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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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of African history Jg. 59; H. 1; S. 147 - 149
1. Verfasser: KALUSA, WALIMA T.
Format: Book Review
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2018
Schlagworte:
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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Zusammenfassung: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.
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ISSN:0021-8537
1469-5138
DOI:10.1017/S0021853718000166