Sökt på: Böcker av Richard Werbner
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Tears of the Dead
Illuminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. …
Postcolonial Identities in Africa
In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in …
Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana
Are self-interested elites the curse of liberal democracy in Africa? Is there hope against the politics of the belly, kleptocracies, vampire states, failed states, and …
Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy
This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the …
Anthropology After Gluckman
Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such …
African Customary Justice
This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in …
Memory and the Postcolony
The critique of power in contemporary Africa calls for a new approach to the making of political subjectivities. Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the …
Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa
These essays on postcolonial subjectivities cross the frontiers of critical theory by illuminating the contradictory predicaments Africans confront in strikingly different parts …
Divination's Grasp
"e;A work of rare depth and profound insight that is destined to become a classic in African Studies and the anthropology of religion."e; -Paul Stoller, author of Yaya's …
Anthropology after Gluckman
Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such …
Postcolonial Identities in Africa
African Customary Justice
This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in …