| Author(s) | Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, Euclides Gonçalves |
 | Year | 2019 |
 | Pages | 465 |
 | Language | English
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 | Format | PDF |
 | Size | 2 MB
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 | Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
 | ISBN | 1119251486, 978-1119251484, B07L8RPWWL
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An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of
Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics
in this evolving and diverse field of study
The study of the
cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and
theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late
19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a
distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have
strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the
diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while
acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and
future of the field of study.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and
subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on
addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written
and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal
introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that
have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that
have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future.
Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides
a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of
longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays
address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of
modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse
thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
