Postcolonial African anthropologies / edited by Rosabelle Boswell and Francis Nyamnjoh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boswell, Rosabelle

Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Africa.

Anthropology.

Ethnology--Africa.

Ethnology.

Decolonization--Africa.

Decolonization.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Postcolonial African Anthropologies showcases a selection of recent African ethnographies and critically discusses anthropology's engagement with decolonisation and postcolonialism. The ethnographers in the book show that contemporary anthropology in Africa is dynamic and deeply self-reflexive, engaging issues of power and life in Africa and its nearby diaspora in multi-vocal and diverse ways."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Continuities and contradictions in postcolonial African anthropologies

Men, women, temporality and critical ethnography in Africa - the imperative for a transdisciplinary conversation

Humanising the Congolese 'Other': Love, research and reflexivity in Muizenberg, South Africa

Research, knowledge and power: A case study of interaction between an anthropologist and a 'community' over three decades

Mapping journeys through landscape: Phenomenological explorations of environment amongst rural AIDS orphans

Re-imagining identity in the southwest Indian Ocean

Border crossing: Exploring the impact of African scholarship on Indian witchcraft studies

Elites, ethnographic encounters and the 'native' ethnographer in contemporary Africa

African trysts: Re-imagining the Saharan divide

Conclusion: Incompleteness and conviviality. Towards an anthropology of intimacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0796925690

9780796925695

OCLC:

989043433