Living at the margins: youth and modernity in the Bijagó Islands (Guinea-Bissau)

This is a study about a group of young men and about their ‘will to be modern’. On the one hand, I am concerned with their creative strategies for overcoming a subaltern condition, appropriating and using the narratives of ‘development’ and the institutions of ‘modernity’ to find their way among the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bordonaro, Lorenzo Ibrahim (author)
Format: doctoralThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/348
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/348