Travelling Hierarchies: Roads in and out of slave status in a Central Malian Fulbe network

Abstract

Based on rich and wide-ranging data, the thesis describes the sensitive issue of the contemporary emancipation trajectories of agro-pastoralist Fulbe in Central Mali. It explores how people are currently dealing with hierarchies they inherited from past master-slave relations and focuses on the relational dynamics between members of a network of migrants. The importance of mobility to identity is explored by analyzing the tensions that exist among migrants to reproduce or change hierarchical relations in post-slavery societies.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherAfrica Studies Centre, Leiden
Volume34
ISBN (Print)978-90-5448-105-81876-018X
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Mali
  • Fulani
  • Africa
  • West Africa
  • Douentza
  • Nomads
  • Slavery
  • Memory
  • Hierarchy
  • Anthropological analysis
  • Fieldwork
  • Mobility
  • Migration
  • rural-urban migration
  • Identity
  • Family
  • Family relations
  • Generations
  • genealogy
  • Legal pluralism
  • Status
  • Social Status
  • Social Mobility
  • Power relations

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