Readings in modernity in Africa
By: edited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer & Peter Pels.
Contributors: Geschiere, Peter.; Meyer, Birgit.; Pels, Peter.
Series: Readings in--; Readings in-- (Bloomington, Ind.)
Publisher: International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, James Currey, Unisa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780253351760; 9780253219961
Subjects: Ethnology -- Africa; Moderniteit; Africa -- Economic policy; Africa -- Social policy; Afrika
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [x]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Global discontent : abjection & the aftermath of modernism / James G. Ferguson; title: Excerpts from Modernization : protest & change / S.N. Eisenstadt; title: Fanti national constitution : administrative questions / John Mensah Sarbah; title: The World Bank's changing discourse on development : from reliance on the state & "modernizing elites" to "bypassing the state" / World Bank; title: Excerpts from Anthropology & development : understanding contemporary social change / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan; title: Excerpts from Buying futures : the upsurge of female entrepreneurship : crossing the formal/informal divide in southwest Cameroon / Margaret Niger-Thomas; title: Report of the expedition sent by the government of Natal to instal Cetywayo as King of the Zulus / Theophilus Shepstone; title: Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism / Julius Kambarage Nyerere; title: The African Renaissance, South Africa & the world / Thabo Mbeki; title: The pidginization of Luguru politics : administrative ethnography & the paradoxes of indirect rule / Peter Pels; title: The resurgence of chiefs : retribalisation & modernity / Lungisile Ntsebeza; title: Chiefs! Law, power & culture in contemporary South Africa / Barbara Oomen; title: The African road to socialism / Leopold Sedar Senghor; title: Society & ideology / Kwame Nkrumah; title: African identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: Fait missionnaire & politics of the belly : a Foucaultian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart; title: Rheumatic irony : questions of agency & self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits / Michael Lambek; title: The new African : between nativism & cosmopolitanism / Achille Mbembe; title: Staging Politisi : the dialogics of publicity & secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferme; title: Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" & the second world / Filip de Boeck; title: On the worlding of African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone; title: Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video & the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin; title: Kwaku's car : the struggles & stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi driver / Jojada Verrips, Birgit Meyer; title: Witch-hunting & political legitimacy : continuity & change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930-91 / Isak A. Niehaus; title: The Convert : act one scene III & act two scene III / Francis Nyamnjoh; title: Aura & icon in contemporary Senegal; title: Between Paris and Bacongo & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou; title: Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio; title: A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman.