Readings in Modernity in Africa - Softcover
This book provides students of Africa with a guide to the bewildering variety of scholarly work on the issue of modernity in Africa, and to offer some tools for dealing with its intellectual paradoxes. Part One contains both analytical and historical examples of the genealogies of modernity in the African continent and the fragmentation over time of its unilinear meta-narrative. Part Two provides a set of rich ethnographic sketches of its current manifestations in politics, urban space, technology and the realm of the invisible. What emerges as critically important in this challenging collage of texts, are the varying ways in which modernity actually produces its other - that is, 'tradition'. Contributions include writings and extracts from: JAMES G. FERGUSON, S.N. EISENSTADT, JOHN MENSAH SARBAH, J-P. OLIVIER DE SARDAN, MARGARET NIGER-THOMAS, JULIUS NYERERE, THABO MBEKI, LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR, BARBARA OOMEN, PETER PELS, BIRGIT MEYER, JEAN-FRANCOIS BAYART, KWAME NKRUMAH, ACHILLE MBEMBE, MARIAN FERME, BRIAN LARKIN, FRANCIS NYAMNJOH, ALLEN F. ROBERTS & MARY NOOTER ROBERTS, BASILE NDIJO. Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana University Press; South Africa: Unisa Press
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"Few other books zero in on central questions to do with what we mean by 'modernity,' its multiple and bewildering manifestations in contemporary Africa, and the scholarly debates around the application of the concept to the non-Western world." --Karin Barber, University of Birmingham
About the Author:
Peter Geschiere is Professor of African Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
Birgit Meyer is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University, Amsterdam.
Peter Pels is Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Leiden.
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0852558988
- ISBN 13 9780852558980
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
- EditorPeter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer
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Readings in Modernity in Africa
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