Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age (Studies of Religion in Africa, 26)

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.

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.