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West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. According to historical archaeologist François Richard, however, the dominance of this narrative not only colors the range of political discourse about Africa but also occludes many lesser-known-but equally important-experiences of those living in the region. Reluctant Landscapes is an exploration of the making and remaking of political experience and physical landscapes among rural communities in the Siin province of Senegal between the late 1500s and the onset of World War II. By recovering the histories of farmers and commoners who made up African states' demographic core in this period, Richard shows their crucial-but often overlooked-role in the making of Siin history. The book also delves into the fraught relation between the Seereer, a minority ethnic and religious group, and the Senegalese nation-state, with Siin's perceived "primitive" conservatism standing at odds with the country's Islamic modernity. Through a deep engagement with oral, documentary, archaeological, and ethnographic archives, Richard's groundbreaking study revisits the four-hundred-year history of a rural community shunted to the margins of Senegal's national imagination.
Atlantic system. --- Senegal. --- West Africa. --- colonialism and post colonialism. --- historical anthropology/archaeology. --- historical epistemology. --- materiality. --- peasantry. --- politics. --- space and landscape. --- Sine-Saloum (Senegal) --- Sine-Saloum (Senegal) --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Atlantic system. --- Senegal. --- West Africa. --- colonialism and post colonialism. --- historical anthropology/archaeology. --- historical epistemology. --- materiality. --- peasantry. --- politics. --- space and landscape.
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Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change-a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism."
Land tenure - Senegal - Sine-Saloum - History. --- Land tenure-- Senegal-- Sine-Saloum-- History. --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Business & Economics --- Land tenure --- Serer (African people) --- Acculturation --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Serers --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- History. --- Government relations. --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Sine-Saloum (Senegal) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Siin (Senegal) --- Siin und Saalum (Senegal) --- Kaolack (Senegal : Region) --- Fatick (Senegal : Region) --- History --- Government relations --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- academic. --- agriculture. --- change. --- colonial rulers. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- ecology. --- economics. --- ecosystem. --- ecosystems. --- environmentalism. --- environmentalist. --- land cultivation. --- land tenure. --- land use. --- productive agriculture. --- regional. --- rural community. --- rural land. --- rural society. --- scholarly. --- senegal. --- social change. --- social justice. --- social studies. --- society. --- sustainability. --- transformation.
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