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African Anthropologies : History, Critique, And Practice

  • African Anthropologies : History, Critique, And Practice
  • Title

    • Africa In The New Millennium
  • Attribution

    edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker
  • Publication Details

    Book, Zed Books, 2006
  • Availability

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GN46.A357 A47 2006  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent’s anthropologists are redefining the historical legacy of European and American disciplinary hegemony, and developing distinctively African contributions to anthropological theory and practice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Authors

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  • Contents

    • Research and teaching in Ethiopian anthropology : an overview of traditions, trends and recent developments / Alula Pankhurst
    • How not to be a ‘government house pet’ : Audrey Richards and the East African Institute for Social Research /David Mills
    • Teaching of anthropology in Zimbabwe over the past forty years : continuities and discontinuities /Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa
    • Practice of anthropology in Francophone Africa : the case of Cameroon /Séverin Cécile Abega
    • Forgetting Africa /Johannes Fabian
    • But we know it all! : African perspectives on anthropological knowledge / Christine Obbo
    • African pastoralism through anthropological eyes : whose crisis? /Mustafa Babiker
    • Invisible religion? : anthropology’s avoidance of Islam in Arica /Robert Launay
    • Anthropology in post- colonial Africa : the Nigerian case /P.-J. Ezeh
    • Reflections on the challenges of teaching anthropology to American students in post-colonial Kenya /Mwenda Ntarangwi
    • Challenges and prospects for applied anthropology in Kenya /Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo
    • Practising anthropology at home : challenges and ethical dilemmas /W. Onyango-Ouma
  • ISBN

    • 1842777637
    • 9781842777633
    • 1842777629
    • 9781842777626
    • 2869781687
    • 9782869781689
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