The Legacy Of Slavery In Coastal Kenya

Author : Herman Ogoti Kiriama
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793646163

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The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya by Herman Ogoti Kiriama Pdf

To either achieve or resist domination, some postcolonial and post slavery societies appropriate and contest the current memories on slavery. This occurs more often where the sites of slavery are tourist attractions that positively empower the communities through economic benefits, resulting in an emergence of ‘new’ memories of the past and a constant construction and reconstruction of identity. In The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage, Herman Ogoti Kiriama examines how two communities in coastal Kenya, one whose identity is contested by the community members and another one who are seeking recognition, have tried to remember their past and the role that tourism has played in the process of remembering and or forgetting. Kiriama argues that heritage, memory, and identity are fluid and individuals can claim several identities depending on their socio-politico-economic contexts.

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 0300024541

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From Slaves to Squatters by Frederick Cooper Pdf

Cooper examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002779

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Legacies of slavery by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2957305887

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Kenya in Motion 2000-2020 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Hillewaert
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823286522

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Morality at the Margins by Sarah Hillewaert Pdf

This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu’s inhabitants nevertheless find themselves the focus of campaigns against Islamic radicalization and of Western touristic imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim here? How are these denominators imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate cultural, religious, political, and economic expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. Hillewaert shows how seemingly mundane practices—how young people greet others, how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood. Morality at the Margins traces the shifting meanings and potential ambiguities of such everyday signs—and the dangers of their misconstrual. By examining the uncertainties that underwrite projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows the ways in which Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

Author : Catherine Besteman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812290165

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Unraveling Somalia by Catherine Besteman Pdf

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence—inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners—contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization—a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.

Author : Sean Stilwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107001343

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Slavery and Slaving in African History by Sean Stilwell Pdf

This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, "big men" and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.

Author : Lambert Bartels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3883453382

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Oromo Religion. Myths and Rites of the Western Oromo of Ethiopia - An Attempt to Understand by Lambert Bartels Pdf

Author : Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780810875289

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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition by Martin A. Klein Pdf

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor. These slaves, serfs, helots, tenants, peons, bonded or forced laborers, etc., built pyramids and temples, dug canals and mined the earth for precious metals and gemstones. They built the palaces and mansions in which the powerful lived, grown the food they ate, spun the cloth that clothed them. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition relates the long and brutal history of slavery and the struggle for abolition using several key features: Chronology Introductory essay Appendixes Extensive bibliography Over 500 cross-referenced entries on forms of slavery, famous slaves and abolitionists, sources of slaves, and current conditions of modern slavery around the world This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about slavery and abolition.

Author : Ashton Sinamai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351022002

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Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe by Ashton Sinamai Pdf

This book focuses on a forgotten place—the Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation priorities affect the cultural landscape when there is a disjuncture between local community and national interests, and explores the epistemic violence that often accompanied colonial heritage management and archaeology in southern Africa. The central premise is that the history of the modern Zimbabwe nation, in terms of what is officially remembered and celebrated, inevitably determines how that past is managed. It is about how places are experienced and remembered through narratives and how the loss of this heritage memory may mark the un-inheriting of place. Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe is informed by the author’s experience of living near and working at Great Zimbabwe and Khami as an archaeologist, and uses archives and traditional narratives to build a biography for this lost cultural landscape. Whereas Great Zimbabwe is a resource for the state’s contentious narrative of unity, and a tool for cultural activism among communities whose cultural rights are denied through the nationalisation and globalisation heritage, at Khami, which has lost its historical gravity, there is only silence. Researchers and students of cultural heritage will find this book a much-needed case study on heritage, identity, community and landscape from an African perspective.

Author : Stephanie Diepeveen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108843669

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Searching for a New Kenya by Stephanie Diepeveen Pdf

Examining online and in-person public discussion in Kenya, this book sheds fresh light on the role of public discussion and social media in politics.

Author : Ferdinand De Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514535

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Decolonizing Heritage by Ferdinand De Jong Pdf

An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195056396

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis Pdf

This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135770785

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Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East. Slavery studies have traditionally concentrated on the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. In comparison, the Indian Ocean World slave trade has been little explored, although it started some 3,500 years before the Atlantic slave trade and persists to the present day. This volume, which follows a collection of essays The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Frank Cass, 2004), examines the various abolitionist impulses, indigenous and European, in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It assesses their efficacy within a context of a growing demand for labour resulting from an expanding international economy and European colonisation. The essays show that in applying definitions of slavery derived from the American model, European agents in the region failed to detect or deliberately ignored other forms of slavery, and as a result the abolitionist impulse was only partly successful with the slave trade still continuing today in many parts of the Indian Ocean World.

Author : Richard B. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 052164125X

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Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius by Richard B. Allen Pdf

In this wide-ranging social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the colony in the mid-1930s, Richard Allen brings out the importance of domestic capital formation, particularly in the sugar industry. He describes the changing relationship between different elements in the society - slave, free and maroon, and East Indian indentured populations - and shows how these were conditioned by demographic changes, world markets and local institutions. Based on thorough archival research, and thoroughly attuned to contemporary debates, this 1999 book will bring the Mauritian case to the attention of scholars engaged in the comparative study of slavery and plantation systems.