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This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam and were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This arms trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. The study discovers previously unknown Jewish communities and by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.

Jews --- Sephardim --- Marranos --- Conversos --- Maranos --- New Christians (Marranos) --- Crypto-Jews --- Jewish Christians --- Jews, Sephardic --- Ladinos (Spanish Jews) --- Sefardic Jews --- Sephardi Jews --- Sephardic Jews --- Jews, Portuguese --- Jews, Spanish --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History --- Petite Coast (Senegal) --- Petit côte (Senegal) --- Petite côte (Senegal) --- Petite côte sénégalaise (Senegal) --- Ethnic relations. --- Conversos (Marranos) --- Anusim --- Converts --- Arts and Humanities

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O profícuo legado documental, bibliográfico e fotográfico de Jill Dias (1944-2008) foi doado pela família à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, que delegou no CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, a sua gestão. O CRIA empenhou-se na sua inventariação, catalogação e divulgação com o apoio da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, que subsidiou o projeto Jill Rosemary Dias: acervo documental, bibliográfico e fotográfico com vista à concretização desses objetivos. No âmbito desse projeto foram publicados os livros Cadernos de Jill Dias: Inventário de um Arquivo / The Jill Dias Notebooks: Archive Inventory (Lisboa, CRIA, 2011), que inventaria o seu fundo documental depositado no CRIA, e As Lições de Jill Dias: Antropologia, História, África, Academia / The Jill Dias Lessons: Anthropology, History, Africa, Academy (Lisboa, CRIA, 2013), que reúne os contributos de uma homenagem de colegas e estudantes com o mesmo título realizada na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2012), que também patrocinou as atividades e publicações.

Sociology & Anthropology --- colonialismo --- pós-colonialismo --- antropologia histórica --- história da África --- história da antropologia --- histoire de l'anthropologie --- histoire de l'Afrique --- anthropologie historique --- colonialisme --- postcolonialisme