African anthropologies : history, critique, and practice

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Title:

African anthropologies : history, critique, and practice

Author:

Ntarangwi, Mwenda.

ISBN:

9781842777626

9781842777633

9782869781689

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; Dakar, Senegal : [Published] in association with CODESRIA ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Africa in the new millennium

Series Title:

Africa in the new millennium

Contents:

Research and teaching in Ethiopian anthropology : an overview of traditions, trends and recent developments / How not to be a 'government house pet' : Audrey Richards and the East African Institute for Social Research / Teaching of anthropology in Zimbabwe over the past forty years : continuities and discontinuities / Practice of anthropology in Francophone Africa : the case of Cameroon / Forgetting Africa / But we know it all! : African perspectives on anthropological knowledge / African pastoralism through anthropological eyes : whose crisis? / Invisible religion? : anthropology's avoidance of Islam in Arica / Anthropology in post-colonial Africa : the Nigerian case / Reflections on the challenges of teaching anthropology to American students in post-colonial Kenya / Practising anthropology at home : challenges and ethical dilemmas

Subject Term:

Anthropology -- Research -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Anthropology -- Study and teaching -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Added Author:

Ntarangwi, Mwenda.

Mills, David, 1969-

Babiker, Mustafa H. M.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006040475-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006040475-d.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006040475-t.html

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Summary

This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent's anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American disciplinary hegemony, and developing distinctively African contributions to anthropological theory and practice. The contributors illustrate the diverse national traditions of anthropological practice that have developed in sub-Saharan Africa since decolonisation and exemplify the diversity of professional work carried out by the discipline's practitioners. Their commitment to a common disciplinary identity demonstrates the place that exists for a critical anthropology that is reflective about both its potentials and limitations.