José da Silva Horta

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African History, History of the Portuguese Empire, Atlantic history, African Religion in Africa and the Diaspora, African Religions, History of West Africa, and 4 moreJewish - Christian Relations, Relationships between Christians and Muslims, Catholic Missionary History, and Material Art and Culture of West African Secret Societies, with special interest in Poro groups and their ethnotoxicologyedit
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This essay discusses the historiography of relations between Africans and Europeans, and among Africans on Senegambia/Upper Guinea Coast and in the Cape Verde Islands in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. While social domination was connected with slave or free status, “racism” and a “racial” approach do not accurately explain it. Prevailing scholarly interpretations of “racism” in Early Modern Europe are contested as prone to an ahistorical and teleological approach. An alternative to the idea of an underlying “racism”, or “racisms”, as a constant across historical periods and common to many diverse cultures would be a focused and historically contextualized study of the manner in which societies categorized people and then either did or did not ascribe characteristics to members of the resultant groups.

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Este ensaio discute a historiografia das relações entre africanos e europeus, e entre os africanos na Senegâmbia/Upper Guinea Coast e nas ilhas de Cabo Verde no final do século XVI e início do século XVII. Para o contexto estudado, se se confirma que a dominação social estava conectada com os estatutos de escravo ou livre, argumenta-se que o racismo e a abordagem racial não a explicam com rigor. As interpretações académicas predominantes do “racismo” na Europa Moderna são contestadas como propensas a uma abordagem a-histórica e teleológica. Defende-se que uma alternativa metodológica à ideia de um “racismo” subjacente, ou “racismos”, como uma constante em todos os períodos históricos e comum a muitas culturas diversas seria um estudo focalizado e historicamente contextualizado da maneira pela qual as sociedades categorizavam as pessoas e, conhecida a mesma, ver que características atribuíam ou não aos membros dos grupos resultantes dessa classificação.

Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2_3

Publication Date: 2018

Publication Name: Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Schorsch (eds.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 57-84

Research Interests:
Race and Racism, African History, History of West Africa, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, Racial Identity, and 10 moreHistory of the Portuguese Empire, Cape Verde, Pre-colonial and colonial African history, Precolonial African History, Cabo Verde, História de Cabo Verde, West African History, Sephardic Jews, História da Senegâmbia, séculos XVI-XVIII, and Upper Guinea Coast and Cape Verde Islands History

Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99196-2_3

Publication Date: 2018

Publication Name: Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Schorsch (eds.), The Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 57-84

Publication Date: 2013

Publication Name: As Lições de Jill Dias. Antropologia, História, África e Academia/ The Jill Dias Lessons. Anthropology, History, Africa, Academia, coord. de Maria Cardeira da Silva e Clara Saraiva, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2013, pp. 37-53

Research Interests: History of West Africa, Mauritania, and Western Sahara<div>()</div>

Publication Date: 2013

Publication Name: O Colonialismo Português e os PALOP –Novos Rumos da Historiografia dos PALOP, coordenação do Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto e do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, V. N. de Famalicão, Ed. Humus

Research Interests: Jewish Studies, History of West Africa, Jewish History, Guinea-Bissau, and Atlantic history<div>()</div>

Publication Name: in Guy Saupin (ed.), Africains et Européens dans le monde atlantique, XVe-XIXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014, pp. 59-72

Research Interests: History of West Africa<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, Guinea-Bissau, History of the Portuguese Empire, Lusophone Africa, and History of the Portuguese Expansion<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, History of the Portuguese Empire, and History of the Portuguese Expansion<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of the Portuguese Empire, Ivory Carving, Cultural History of the Portuguese and European Expansion, Luso-Oriental Ivory Sculture, and Luso-African ivories<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Luso-African Studies, Islamic History, and History of Islam in West AFrica<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, Wolof, Oral Traditions, Senegal, Cabo Verde, and História de Cabo Verde<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, West African History, Western Africa, Sephardic Jews, and History of slavery in Africa<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Luso-African Studies, Ivory Carving, and African Ivory Carving<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Ethnic Identity, Representation of Others, História da Senegâmbia, séculos XVI-XVIII, and Upper Guinea Coast<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa and West African History<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa<div>()</div>

Research Interests: West African History<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Luso-African Studies, West African History, and Representations of space and place<div>()</div>

Research Interests: African History, Luso-African Studies, West African History, Identidades, and Lusophone Africa<div>()</div>

Research Interests: African History, History of West Africa, Guinea Bissau/Cape Verde, and Cape Verdean Literature<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of Christianity, History of West Africa, and History of Missions<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, African Religions, Representation of Others, West African History, and History of Islam in West AFrica<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Angolan History, Portuguese Inquisition, History of the Inquisition, and History of Central Africa<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Travel Writing, Luso-African Studies, Representation of Others, and European African Relations<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Travel Writing, History of West Africa, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, Representation of Others, and European African Relations<div>()</div>

Research Interests: Representation of Others<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of West Africa, World History, Jewish History, History of the Portuguese Empire, Atlantic history, and Western Sephardic Diaspora<div>()</div>

Research Interests: History of Medicine, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, and Arabic and Islamic Studies<div>()</div>

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Research Interests:
History of West Africa, Mauritania, and Western Sahara

Research Interests:
Jewish Studies, History of West Africa, Jewish History, Guinea-Bissau, and Atlantic history

Research Interests:
History of West Africa

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, Guinea-Bissau, History of the Portuguese Empire, Lusophone Africa, and History of the Portuguese Expansion

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, History of the Portuguese Empire, and History of the Portuguese Expansion

Research Interests:
History of the Portuguese Empire, Ivory Carving, Cultural History of the Portuguese and European Expansion, Luso-Oriental Ivory Sculture, and Luso-African ivories

Research Interests:
Luso-African Studies, Islamic History, and History of Islam in West AFrica

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, Wolof, Oral Traditions, Senegal, Cabo Verde, and História de Cabo Verde

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, Luso-African Studies, West African History, Western Africa, Sephardic Jews, and History of slavery in Africa

Research Interests:
Luso-African Studies, Ivory Carving, and African Ivory Carving

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Ethnic Identity, Representation of Others, História da Senegâmbia, séculos XVI-XVIII, and Upper Guinea Coast

Research Interests:
History of West Africa and West African History

Research Interests:
History of West Africa

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West African History

Research Interests:
Luso-African Studies, West African History, and Representations of space and place

Research Interests:
African History, Luso-African Studies, West African History, Identidades, and Lusophone Africa

Research Interests:
African History, History of West Africa, Guinea Bissau/Cape Verde, and Cape Verdean Literature

Research Interests:
History of Christianity, History of West Africa, and History of Missions

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, African Religions, Representation of Others, West African History, and History of Islam in West AFrica

Research Interests:
Angolan History, Portuguese Inquisition, History of the Inquisition, and History of Central Africa

Research Interests:
Travel Writing, Luso-African Studies, Representation of Others, and European African Relations

Research Interests:
Travel Writing, History of West Africa, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, Representation of Others, and European African Relations

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Representation of Others

Research Interests:
History of West Africa, World History, Jewish History, History of the Portuguese Empire, Atlantic history, and Western Sephardic Diaspora

Research Interests:
History of Medicine, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, and Arabic and Islamic Studies