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Routledge Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu - Routledge

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This groundbreaking scholarly work examines how families in the Bamako kafu (a state in contemporary Mali, West Africa) constructed and maintained claims to political power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author argues that the lack of precise historical documentation about the region's political structure allowed families to strategically employ myths, rituals, ancestral legends, and belief systems to legitimise their authority claims. These carefully crafted narratives proved so persuasive that European colonists, upon arrival in the region, accepted them as factual representations of power. The book offers valuable insights into pre-colonial West African political structures, the role of cultural narratives in shaping governance, and how families leveraged symbolic and spiritual authority to establish dominance during a transformative historical period.

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This Routledge publication provides scholarly analysis of family-based political authority in the Bamako kafu during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The book examines how myths, rituals, and ancestral legends were manipulated to support family claims to state power in pre-colonial Mali.

This work explores how European colonists accepted local representations of power based on family-constructed narratives and belief systems.

The text contributes to anthropological and sociological understanding of West African political history and cultural identity formation.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
13 June 2019
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26 July 2019

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