Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa
Author:   Jesse Weaver Shipley
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253016591


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   06 May 2015
Format:   Electronic book text
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Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa


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Author:   Jesse Weaver Shipley
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253016591


ISBN 10:   0253016592
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   06 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained

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A rich primary source for urban anthropology in early 21st-century Accra. Effectively shows that theater arts and the National Theatre in particular have been central to Ghana's cultural and political history. Benjamin Talton, author of Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality


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Jesse Weaver Shipley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College. He is author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music and has produced a documentary film with the same title.

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