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Author : B. K. Swartz,Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110800685
Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji,Kenneth W. Harrow,Eunice E. Omonzejie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443893558
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 : Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B4346972
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106000755097
Author : Sandra Dixon,Janice Spleth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1569024812
"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia."
Author : Themba Sono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X006028719
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : OCLC:913959162
Author : W. E. A. van Beek,Annette M. Schmidt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010490
Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.
Author : Benjamin Ofori-Amoah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470583586
Africa's Geography presents a comprehensive exploration of the world’s second largest and most culturally diverse continent. Author Benjamin Ofori-Amoah challenges common misconceptions and misrepresentations of Africa from a geographical perspective, harnessing the power of modern geographic mapping technology to explore this unique continent. This text provides thorough coverage of the historical, cultural, economic, and political forces that continue to shape Africa, applying geographic context to relevant past and contemporary issues. Coverage of economic development, climate and biogeography, transportation and communication, manufacturing and commerce, and mining and agriculture provides foundational knowledge of this vast and complex continent. Ideally suited for multiple areas of classroom study, this text offers an effective and flexible pedagogical framework. Coverage of the entirety of Africa enables students to develop a cohesive portrait of the continent as a whole and identify the dynamism of its nations, cultures, and economies. Engaging and accessible narrative strengthens comprehension, while examples of historical and contemporary events increase student interest. Innovative and unique, Africa’s Geography is an essential resource for cross-disciplinary investigation of this fascinating part of the world.
Author : Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1580469841
A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts
Author : Unesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015016891239
Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054800
The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.
Author : Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135068936
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.
Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1340307456
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Author : Thomas Bierschenk,Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004264960
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.