Archie Mafeje : scholar, activist and thinker / Dani W. Nabudere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabudere, D. Wadada.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mafeje, Archie.

Ethnologists--South Africa--Biography.

Ethnologists.

Anthropologists--South Africa.

Anthropologists.

Sociologists--South Africa.

Sociologists.

Scholars--South Africa.

Scholars.

South Africa.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011.

Summary:

Archie Mafeje was an independent Pan-Africanist and cosmopolitan individual who sought to understand the world at a global level in order to locate Africa within that tapestry. In many ways, Archie Mafeje was one of the African intellectual pathfi nders. He contributed immensely to the African people's search for self-understanding, self-determination and political emancipation as they struggled against alienation and misrepresentation. In recognising the academic and intellectual contribution of Archie Mafeje, this monograph also refl ects on the African people's journey for emancipation in the search for African identity, self-control and self-understanding.

Contents:

Introduction

Who is Archie Mafeje?

Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations

The critique of anthropology and alterity

The study of rural African society

Culture as the 'missing link' in African development

The issue of 'social formations' of African society

Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production

The African post-colonial states and the African political elite

Mafeje and African philosophy

The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations'

Mafeje - the South African radical

Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111)

ISBN:

0798302860

9780798302869

OCLC:

738338848

Publisher Number:

99944998113