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Perspectives on Africa : a reader in culture, history, and representation / edited and introduced by Roy Richard Grinker and Christopher B. Steiner.

Contributor(s): Grinker, Roy Richard, 1961- | Steiner, Christopher Burghard, 1961-
Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.Description: xxxiii, 736p. : ill., diagrs., maps ; 25cm.ISBN: 1557866864
Contents:
I, From tribe to ethnicity: kinship and social organization. The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyer Fortes; The Nuer: time and space / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; The illusion of tribe / A.W. Southall; Ethnicity in southern African history / L. Vail; Of totemism and ethnicity / J.L. Comaroff; II, Economics as a cultural system. Lele economy compared with the Bushong / Mary Douglas; Some principles of exchange and investment among the Tiv / Paul Bohannan; Research on the African mode of production / C. Coquery-Vidrovitch; Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana / Keith Hart; Bitter money: forbidden exchange in East Africa / P. Shipton; The cattle of money and the cattle of girls among the Nuer / Sharon Hutchinson; III, Hunter-gatherer studies in Africa: the Mbuti, the !Kung San and current debates. The lessons of the Pygmies / C.M. Turnbull; Houses in the rainforest: gender and ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire / R.R. Grinker; Land filled with flies / E.N. Wilmsen; Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history / J.S. Solway, Richard B. Lee; IV, Witchcraft, science and rationality: the translation of culture. Conversations on rain-making / David Livingstone; The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; Understanding a primitive society / P. Winch; African traditional thought and western science / Robin Horton; Kinship, witchcraft and the market / P. Geschiere; V, Ancestors, gods and the philosophy of religion. Conversations with Ogotemmêli / M. Griaule; African philosophy, myth and reality / P.J. Hountondji; How man makes God in West Africa: Yoruba / Karin Barber; Ancestors as elders in Africa / I. Kopytoff; VI, Arts and aesthetics. Humorous masks and serious politics among Afikpo Ibo / S. Ottenberg; Principles of opposition and vitality in Fang aesthetics / James W. Fernandez; The cycle and stagnation of smells: pastoralists-fishermen relationships in an East African society / U. Almagor; In township tonight! South Africa's Black city music and theatre / David Coplan; VII, Sex and gender studies in Africa. The economics of polygamy / E. Boserup; Women and men, cloth and colonization: the Baule, Ivory Coast / Mona Etienne; "Sitting on a man": colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo women / Judith Van Allen; Body politics: sexuality, gender and domestic service in Zambia / K. Tranberg Hansen; VIII, Europe in Africa: colonization. The dual mandate in British Tropical Africa / F.D. Lugard; How Europe underdeveloped Africa / Walter Rodney; The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terence Ranger; Detained: a writer's prison diary / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; IX, Nations and nationalism. Negritude: a humanism of the 20th century / L.S. Senghor; On national culture / Frantz Fanon; Nationalism, ethnicity and modernity: the paradox of Mau Mau / B.J. Berman; The invisible face: masks, ethnicity and the state in Côte d'Ivoire / C.B. Steiner; X, Representation and discourse. Africa observed: discourses of the imperial imagination / Jean & John Comaroff; Ethnography of Africa / M. Owusu; The meaning of our work / C.A. Diop; Europe upside down: fallacies of the new Afrocentrism / Kwame A. Appiah.
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Bibliography: p.733-736.

I, From tribe to ethnicity: kinship and social organization. The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyer Fortes; The Nuer: time and space / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; The illusion of tribe / A.W. Southall; Ethnicity in southern African history / L. Vail; Of totemism and ethnicity / J.L. Comaroff; II, Economics as a cultural system. Lele economy compared with the Bushong / Mary Douglas; Some principles of exchange and investment among the Tiv / Paul Bohannan; Research on the African mode of production / C. Coquery-Vidrovitch; Informal income opportunities and urban employment in Ghana / Keith Hart; Bitter money: forbidden exchange in East Africa / P. Shipton; The cattle of money and the cattle of girls among the Nuer / Sharon Hutchinson; III, Hunter-gatherer studies in Africa: the Mbuti, the !Kung San and current debates. The lessons of the Pygmies / C.M. Turnbull; Houses in the rainforest: gender and ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire / R.R. Grinker; Land filled with flies / E.N. Wilmsen; Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history / J.S. Solway, Richard B. Lee; IV, Witchcraft, science and rationality: the translation of culture. Conversations on rain-making / David Livingstone; The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; Understanding a primitive society / P. Winch; African traditional thought and western science / Robin Horton; Kinship, witchcraft and the market / P. Geschiere; V, Ancestors, gods and the philosophy of religion. Conversations with Ogotemmêli / M. Griaule; African philosophy, myth and reality / P.J. Hountondji; How man makes God in West Africa: Yoruba / Karin Barber; Ancestors as elders in Africa / I. Kopytoff; VI, Arts and aesthetics. Humorous masks and serious politics among Afikpo Ibo / S. Ottenberg; Principles of opposition and vitality in Fang aesthetics / James W. Fernandez; The cycle and stagnation of smells: pastoralists-fishermen relationships in an East African society / U. Almagor; In township tonight! South Africa's Black city music and theatre / David Coplan; VII, Sex and gender studies in Africa. The economics of polygamy / E. Boserup; Women and men, cloth and colonization: the Baule, Ivory Coast / Mona Etienne; "Sitting on a man": colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo women / Judith Van Allen; Body politics: sexuality, gender and domestic service in Zambia / K. Tranberg Hansen; VIII, Europe in Africa: colonization. The dual mandate in British Tropical Africa / F.D. Lugard; How Europe underdeveloped Africa / Walter Rodney; The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terence Ranger; Detained: a writer's prison diary / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; IX, Nations and nationalism. Negritude: a humanism of the 20th century / L.S. Senghor; On national culture / Frantz Fanon; Nationalism, ethnicity and modernity: the paradox of Mau Mau / B.J. Berman; The invisible face: masks, ethnicity and the state in Côte d'Ivoire / C.B. Steiner; X, Representation and discourse. Africa observed: discourses of the imperial imagination / Jean & John Comaroff; Ethnography of Africa / M. Owusu; The meaning of our work / C.A. Diop; Europe upside down: fallacies of the new Afrocentrism / Kwame A. Appiah.

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