Integrating Strangers Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

• Main Author: Ménard, Anaïs (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 2023
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Development studies; African Studies; Anthropology; Development Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Drawing 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. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlo...