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Perspectives on Africa
A Reader in Culture, History and Representation
Roy Richard Grinker (Edited by), RR Grinker (Author), Stephen C. Lubkemann (Edited by), Christopher B. Steiner (Edited by)
9781405190602, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 April 2010
720 pages
24.1 x 16.5 x 4.1 cm, 1.179 kg
REVIEWS OF FIRST EDITION: "Here is an excellent anthology that illustrates magnificently processes of Africa's invention, the complexity of her cultures, the paradoxes and predicament of discourses that claim to render her being." V. Y. Mudimbe Stanford University. "A volume for all students and teachers seriously interested in understanding the unity and diversity of African cultures, and engaging in a dialogue with African Studies literary ancestors and their creative and critical successors. Grinker and Steiner have offered a doorway for those who dare to embrace the masters of the field and join new academic worlds in the making." Sulayman S. Nyang, Professor, Howard University and Director of the African Voices Project, Smithsonian Institute. "Perspectives on Africa is a much needed addition to African studies and literature. They attempt, quite successfully, to place each article within, not only an historical time frame, but also within a theoretical progression. Its bibliographies contain a useful starting point and reference on all the major trends and subjects." Sean Pratt, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field.
Acknowledgments x List of Maps xiv List of Figures xv List of Plates xvii List of Tables xviii Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1 Part I Representation and Discourse 19 Introduction 21 1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31 2 The Meaning of Our Work 44 3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48 4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55 Part II From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61 Introduction 63 5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71 6 The Illusion of Tribe 83 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95 Part III Economics as a Cultural System 109 Introduction 111 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139 10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151 Part IV Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167 Introduction 169 11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175 12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184 13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200 14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219 Part V Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237 Introduction 239 15 Conversations on Rain-making 245 16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249 17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257 18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270 Part VI Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283 Introduction 285 19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291 20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314 Part VII Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323 Introduction 325 22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afikpo Igbo 335 23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348 24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354 25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372 Part VIII Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379 Introduction 381 26 The Economics of Polygamy 389 27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399 28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411 Part IX Europe in Africa: Colonization 423 Introduction 425 29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431 30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439 31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450 32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462 Part X Nations and Nationalism 471 Introduction 473 33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477 34 On National Culture 484 35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498 36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514 Part XI Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521 Introduction 523 37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531 38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543 39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555 40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569 Part XII Development, Governance, and Globalization 583 Introduction 585 41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595 42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609 43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616 44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629 45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644 46 Nuer-American Passages 660 Index 671
Jean and John Comaroff
Cheikh Anta Diop
Kwame Anthony Appiah
V. Y. Mudimbe
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Aidan W. Southall
Leroy Vail
Mary Douglas
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Sharon Hutchinson
Colin M. Turnbull
Roy Richard Grinker
Edwin N. Wilmsen
Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee
David Livingstone
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Peter Winch
Ralph A. Austen
Marcel Griaule
Paulin J. Hountondji
Igor Kopytoff
Simon Ottenberg
Olu Oguibe
Kelly M. Askew
Bayo Holsey
Ester Boserup
Judith Van Allen
Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
Frederick D. Lugard
Walter Rodney
Terence Ranger
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Frantz Fanon
Bruce J. Berman
Christopher B. Steiner
Max Gluckman
Paul Richards
Christopher C. Taylor
Stephen Lubkemann
James Ferguson
Peter Uvin
Daniel Jordan Smith
Jean-François Bayart
Harry G. West
Dianna Shandy
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
