Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa - Southern Gabon, c. 1850-1940

A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries.

List of contents

Developing a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equitorial Africa
Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s
"The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality
The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality
Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940
The Impositin of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940
Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers

About the author

Christopher J. Gray

Summary

A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher J. Gray
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2002
• EAN: 9781580460484
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-048-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 656 g
• Illustrations: 18 line illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology