Playing the Marginality Game

Anita Schroven is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has researched state identities in West Africa, along with practices of humanitarian intervention, science and knowledge production in the context of political and medical crises. She has held fellowships with the Pasteur Institute, France, and UNICAMP, Brazil.

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsNotes on Names and SpellingList of AcronymsIntroduction: Identity at the Margins: A Place in GuineaChapter 1. A Journey to the Margins?Chapter 2. Maintaining Marginality: Ethnic and National Elements of IdentificationChapter 3. Reaching for the Margins: Negotiating State PowerChapter 4. Mixing and Mingling: New Politics, Old Structures?Chapter 5. Bargaining with an Ailing StateChapter 6. Citizenship at the Margins: Performing the Future StateConclusion: Liberties at the Margins: Playing the GameReferencesIndex

“Clearly, (this book) is the result of a long period ethnographic work and reflection on the evidence collected, and it will enrich our knowledge of Guinea Conakry, one of the African countries which are today on the development priority list of the European Union”. • Alice Bellagamba, University of Milan-Bicocca