Companion to the Anthropology of Africa

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1
Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Goncalves

Part I Enduring Themes 13

1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa 15
Jane I. Guyer

2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa 33
Pauline E. Peters

3 Witchcraft in Africa 63
James H. Smith

4 Law, Dispute Resolution, and Justice 81
Jessica Johnson

5 Illness and Healing: Africanist Anthropology 97
Rebecca L. Upton

6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies 119
Joseph Hellweg and Jesse C. Miller

Part II Critical and Decolonizing Themes 145

7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa 147
George Paul Meiu

8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War 173
Danny Hoffman

9 The Anthropology of Forced Migration in Africa 199
Stephen C. Lubkemann

10 Sex and Sexuality in Africa 229
Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala

Part III Post-colonial and Emerging Themes 249

11 Social Trauma and Recovery: Emergent Themes 251
Victor Igreja and Erin Baines

12 Questioning Humanitarian Exceptions 271
Louisa Lombard

13 Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice 289
Carolyn Rouse

14 Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa 307
Kristen E. Cheney

15 Africa Has Moved!: New African Diasporas and the Anthropology of Transnationalizing Africa 323
Dianna Shandy and Stephen C. Lubkemann

16 Anthropological Approaches to Media in Africa 351
Katrien Pype and Alessandro Jedlowski

17 Environmental Anthropology in Africa: From Cattle Complex to Environmentality 375
Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro and Roy Richard Grinker

Part IV Reflexivity 397

18 Anthropology and Africanist Political Science 399
Eric Kramon

19 African Anthropological Practice in the "Era of Aid": Towards a Critique of Disciplinary Canons 415
Euclides Goncalves

20 African Participation in, and Perspectives on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology 439
Mwenda Ntarangwi

Index 459

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• Sociologia e antropologia

Africa; African anthropology; African diaspora; anthropology; social anthropology; political science; African political science; African policies; practical concerns of Africa; Africa today; African history; political science in Africa; Africanist anthropology; international social science; African social science; African social system; modern Africa; post-colonial Africa; anthropological thought; life in Africa; the economic anthropology of Africa; sex and gender in Africa; sexual identity Africa; inequality and social justice Africa; environmental anthropology Africa; political violence Africa; war in Africa; economic policy Africa; witchcraft in Africa