Serving Status on the Gambia River Before and After Abolition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liza Gijanto (0000-0002-1343-7565, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | S22 |
| Pages | S260-S275 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/710132 |
| OpenAlex | W3088715398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
The Atlantic slave trade and its abolition created two distinct commercial spaces on the Gambia River that represent the use of similar tactics to project socioeconomic identities at different points in the Atlantic trade that are compared in this paper. First, the trading village of Juffure, at the heart of the Niumi polity's commercial center, gained prominence during the height of the trade in the eighteenth century. It became home to a multiethnic community whose residents were entangled to varying degrees in commerce. Community members asserted status and identity through material means that were based in established traditions of crafting and feasting. A second and distinct commercial space emerged at the city of Bathurst, which the British established following abolition in 1807. This new commercial center took shape with its own unique multiethnic community. At Bathurst the "Liberated Africans" utilized Western middle-class practices including meals to assert their identity as African elite. Thus, both the Liberated Africans and residents of Juffure used foodways to project specific identities to gain entry into commerce
Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Elite · Ethnology · Foodways · Fur trade · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Polity · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
The Social Life of Things
Case studies in environmental archaeology
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Personal Adornment and Expressions of Status
Presentation is Everything
The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity
A History of the Gambia
The Life of Trade
Mandingo Kingdoms of the Senegambia
Gendered Taskscapes
The Krio in the Gambia and the Concept of Inculturation
Cooking Pots as Indicators of Cultural Change
The World and a Very Small Place in Africa
Exporting Culture
Ceramic Production and Dietary Changes at Juffure, Gambia
Evidence for a Luso-African Identity in “Portuguese” Accounts on “Guinea of Cape Verde” (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology
A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994
Sources of the Nineteenth Century Atlantic Slave Trade
Social and Economic Factors in the Muslim Revolution in Senegambia
Ceramic Ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru
Culinary Crafts and Foods in Southwestern Ethiopia
Socio-economic interaction and ceramic aesthetic
Till these Experiments be Made
Historical Dictionary of the Gambia
Guests of the Crown
An Account of Sierra Leone and the Rivers of Guinea of Cape Verde (1625)
Historic Preservation and Development in Banjul, The Gambia
Historical Dictionary of the Gambia
Daily Practice and Material Culture in Pluralistic Social Settings
Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small-Scale Societies
Integrating African cuisines
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |