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9780226402383: African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
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ISBN 10: 022640238X ISBN 13: 9780226402383
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2017

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Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed?

The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Brian Goldstone is an anthropologist and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Juan Obarrio is associate professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique, published by the University of Chicago Press.
 

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
022640238X
ISBN 13 
9780226402383
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
273
Redattore
Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780226402246: African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

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ISBN 10:  022640224X ISBN 13:  9780226402246
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2017
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