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Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation - Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa (Paperback)
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Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation - Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa (Paperback)
Series: Studien zur Interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums/Etudes d'Histoire Interculturelle de Christianisme/Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity, 142
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This book explores the first encounter in the mid-fifteenth century
between Western Europe and the West African Coast, arguing that it
did not produce hostility, but rather a climate of beneficial
mutual exchange. It examines West African pre-colonial social
history and asserts that around the year 1500 West Africa became a
safe haven for those fleeing political or religious persecution in
Europe. Among them were mercantile settlers, Tangomaos or Lancados,
known to have arrived on the West African Coast after the
Portuguese explorers in 1446. They exchanged commodities, culture,
religious ideas and practices with West African people. These
events raise searching questions on the nature of identity and
space. Contents: West Africa: The Portuguese Agenda-West African
Kingship - The Beginnings of Westernisation - The Emergence of an
Afro-European Merchant Class - Religion, Ritual and Sacrifice: A
Portuguese Encounter.
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