Ghislaine Lydon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 317176 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ghislaine Lydon |
| PRENOMES | Ghislaine |
| SOBRENOME | Lydon |
| ASSINATURA | LYDON G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
Messick Brinkley. — Sharīʿa Scripts
Brinkley Messick’s long-awaited book is the fruit of several decades of reflection on the practice of Islamic law, following his 1993 classic The Calligraphic State. It is set in the author’s research terrain of predilection: Yemen’s central highlands in and around the city of Ibb. This predominantly agrarian world is rather distinct, as it never experienced colonial rule directly, neither under the Ottomans nor at the hands of subsequent foreign…
Paper Instruments in Early African Economies and the Debated Role of the Suftaja
This article provides a longitudinal reflection on the institutional history of African economies from the earliest times until the 1300s. It examines paper instruments or documents that facilitated exchange and the delegation of obligations, property and capital. The essay analyses the evidence from Pharaonic Egypt to medieval Northwest Africa, with a focus on paper instruments used in long-distance financial transfers. Medieval Muslim legal sch…
Inventions and Reinventions of Sharia in African History and the Recent Experiences of Nigeria, Somalia and Mali
This essay provides a reflection on how the concept of “sharia” has been re-invented in recent African history. It sketches the history of Islamic legal practice among African Muslims, with a particular focus on women's rights and the question of adultery ( zinā ), in an effort to place in context contemporary events in Nigeria, Somalia and Mali. Its overarching conclusion is that the recent actions by extreme Muslims groups in Africa, in the nam…
Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
An early twentieth-century correspondence between the French colonial administration and the trading com munity of St. Louis, expressing concern for their commercial activities, makes clear that the exchange of slaves for firearms was ongoing."Rapport do détégue du Gouverneur Général en Pays Maures (Xavier Coppolani) a Monsieur Ic Gouvemeur Génhral de I'A.O.F.sur Ia mission d'organisation du Tagant, ' lbn Abf Zayd, 224, 226, 228; Khahl devotes a …
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa
Journal Article Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Get access Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 272. $32.95. Ghislaine Lydon Ghislaine Lydon University of California, Los Angeles [email protected] Search for other wo…
Saharan Oceans and Bridges, Barriers and Divides in Africa's Historiographical Landscape
Based on a broad assessment of the scholarship on North-Western Africa, this article examines Saharan historiography with a particular view towards understanding how and why historians have long represented the continent as being composed of two 'Africas'. Starting with the earliest Arabic writings, and, much later, French colonial renderings, it traces the epistemological creation of a racial and geographic divide. Then, the article considers th…
The “Hidden Transcripts” and Legal Rights of Slaves in the Muslim World
Missionary societies operating in mid-to late-nineteenth-century Africa sought first and foremost to convert African men and women to Christianity. Among the assumptions held by European missionaries was the inherent sinfulness of the long-standing universal institution of slavery and the practice of human sacrifice. Slavery remained a general phenomenon in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Africa and was widely condemned by missionary workers. Eur…
The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and p…
Trans-Saharan Book Trade
A Thirst For Knowledge
This chapter highlights the development of literate societies in the southwestern Sahara, a region encompassing most of present-day Mauritania, northern Mali and northern Senegal. It describes the development of a distinct schooling system and the impact of Arabic literacy, considering, on the one hand, the intellectual and practical motivations for acquiring literacy, and the multiple domains of its usage on the other. The chapter examines how w…
On Trans-Saharan Trails
This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, P…
Contracting caravans
Organizing trans-Saharan camel caravans was a complicated business requiring skills, stamina, resources, and human capital. This article focuses on the contractual world of caravanning in the nineteenth and early twentieth century based on interviews with retired caravanners, original trade records, and legal sources mined in private family archives. It surveys the different contractual agreements that featured commonly in this ‘paper economy’, w…
Droit islamique et droits de la femme d'après les registres du TribunalMusulman de Ndar (Saint-Louis du Sénégal)
(2007). Droit islamique et droits de la femme d’après les registres du TribunalMusulman de Ndar (Saint-Louis du Sénégal) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 289-307
Writing trans-Saharan history
For ages, the Sahara has been portrayed as an 'empty-quarter' where only nomads on their spiteful camels dare to tread. Colonial ethnographic templates reinforced perceptions about the Sahara as a 'natural' boundary between the North and the rest of Africa, separating 'White' and 'Black' Africa and, by extension, 'Arabs' and 'Berbers' from 'Africans'. Consequently, very few scholars have ventured into the Sahara despite the overwhelming historica…
Inkwells of the Sahara
Groupes serviles au Sahara
Negotiating Development
