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A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa.
Anthropology conducted in Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of the discipline since it was first institutionalized in the late 19th century. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists on the subject, A Companion to the Anthropology of Afr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Enduring Themes; Chapter 1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa; Introduction; Guideposts to the Continuing Importance of Economic Anthropology; References; Chapter 2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa; Introduction and Background to Kinship Studies; Definitions; Commentaries and Theories on Kinship and Descent; Countering the Invisibility of Kinship and Descent in Africa Today; Rural Households and Gendered Allocation of Assets; Notes.
- Colonial Medicine and Anthropology: Constituting a "Pathological Africa" in "Need of Saving"From Inventorying Superstition to Investigating Cultural Logics; Points of Entry into the Contemporary Anthropology of Illness and Healing; Conclusions; References; Chapter 6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies; African Religions in the Anthropology of Africa: An Introduction; A Brief Genealogy of the Study of African Religions; What Is Religion?; Conceptualizing African Religions.
- Politicizing Religion: Ritual Rhetoric, Partisan Agendas, and State PowerPersons in the Cosmos: Rites of Passage, Gender, Spirit Possession, and Health; The Political Economy of Extraordinary Relations: Ancestors, Ritual, Magic, and Exchange; Islam, Africa, and Religious Taxonomy; African Christianities: From Neo-Colonialism to Decolonization; World Religions beyond Islam, Christianity, and the Category Itself; African Religions in Global Modernity: Models for Knowledge and Action; References; Part II Critical and Decolonizing Themes.
- Chapter 7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in AfricaAttachment and Alterity: A Matter of Theory; Encounters with Ethnicity and Belonging: Notes on Fieldwork; Incest and Incorporation: Belonging as a Dialectic of Sociality and Power; Plastic Panics: Spectral Boundaries and the Materialities of Belonging; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War; Violence and the Social Order; Hot and Cold Wars in Post-colonial Africa; The New Barbarism; A World Gone Mad.