African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present / / edited by Ettore Morelli

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 pages)
• Disciplina: 496
• Soggetto topico: African Studies; Roads - Africa - Africa; History
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Boundaries
• Persona (resp. second.): MorelliEttore
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage , this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen , made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo.
• Titolo autorizzato: African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
• ISBN: 90-04-72697-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911018875203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.; Studies in Global Social History ; ; 56/5.