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Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed
by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the
nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and
multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves
have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social
positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring
Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions
that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations
of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger,
Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume
advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery
in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African
slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its
recent reconfigurations.
A number of long-standing theories concerning the production of
Deuteronomy are currently being revisited. This volume takes a
fresh look at the theory that there was an independent legal
collection comprising chs 12-26 that subsequently was set within
one or two narrative frames to yield the book, with ongoing
redactional changes. Each contributor has been asked to focus on
how the "core" might have functioned as a stand-alone document or,
if exploring a theme or motif, to take note of commonalities and
differences within the "core" and "frames" that might shed light on
the theory under review. Some of the articles also revisit the
theory of a northern origin of the "core" of the book, while others
challenge de Wette's equation of Deuteronomy with the scroll found
during temple repairs under Josiah. With Deuteronomic studies in a
state of flux, this is a timely collection by a group of
international scholars who use a range of methods and who, in
varying degrees, work with or challenge older theories about the
book's origin and growth to approach the central focus from many
angles. Readers will find multivalent evidence they can reflect
over to decide where they stand on the issue of Deuteronomy as a
framed legal "core."
Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed
by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the
nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and
multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves
have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social
positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring
Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions
that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations
of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger,
Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume
advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery
in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African
slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its
recent reconfigurations.
Building on previous holistic readings of the Book of Isaiah, this
collection approaches Isaiah through the concept of unity.
Contributors outline research that point to new directions in the
unity movement and, in the process, bring it under a critical gaze,
considering the perennial challenges to unity reading and thus
problematizing the very concept of unity. Divided into four parts,
the book provides methodological reflections on reading Isaiah as a
unity, and examines historical and redactional readings, literary
readings and contextual or reader-orientated readings. Topics
include how the figure of Jacob functions as a unifying motif in
the final form of the book, Isaiah 1 as an example of the relevance
of local structure for global coherence and how woman as a root
metaphor of Zion not only bears revelatory significance but also
serves as a theological linchpin for a more holistic reading of the
book. Overall, the book highlights the continued promise of
holistic readings for diverse methods and varied approaches to the
Book of Isaiah.
From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African
historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of
international development, and reveals their interrelation in the
social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel.
Benedetta Rossi traces the historical transformations that turned a
society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one
governed by the goals and methods of 'aid'. Over an impressive
sweep of time - from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of
Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present - this study
explores the problem that has remained the central conundrum
throughout Ader's history: how workers could meet subsistence needs
and employers fulfil recruitment requirements in an area where
natural resources are constantly exposed to the climatic hazards
characteristic of the edge of the Sahara.
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