Author : Philip J. Havik
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825877095
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)
Book Synopsis Silences and Soundbites by : Philip J. Havik
Download or read book Silences and Soundbites written by Philip J. Havik and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in the pre-colonial Guinea Bissau region, Silences and Soundbytes deals with the largely ignored roles women - and men - played as traders and brokers in Afro-Atlantic trade settlements emerged after first contact in the fifteenth century. Largely based upon unpublished archival material, the book traces the evolution of these riverine settlements and their populations until the military occupation by Portugal in the early twentieth century. It holds that the formation of settlement communities that operated the relay trade along the region's many rivers between the region's hinterland and the coast created opportunities for enterprising and well-connected women. "