Title:
Perspectives on Africa : a reader in culture, history, and representation
Author:
Grinker, Roy Richard, 1961-
ISBN:
9781405190602
9781444335224
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Physical Description:
xvi, 689 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series:
Global perspectives
Global perspectives.
Contents:
Part I. Representation and Discourse -- Introduction -- 1. Africa Observed: Discoursed of the Imperial Imagination / John Comaroff -- 2. The Meaning of Our Work / Cheikh Anta Diop -- 3. Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- 4. Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness / V.Y. Mudimbe -- Part II. From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization -- Introduction -- 5. The Nuer: Time and Space / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 6. The Illusion of Tribe / Aidan W. Southhall -- 7. Ethnicity in Southern African History / Leroy Vail -- Part III. Economics as a Cultural System -- Introduction -- 8. Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong / Mary Douglas -- 9. Research on an African Mode of Production / Catherine Conquery-Vidrovitch -- 10. The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930-83 / Sharon Hutchinson -- Part IV. Hunter-Gatherers in Africa -- Introduction -- 11. The Lesson of the Pygmies / Colin M. Turnbull -- 12. Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire / Roy Richard Grinker -- 13. Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion / Edwin N. Wilmsen -- 14. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History / Richard B. Lee -- Part V. Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture -- Introduction -- 15. Conversations on Rain-making / David Livingstone -- 16. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- 17. Understanding a Primitive Society / Peter Winch -- 18. The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History / Ralph A. Austen -- Part VI. Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion -- Introduction -- 19. Conversations with Ogotemmeli / Marcel Griaule -- 20. African Philosophy, Myth and Reality / Paulin J. Hountondji -- 21. Ancestors as Elders in Africa / Igor Kopytoff -- Part VII. Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage -- Introduction -- 22. Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo / Simon Ottenberg -- 23. Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art / Olu Oguibe -- 24. As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa / Kelly M. Askew -- 25. In Place of Slavey: Fashioning Coastal Identity / Bayo Holsey -- Part VIII. Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society -- Introduction -- 26. The Economics of Polygamy / Ester Boserup -- 27. "Sitting on a Map": Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women / Judith Van Allen -- 28. Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic / Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala -- Part IX. Europe in Africa: Colonization -- Introduction -- 29. The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races / Frederick D. Lugard -- 30. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa / Walter Rodney -- 31. The Innovation of Tradition in Colonial Africa / Terence Ranger -- 32. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Part X. Nations and Nationalism -- Introduction -- 33. Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- 34. On National Culture / Frantz Fanon -- 35. Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau / Bruce J. Berman -- 36. The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Cote d'Ivoire / Christopher B. Steiner -- Part XI. Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement -- Introduction -- 37. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa / Max Gluckman -- 38. Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone / Paul Richards -- 39. Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 / Christopher C. Taylor -- 40. Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstructing Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans / Stephen Lubkemann -- Part XII. Development, Governance, and Globalization -- Introduction -- 41. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt / James Ferguson -- 42. Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda / Peter Uvin -- 43. Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 / Daniel Jordan Smith -- 44. The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly / Jean-Francois Bayart -- 45. "Govern Yourselves!" Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique / Harry G. West -- 46. Nuer-American Passages / Dianna Shandy.
Abstract:
""This welcome new edition of key texts written about Africa as well as from within builds on the past but speaks boldly to the current generation-with some striking contributions on contemporary issues Wendy James University of Oxford" "This carefully chosen and brilliantly edited collection is an extraordinary resource for anthropologists of Africa. Some of the most seminal work in one of the most foundational domains in the discipline take on new significance in the light of the new curtent scholarship represented in the volume and at the new conversations among them that Grinker, Lubkemann and Steiner have brought out. This volume is a treasure. Caroline H. Bledsoe, Northwestern University" "This impressive volume provides a critical genealogy of scholarship in Africa Weaving together historical and Contemporary pieces to provide insight is not only into the political economy and cultural dynamism of Africa's past but of its future too. Hennetta Moore, University of Cambridge and Centre for the Study of Global Government London School of Economics" ""This superb collection of influential contemporary and classic work in African studies will be indispensable to both students and instructions. Twelve thematic sections each masterfully named by the editors offer a deft blind of intellectual history theory and ethnography." Angelique haugenid Rutgers University" "The second edition of the popular reader Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture; History, and Representation offers forty six articles illustrating the dynamic process by which scholars have described and understood African history and culture over the past several decades. This new edition presents fourteen new selections as well as two entirely new parts. Violent Transformations Conflict and Displacement and Development Governance and Globalization revealing the historical trajectory, daily experience and vital influence of African people in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
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