Axel Harneit-Sievers

Constructions of Belonging (eBook, PDF)

Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state.

Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local communities living in Southeastern Nigeria since the late nineteenth century, examining the processes that have defined, changed, and re-produced these communities. Harneit-Sievers explores both the meanings and the uses that the community members have given to their particular areas, while also looking at the processes that have shaped local communities, and have made them work and continue tobe relevant, in a world dominated by the modern territorial state and by worldwide flows of people, goods, and ideas.

Axel Harneit-Sievers is a Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, and Director ofthe Nigeria Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Lagos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 399
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580466547
• Artikelnr.: 63931705

Autorenporträt

Axel Harneit-Sievers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Igbo Local Community: Historical and Anthropological
Approaches Trans-local Connections and Precolonial Spheres of Influence:
Nri "Hegemony" and Arochukwu Drawing Boundaries, Making Chiefs: The
Colonial State "Town People" and "Church People": The Impact of
Christianity Making a Larger Community: Igbo Ethnicity Federalism and Fear:
Impact of Postcolonial State and Society since the 1970s Institutionalizing
Community I: Town Unions Institutionalizing Community II: Traditional
Rulers and Autonomous Communit Reconceptualizing Community: Local Histories
The Politics of Competition and Fragmentation: Umuopara and Ohuhu "History"
as Politics by Other Means: Enugwu-Ukwu in Umunri Clan Post-slavery and
Marginalization: Nike Conclusion: Making the Igbo "Town" in the Twentieth
Century