The Anthropology Of Africa Challenges For The 21st Century

Author : Nchoji Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792924

Get Book

The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century by Nchoji Nkwi Pdf

In 1999 (August 30 September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century, was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time a long term partner of the PAAA; she was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA is pleased to republish the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three chapters divided into eight parts, namely: i) teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; ii) Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; iii) NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; iv) Anthropological Focus on Environment; v) Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; vi) The African Family in Crisis; vii) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and viii) Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Author : Nkwi, Paul Nchoji
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792795

Get Book

The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century by Nkwi, Paul Nchoji Pdf

In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed "The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century", was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time - a long term partner of the PAAA; she was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA is pleased to republish the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three divided into eight parts, namely: i) teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; ii) Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; iii) NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; iv) Anthropological Focus on Environment; v) Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; vi) The African Family in Crisis; vii) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and viii) Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: "The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century."

Author : Britt Baillie,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811543661

Get Book

African Heritage Challenges by Britt Baillie,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen Pdf

The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume identify shared challenges, good practices and failures, and use specific case studies to provide detailed insights into varied forms of heritage and heritage defining processes on the continent. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of ‘heritage’, ‘community engagement’, and ‘sustainable development’ the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.

Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji,Kenneth W. Harrow,Eunice E. Omonzejie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443893558

Get Book

The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji,Kenneth W. Harrow,Eunice E. Omonzejie Pdf

That Africa is at a crossroads in an increasingly globalised world is indisputable. Equally unassailable is the fact that the humanities, as a broad field of intellection, research and learning in Africa, appears to have been pigeonholed in debates of relevance in the development aspirations of many African nations. Historical experiences and contemporary research outputs indicate, however, that the humanities, in its various shades, is critical to Africa’s capacity to respond effectively to such problems as security, corruption, political ineptitude, poverty, superstition, and HIV/AIDS, among many other mounting challenges which confront the people of Africa. The vibrancy and resilience of Africa’s cultures, against these and other odds of globalisation episodes in the course of our history, demand the focused attention of academia to exploit their relevance to contemporary issues. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions. Such areas covered include ruminations in metaphysics and psychology, pathos and ethos, cinematic and literary connections, and historical conceptualisations.

Author : A. Lynn Bolles,Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz,Bernard C. Perley,Keri Vacanti Brondo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487539078

Get Book

Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century by A. Lynn Bolles,Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz,Bernard C. Perley,Keri Vacanti Brondo Pdf

Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century presents a critical approach to the study of anthropological theory for the next generation of aspiring anthropologists. Through a carefully curated selection of readings, this collection reflects the diversity of scholars who have long contributed to the development of anthropological theory, incorporating writings by scholars of color, non-Western scholars, and others whose contributions have historically been under-acknowledged. The volume puts writings from established canonical thinkers, such as Marx, Boas, and Foucault, into productive conversations with Du Bois, Ortiz, Medicine, Trouillot, Said, and many others. The editors also engage in critical conversations surrounding the "canon" itself, including its colonial history and decolonial potential. Updating the canon with late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century scholarship, this reader includes discussions of contemporary theories such as queer theory, decolonial theory, ontology, and anti-racism. Each section is framed by clear and concise editorial introductions that place the readings in context and conversation with each other, as well as questions and glossaries to guide reader comprehension. A dynamic companion website features additional resources, including links to videos, podcasts, articles, and more.

Author : Marzia Balzani,Niko Besnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317571780

Get Book

Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century by Marzia Balzani,Niko Besnier Pdf

Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century: Connected Worlds is a lively, accessible, and wide-ranging introduction to socio-cultural anthropology for undergraduate students. It draws on a wealth of ethnographic examples to showcase how anthropological fieldwork and analysis can help us understand the contemporary world in all its diversity and complexity. The book is addressed to a twenty-first-century readership of students who are encountering social and cultural anthropology for the first time. It provides an overview of the key debates and methods that have historically defined the discipline and of the approaches and questions that shape it today. In addition to classic research areas such as kinship, exchange, and religion, topics that are pressing concerns for our times are covered, such as climate change, economic crisis, social media, refugees, sexuality, and race. Foregrounding ethnographic stories from all over the world to illustrate global connections and their effects on local lives, the book combines a focus on history with urgent present-day social issues. It will equip students with the analytical tools that they need to negotiate a world characterized by unprecedented cross-cultural contact, ever-changing communicative technologies and new forms of uncertainty. The book is an essential resource for introductory courses in social and cultural anthropology and as a refresher for more advanced students.

