Wealth, land and property in Angola : a history of dispossession, slavery, and inequality /
Candido, Mariana P. 1975-
Wealth, land and property in Angola : a history of dispossession, slavery, and inequality / Mariana P. Candido, Emory University. - pages cm. - African studies series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history"--
9781316511503 9781009055987 9781009055987
2022025822
Wealth--History.--Angola
Land tenure--History.--Angola
Property--History.--Angola
HISTORY / Africa / General
Angola--Economic conditions.
Angola--Social conditions.
Fellow Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History Class of Fall 2023
HC950 / .C36 2022
330.967/303
Wealth, land and property in Angola : a history of dispossession, slavery, and inequality / Mariana P. Candido, Emory University. - pages cm. - African studies series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history"--
9781316511503 9781009055987 9781009055987
2022025822
Wealth--History.--Angola
Land tenure--History.--Angola
Property--History.--Angola
HISTORY / Africa / General
Angola--Economic conditions.
Angola--Social conditions.
Fellow Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow in History Class of Fall 2023
HC950 / .C36 2022
330.967/303