African Modernities
Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
Published on 1. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-85255-792-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of original studies investigating the multifaceted notion of African modernities.
The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity as well as the implication of its meaning in current acadamic debate. Both perspectives are thoroughly interdependent, but they are often presented as distinct and opposed to each other. One of the main aims of this volume is to show just how they are related, and how they form a deeply entangled subject that continues to shape and affect the notion of modernity in Africa.
The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity as well as the implication of its meaning in current acadamic debate. Both perspectives are thoroughly interdependent, but they are often presented as distinct and opposed to each other. One of the main aims of this volume is to show just how they are related, and how they form a deeply entangled subject that continues to shape and affect the notion of modernity in Africa.
Reviews / Votes
The value of African modernities is that it brings together a range of scholars hailing from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history, literature and philosophy), all attempting to think through the paradox of present-day Africa...Since there is no single answer, insights are generated by judicious questioning rather than by simplistic conclusions. -- Patrick Chabal * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS * Discussions of modernity are plentiful at present. This interdisciplinary collection - from history to anthropology and from sociology to philosophy - brings some of these wider issues and controversies to bear upon African Studies. I am not aware of another collection or book that quite accomplishes this. -- Donald Donham, Emory UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
13 s/w Abbildungen
13 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-792-1 (9780852557921)
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Peter Probst | Heike I. Schmidt | Jan-Georg Deutsch
African Modernities
Entangled Meanings in Current Debate
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Persons
Jan Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst, Heike Schmidt
Content
Introduction - cherished visions and entangled meanings, Jan-George Deutsch et al; West Africa - modernity and modernization, Richard Rathbone; Kenyatta, God and the modern world, John Lonsdale; dislocation, memory and modernity - the prophet Isaiah Shembe and the search for voice and space, Liz Gunner; images of an African modernity - the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya, Heike Behrend; governmentality, materiality, legality, modernity - on the colonial state in Africa, John Comaroff; reason, modernity and the African crisis, Simon Gikandi; modernization theory, modernization and African modernities - an outsider's view, Wolfgang Knobl.