Author : Archie Mafeje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : IND:30000085285785

Get Book

Anthropology in Post Independence Africa by Archie Mafeje Pdf

Author : Roy Richard Grinker,Stephen C. Lubkemann,Christopher B. Steiner,Euclides Gonçalves
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119251484

Get Book

A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker,Stephen C. Lubkemann,Christopher B. Steiner,Euclides Gonçalves Pdf

An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.

Author : Artwell Nhemachena,Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762576

Get Book

Africa at the Crossroads by Artwell Nhemachena,Munyaradzi Mawere Pdf

This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual milestones and platforms for the oncoming revolution and quest for justice in the form of decoloniality and transformation. Drawing from several disciplinary domains such as Development Studies, Security Studies, Political Anthropology and Sociology, Economic Anthropology and Social studies, English Studies, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and drawing from scholars from across different universities in the Southern African region, the book provides multiple lenses from which to understand the complex goings on in a continent that can no longer afford to simply fold hands and watch while its citizens suffer multiple forms of coloniality, fetishisms and fundamentalisms.

Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi,David Mills,Mustafa H. M. Babiker
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1842777637

Get Book

African Anthropologies by Mwenda Ntarangwi,David Mills,Mustafa H. M. Babiker Pdf

Publisher Description

Author : Dorothy Hodgson,Judith Byfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520962514

Get Book

Global Africa by Dorothy Hodgson,Judith Byfield Pdf

Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world—from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux.

Author : Nchoji Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551347

Get Book

From Handmaiden of Colonialism to Esteemed Discipline by Nchoji Nkwi Pdf

This book documents key features in the life of the father of anthropology in Cameroon, Professor Paul Nchoji Nkwi. The conversations within these pages chronicle, in his own words, how he came to anthropology and how the discipline shaped and still shapes his trajectory. One work does not suffice to elucidate all that Nkwi has contributed to the discipline of Anthropology in Cameroon and beyond; nevertheless, this book is a starting point. As the founding president of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists (PAAA), Nkwi has been a trail blazer, sowing the seeds, nurturing the shoots, and grooming budding African anthropologists in their investigation of that great anthropological question: what it means to be human. In discussing the transformation of anthropology from the handmaiden of colonialism to the advocate of identity, voice, and a means for Africa to engage with and interact within contemporary society, Nkwi reveals insights regarding, among others, the birth and growth of the discipline in Cameroon, the founding of the PAAA, and the applicability of the subject to the changing and challenging landscape that characterizes today's globalized world. Likewise, blending theory and practice, he weaves a formidable tale of anthropological thought from an Africanist perspective through his notion of an African Pragmatic Socialism as a way of delving into, making sense of, and addressing the reality of the 21st century on the African continent and possibly beyond.

Author : Rewai Makamani,Artwell Nhemachena
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551460

Get Book

Global Capital's 21st Century Repositioning by Rewai Makamani,Artwell Nhemachena Pdf

What happens at the interface between Afrocentricity and COVID-19 is cause for wonder in a world that is anxious to short circuit global solidarity by trampling Pan-Africanism. Revolutions, including the Fourth Industrial Revolution, are rarely contextualised within the framework of Pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity even when they are celebrated as beneficial to the world. Interfacing Afrocentricity, COVID-19, Pan-Africanism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this book teases out the profound challenges of the 21st century. Calling for African solutions premised on African solidarity, the book critically engages the contemporary technological solutionism and technological evangelism that undergirds the Fourth Industrial Revolution and efforts to find vaccines for COVID-19. Unflinchingly interrogating these issues, the book is useful for scholars and activists in education, African languages, sociology, social anthropology, political science, history, religious studies, development studies, communication, medical sciences and legal studies.

Author : Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056201992

Get Book

Challenges for Anthropology in the 'African Renaissance' by Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa. Conference Pdf

The publication of this collection of papers is significant for anthropology in Southern Africa and indeed, the continent as a whole. Given this context I endeavoured to obtain emphirical data in the condition of antropology in the region.

Author : Helen Tilley,Robert Gordon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526118714

Get Book

Ordering Africa by Helen Tilley,Robert Gordon Pdf

African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.