People of the Zongo

The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5162152
AutoresEnid Schildkrout (Africa Center, autor correspondente), Daniel F Mccall, Sandra T Barnes (autor correspondente)
Ano1979
Volume5
Páginas106
Data de publicação1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoREVIEW
PeriódicoASA Review of Books (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0364-1686 • E-ISSN: 2326-3075
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/532423
OpenAlexW2052141127
Open LibraryOL34441650M
ISBN9780511557620
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas125

Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context

Biology · Citizenship · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Identity (music) · Immigration · Kinship · Meaning (existential) · National identity · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Burkina Faso · emigration and immigration · Foreign population · Ghana · Immigrants · Kumasi · Mossi (African people)