Who Are You? Africa and Africans

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23705236
AutoresBrent D Shaw (autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Páginas527-540
Fecha de publicación2014-08-11
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoOTHER
RevistaA Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (JOURNAL)
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118834312.ch35
OpenAlexW1552685502
ISBN9781118834312
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas9

The idea of being an “African” as an identity that was shared by persons living in the Roman period Maghrib was one that emerged only slowly. How and why did this happen? The following investigation seeks to answer this question. It also considers the ancillary function of smaller regional ethnic names of the time, such as Nicibes and Sububures, and the relationship of these lesser identities to the occasional efflorescence of larger identities, including that of being an African. The appearance of other large group identities in the Roman and post-Roman Maghrib, such as Maurus (or Moor) and Berber, indicates other processes that must be analyzed separately. The place of modern hypothetical frames for understanding these problems, from Barth to Brubaker, is considered, but the utility of other, sometimes neglected, analytical approaches from Ibn Khaldûn to Russian ethnographers of the Soviet period is also suggested.

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music) · Period (music) · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis