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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, C.1450 to Present

by Ettore Morelli
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004726963
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 400
  • Original Price: USD 122.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 731 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Africa / General

The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep's Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and C�te d'Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it.

Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, Mar�a Jos� Pont Ch�fer, Giulia Casentini, and Aim� Raoul Sumo Tayo.

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