Research Catalog

Title

Colonialism, ethnicity and war in Angola / Vasco Martins.

Author

Martins, Vasco (Vasco Miguel)

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

x, 183 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Making a fresh contribution to our understanding of the history of Angola, this book explores the impact of social, political and economic change upon the largest ethnic group of the country, the Ovimbundu. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Angola, including oral testimonies and life stories, participant-observation, and archival materials, this book shifts the viewpoint from the colonial enterprise, international politics and ideological alignments to focus on African experiences and responses. The author analyses the transformations introduced by Christianity and colonialisation and how they contributed to politicised modern notions of ethnic identity, creating communal imaginaries that began manifesting during Angolan's anti-colonial war. He then explains how the weaving of this ethno-political landscape assisted UNITA's mobilisation of significant parts of the Ovimbundu during the civil-war, essentially deepening popular belief in the axiom Ovimbundu-UNITA, and how the latter created a national imaginary that echoed social anxieties and moral discourses. The book then explores the links between ethnicity, politics and war on the quality of post-war citizenship in Angola, particularly on people's integration in the citizenry or marginalisation from it. Articulating a reading of ethnicity that connects high politics and elite based explanations with how ordinary people feel and discuss ethnicity, politics and citizenship, this book will be of interest to scholars of African history and politics, as well as ethnicity and nationalism"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa.

Subject

• Since 1900
• Ovimbundu (African people) > Angola > Social conditions
• Ethnic relations
• Angola > Ethnic relations
• Angola > History > 20th century
• Angola > History > 2002-
• Angola

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Brief chronology -- Introduction -- Christianity, Ethnicity and Modernity -- Colonialism, Ethnicity and Modernity -- The Ovimbundu and the Liberation War -- Ovimbundu Political Ethnicity -- Ethnicity and Post-war Citizenship -- Conclusion.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-1455

ISBN

• 9780367860868
• 0367860864

LCCN

2020037066

OCLC

1198990586

Author

Martins, Vasco (Vasco Miguel), author.

Title

Colonialism, ethnicity and war in Angola / Vasco Martins.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa

Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY COIMBRA, PORTUGAL.

Chronological Term

Since 1900

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-1455