Between resistance and expansion
Subtitle: explorations of local vitality in Africa
By: Peter Probst, Gerd Spittler (eds.).
Contributors: Probst, Peter.; Spittler, Gerd, 1939-
Series: Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung -- Bd. 18
Publisher: Lit; Central Books Limited
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9783825869809
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Africa -- Congresses.; National characteristics, African -- Congresses.; Group identity -- Africa -- Congresses.; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses.; Language and culture -- Africa -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from an international symposium on "Local Vitality and the Globalization of the Local," organized by the Humanities Collaborative Research Center at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, May 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From an anthropology of astonishment to a critique of of anthropology's common sense : an exploration of local vitality in Africa / Peter Probst and Gerd Spittler; title: Ethnolinguistic vitality theory and complex linguistic societies / Jonathan Owens; title: Local vitality : on a complex linguistic situation in the West African town of Banfora (Burkina Faso) / Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn and Gabriele Slezak; title: Trading cultures : Berbers and Tuareg as souvenir vendors / Marko Scholze and Ingo Bartha; title: A Sudanese snack bar in Berlin : vitalization and presence in the Diaspora / Cordula Weissköppel; title: Muslim communities in Africa and translocal movements of reform / Roman Loimeier; title: Preservation of the Canaanite creation culture in Ife / Dierk Lange; title: The globalization of local action / Berno Werlen; title: A place in the world : markers of the local along the upper Zambezi / Achim von Oppen; title: The appropriation of rice at Mt. Kilimanjaro / Jigal Beez; title: Global goods and the process of appropriation / Hans Peter Hahn; title: The vitality of local land law; title: a "fatal vitality?" : a case study of peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Harald Sippel and Ulrike Wanitzek; title: Wape vidonge vyao : Taarab as a vital language in urban East Africa / Werner Graebner; title: Colonial appropriation of local knowledge / Mamadou Diawara; title: The making of local traditions in a global setting : indigenous peoples' organizations and their effects at the local level in Southern Africa / Michael Bollig and Susanne Berzborn; title: Vital politics : history and heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria / Peter Probst; title: Charisma : global movement and local survival / Johannes Fabian; title: Sacred centrality and flows across town and country : Sedimo in Botswana's time of AIDS / Richard Werbner; title: Pentecostalism, religious expansion, and the city : lessons from the Nigerian Bible Belt / Asonzeh F.-K. Ukah; title: Explorations in African vitality : local actions in conquest, resistance, famine, and interethnic relations / Gerd Spittler.