Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

2022-12-31 History

Author : Erin Pettigrew
Release : 2022-12-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara written by Erin Pettigrew. This book was released on 2022-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative new history, Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces and entities - esoteric knowledge and spirits - to show how these forms of knowledge and unseen forces have shaped social structures, religious norms, and political power in the Saharan West. Situating this ethnographic history in what became la Mauritanie under French colonial rule and, later the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Pettigrew traces the changing roles of Muslim spiritual mediators and their Islamic esoteric sciences - known locally as l'ḥjāb - over the long-term history of the region. By exploring the impact of the immaterial in the material world and demonstrating the importance of Islamic esoteric sciences in Saharan societies, she illuminates peoples' enduring reliance upon these sciences in their daily lives and argues for a new approach to historical research that takes the immaterial seriously.

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

2023-10-31 History

Author : Bernard Moitt
Release : 2023-10-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 450/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal written by Bernard Moitt. This book was released on 2023-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army

2023-12-31 History

Author : M. T. Howard
Release : 2023-12-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 418/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army written by M. T. Howard. This book was released on 2023-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Zimbabwe's war of liberation (1965–80), fought between Zimbabwean nationalists and the minority-white Rhodesian settler-colonial regime, thousands of black soldiers volunteered for and served in the Rhodesian Army. This seeming paradox has often been noted by scholars and military researchers, yet little has been heard from black Rhodesian veterans themselves. Drawing from original interviews with black Rhodesian veterans and extensive archival research, M. T. Howard tackles the question of why so many black soldiers fought steadfastly and effectively for the Rhodesian Army, demonstrating that they felt loyalty to their comrades and regiments and not the Smith regime. Howard also shows that units in which black soldiers served – particularly the Rhodesian African Rifles – were fundamental to the Rhodesian counter-insurgency campaign. Highlighting the pivotal role black Rhodesian veterans played during both the war and the tumultuous early years of independence, this is a crucial contribution to the study of Zimbabwean decolonisation.

Qayrawān

2024-04-04 Art

Author : William Gallois
Release : 2024-04-04
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Qayrawān written by William Gallois. This book was released on 2024-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawān suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city’s Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why. Using visual archaeological methods, William Gallois reconstructs the visual history of these works and vividly brings them back to life. He locates pictorial records of the murals from the backdrops of photographs, postcards, and other forms of European ephemera. In Qayrawān, he identifies a form of religious painting that transposed traditional aesthetic forms such as house decoration, embroidery, and tattooing—which lay exclusively within the domains of women—onto the body of a conquered city. Gallois argues that these works were created by women as a form of “emergency art,” intended to offer amuletic protection for the community, and demonstrates how they differ markedly from “classical” Islamic antecedents and modern modes of Arab cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. Based on extensive archival research, this study is both a record of a unique moment in the history of art and a challenge to rethink the spiritual force and agency of a group of anonymous female artists whose paintings aspired to help save the world at a time of great peril. It will be welcomed by scholars of art history, Islamic studies, Middle East studies, and the history of magic.

Plunder for Profit

2023-04-30 History

Author : Elijah Doro
Release : 2023-04-30
Genre : History
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Download or read book Plunder for Profit written by Elijah Doro. This book was released on 2023-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability"--

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