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A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Roy Richard Grinker (Edited by), Stephen C. Lubkemann (Edited by), Christopher B. Steiner (Edited by), Euclides Gonçalves (Edited by)
9781119251484, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 January 2019
488 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.885 kg
Anyone who teaches the Anthropology of Africa, or indeed Anthropology in general, will want to add this volume to their library without replacing either of those earlier ones. Qualitatively speaking, it is a valuable addition. ... This volume offers a compelling Companion to topics in Africanist Anthropology, past and present – and a well-founded argument for the continued value of the discipline. Amidst all the heated debate about the present and future of anthropology, about who should do it and how it should be done, ... the Companion proves that there is still a great deal to be said for what critical ethnography, securely situated in its historical context and adequately theorized, can and should do. John Comaroff, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University
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.
Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I Enduring Themes 13 1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa 15 2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa 33 3 Witchcraft in Africa 63 4 Law, Dispute Resolution, and Justice 81 5 Illness and Healing: Africanist Anthropology 97 6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies 119 Part II Critical and Decolonizing Themes 145 7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa 147 8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War 173 9 The Anthropology of Forced Migration in Africa 199 10 Sex and Sexuality in Africa 229 Part III Post‐colonial and Emerging Themes 249 11 Social Trauma and Recovery: Emergent Themes 251 12 Questioning Humanitarian Exceptions 271 13 Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice 289 14 Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa 307 15 Africa Has Moved!: New African Diasporas and the Anthropology of Transnationalizing Africa 323 16 Anthropological Approaches to Media in Africa 351 17 Environmental Anthropology in Africa: From Cattle Complex to Environmentality 375 Part IV Reflexivity 397 18 Anthropology and Africanist Political Science 399 19 African Anthropological Practice in the “Era of Aid”: Towards a Critique of Disciplinary Canons 415 20 African Participation in, and Perspectives on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology 439 Index 459
Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Gonçalves
Jane I. Guyer
Pauline E. Peters
James H. Smith
Jessica Johnson
Rebecca L. Upton
Joseph Hellweg and Jesse C. Miller
George Paul Meiu
Danny Hoffman
Stephen C. Lubkemann
Suzanne Leclerc‐Madlala
Victor Igreja and Erin Baines
Louisa Lombard
Carolyn Rouse
Kristen E. Cheney
Dianna Shandy and Stephen C. Lubkemann
Katrien Pype and Alessandro Jedlowski
Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro and Roy Richard Grinker
Eric Kramon
Euclides Gonçalves
Mwenda Ntarangwi
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
