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 14 new selections as well as two entirely new sections,…mehr
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 14 new selections as well as two entirely new sections, "Conflict and Violent Transformations" and "Development, Governance, and Globalization," in which the authors reveal processes that have had a vital influence on the historical trajectory and the daily experience of African people in the modern world. Selections include distinguished anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and Africanists. Collectively they show the multiplicity of voices in African studies, and reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. 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 Quarterly. He is author of four other books, including In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa, and Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. 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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Acknowledgments x List 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 31 Jean and John Comaroff 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44 Cheikh Anta Diop 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48 Kwame Anthony Appiah 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55 V. Y. Mudimbe Part II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83 Aidan W. Southall 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95 Leroy Vail Part III: Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123 Mary Douglas 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930-83 151 Sharon Hutchinson Part IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175 Colin M. Turnbull 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184 Roy Richard Grinker 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200 Edwin N. Wilmsen 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219 Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee Part V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245 David Livingstone 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257 Peter Winch 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270 Ralph A. Austen Part VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291 Marcel Griaule 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302 Paulin J. Hountondji 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314 Igor Kopytoff Part VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335 Simon Ottenberg 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348 Olu Oguibe 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354 Kelly M. Askew 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372 Bayo Holsey Part VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389 Ester Boserup 27 "Sitting on a Man": Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399 Judith Van Allen 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411 Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala Part IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431 Frederick D. Lugard 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439 Walter Rodney 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450 Terence Ranger 32 Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary 462 Ngugi wa Thiong'o Part X: Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477 Léopold Sédar Senghor 34 On National Culture 484 Frantz Fanon 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498 Bruce J. Berman 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d'Ivoire 514 Christopher B. Steiner Part XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531 Max Gluckman 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543 Paul Richards 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555 Christopher C. Taylor 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569 Stephen Lubkemann Part XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595 James Ferguson 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609 Peter Uvin 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616 Daniel Jordan Smith 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629 Jean-François Bayart 45 "Govern Yourselves!" Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644 Harry G. West 46 Nuer-American Passages 660 Dianna Shandy Index 671
Acknowledgments x List 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 31 Jean and John Comaroff 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44 Cheikh Anta Diop 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48 Kwame Anthony Appiah 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55 V. Y. Mudimbe Part II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83 Aidan W. Southall 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95 Leroy Vail Part III: Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123 Mary Douglas 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930-83 151 Sharon Hutchinson Part IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175 Colin M. Turnbull 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184 Roy Richard Grinker 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200 Edwin N. Wilmsen 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219 Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee Part V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245 David Livingstone 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257 Peter Winch 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270 Ralph A. Austen Part VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291 Marcel Griaule 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302 Paulin J. Hountondji 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314 Igor Kopytoff Part VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335 Simon Ottenberg 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348 Olu Oguibe 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354 Kelly M. Askew 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372 Bayo Holsey Part VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389 Ester Boserup 27 "Sitting on a Man": Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399 Judith Van Allen 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411 Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala Part IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431 Frederick D. Lugard 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439 Walter Rodney 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450 Terence Ranger 32 Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary 462 Ngugi wa Thiong'o Part X: Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477 Léopold Sédar Senghor 34 On National Culture 484 Frantz Fanon 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498 Bruce J. Berman 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d'Ivoire 514 Christopher B. Steiner Part XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531 Max Gluckman 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543 Paul Richards 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555 Christopher C. Taylor 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569 Stephen Lubkemann Part XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595 James Ferguson 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609 Peter Uvin 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616 Daniel Jordan Smith 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629 Jean-François Bayart 45 "Govern Yourselves!" Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644 Harry G. West 46 Nuer-American Passages 660 Dianna Shandy Index 671
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