What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in "Modernity and Its Malcontents" address familiar anthropological issues but treat them in fresh ways, situating them amidst the polyphonies of contemporary Africa. Others explore distinctly non-traditional subjects - among them the Nigerian popular press and soul-eating in Niger - in such a way as to confront the conceptual limits of Western social science. Addressing challenges posed by contemporary African realities, the authors subject such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history to renewed critical scrutiny. They are united by a wish to preserve the diversity and historical specificity of local signs and practices, voices and perspectives. The contributors, all from the Africanist circle at the University of Chicago, are Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Kaspin, J. Lorand Matory, Ralph A. Austen, Andrew Apter, Misty L. Bastian, Mark Auslander and Pamela G. Schmoll.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 後殖民 曆史 人類學 modernity ethnography
其中Open the wombs!: the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding 是非常有主客位意識的民族誌 研究post colonial 的挑戰性就在於衡選統攝全篇的核心概念與考慮資本主義同化作用時采取的分析路徑
評分其中Open the wombs!: the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding 是非常有主客位意識的民族誌 研究post colonial 的挑戰性就在於衡選統攝全篇的核心概念與考慮資本主義同化作用時采取的分析路徑
評分其中Open the wombs!: the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding 是非常有主客位意識的民族誌 研究post colonial 的挑戰性就在於衡選統攝全篇的核心概念與考慮資本主義同化作用時采取的分析路徑
評分其中Open the wombs!: the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding 是非常有主客位意識的民族誌 研究post colonial 的挑戰性就在於衡選統攝全篇的核心概念與考慮資本主義同化作用時采取的分析路徑
評分其中Open the wombs!: the symbolic politics of modern Ngoni witchfinding 是非常有主客位意識的民族誌 研究post colonial 的挑戰性就在於衡選統攝全篇的核心概念與考慮資本主義同化作用時采取的分析路徑
Modernity and Its Malcontents 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載