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Questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity are probed in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana.



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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 september 2007

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Enid Schildkrout

Tweede Auteur: Schildkrout Enid

Hoofduitgeverij: Cambridge University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 153 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Verpakking breedte: 153 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 485 g

EAN: 9780521040532

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