Introduction - Rice & cotton: neomercantilism, social welfare & the shaping of the Office du Niger - Colonisation Indigene: French rural development ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940 - The recruitment of settlers for the Office du Niger - Coercion & poverty at the Office du Niger - Negotiating farming & marketing practices at the Office du Niger - Participation contested & redefined: farmer resistance & ideas about development at the Off…
La penetration saharienne, 1906
The Unraveling of a Neglected Source
In October 1937, the Governor-General of AOF appointed Denise Moran Savineau to head a mission of inquiry into the social and economic situation of women and the family in the French West African colonies. Moran, one of the rare women to be employed by the French colonial administration, produced a remarkable study. This article attempts to place her document in its historical context. Attention is paid to the economic and social conditions of th…
Desert Frontier
Money Matters
Introduction: the currency interface and its dynamics, Jane I. Guyer. Part 1 Pre-colonial currency dynamics: Raphia monies among the Teke, Marie-Claude Dupre cowries, gold and dollars - exchange rate instability and domestic price inflation in Dahomey, Robin Law. Part 2 Currency revolutions redescribed: the history and the adventures of a monetary object of the Kwele of the Congo, George Dupre monetization and the Asante state, Kwame Arhin. Part …
On Trans-Saharan Trails
This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, P…
Saharan Oceans and Bridges, Barriers and Divides in Africa's Historiographical Landscape
Based on a broad assessment of the scholarship on North-Western Africa, this article examines Saharan historiography with a particular view towards understanding how and why historians have long represented the continent as being composed of two 'Africas'. Starting with the earliest Arabic writings, and, much later, French colonial renderings, it traces the epistemological creation of a racial and geographic divide. Then, the article considers th…
Writing trans-Saharan history
For ages, the Sahara has been portrayed as an 'empty-quarter' where only nomads on their spiteful camels dare to tread. Colonial ethnographic templates reinforced perceptions about the Sahara as a 'natural' boundary between the North and the rest of Africa, separating 'White' and 'Black' Africa and, by extension, 'Arabs' and 'Berbers' from 'Africans'. Consequently, very few scholars have ventured into the Sahara despite the overwhelming historica…
Contracting caravans
Organizing trans-Saharan camel caravans was a complicated business requiring skills, stamina, resources, and human capital. This article focuses on the contractual world of caravanning in the nineteenth and early twentieth century based on interviews with retired caravanners, original trade records, and legal sources mined in private family archives. It surveys the different contractual agreements that featured commonly in this ‘paper economy’, w…
The Unraveling of a Neglected Source
In October 1937, the Governor-General of AOF appointed Denise Moran Savineau to head a mission of inquiry into the social and economic situation of women and the family in the French West African colonies. Moran, one of the rare women to be employed by the French colonial administration, produced a remarkable study. This article attempts to place her document in its historical context. Attention is paid to the economic and social conditions of th…
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
Groupes serviles au Sahara
Inventions and Reinventions of Sharia in African History and the Recent Experiences of Nigeria, Somalia and Mali
This essay provides a reflection on how the concept of “sharia” has been re-invented in recent African history. It sketches the history of Islamic legal practice among African Muslims, with a particular focus on women's rights and the question of adultery ( zinā ), in an effort to place in context contemporary events in Nigeria, Somalia and Mali. Its overarching conclusion is that the recent actions by extreme Muslims groups in Africa, in the nam…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
Money Matters
Introduction: the currency interface and its dynamics, Jane I. Guyer. Part 1 Pre-colonial currency dynamics: Raphia monies among the Teke, Marie-Claude Dupre cowries, gold and dollars - exchange rate instability and domestic price inflation in Dahomey, Robin Law. Part 2 Currency revolutions redescribed: the history and the adventures of a monetary object of the Kwele of the Congo, George Dupre monetization and the Asante state, Kwame Arhin. Part …
Desert Frontier
Money Matters
Introduction: the currency interface and its dynamics, Jane I. Guyer. Part 1 Pre-colonial currency dynamics: Raphia monies among the Teke, Marie-Claude Dupre cowries, gold and dollars - exchange rate instability and domestic price inflation in Dahomey, Robin Law. Part 2 Currency revolutions redescribed: the history and the adventures of a monetary object of the Kwele of the Congo, George Dupre monetization and the Asante state, Kwame Arhin. Part …
The Unraveling of a Neglected Source
In October 1937, the Governor-General of AOF appointed Denise Moran Savineau to head a mission of inquiry into the social and economic situation of women and the family in the French West African colonies. Moran, one of the rare women to be employed by the French colonial administration, produced a remarkable study. This article attempts to place her document in its historical context. Attention is paid to the economic and social conditions of th…
La penetration saharienne, 1906
Groupes serviles au Sahara
Negotiating Development
Introduction - Rice & cotton: neomercantilism, social welfare & the shaping of the Office du Niger - Colonisation Indigene: French rural development ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940 - The recruitment of settlers for the Office du Niger - Coercion & poverty at the Office du Niger - Negotiating farming & marketing practices at the Office du Niger - Participation contested & redefined: farmer resistance & ideas about development at the Off…
