{"product_id":"perspectives-on-africa-9781444335224","title":"Perspectives on Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second edition of \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNewly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Plates xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Africa in Perspective 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Representation and Discourse 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Jean and John Comaroff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Meaning of Our Work 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Cheikh Anta Diop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Kwame Anthony Appiah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eV. Y. Mudimbe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e E. E. Evans-Pritchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Illusion of Tribe 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Aidan W. Southall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Leroy Vail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Economics as a Cultural System 109\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Mary Douglas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharon Hutchinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Colin M. Turnbull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Roy Richard Grinker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Edwin N. Wilmsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Conversations on Rain-making 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Livingstone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e E. E. Evans-Pritchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Peter Winch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Ralph A. Austen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Marcel Griaule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Paulin J. Hountondji\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Igor Kopytoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Ottenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Olu Oguibe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Kelly M. Askew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBayo Holsey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Economics of Polygamy 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Ester Boserup\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Judith Van Allen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV\/AIDS Epidemic 411\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrederick D. Lugard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Walter Rodney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Terence Ranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNgugi wa Thiong’o\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Nations and Nationalism 471\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLéopold Sédar Senghor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 On National Culture 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Frantz Fanon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Bruce J. Berman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Christopher B. Steiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 523\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMax Gluckman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Richards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher C. Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Lubkemann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 585\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e James Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Peter Uvin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Daniel Jordan Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Jean-François Bayart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarry G. West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Nuer-American Passages 660\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Dianna Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 671\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408388497751,"sku":"9781444335224","price":89.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444335224.jpg?v=1730502721","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-africa-9781444335224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}