Reclaiming the human sciences and humanities through African perspectives /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lauer, Helen, Anyidoho, Kofi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012.
Temas:
Social sciences > Africa.
Humanities > Africa.
National characteristics, African.
Africans.
Sciences sociales > Afrique.
Africains.
Africans
Civilization
Colonial influence
Humanities
Intellectual life
National characteristics, African
Social sciences
Africa > Colonial influence.
Africa > Civilization.
Africa > Intellectual life.
Afrique > Influence coloniale.
Afrique > Vie intellectuelle.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Overview
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors to Volume One
  • Section One
  • Chapter One
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE AS IMPERIALISM
  • General Problems of Methodological and Ideological Bias in Western Social Science
  • Equation of ideal to reality
  • The capitalist bias
  • Social science as imperialism
  • The technical sense of imperialism
  • Political science
  • Economics
  • Sociology
  • Nineteenth century origins of developmental categories
  • Individualism and capitalist valuesChapter Two
  • NATIONALISING AFRICA, CULTURALISING THE WEST, AND REFORMULATING THE HUMANITIES IN AFRICA
  • Humanities and social consent
  • The search for Africana
  • Anthropologising the West
  • The perils of modernity
  • Action time
  • Re-inhabiting the universities
  • Chapter Three
  • GLOBALISATION AND THE AFRICAN SCHOLAR
  • Power base
  • The politics of mainstream
  • Languages
  • Editorial segregation
  • Culture and scholarship
  • Imitative agenda
  • Access and local knowledge
  • Indigenous consciousness
  • How intellectual?A politicianâ€?s vision
  • Laments of tradition bearers
  • Alienation as tragedy
  • Orality and writing
  • A new order
  • Proviso
  • Chapter Four
  • KNOWLEDGE AS A PUBLIC GOOD IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION
  • Globalisation
  • Public good
  • Limiting knowledge access
  • Trips
  • Antics of the AIDS drug industry
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five
  • TOWARD AN AFRICAN CRITIQUE OF AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHY: THE USEFULNESS OF THE USELESS
  • Functions of language in ethnography: Mead versus Lowie
  • Data quality control and native language familiarity
  • The ethnographerâ€?s magic: the discovery of â€?structuresâ€?The problem of â€?paraliterate feedbackâ€?
  • Native scholars and ethnography
  • Fortes, Evans-Pritchard & Co. and data quality control
  • Evans-Pritchard and the Nuer
  • Frenetic search for meaning: Dunn and Robertson
  • The new ethnography of Africa
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Chapter Six
  • SILENCING POWER: MAPPING THE SOCIAL TERRAIN IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
  • Development as discourse
  • The space of the NGO
  • The virtuous community
  • NGOs in South Africa: from struggle to development
  • Working with the â€?communityâ€?Community as historical precipitate and community as interest group
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter Seven
  • FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT: REVAMPING THE SCOPE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE
  • The field of social thought
  • Social thought, social theory and social myth
  • Context of refl ection on social arrangements
  • Agents and referents of social thought
  • Primary resistance in social thought
  • African response to Islamic, Christian, and colonial intrusion
  • The nature of primary resistance
  • Protest letter I

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