The influence of modernity and modern warfare on the Koh Mende Society of Sierra Leone [Elektronische Ressource] / John M. Combey. [Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster]

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• Publié par: westfalische_wilhelms-universitat_munster
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 32
• Langue: Deutsch
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Ethnologie


The Influence of Modernity and Modern Warfare on
the Koh Mende Society of Sierra Leone


Inaugural-Dissertation
zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades
der
Philosophischen Fakultät
der
Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität
zu
Münster (Westf.)
vorgelegt von
John M. Combey
aus Kabala
2009





Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 28 Januar, 2010
Dekan: Prof. Dr. Christian Pietsch
Referent: Prof. Dr. Jos Platenkamp
Korreferent: Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger







John M. Combey

The Influence of Modernity and Modern Warfare
on the Koh Mende Society of Sierra Leone














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The Influence of Modernity and Modern Warfare
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John M. Combey
„The Influence of Modernity and Modern Warfare on the Koh Mende Society of Sierra Leone“
Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster, Reihe X, Band 2

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List of Figures iv
List of Tables iv
List of Maps iv
Acknowledgements v
Introduction 1
Background and choice of topic
The research question and its concepts
The state of social anthropological research
Research sites
Methodology
Chapter synopsis
Ngiema village
PART ONE: PRE-MODERN SOCIO-COSMIC ORDER 33
Chapter 1 Socio-cosmological Structure 33
Origins and settlements of the M ɛnde
Spatial structure
The ‘Maada Crocodiles’
Chapter 2 Social Relationships 57
Kinship and marriage
The great ancestors
Co-operative groups
Chapter 3 Economy and Political Leadership 77
The collective aspect to farming
Exchange processes and alliance
Collective ownership of land
Political leadership and authority
The cosmological foundation of leadership
ii

Chapter 4 Religion 90
The Highest Deity and the concept of hei
Ancestral sacrifices
Categories of Kɔɔ-M ɛnde spirits
Ancestral spirits as social spirits
Non-ancestral spirits
Chapter 5 Cosmology and Ritual Cycle 118
Cosmology
The concept of time
Ritual cycle
The Institution of Poro
Rice farming
PART TWO: PRE-COLONIAL INTER-CULTURAL INTERACTIONS AND THE
INTRODUCTION OF MODERNITY 162
Chapter 6 Pre-colonial Inter-cultural Interactions 163
Trade and Islam
Islamization among the K ɔɔ-M ɛnde
Pre-colonial trading contacts with Europeans
Chapter 7 Pre-modern Warfare and its Incipient
Transformations 203
Part one: pre-modern warfare
Part two: Warfare in the nineteenth-century
European observers and historians on K ɔɔ-Mɛnde Warfare
Chapter 8 Colonial Modernity 226
Politics and territory
Trade and monetization
Missionary activities
The conflict with the British
iii

Chapter 9 Post-colonial Modernity 265
The transformation of politics, power and authority
Independence and Post-Independence era
Chapter 10 Between Independence and Civil War 279
Changes in Political structure
Religious and ritual practices
Economic activities
Houses and marriage relations
Chapter 11 The Civil War and its Aftermath 289
Post-colonial warfare
Socio-cultural changes during the war
Socio-cultural changes after the war
Conclusion 329
Counter discourses of Poro and Sande hei
Sources 337
Public and official records and references
Bibliography