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Oldendorp’s “Amina”

Published:2023-10-26 Issue:2-3 Volume:8 Page:303-330
ISSN:2405-8351
Container-title:Journal of Global Slavery
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Author:

Kelley Sean M.¹^ORCID,Lovejoy Paul E.²

Affiliation:

1. University of Essex Essex UK

2. York University Toronto Canada

Abstract

Abstract This article seeks both to model an approach to African and diasporic ethnonyms and to contribute to a long-running debate on the significance of “Mina”/ “Amina,” an ethnonym that was widespread throughout the Americas. In a narrow sense, it argues that the term “Amina,” as used in one key source, C.G.A. Oldendorp’s history of the Moravian missions in the Danish Caribbean, signified the Asante state, specifically, and not the broader pan-Akan identity implied in some sources, nor the narrower “Aquambo” identity that emerges from others. More broadly, it proposes that the proper historical contextualization of ethnonyms is essential to understanding the process of identity formation in the Diaspora.

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science,History

Link

https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/jgs/8/2-3/article-p303_7.xml

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