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Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa /
Drawing on a range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | African dynamics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Maps; Photographs; Preface; 1 Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa: An introduction (Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart Gewald); 2 Manchester as the birth place of modern agency research: The Manchester School explained from the perspective of Evans-Pritchard's Book The Nuer (Wim van Binsbergen); 3 Dreams and agency during Angola's War of Independence (Inge Brinkman); 4 Chief Hosea Kutako: A Herero royal and Namibian nationalist's life against confinement 1870-1970 (Jan-Bart Gewald); 5 Agency in Kapsiki religion: A comparative approach (Wouter van Beek)
- 6 Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La transformation des relations domestiques dans les ménages des Congolais de la diaspora (Julie Ndaya)7 From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals (Thomas Widlok); 8 The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Otrude N. Moyo); 9 Images of Africa: Agency and nature conservation in South Africa (Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels); 10 Solitary births in Téra, Niger: A local quest for safety (Gertie Janssen)
- 11 Agency in and from the margins: Street children and youth in N'djaména, Chad (Mirjam de Bruijn)12 Negotiating the memory of Fulbe hierarchy among mobile elite women (Lotte Pelckmans); 13 The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (Rijk van Dijk); Epilogue Theorizing agency in and on Africa: The questions are key (Francis B. Nyamnjoh); List of Authors