Verfasst von:	Araujo, Ana Lucia [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The gift
Titelzusatz:	how objects of prestige shaped the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism
Verf.angabe:	Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University, Washington, DC)
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	xix, 224 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
ISBN:	978-1-108-83929-7
Abstract:	"The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture"
	The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century's Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa
URL:	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313130383833393239377C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1
Schlagwörter:	(g)Westafrika    / (g)Zentralafrika <West>    / (g)Frankreich    / (s)Sklavenhandel    / (s)Handel    / (s)Gastgeschenk    / (s)Beziehung
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Araujo, Ana Lucia, 1971 - : The gift. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024. - Online-Ressource (xix, 224 Seiten)
Sach-SW:	Afrikanische Geschichte
	General & world history
	HISTORY / General
	Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
	Materielle Kultur
	Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei
	Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
Geograph. SW:	Afrika
	Europa
Zeit-SW:	19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
	zweite Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert (1750 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
K10plus-PPN:	1858927943