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Introduction: Ethnic Formation with Other-Than-Human Beings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2018

David L. Schoenbrun  and
Jennifer L. Johnson
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Abstract:

Literature on ethnicity in Africa meets literature on multispecies ethnography to their mutual benefit. Multispecies ethnography considers people together with other-than-human beings, insisting the figure of the human is an interspecific one. We explore the ways in which multispecies ethnography needs history as part of a story about power and politics. But, the burden of the essay argues that historians of ethnicity need multispecies ethnographers’ embrace of a broader canvas of life, in motion at many scales. Historians of ethnicity need a greater awareness of change and continuity in the presence of other-than-human life forms, over time. Those same historians also might adopt the readiness of multispecies ethnographers to recognize other than the descent metaphor at the heart of thinking and making groups.

Résumé:

La littérature sur l’ethnicité en Afrique rencontre la littérature sur l’ethnographie multi-espèces pour leur avantage mutuel. L’ethnographie multi-espèces considère les personnes avec des êtres autres qu’humains, insistant sur le fait que la figure de l’humain est interspécifique. Nous explorons les façons dont l’ethnographie multi-espèces a besoin de l’histoire dans le cadre d’un récit sur le pouvoir et la politique. Mais, le point principal de cet article est que les historiens de l’ethnicité ont besoin que les ethnographes multi-espèces embrassent un cadre de vie plus large et dynamique à plusieurs échelles. Les historiens de l’ethnicité ont besoin d’une plus grande conscience temporelle du changement et de la continuité de leur sujet en conjonction avec d’autres formes de vie que l’humain. Ces mêmes historiens pourraient aussi adopter la disposition des ethnographes multi-espèces à reconnaître autre chose que la métaphore de la lignée au cœur de la pensée et de la constitution de groupes.

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Towards Multispecies History
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History in Africa , Volume 45 , June 2018 , pp. 307 - 345
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2018 

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