坚持认为,对这种误导性学术的分析“与黑人和白人或世界其他民族争取各种解放和自决的斗争真正相关”。学术和解放之间的因果关系贯穿于欧洲和美国对非洲的描绘及其对全球意识的影响。”他指出,“我们已经习惯了”,“期待非洲出现奇怪或可能是野蛮的行为,这直接归功于西方世界对非洲的研究”。非洲主义历史尤其应受到谴责,因为“世界对非洲的形象是基于世界对非洲过去的理解或误解……”。。。。[P] 政治学、社会学、经济学,所有其他学科都采用了非洲历史提供的假设。布朗解放非洲历史思想的核心是两个看似显而易见的信念:激励所有历史代理人的动机和逻辑可以通过他们的
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Lugha ya Dunia
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000555
Heather J. Sharkey
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South Africa's Revolutionary Era 南非的革命时代
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s002185372300049x
A. Lissoni
ation and circulation in the round. Having described anxieties about fertility and mortality, in Chapter Six he turns to migration. In a fascinating analysis of provincial reports and correspondence, Coghe builds on a core theme of the book considering Angola as an embattled colony, prone to negative comparison and subversion by neighbouring colonial powers. Anxiety about porous borders leaking workers to neighbouring territories where taxes were lower and jobs were available, led to a series of initiatives in border regions. Officials sought to capture migration flows statistically and to incentivise against them through favourable tax schemes compared with neighbouring countries and by encouraging the establishment of mission stations, which offered educational and medical opportunities to compete with mission communities across the borders. Coghe describes the tensions between provincial officials and the central colonial ministry over migration, and — following another core theme of the book — shows how demographic information was collected, managed, and transformed to suit different agendas. In his Epilogue, Coghe describes the shift in global population discourse about Africa from a fear of underpopulation in the interwar period, to growing concerns about rapid population growth and its proposed negative consequences for development post-1945. He shows how Angola largely sidestepped this wider ‘discursive reversal’ (250) right through to independence in 1975, due to the country’s continuing relatively high mortality, low population density, demand for labour, and good soil productivity. Meanwhile, ongoing Portuguese pronatalism restricted the influence of population experts and international family planning agencies throughout this period, potentially — as Coghe concludes — with a lasting legacy for Angola’s high fertility rate today. This is a carefully researched monograph, with meticulous detail on how population knowledge and policies are constructed. It reveals important themes and processes in Angolan history and colonial historiography, while also carrying lessons for today when global population anxieties are again on the rise. Coghe shows that such anxieties — and the data on which they are based — need to be analysed to reveal their racialised, gendered, and political underpinnings before policies can be enacted to truly enhance human and planetary health.
