GUNS, POLITICS, AND CULTURE IN CENTRAL AFRICA

Using case studies, these sections tease out how exotic muzzleloaders interacted with nineteenth-century Central African sociocultural structures and politics.Through enlisting in colonial armed forces, the Ngoni, like the Yeke, found an opportunity to recreate their time-tested military traditions...

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Vydáno v:	Journal of African history Ročník 59; číslo 1; s. 147 - 149
Hlavní autor:	KALUSA, WALIMA T.
Médium:	Book Review
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2018
Témata:	19th century 20th century African culture Armed forces Case studies Colonialism Consumption Determinism Firearms Macola, Giacomo Masculinity Politics Power Reviews of Books Sociocultural factors Traditions Central Africa politics technology Central Africa precolonial
ISSN:	0021-8537, 1469-5138
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Shrnutí:	Using case studies, these sections tease out how exotic muzzleloaders interacted with nineteenth-century Central African sociocultural structures and politics.Through enlisting in colonial armed forces, the Ngoni, like the Yeke, found an opportunity to recreate their time-tested military traditions and ideas about honour.In rejecting technological determinism, Macola shows that the subjects of empire acted upon imported guns to undermine long-established kingdoms, to forge new polities, and to refashion their customsￂ -ￂ often in ways that gun manufacturers in Europe neither fathomed nor controlled.
Bibliografie:	content type line 1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Review-1
ISSN:	0021-8537 1469-5138
DOI:	10.1017/S0021853718000166