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Author Bangura, Joseph J., author.
Title The Temne of Sierra Leone : African agency in the making of a British colony / Joseph J. Bangura, Kalamazoo College, Michigan.
Alternative Title African agency in the making of a British colony
Publisher Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2018]


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 Wilberforce Institute  DT 516.45 T45 B2  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT
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Descript 217 pages
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Contents Historical epistemology -- Introduction: Rethinking history and Freetown historiography -- Frontiers of identity: the Creoles and the politics of belonging -- Beyond the colonial Sphinx: African agency in the making of the colony -- Realpolitik and boundaries of power: the Temne in local administration -- Intergroup relations and genealogies of conflict: the Temne and Freetonian dichotomy -- Ethnocentrism and new frames of popular culture -- Temne cultural associations and popular representations -- Islamic triumphalism in a Christian colony: Temne agency in the spread and Sierra Leonization of Islam -- From the margins to the center: the role of Temne market women traders -- Conclusion: Nexus of microhistory: new perspective on the colony's historical landscape.
ISBN 9781107197985 (hardback)
9781316647967 (pbk.)
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Author Bangura, Joseph J., author.
Subject Temne (African people) -- History.
Temne (African people) -- Political activity.
Temne (African people) -- Ethnic identity.
Sierra Leone -- History.
Sierra Leone -- Historiography.
Sierra Leone -- Colonial influence.
Alternative Title African agency in the making of a British colony
Descript 217 pages
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Media unmediated n
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Contents Historical epistemology -- Introduction: Rethinking history and Freetown historiography -- Frontiers of identity: the Creoles and the politics of belonging -- Beyond the colonial Sphinx: African agency in the making of the colony -- Realpolitik and boundaries of power: the Temne in local administration -- Intergroup relations and genealogies of conflict: the Temne and Freetonian dichotomy -- Ethnocentrism and new frames of popular culture -- Temne cultural associations and popular representations -- Islamic triumphalism in a Christian colony: Temne agency in the spread and Sierra Leonization of Islam -- From the margins to the center: the role of Temne market women traders -- Conclusion: Nexus of microhistory: new perspective on the colony's historical landscape.
ISBN 9781107197985 (hardback)
9781316647967 (pbk.)
Author Bangura, Joseph J., author.
Subject Temne (African people) -- History.
Temne (African people) -- Political activity.
Temne (African people) -- Ethnic identity.
Sierra Leone -- History.
Sierra Leone -- Historiography.
Sierra Leone -- Colonial influence.
Alternative Title African agency in the making of a British colony
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  DT 516.45 T45 B2  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Temne (African people) -- History.
Temne (African people) -- Political activity.
Temne (African people) -- Ethnic identity.
Sierra Leone -- History.
Sierra Leone -- Historiography.
Sierra Leone -- Colonial influence.
Descript 217 pages
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Media unmediated n
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Contents Historical epistemology -- Introduction: Rethinking history and Freetown historiography -- Frontiers of identity: the Creoles and the politics of belonging -- Beyond the colonial Sphinx: African agency in the making of the colony -- Realpolitik and boundaries of power: the Temne in local administration -- Intergroup relations and genealogies of conflict: the Temne and Freetonian dichotomy -- Ethnocentrism and new frames of popular culture -- Temne cultural associations and popular representations -- Islamic triumphalism in a Christian colony: Temne agency in the spread and Sierra Leonization of Islam -- From the margins to the center: the role of Temne market women traders -- Conclusion: Nexus of microhistory: new perspective on the colony's historical landscape.
ISBN 9781107197985 (hardback)
9781316647967 (pbk.)
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