Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Jacqueline Knörr is a social anthropologist. She is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale), Germany.

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global PerspectiveJacqueline Knörr and Christoph KohlPART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONSChapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An Historical and Micro PerspectiveBruce L. MouserChapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri LankaChristoph KohlChapter 3. Freetown’s Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social IntegrationNathaniel KingPART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTSChapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants‘ Citizenship and Role in Guinean PoliticsAnita SchrovenChapter 5. Identity beyond ID – Diaspora within the NationMarkus RudolfChapter 6. The African ‘Other’ in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction, Integration and the Forging of an Immigration PolicyPedro F. José-MarcelinoChapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries – Creole Stratification and the Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return VisitsHeike DrotbohmPART III: TRAVELLING MODELSChapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the Atlantic WorldWilson Trajano FilhoChapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the Upper Guinea CoastJoanna DavidsonChapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra LeoneWilliam P. MurphyChapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war Sierra LeoneSylvanus SpencerChapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child Protection ExpertiseSusan SheplerPART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 13. The ‘Mandingo Question’: Transnational Ethnic Identity and Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area*Christian K. Højbjerg*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition spanning pages 255-279Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century GambiaAlice BellagambaChapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in the CasamancePeter Mark and José da Silva HortaNotes on ContributorsIndex*This chapter is not available in the open access edition due to rights restrictions. It is accessible in the print edition, spanning pages 255-279.

“The contributions to this volume cover a great diversity of topics from multiple perspectives. It constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on the Upper Guinea Coast, particularly by taking an anthropological approach to a region that has for the most part been studied historically.” · Philip Jan Havik, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal“This collection’s list of contributors and interdisciplinary scope are impressive. Gathered here are chapters from historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists, all of which mesh together well in a volume that will attract the attention of regional specialists and scholars interested in the continent more broadly.” · Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University