Travelling Hierarchies: Roads in and out of slave status in a Central Malian Fulbe network
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Based on rich and wide-ranging data, the thesis describes the sensitive issue of the contemporary emancipation trajectories of agro-pastoralist Fulbe in Central Mali. It explores how people are currently dealing with hierarchies they inherited from past master-slave relations and focuses on the relational dynamics between members of a network of migrants. The importance of mobility to identity is explored by analyzing the tensions that exist among migrants to reproduce or change hierarchical relations in post-slavery societies.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Leiden |
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Publisher | Africa Studies Centre, Leiden |
Volume | 34 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-90-5448-105-81876-018X |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
- Mali, Fulani, Africa, West Africa, Douentza, Nomads, Slavery, Memory, Hierarchy, Anthropological analysis, Fieldwork, Mobility, Migration, rural-urban migration, Identity, Family, Family relations, Generations, genealogy, Legal pluralism, Status, Social Status, Social Mobility, Power relations
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