A01=Anais Menard
Africa
Author_Anais Menard
Category=GTP
Category=JHMC
civilized man
coastal communities
colonialism
concealment
development studies
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ethnic crossovers
ethnic identity
ethnic transformation
Freetown Peninsula
frontier region
individual mobility
integration
landlords
livelihoods
multiple origins
political anthropology
reciprocal relations
Rurban space
settlers
Sierra Leone
social arrangement
social dynamics
social interaction
socio-ethnic groups
West Africa
Product details
- ISBN 9781800738409
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions. She showcases the processes by which Sherbro identity emerged as a flexible category of practice, allowing individuals the possibility to claim multiple origins and perform ethnic crossovers while remaining Sherbro.
Anaïs Ménard is a Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. She is the recipient of the prestigious Otto-Hahn Medal and Otto-Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society for her work on migration and identity in post-war Sierra Leone.
