Anthropology
Books
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Sara de Wit
Moving beyond existing approaches that largely deal with the biophysical consequences of climate change realities in Africa, this book explores an alternative perspective that traces climate change as a travelling idea. It focuses on how globally constructed discourses on climate change find their way to the local level in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, thereby seeking to understand how these discursive practices lead to social transformations, and to new configurations of power. In (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Mwenda Ntarangwi,
Guy Massart
Representing research from east, central, west, and southern Africa, Engaging Children and Youth in Africa provides a well-balanced analysis of on-the-ground data with methodological and phenomenological issues that abound in much of research in Africa today. With an introduction that charts out some of the most critical approaches in African-centred research on children and youth, contributors to this volume give the reader a glimpse of the product of engaged research that places children (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
From Momany’s wealthy and agonizing expibasketism so much can be drawn to teach about, demote or promote, and to portray Canada as it has never been properly understood; not only by outsiders but also by Canadians themselves. This book makes an extensive and detailed use of that basket of experience to deliver the message that Canada is not at all the ’children’s-best-interests-friendly’ nation that it is often mistaken for. Canada may be entitled to what it claims to be. But, since a country (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere,
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
This book argues that the basic component of any society’s social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital - indigenous knowledge in particular - has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu’s precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid change and multiple responsibilities. Africans negotiate their social existence between urban and rural life, their continental and transcontinental distances, and all the market forces that now (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the home village where control over land and labour often require both financial and symbolic capital. (...)
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2015, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere,
Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya
This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies. In Africa, how to overturn the gory effects and reverse the wholesale obnoxious and unpardonable losses suffered from the excruciating experience of colonialism in a manner that empowers the present and future generations, remains a burning question. Colonial and liberation war heritage have received insignificant attention. The relevance, (...)
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2016, author(s)-editor(s) Karel Arnaut,
Marcus Mausiah Garvey
Compagnon ! Journal d’un noussi en guerre: 2002-2011 raconte la vie tant intime que professionnelle de Garvey dont une partie importante s’est déroulée pendant ‘les années d’instabilité’ en Côte d’Ivoire. Pendant cette période Garvey a joué un rôle substantiel dans l’histoire d’un groupement d’autodéfense appelé flgo-Abidjan. Après le dénouement de la crise politico-militaire d’avril 2011, Garvey résume sa vie diffi cile de déception, de précarité et de ténacité ; tout en Nouchi, le patois qu’il cultive autant (...)
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2016, author(s)-editor(s) Aghi Bahi
Cet ouvrage pose d’abord un regard critique sur les travaux menés par l’auteur de 1994 à 2013 dans trois domaines de la communication et des changements sociétaux : 1) communication médiatisée dans les politiques de santé, 2) usages et appropriations d’internet et des TIC et 3) médias, politique et espaces publics dans une société en crise. En toile de fond de ces travaux de recherche se trouve la Côte d’Ivoire urbaine (Abidjan notamment), société encore « anthropologisée » (Balandier), société en (...)
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2016, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh
This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist. Through everyday interactions and experiences of university students and professors, it explores the question of race in a context still plagued by remnants of apartheid, inequality and perceptions of inferiority and inadequacy among the majority black population.
In education, black voices and (...)
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