African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. Africa...
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| description | The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1648662025-08-09T05:09:00Z African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present Morelli, Ettore Africa Boko Haram Borderities Borderland Boundary Cameroon Colonialism Cowrie European empires Freedom Frontier Ghana Lake Chad Limen Niger River Nigeria Orange River Rivers Scramble Senegambia South Africa Southern Africa West Africa The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d’Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo. 2025-08-09T05:09:00Z 2025-08-09T05:09:00Z 2025-08-08T14:27:39Z 2025 book ONIX_20250808T162309_9789004726970_19 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105276 9789004726970 9789004726963 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/164866 eng Studies in Global Social History / Studies in the Social History of the Global South open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105276/1/9789004726970_webready_content_text.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004726970 10.1163/9789004726970 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 4bb461ae-a887-4564-b3a7-29e6d7e08318 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9789004726970 9789004726963 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung ror.org/00yjd3n13 open access |
| spellingShingle | Africa Boko Haram Borderities Borderland Boundary Cameroon Colonialism Cowrie European empires Freedom Frontier Ghana Lake Chad Limen Niger River Nigeria Orange River Rivers Scramble Senegambia South Africa Southern Africa West Africa African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title | African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title_full | African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title_fullStr | African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title_full_unstemmed | African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title_short | African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present |
| title_sort | african thresholds borders and places of passage in africa c 1450 to present |
| topic | Africa Boko Haram Borderities Borderland Boundary Cameroon Colonialism Cowrie European empires Freedom Frontier Ghana Lake Chad Limen Niger River Nigeria Orange River Rivers Scramble Senegambia South Africa Southern Africa West Africa |
| topic_facet | Africa Boko Haram Borderities Borderland Boundary Cameroon Colonialism Cowrie European empires Freedom Frontier Ghana Lake Chad Limen Niger River Nigeria Orange River Rivers Scramble Senegambia South Africa Southern Africa West Africa |
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