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Title: | Mande Identity Formation in the Economic and Political Context of Northwestern Sierra Leone, 1780-1900 |
Author: | Howard, Allen M. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Paideuma |
Volume: | 46 |
Pages: | 13-35 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | Manding ethnicity History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40341781 |
Abstract: | Over several centuries prior to European colonization of the interior, people speaking various Mande languages had been migrating into northwest Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas. The Mande migrants and settlers had multiple yet interconnected identities. First, Mande identity formed around people, practices, institutions, and values associated with nodal places. Secondly, identity was also formed through the working of economic, social, and political networks that linked nodes and with ideas flowing in such networks. Thirdly, identity was given content by meaningful events that happened in particular places and in places connected by networks and by the contested historical memories of events. Thus, Mande identities were shaped through interactions, and so-called ethnic identities often grew out of confrontations that involved the mobilization of people and the production of meanings and symbols. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |