Archie Mafeje
Subtitle: scholar, activist and thinker
By: Dani W. Nabudere
Publisher: Africa Institute of South Africa
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780798302869
Subjects: Scholars; Sociologists; Anthropologists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Who is Archie Mafeje?; title: Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations; title: The critique of anthropology and alterity; title: The study of rural African society; title: Culture as the 'missing link' in African development; title: The issue of 'social formations' of African society; title: Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production; title: The African post-colonial states and the African political elite; title: Mafeje and African philosophy; title: The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations'; title: Mafeje - the South African radical; title: Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines; title: Conclusion.