| Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories Contributor(s): Rossi, Benedetta (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781383057 ISBN-13: 9781781383056 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| Physical Information: 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations. |