Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
by
Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.
Title
:
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
Author
:
Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.
ISBN
:
9789004131330
Publication Information
:
Boston : Brill, 2004.
Physical Description
:
p. cm.
Series
:
African dynamics, 3
Series Title
:
African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; 3
Contents
:
1. Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture / Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk and Jan-Bart Gewald -- 2. Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- 3. Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 4. Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? / Wim van Binsbergen -- 5. 'Man will live well': On the poetics of corruption in a global age / Sanya Osha -- 6. 'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain / Rijk van Dijk -- 7. Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal / Roy Dilley -- 8. How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women's value in an Islamic town of Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- 9. The social life of secrets / Ferdinand de Jong.
10. The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia / Thera Rasing.
Subject Term
:
Africa -- Civilization -- Congresses.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses.
Group identity -- Africa -- Congresses.
Mass media -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses.
Africa -- Religion -- Congresses.
Religion and sociology -- Africa -- Congresses.
Added Author
:
Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.
Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-