循环和循环。在描述了对生育率和死亡率的焦虑之后,在第六章中,他转向了移民。在对省级报告和信件的引人入胜的分析中,Coghe以本书的一个核心主题为基础,将安哥拉视为一个四面楚歌的殖民地,容易受到邻国殖民大国的负面比较和颠覆。对漏洞百出的边境将工人泄漏到税收较低、有工作机会的邻国的担忧,导致边境地区采取了一系列举措。官员们试图从统计数据上捕捉移民流动,并通过与邻国相比有利的税收计划和鼓励建立特派团驻地来激励他们,这些特派团驻地提供了教育和医疗机会,可以与跨境的特派团社区竞争。Coghe描述了省级官员和中央殖民地部在移民问题上的紧张关系,并遵循本书的另一个核心主题,展示了人口信息是如何收集、管理和转换以适应不同议程的。Coghe在他的后记中描述了全球人口对非洲的讨论从两次世界大战期间对人口不足的恐惧转变为对人口快速增长及其对1945年后发展的负面影响的日益担忧。他展示了安哥拉如何在1975年独立之前基本上避开了这种更广泛的“话语逆转”(250),因为该国的死亡率持续相对较高,人口密度较低,对劳动力的需求和良好的土壤生产力。与此同时,在这段时间里,持续的葡萄牙前生育主义限制了人口专家和国际计划生育机构的影响力,正如Coghe总结的那样,这可能会给安哥拉今天的高生育率留下持久的遗产。这是一本经过仔细研究的专著,对人口知识和政策是如何构建的有着细致的细节。它揭示了安哥拉历史和殖民史学中的重要主题和过程,同时也为全球人口焦虑再次上升的今天提供了教训。Coghe表明,在制定真正增强人类和地球健康的政策之前,需要对这种焦虑及其所依据的数据进行分析,以揭示其种族化、性别化和政治基础。
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The Caliphate, the Black Writer, and a World in Revolution, 1957–69 哈里发、黑人作家和革命中的世界,1957-69
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s002185372300052x
M. Thiam
In 1965, William Allen Brown (1934–2007) landed in Mali, a young socialist republic and former French colony that had become independent just five years prior. Brown was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and had come to conduct fieldwork for his dissertation on the Caliphate of H amdullāhi, a nineteenth century theocratic state that had once stood in Mali’s Mopti region. Born in North Carolina, Brown attended school in Manhattan and the Bronx. After a stint in the US Air Force, he enrolled at Kentucky State College, the state’s oldest Historically Black College, and graduated in 1959 with a degree in History and Government, and French. He then attended the Sorbonne University in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. In 1960, he started graduate school at UW-Madison, where he studied history and African Studies, and obtained his MA (1964) and PhD (1969). What was it like to conduct fieldwork in mid-1960s Mali? Specifically, what could have been the experience of an African-American graduate student attuned to ongoing political struggles across the Black world? Which scholarly influences shaped Brown’s approach to dissertation research? And, which broader debates were occurring in Brown’s academic fields — African Studies, African history, and Black Studies — as he was crafting his dissertation? This essay provides preliminary thoughts on these questions through an exploration of the political and intellectual worlds that Brown inhabited during the years 1957–69, on both sides of the Atlantic. The 1960s were a tumultuous decade, a time of momentous intensity to be a student and rising scholar. Following the threads of the civil rights movement in the United States, decolonization and Cold War in Mali, the study of Islam in precolonial West Africa, and the place of Black scholars in academic fields concerned with the study of Africa and Africans, one finds them tightly entangled in William Allen Brown’s graduate experience. The circuits of knowledge Brown traveled through crisscrossed the Atlantic and the Sahel, as he made his way through Kentucky, Madison, Bamako, Mopti, and Timbuktu. He may have crossed paths with Martin Luther King, Jr., and he
1965年,威廉·艾伦·布朗(1934–2007)在马里登陆,马里是一个年轻的社会主义共和国,曾是法国殖民地,五年前刚刚独立。布朗是威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的一名博士生,他来这里为自己关于H哈里发的论文进行实地调查 amdullāhi,一个19世纪的神权国家,曾经位于马里的莫普提地区。布朗出生于北卡罗来纳州,曾在曼哈顿和布朗克斯上学。在美国空军服役一段时间后,他进入肯塔基州立学院,这是该州历史上最古老的黑人学院,并于1959年毕业,获得历史与政府和法语学位。随后,他获得富布赖特奖学金进入巴黎索邦大学学习。1960年,他在华盛顿大学麦迪逊分校开始研究生院学习历史和非洲研究,并获得了文学硕士(1964年)和博士(1969年)。在20世纪60年代中期的马里进行实地调查是什么感觉?具体来说,一个适应黑人世界正在进行的政治斗争的非裔美国研究生会有什么经历?哪些学术影响影响了布朗的论文研究方法?在布朗撰写论文的过程中,在他的学术领域——非洲研究、非洲历史和黑人研究——发生了哪些更广泛的争论?本文通过对布朗在1957-69年间居住在大西洋两岸的政治和知识世界的探索,对这些问题提供了初步的思考。20世纪60年代是一个动荡的十年,对于一名学生和一名冉冉升起的学者来说,这是一个非常紧张的时期。根据美国的民权运动、马里的非殖民化和冷战、殖民前西非的伊斯兰教研究,以及黑人学者在关注非洲和非洲人研究的学术领域中的地位,人们发现他们与威廉·艾伦·布朗的研究生经历紧密相连。布朗在穿越肯塔基州、麦迪逊、巴马科、莫普提和廷巴克图的过程中,穿越了大西洋和萨赫勒地区。他可能与马丁·路德·金有过交集
