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Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa - Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940 (Hardcover)
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Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa - Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of
Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of
boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very
different practices of territoriality confronted each other in
Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important
in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a
territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of
the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern
territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as
maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such
instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and
were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern
territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the
peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more
effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be
appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their
meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a
strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new
colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese
state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida
International University.
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