Perspectives on Africa : A Reader in Culture, History and Representation
ISBN: 9781405190602 | 1405190604
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 5/17/2010
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The second edition of the popular reader Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation offers valuable new chapters showing the progress and continuity in the field of African studies. Forty five articles illustrate the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture over the past several decades, and show how profoundly the ethnography of Africa has influenced the direction and development of anthropological and social theory. This new edition offers 13 [OR 14... MORE
| Representation and Discourse | |
| 1991. ôAfrica Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination | |
| 1974. ôThe Meaning of Our Work," | |
| 1993. ôEurope Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism | |
| 1988. ôDiscourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness," | |
| From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization | |
| The Nuer: Time and Space | |
| The Illusion of Tribe | ... MORE |
| Ethnicity in Southern African History | |
| Economics as a Cultural System | |
| Economy Compared with the Bushong | |
| Research on an African Mode of Production | |
| The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, cf. Smith | |
| Hunter-Gatherers in Africa | |
| The Lesson of the Pygmies | |
| Houses in the Rainforest | |
| Filled with Flies | |
| Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? | |
| Witchcraft, Science and Rationality | |
| Conversations on Rain-making | |
| The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events | |
| Understanding a Primitive Society | |
| 1993. ôThe Moral Economy of Witchcraft." | |
| Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion | |
| Conversations with Ogotommeli | |
| African Philosophy, Myth and Reality | |
| ancestors as Elders in Africa, cf. Lubkemann, West | |
| Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage | |
| 1972. ôHumorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo," | |
| 1999. ôArt, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art," | |
| As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics and Social Change in Costal East Africa | |
| ôIn Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity." | |
| Sex and Gender Studies in Africa | |
| The Economics of Polygamy | |
| "Sitting on a Man" | |
| Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic | |
| Europe in Africa: Colonization | |
| The Dual Mandate | |
| How Europe Underdeveloped Africa | |
| The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa | |
| Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary | |
| Nations and Nationalism | |
| Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century | |
| On National Culture | |
| Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau | |
| The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Cote d'Ivoire | |
| Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement | |
| Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa | |
| "Fighting for the Rainforest" | |
| Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 | |
| Where to be an Ancestor | |
| Development, Governance and Globalization | |
| "Expectations of Modernity" | |
| Development Aid and Structural Violence: The case of Rwanda | |
| "Culture of Corruption" | |
| "The Politics of the Belly." | |
| " 'Govern Yourselves', Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique" | |
| "Nuer-American Passages" | |
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Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and international Affairs at George Washington University Director of the GW Institute for Ethnographic Research and Editor-in-chief of Anthropological Quartely. He is author of four other books including in the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, and Houses in the Rainforest and Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism.
Stephen C. 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 Diapora Research Program.
Christopher B. Steiner is the Lucy C. McDannel 22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, 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 C. 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 Diapora Research Program.
Christopher B. Steiner is the Lucy C. McDannel 22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology, 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.
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