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Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation / Edition 2
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- 1405190604
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405190602
- Pub. Date:
- 05/17/2010
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- Wiley
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Overview
- Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture
- Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods
- Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice
- Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781405190602 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 05/17/2010 |
Series: | Global Perspectives , #3 |
Edition description: | 2nd ed. |
Pages: | 720 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author
Christopher B. Steiner is the Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of the award-winning book African Art in Transit, and co-editor (with Ruth Phillips) of Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds.
Stephen Lubkemann is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is author of Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War and is associate editor for Anthropological Quarterly and a co-founder of GWU’s Diaspora Research Program.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xList of Maps xiv
List of Figures xv
List of Plates xvii
List of Tables xviii
Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1
Part I Representation and Discourse 19
Introduction 21
1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31Jean and John Comaroff
2 The Meaning of Our Work 44Cheikh Anta Diop
3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48Kwame Anthony Appiah
4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55V. Y. Mudimbe
Part II From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61
Introduction 63
5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71E. E. Evans-Pritchard
6 The Illusion of Tribe 83Aidan W. Southall
7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95Leroy Vail
Part III Economics as a Cultural System 109
Introduction 111
8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123Mary Douglas
9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151Sharon Hutchinson
Part IV Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167
Introduction 169
11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175Colin M. Turnbull
12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184Roy Richard Grinker
13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200Edwin N. Wilmsen
14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee
Part V Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237
Introduction 239
15 Conversations on Rain-making 245David Livingstone
16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249E. E. Evans-Pritchard
17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257Peter Winch
18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270Ralph A. Austen
Part VI Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283
Introduction 285
19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291Marcel Griaule
20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302Paulin J. Hountondji
21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314Igor Kopytoff
Part VII Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323
Introduction 325
22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo 335Simon Ottenberg
23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348Olu Oguibe
24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354Kelly M. Askew
25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372Bayo Holsey
Part VIII Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379
Introduction 381
26 The Economics of Polygamy 389Ester Boserup
27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399Judith Van Allen
28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
Part IX Europe in Africa: Colonization 423
Introduction 425
29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431Frederick D. Lugard
30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439Walter Rodney
31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450Terence Ranger
32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Part X Nations and Nationalism 471
Introduction 473
33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477Léopold Sédar Senghor
34 On National Culture 484Frantz Fanon
35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498Bruce J. Berman
36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514Christopher B. Steiner
Part XI Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521
Introduction 523
37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531Max Gluckman
38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543Paul Richards
39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555Christopher C. Taylor
40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569Stephen Lubkemann
Part XII Development, Governance, and Globalization 583
Introduction 585
41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595James Ferguson
42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609Peter Uvin
43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616Daniel Jordan Smith
44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629Jean-François Bayart
45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644Harry G. West
46 Nuer-American Passages 660Dianna Shandy
Index 671