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POWER AND PARADOX
AUTHORITY, INSECURITY AND CREATIVITY IN FON GENDER RELATIONSby Douglas J. Falen HARDCOVER
Power and Paradox is an ethnographic study of contemporary gender relations among the Fon people, the dominant ethnic group in the South of the Republic of Benin, West Africa. The Fon hold a prominent place in African studies for their traditional Vodun (Voodoo) religion and their precolonial slave-trading kingdom of Dahomey, which included powerful female ministers and soldiers. Through an account of contemporary Fon gendered power strategies, highlighted by male perspectives on female power, the present study offers an important ethnographic update to this body of knowledge, as well as to the dialogue between Western and African feminisms, and to cross-gender research methodology.
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PURCHASING CULTURE
The Dissemination of Associations in the Cross River Region of Cameroon and NigeriaUte Röschenthaler
Purchasing Culture investigates the emergence of complex purchasable associations in the Cross River region of southwest Cameroon and southeast Nigeria. These associations emerged in the context of the growing transatlantic trade and were disseminated from the direction of the Atlantic coast to the hinterland. They diffused (and still continue to diffuse) transethnically across the region, ignoring linguistic and national boundaries, and forming translocal networks of owners of the same institutions. The study documents the histories of cult associations and their dissemination by purchase and sale which includes the transfer of immaterial property rights. This mode of dissemination differs substantially from that of secret societies in the West.
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RACE AND IDENTITY IN THE NILE VALLEY
Ancient and Modern PerspectivesEdited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and kharyssa rhodes
This volume pioneers the examination of issues of race and racism, ethnicity and identity in the major Nile Valley countries of Sudan and Egypt from ancient times to the present. Two major events have forced the issue. The study of the ancient Nile Valley was challenged to confront the issue of race in antiquity with the publication of Martin Bernal’s two-volume work, "Black Athena" (1987; 1991) asserting the Afro-Asiatic roots of Western civilization, and its most famous rebuttal "Not Out of Africa" (1996). In the aftermath of these earlier works, the question of whether ancient Egypt was black or white became the most simplistic rendering of this not so collegial debate. In this tome, a new generation of critical archaeologists and anthropologists, freed from old Orientalist and Egyptological racialist and racist ideas, have written with greater objectivity about race and representation than their predecessors.
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RE-CREATING OURSELVES
African Women and Critical Transformationsby Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Recreating Ourselves is a selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics and social tranformation for at least three decades. Spanning the period between the 1970s and the 1990s, this collection highlights the most outstanding issues on the African continent-- political decolonization, the place of writing and the writer, decolonizing scholarship and research as well as modes of social activism.
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RECITING IFA
Difference, Heterogeneity, and IdentityK. Noel Amherd
This book generates a critical Ifa poetics and analysis that emphasizes Ifa as a philosophical heritage that privileges heterogeneity of discourses, texts, and worlds. The book foregrounds and elucidates the practices and explications of Ifa thinkers (individual babalawo and their personal elaborations and explanations) and achieves this by its detailed transcription, translation, and analysis of an actual divination that took place in Ijebu Remo, Nigeria. Therefore, the book urges returning Ifa to its actual sites of recitation and contextualization in situ where the performances are bound up in specific locations, their pasts, the participants (both
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RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE
Black Anger and White Ignorance in Obama's AmericaA. Christian van Gorder and Lewis T. Tait Jr.
Red, White, Black and Blue: Black Anger and White Ignorance in Obama's America examines contemporary expressions of subtle racism and looks at how our present political climate affects issues of lingering racist inequality. Drs. van Gorder and Tait provide a historical and theoretical context for their analysis of America's present intercultural tensions and offers concrete steps forward in addressing our seemingly entrenched polarities: Black Anger and White ignorance. This book is up-to-date and prescient in addressing modern issues of systemic racism with clarity and resolve.
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RETHINKING AGE IN AFRICA Edited by Mario Aguilar
Rethinking Age in Africa explores an old cultural problem in new ways: how do we deal with ageing within societies in which the young are so numerous? How do we deal with age changes and the life cycle in contemporary Africa? While biology has suggested that there is a common universal way of dealing with ageing, African societies show an enormous diversity, an extraordinary resilience and an ever-growing adaptation to social change and difficulties...
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