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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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Bamenda : Leiden, Netherlands :
Langaa Research and Publishing CIG ; African Studies Centre,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.