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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 October 2009
      31 March 1978
      ISBN:
      9780511557620
      9780521040532
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557620
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.485kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Logic, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (20)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Logic, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (20)
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    Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.

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