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People of the Zongo - The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana (Paperback, New)
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People of the Zongo - The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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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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