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Readings in modernity in Africa. edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer & Peter Pels

Geschiere, Peter (1941-...) Meyer, Birgit Pels, Peter 2008

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  • Title:
    Readings in modernity in Africa. edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer & Peter Pels
  • Author: Geschiere, Peter (1941-...);
    Meyer, Birgit;
    Pels, Peter
  • Subjects: Ethnologie -- Afrique noire;
    Afrique noire -- Politique sociale;
    Afrique noire -- Politique économique
  • Description: Bibliogr. p. [X]. Notes bibliogr. en fin d'articles. Index
    Global discontent : abjection & the aftermath of modernism / James G. Ferguson Excerpts from Modernization : protest & change / S.N. Eisenstadt Fanti national constitution : administrative questions / John Mensah Sarbah The World Bank's changing discourse on development : from reliance on the state & "modernizing elites" to "bypassing the state" / World Bank Excerpts from Anthropology & development : understanding contemporary social change / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Excerpts from Buying futures : the upsurge of female entrepreneurship : crossing the formal/informal divide in southwest Cameroon / Margaret Niger-Thomas Report of the expedition sent by the government of Natal to instal Cetywayo as King of the Zulus / Theophilus Shepstone Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism / Julius Kambarage Nyerere The African Renaissance, South Africa & the world / Thabo Mbeki
    The pidginization of Luguru politics : administrative ethnography & the paradoxes of indirect rule / Peter Pels The resurgence of chiefs : retribalisation & modernity / Lungisile Ntsebeza Chiefs! Law, power & culture in contemporary South Africa / Barbara Oomen The African road to socialism / Leopold Sedar Senghor Society & ideology / Kwame Nkrumah African identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah Fait missionnaire & politics of the belly : a Foucaultian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart Rheumatic irony : questions of agency & self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits / Michael Lambek The new African : between nativism & cosmopolitanism / Achille Mbembe Staging Politisi : the dialogics of publicity & secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferme Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" & the second world / Filip de Boeck On the worlding of African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone
    Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video & the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin Kwaku's car : the struggles & stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi driver / Jojada Verrips, Birgit Meyer Witch-hunting & political legitimacy : continuity & change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930-91 / Isak A. Niehaus The Convert : act one scene III & act two scene III / Francis Nyamnjoh Aura & icon in contemporary Senegal Between Paris and Bacongo &
  • Publisher: London Bloomington Oxford Pretoria, S.A. : International African Institute In association with Indiana University Press James Currey Unisa Press, 2008
  • Creation Date: 2008
  • Format: 1 vol (IX-226 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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