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Author:   Richard Werbner ,  Terence Ranger
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.414kg
ISBN:  

9781856494168

ISBN 10:   1856494160
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   26 September 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Richard Werbner Part 1: Power, Crisis and Contested Identities 1. The African Crisis: Context and Interpretation - Patrick Chabal 2. Postcolonialism, Power and Identity: Local and Global Perspectives from Zaire - Filip De Boeck 3. Between God and Kamuzu: The Transition to Multi-Party Politics in Central Malawi - Harri Englund 4. The Potential Boundaries: Steps Toward a Theory of the Social Edge - Robert Thornton Part 2: Gender and Generation in Conflict 5. A Lost Generation? Youth Identity and State Decay in West Africa - Donal Cruise O'Brien 6. AIDS, Biomedicine, and the Re-invention of Witchfinding: Death and Cosmic Defence in a Zambian Village - Bawa Yamba 7. Producing Respect: The 'Proper Women' in Postcolonial Kampala - Jessica Ogden Part 3: Religion, Dominance and Deconstruction 8. Contested Authorities and Politics of Perception: Deconstructing the Study of Religion in Africa - Rijk van Dijk and Peter Pels 9. Witchcraft, Violence and Identity: Different Trajectories in Postcolonial Cameroon - Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere 10. Identity, Alterity and Ambiguity in a Nigerian Community: Competing Definitions of True Islam - Adeline Masquelier Conclusion - Terence Ranger

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An excellent contribution to the growing body of literature on postcolonial Africa... should prove to have lasting influence, among all those with an interest in postcolonial encounters. --American Ethnologist, Voume 25, No 1, February 1998 A fascinating range of approaches to debates surrounding issues of identity in African studies... extremely thorough, insightful and thought-provoking. -- Contemporary Politics, Volume 3, No 4, 1997 'Both [editors] have for a long period been active in constructing African Studies as an interdisciplinary research area. The high quality of the contributions to the volume is a witness to the fruitfulness of their endeavours' -- The European Journal of Development Research

An excellent contribution to the growing body of literature on postcolonial Africa... should prove to have lasting influence, among all those with an interest in postcolonial encounters. --American Ethnologist, Voume 25, No 1, February 1998 <br> A fascinating range of approaches to debates surrounding issues of identity in African studies... extremely thorough, insightful and thought-provoking. -- Contemporary Politics, Volume 3, No 4, 1997 <br>'Both [editors] have for a long period been active in constructing African Studies as an interdisciplinary research area. The high quality of the contributions to the volume is a witness to the fruitfulness of their endeavours' -- The European Journal of Development Research <br>

Author Information

Richard Werbner is Professor of African Anthropology and Director of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research (ICCR) at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey (1989), and Tears of the Dead (1991), for which he received the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is coeditor-in-chief of Social Analysis and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Legal Pluralism, and Journal of Religion in Africa. He is also Series Editor of Postcolonial Encounters, a Zed Books series in association with the ICCR, Universities of Manchester and Keele. His distinguished career has included visiting appointments at a number of universities in Africa and North America.

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