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City, countryside and Kru ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

L. B. Breitborde
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Cet article examine les origines et la viabilité durable de l'identité ethnique Kru au Libéria. Alors que les recherches antérieures ont souligné le role joué dans la création et le maintien d'une identité kru par l'expérience de ceux qui ont migré hors du territoire kru, cet article démontre que les individus et évènements à la fois en ville et en campagne furent intégrés dans un système de rapports sociaux par lequel emergea une identité ethnique kru. En outre, l'intégration de la ville avec la campagne reste une particularité propre à l'ethnie kru, comme en témoigne l'étude de deux aspects de la Société Kru Monrovienne: sa structure organisa-tionelle interne et son role de lien pour les rapports politiques entre le gouverne-ment national et le Kru rural.

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Africa , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 186 - 201
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Copyright © International African Institute 1991

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