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The Postcolonial turn : [re-imagining anthropology and Africa] /

This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local peopleís own ways, significant dai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Devisch, Renaat, 1944-, Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda : Leiden, Netherlands : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG ; African Studies Centre, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The postcolonial turn: an introduction / Adabeyo Olukoshi & Francis Nyamnjoh
  • Africanity: a combative ontology / Archie Mafeje
  • Against alterity: the pursuit of endogeneity: breaking bread with Archie Mafeje / Jimi O. Adesina
  • Mafeje and Langa: the start of an intellectual's journey / John Sharp
  • What is an anthropologist? / René Devisch
  • Existential dilemmas of a North Atlantic anthropologist in the production of relevant Africanist knowledge / Wim M.J. Binsbergen
  • Kata Nomon: letter to René Devisch / Valentin Y. Mudimbe
  • The shared borderspace, a rejoinder / René Devisch
  • All knowledge is first of all local knowledge / Theophilus Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch
  • Is there one science, Western science? / Theophilus Okere
  • Ethnomathemicatics, geometry and educational experiences in Africa / Paulus Gerdes
  • Immunizing strategies: hip-hop and critique in Tanzania / Koen Streoken
  • Christian moderns: parody in matricentric Christian healing communes of the sacred spirit in Kinshasa / René Devisch
  • Responding to rooted cosmopolitanism: patriots, ethnics and the public good in Botswana / Richard Webner
  • Epilogue: opening up the research design in and on Africa: 'To souls forgotten' / Francis Nyamnjoh.