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Trade and Transformation: Participation in the Ivory Trade in Late 19th-Century East an... - 3 views

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  • several important works on the ivory trade assume that there was no demand for ivory within Africa. The trade was therefore entirely driven by demand outside the continent
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 25 Apr 23
       
      trade demand for ivory was more high in other continents than in Africa
  • Further, according to the literature, by the mid-19th century, the ivory trade was mostly in the hands of non-Africans, creating a progressive denial of agency to peoples in the interior, which culmi- nated in the radical disjuncture of European imperial control
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      ivory trade was controlled by people who were not Africans.
  • vory ornaments sometimes served as a mark of the expertise and prowess of these hunters, the best documented example of this being Kamba ivory armlets (ngotho). The value of these armlets grew as a result of the increasing scope and intensity of the ivory trade during the 19th century.
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 25 Apr 23
       
      the ivory ornaments showed the skills of hunters and their values increased during 19th century
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  • Ivory objects could also be used to create and mark kinship and crmnsforrnation: political ties.
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 25 Apr 23
       
      they could be used to from relationships or political ties
  • late 19th century, guns had been widely adopted as the elephant in Late hunter's tool of choice, though older methods were still used as we
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      by the late 19th century both guns and traditional meethods were used for hunturing
  • group of waungwana
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      people from diverse origins within East Africa
  • Manyema or Maniema
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      people from the southeast of Congo
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The East African Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century.pdf - 8 views

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  • THE East African ivory trade
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      East African ivory trade existed for a long time.
  • nd travellers, and they give it more prominence than the s
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      Ivory trade is more famous and given attention than slave trade
  • may have been the search for ivory which brought the first ships aroun
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      The search of ivory might have bought the first ships in Cape Guardafui.
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  • Marco Polo refers to the East African coast and states: 'they have elephants in plenty and drive a brisk trade in t
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      Marco Polo mentions that the East coast is rich in Elephants and they trade using tusks.
  • from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, ivory continued to be an important export; it receives more mention in Portuguese records than does the slave tr
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      ivory continued to be most valued export and received more mentions than slave trade.
  • East African ivory is soft ivory and is ideal fo
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      THAKGATSO MOTHOA on 17 Apr 23
       
      ivory was soft and perfect for creating objects such as sculptures.
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