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The postcolonial turn : [re-imagining anthropology and Africa] / edited by René Devisch, Francis Nyamnjoh.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Africa.
- Anthropology.
- Postcolonialism--Africa.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (468 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Themes include the Whelan Research Academy, rap musicia
- Contents:
- pt. 1. A staunch critique of intellectual colonialism and the pursuit of sociocultural endogeneity
- pt. 2. Bifocality at the core of the borderlinking anthropological endeavour
- pt. 3. Cross-pollination in African academe between cosmopolitan sciences and local knowledge
- pt. 4. Toward the local domestication of the ruling modern logic: the 'clash of civilisations' revisited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613412782
- 9781283412780
- 1283412780
- 9789956726684
- 9956726680
- 9789956726554
- 9956726559
- 9789956726813
- 9956726818
- OCLC:
- 817054253
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