TY - BOOK AU - Richard,François G. TI - Reluctant landscapes: historical anthropologies of political experience in Siin, Senegal T2 - Chicago scholarship onlin SN - 9780226252681 (ebook) : AV - DT549.9.S55 R53 2019 U1 - 966.3 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Sine-Saloum (Senegal) KW - Politics and government KW - History N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'Reluctant Landscapes' analyzes the political history of rural communities in the Siin province (Senegal) over the last 400 years. Much of Africa's global history has been told from the standpoint of states, but less is known about peasants, whose past has often been written as a tale of political rupture or cultural persistence. Drawing on archaeology, history, and anthropology, this text charts how Siin villagers variably accommodated, resisted, or evaded the incursions of indigenous states, the Atlantic economy, colonialism, and postcolonial government UR - https://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226252681.001.0001/upso-978022625240 ER -