“Creolization” has often been terminologically equated with “hybridization,”“syncretization,”
and other terms referring to processes of mixture. Normative assumptions concerning …

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies,
this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its …

For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global
interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging …

This working paper analyses the social dynamics and meanings of national, ethnic, and
creole identities in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies where national identities are …

Sierra Leone's history supplies the basis for understanding the geographical, psychological,
emotional and political macro-and micro-fields on which the current significance of …

This paper studies emerging power configurations in Upper Guinea Coast societies which
result from contemporary interactions of global and local models of governance. With …

The study of creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity is important
not because the latter are the only contexts in which creolization and pidginization may …

This chapter is an invitation to rethink ethnicity through the case study of a creole identity. 1
After having been long divided between essentialist and instrumentalist approaches …

Neste estudo, descrevo as propriedades sintáticas de aí e de lá como marcadores de
especificidades (SpMs) na frase nominal (DP) do Português Brasileiro (PB) a partir dos …

The editors, Højbjerg, Knörr, and Murphy, summarize and reevaluate key explanatory
themes in the broad research program on Upper Guinea Coast ethnography and history in …