{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-anthropology-of-africa-hardback-9781119251484","title":"A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (Hardback) 9781119251484","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to the Anthropology of Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoy Richard Grinker (Edited by), Stephen C. Lubkemann (Edited by), Christopher B. Steiner (Edited by), Euclides Gonçalves (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119251484, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.885 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAnyone 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 \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ea valuable addition. ... This volume offers a compelling \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003eto 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 \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Comaroff, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Anthropology of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Anthropology of Africa \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Gonçalves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Enduring Themes 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane I. Guyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePauline E. Peters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Witchcraft in Africa 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames H. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Law, Dispute Resolution, and Justice 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Illness and Healing: Africanist Anthropology 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca L. Upton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Hellweg and Jesse C. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Critical and Decolonizing Themes 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa 147\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Paul Meiu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanny Hoffman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Anthropology of Forced Migration in Africa 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen C. Lubkemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Sex and Sexuality in Africa 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Leclerc\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e‐\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadlala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e‐\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecolonial and Emerging Themes 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Social Trauma and Recovery: Emergent Themes 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictor Igreja and Erin Baines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Questioning Humanitarian Exceptions 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouisa Lombard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice 289\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Rouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristen E. Cheney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Africa Has Moved!: New African Diasporas and the Anthropology of Transnationalizing Africa 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDianna Shandy and Stephen C. 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