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Title Distant shores: A historiographic view on trans-Saharan space
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/28501; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/27866
Date 2015
Author(s) Lecocq, Baz
Abstract This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. - This article addresses how scholarship has formulated human connections and ruptures over the Sahara. However, these formulations were, and still are, based in both physical and discursive realities that have been developed in Africa itself. The idea of a dividing Sahara is based on historical political divisions'despite a homogenous political culture in the region'and by locally developed notions of race and religion, brought about by trade and justified in Islamic religious discourse. The Saharan divide acquired a new reading in colonial historiography, which, in turn, informed scholarly work until well into the 1960s. I will suggest that both colonial and postcolonial research on the differences and connections between the Saharan shores are suffering from a civilisational bias towards North Africa. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) 960 Geschichte Afrikas; ddc:960
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/28501-8; 1469-5138; 10.1017/S0021853714000711
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
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