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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Readings in-- (Bloomington, Ind.)Publication details: London : International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, James Currey, Unisa Press, 2008.Description: ix, 226 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780852558980 .
  • 0253351766 (Indiana : hbk.)
  • 9780253351760
  • 0253219965 (Indiana : pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.96 22
LOC classification:
  • HV 1461  ..K44 1981
Other classification:
  • 73.50
Contents:
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 & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou -- Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio -- A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General Collection Main Campus Library General Stacks HN773.5 .R43 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20095174
General Collection Main Campus Library HN 773.5.P48 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 20095175

Includes bibliographical references (p. [x]) and 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 & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou -- Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio -- A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman.

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