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‘Compliments from the Housewives’: Contesting White Public Space in Late-Colonial Nairobi “来自家庭主妇的赞美”:殖民后期内罗毕的白人公共空间之争
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853723000452
Meghan E. Ference
Abstract This article examines the racial politics of decolonization in late-colonial Nairobi in the decade before independence through the unique space of the colonial bus using archival letters from a group of European women who called themselves ‘The Housewives’. In letters to Nairobi's mayor and the Kenya Bus Service (KBS), the Housewives argued against a newly proposed transportation policy that would make all seating on the colonial buses the same price, doing away with the first-class section. The letters reveal that African bus riders, particularly Muslim women riders, were centrally important in this crucial time in Kenya's urban history. With Nairobi still under a ‘State of Emergency’ as military operations against the Land and Freedom Army (Mau Mau) were coming to an end, these letters show colonial buses as battlegrounds during the final years of British colonial rule in Kenya with extremely porous social borders and transportation vehicles serving as rich sites of urban life.
摘要本文利用一群自称“家庭主妇”的欧洲女性的档案信件,通过殖民巴士的独特空间,探讨了独立前十年殖民地晚期内罗毕非殖民化的种族政治。在给内罗毕市长和肯尼亚巴士服务公司(KBS)的信中,家庭主妇们反对一项新提出的交通政策,该政策将使殖民地巴士上的所有座位都以相同的价格,取消头等舱。这些信件表明,非洲公交车乘客,尤其是穆斯林女性乘客,在肯尼亚城市历史的这一关键时刻发挥着重要作用。随着针对土地与自由军(Mau Mau)的军事行动即将结束,内罗毕仍处于“紧急状态”,这些信件显示,在英国殖民统治肯尼亚的最后几年,殖民巴士是战场,社会边界极为漏洞百出,交通工具是丰富的城市生活场所。
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The Impact of Informal Mentorship: A Tribute to Professor William Brown 非正式指导的影响:致敬威廉·布朗教授
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000439
O. Kobo
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Le témoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Dr Brown through the Testimony of Almamy Maliki Yattara Le tmoignage d'Almamy Maliki Yattara sur W. A. Brown: Brown博士通过Almamy Maliki Yattara的证词
IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853723000312
Bernard Salvaing
Résumé Almamy Maliki Yattara, en sa double qualité de traditionniste et d’arabisant, fut chargé par l’Institut des Sciences Humaines de Bamako d’accompagner W. A. Brown pendant ses recherches. Dans ses Mémoires, Yattara a laissé sur leurs enquêtes un témoignage saisissant, où transparaissent l’estime et la complicité existant entre deux personnes venues d’horizons si différents. On y voit également comment les curiosités et les approches du chercheur ont pu être influencées par les positionnements de son guide. Yattara décrit longuement leur quête des manuscrits arabes locaux qu’ils photographiaient inlassablement, dans un domaine de recherche où Brown joua un rôle de pionnier.
阿尔马米·马利基·亚塔拉(Almamy Maliki Yattara)以传统主义者和阿拉伯主义者的双重身份,受巴马科人文科学研究所的委托,陪同W.A.布朗进行研究。在他的回忆录中,雅塔拉在他们的调查中留下了引人注目的证词,其中显示了来自如此不同背景的两个人之间存在的尊重和共谋。它还显示了研究人员的好奇心和方法如何受到其指南位置的影响。Yattara详细描述了他们对当地阿拉伯手稿的探索,他们不知疲倦地拍摄了这些手稿,布朗在这一研究领域发挥了先锋作用。
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