Integrating Strangers

Integrating StrangersDrawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio ethnic groups. Anas Mnard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions. She showcases the

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The last twenty years have seen dramatic changes in China as the country has moved from a centrally controlled communist state to a socialist market economy

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Johannes Becke argues that state expansion can be theorized according to four basic ideal types-a form of patronage (patronization)