Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (Studies on Religion in Africa, 26.) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004138609 ISBN 13: 9789004138605

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2004

Synopsis

The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.

About this title

About the Author:

Brad Weiss, Ph.D. (1992) University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary (USA) and is currently a Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at the National Humanities Center. He wrote extensively on Tanzania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9004138609
• ISBN 13: 9789004138605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356