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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Senegambia"”.
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The Myth of African Culture in Islam
… the self-perceptions of African Muslims in the Senegambia. My initial project is to construct a historical and cultural account regarding how Murids in the Senegambia distinguish themselves as a particular group of African Muslims in West Africa based on identity and religious practices. It is …
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African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms among Slaves in Virginia, 1740-1870
… from Angola and Congo, and the Mande from Senegambia-were marked by the prevalence of the extended family, the centrality of women, and flexible descent systems. I contend that these three cultural characteristics were transferred by slaves to Virginia. Runaway slave advertisements from the …
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Mbalax: Cosmopolitanism in Senegalese Urban Popular Music
… of Senegalese cosmopolitanism from precolonial Senegambia and the spread of Wolof hegemony, to colonial Dakar and the rise of a distinctive urban Senegalese identity that set the proximate conditions for the postcolonial cultural policy of Négritude and mbalax. Subsequent chapters focus on the …
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Forced Migration and Population Expansion: The Genetic Story of the Garifuna
… earliest ports in the Atlantic slave trade, from Senegambia to the Bight of Biafra; however, there is evidence of origins from other parts of Africa. The mtDNA diversity in Garifuna Amerind Y haplotypes on St. Vincent appear most closely related to groups in South America, where the first peoples …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… hinterland to farm in the coastal areas of the Senegambia region due to certain transaction cost advantages, constitute a dynamic population adjustment to West Africa's spatial, unequal spread of resources. It is argued in this study that the reason "strange farming" has continued to persist is …
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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698
The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a vassal to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and constrained at the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler …