People of the Zongo : the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana
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People of the Zongo : the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana
(Cambridge studies in social anthropology, 20)(Paperback re-issue)
Cambridge University Press, 2007, c1978
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Note
"First published 1978, this digitally printed version 2007" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index
A revision of the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1969
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
Table of Contents
- List of tables, figures and maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part I. Ethnicity and Migration: 1. Introduction: conceptual approaches to the study of ethnicity
- 2. The Mossi: ethnicity in Voltaic society
- 3. Migration and settlement of Mossi in Ghana
- Part II. Kinship and Community: 4. The growth of the zongo community in Kumasi
- 5. Ethnicity and the domestic context
- 6. Ethnicity and the idiom of kinship
- 7. Kinship and marriage in the second generation
- Part III. Politics and Change: 8. The political history of the zongo community: 1900-1970
- 9. The social organization of the Mossi community
- 10. Ethnicity, generational cleavages, and the political process
- 11. Conclusion: ethnicity, cultural integration and social stratification
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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