The idea of Africa

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Title:

The idea of Africa

Author:

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-

ISBN:

9780253208729

9780852552346

9780253338983

Personal Author:

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : J. Currey, c1994.

Physical Description:

xvii, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

African systems of thought

Series Title:

African systems of thought

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

I. Symbols and the Interpretation of the African Past -- II. Which Idea of Africa? -- III. The Power of the Greek Paradigm -- IV. Domestication and the Conflict of Memories -- V. Reprendre.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, African.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Civilization -- Philosophy.

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". . . this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." ?International Journal of African Historical Studies

"To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." ?American Anthropologist

"Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." ?Ivan Karp

A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.

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