European University Institute Library

African communities in Asia and the Mediterranean, identities between integration and conflict, edited by Ehud R. Toledano

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

African communities in Asia and the Mediterranean

bibliography

811250743

edited by Ehud R. Toledano

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

identities between integration and conflict

African diasporas in Asia and the Mediterranean : a methodological introduction -- "African diaspora" and "creolity" : confronting the two concepts and their references -- Female bondage and agency in the Indian Ocean world -- Diversity of experience and legacies of African slavery in the western Indian Ocean -- African cavalry guards : a place for the construction of memory, identity and ethnicity -- Jews in Siddi Janjira -- "Black face, white heart; long live the king" : the ambiguous identity of the African soldiers in the Dutch East Indies army -- Unauthorised voyagers across two oceans : Africans, Indians and Aborigines in Australia -- The stambali of Tunis : its origins and transculturation from a secret-possession cult to ethno-religious and national culture in Ḥusaynid Tunisia -- Coping with trauma in a new world : cultural response of enslaved Africans in the Ottoman Empire -- Liberated bodies and saved souls : freed African slave girls and missionaries in Egypt -- The pupil of the eye : abolitionism, racial unity, and the iconography of enslaved Africans in Baha'i tradition -- "The Jewish rabbis have stopped protecting us, and the bad witches from home enter" : African migrant workers in Israel trapped between the extended family, money and witchcraft -- Construction of identity and integration of Turks of African descent