African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2025-06-26
- Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
- Vikt788 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieStudies in the Social History of the Global South
- Antal sidor381
- FörlagBrill
- MedarbetareMorelli,Ettore
- ISBN9789004726963