Author: Christopher L. Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226528022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
Theories of Africans
Author: Christopher L. Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226528022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226528022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
Source Book for African Anthropology ...
Author: Wilfrid Dyson Hambly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Africanizing Anthropology
Author: Lyn Schumaker
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326731
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
DIVAn innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326731
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
DIVAn innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context./div
Source Book for African Anthropology ...
Author: Wilfrid Dyson Hambly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
Author: P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745093X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 085745093X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Author: Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119251486
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119251486
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
The Predicament of Blackness
Author: Jemima Pierre
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226923029
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226923029
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.
The Invention of the Maghreb
Author: Abdelmajid Hannoum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Examines how French colonial modernity invented the concept of the Maghreb, making it distinct from Africa and the Middle East.
Siaya
Author: David William Cohen
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966465542
Category : Land settlement patterns
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966465542
Category : Land settlement patterns
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Anthropology of Slavery
Author: Claude Meillassoux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226519120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This controversial examination of precolonial African slavery looks at the various social systems that made slavery on such a scale possible and argues that the institutions of slavery were far more complex and pervasive than previously suspected.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226519120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This controversial examination of precolonial African slavery looks at the various social systems that made slavery on such a scale possible and argues that the institutions of slavery were far more complex and pervasive than previously suspected.