Inkwells of the Sahara
Writing trans-Saharan history
For ages, the Sahara has been portrayed as an 'empty-quarter' where only nomads on their spiteful camels dare to tread. Colonial ethnographic templates reinforced perceptions about the Sahara as a 'natural' boundary between the North and the rest of Africa, separating 'White' and 'Black' Africa and, by extension, 'Arabs' and 'Berbers' from 'Africans'. Consequently, very few scholars have ventured into the Sahara despite the overwhelming historica…
Droit islamique et droits de la femme d'après les registres du TribunalMusulman de Ndar (Saint-Louis du Sénégal)
(2007). Droit islamique et droits de la femme d’après les registres du TribunalMusulman de Ndar (Saint-Louis du Sénégal) Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 289-307
Contracting caravans
Organizing trans-Saharan camel caravans was a complicated business requiring skills, stamina, resources, and human capital. This article focuses on the contractual world of caravanning in the nineteenth and early twentieth century based on interviews with retired caravanners, original trade records, and legal sources mined in private family archives. It surveys the different contractual agreements that featured commonly in this ‘paper economy’, w…
On Trans-Saharan Trails
This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, P…
Trans-Saharan Book Trade
A Thirst For Knowledge
This chapter highlights the development of literate societies in the southwestern Sahara, a region encompassing most of present-day Mauritania, northern Mali and northern Senegal. It describes the development of a distinct schooling system and the impact of Arabic literacy, considering, on the one hand, the intellectual and practical motivations for acquiring literacy, and the multiple domains of its usage on the other. The chapter examines how w…
The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and p…
The “Hidden Transcripts” and Legal Rights of Slaves in the Muslim World
Missionary societies operating in mid-to late-nineteenth-century Africa sought first and foremost to convert African men and women to Christianity. Among the assumptions held by European missionaries was the inherent sinfulness of the long-standing universal institution of slavery and the practice of human sacrifice. Slavery remained a general phenomenon in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Africa and was widely condemned by missionary workers. Eur…
Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa
Journal Article Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Get access Gibril R. Cole. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. (New African Histories.) Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 272. $32.95. Ghislaine Lydon Ghislaine Lydon University of California, Los Angeles [email protected] Search for other wo…
Saharan Oceans and Bridges, Barriers and Divides in Africa's Historiographical Landscape
Based on a broad assessment of the scholarship on North-Western Africa, this article examines Saharan historiography with a particular view towards understanding how and why historians have long represented the continent as being composed of two 'Africas'. Starting with the earliest Arabic writings, and, much later, French colonial renderings, it traces the epistemological creation of a racial and geographic divide. Then, the article considers th…
Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
An early twentieth-century correspondence between the French colonial administration and the trading com munity of St. Louis, expressing concern for their commercial activities, makes clear that the exchange of slaves for firearms was ongoing."Rapport do détégue du Gouverneur Général en Pays Maures (Xavier Coppolani) a Monsieur Ic Gouvemeur Génhral de I'A.O.F.sur Ia mission d'organisation du Tagant, ' lbn Abf Zayd, 224, 226, 228; Khahl devotes a …
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, posse…
Inventions and Reinventions of Sharia in African History and the Recent Experiences of Nigeria, Somalia and Mali
This essay provides a reflection on how the concept of “sharia” has been re-invented in recent African history. It sketches the history of Islamic legal practice among African Muslims, with a particular focus on women's rights and the question of adultery ( zinā ), in an effort to place in context contemporary events in Nigeria, Somalia and Mali. Its overarching conclusion is that the recent actions by extreme Muslims groups in Africa, in the nam…
M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the like…
Messick Brinkley. — Sharīʿa Scripts
Brinkley Messick’s long-awaited book is the fruit of several decades of reflection on the practice of Islamic law, following his 1993 classic The Calligraphic State. It is set in the author’s research terrain of predilection: Yemen’s central highlands in and around the city of Ibb. This predominantly agrarian world is rather distinct, as it never experienced colonial rule directly, neither under the Ottomans nor at the hands of subsequent foreign…
Paper Instruments in Early African Economies and the Debated Role of the Suftaja
This article provides a longitudinal reflection on the institutional history of African economies from the earliest times until the 1300s. It examines paper instruments or documents that facilitated exchange and the delegation of obligations, property and capital. The essay analyses the evidence from Pharaonic Egypt to medieval Northwest Africa, with a focus on paper instruments used in long-distance financial transfers. Medieval Muslim legal sch…
Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…
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