PEOPLE OF THE ZONGO.: The Transformation Of Ethnic Identities In Ghana.

Cambridge Studies In Social Anthropology 20. Cambridge University Press 1st edition 1978.. Ownership inscription ffep else VG+ in lesser dustwrapper (spine faded and worn around head of spine, no loss or tears). contents unmarked. a nice copy.. Orange buckram boards. 303pp illustrated 8vo. Probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. Compares first and second generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. Explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural and urban born immigrants and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. Discusses the issues of migration, the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. Important not only as a local case study that gives a description of West African urban life but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.