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The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora
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-, 2019.
Anastasia A. Banshchikova, Benyera E., Bondarenko D. M., Marina L. Butovskaya, D’Angelo L., Dronova D., Effiboley E. P., Githuku N., Oxana V. Ivanchenko, Khalitova A., Khristoforova O., Sergey V. Kostelyanets, Meledje J., Nkyabonaki J., Pennacini C., Schirripa P., Daria A. Zelenova
Editor-in-chief: Bondarenko D. M., Marina L. Butovskaya
Contributors to this volume discuss a variety of ways the African past (African history) influences the present-day of Africans on the continent and in diaspora: cultural (historical) memory as a factor of public (mass) consciousness; the impact of the historical past on contemporary political, social, and cultural processes in Africa and African diaspora.
This volume is an output of a research project implemented as part of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).
Chapters
Bondarenko D. M., Marina L. Butovskaya, , in: The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora.: M.: -, 2019. P. 5–19.
The aim of this volume is to study various manifestations of how the past influences the present in contemporary African societies and diaspora communities (called so irrespective of the generation of migrants to which the people that form these communities now belong). The contributors look at the role of the past in shaping modern Africa ...
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Bondarenko D. M., , in: The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora.: M.: -, 2019. P. 303–338.
The chapter by Dmitri Bondarenko, is on the role of historical memory in shaping the relations between African Americans – descendants of slaves forcibly brought from Africa to America centuries ago – and first-generation African immigrants in the USA. Basing on the first-hand evidence from the filed, the author argues that they do not form ...
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Banshchikova A., Ivanchenko O., , in: The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora.: M.: -, 2019. Ch. 2 P. 23–45.
The article highlights the results of field research conducted in Tanzania in August-September 2018, focused on historical memory about Arab slave trade in East Africa and Indian Ocean in the 19-th century and its influence on modern-day interethnic relations in the country. ...
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Zelenova D., , in: The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora.: M.: -, 2019. Ch. 1 P. 66–81.
In the following chapter, the author presents some of the findings of the research project conducted in South Africa from 2011–2013, which was aimed at rediscovering people’s memories of township struggles of the 1980s. The research analyzed life stories and memories of direct involvement in community structures and self-rule in townships. In this text, the author ...
Added: October 23, 2019
Research target:
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
History and Archeology
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Language:
English
Keywords: Африкаисторическая антропологияAfricahistorical anthropologyафриканская диаспораAfrican diaspora
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