Acknowledgments x
List of Maps xiv
List of Figures xv
List of Plates xvii
List of Tables xviii
Introduction: Africa in Perspective 1
Part I: Representation and Discourse 19
Introduction 21
1 Africa Observed: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination 31
Jean and John Comaroff
2 The Meaning of Our Work 44
Cheikh Anta Diop
3 Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the New Afrocentrism 48
Kwame Anthony Appiah
4 Discourse of Power and Knowledge of Otherness 55
V. Y. Mudimbe
Part II: From Tribe to Ethnicity: Kinship and Social Organization 61
Introduction 63
5 The Nuer: Time and Space 71
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
6 The Illusion of Tribe 83
Aidan W. Southall
7 Ethnicity in Southern African History 95
Leroy Vail
Part III: Economics as a Cultural System 109
Introduction 111
8 Lele Economy Compared with the Bushong 123
Mary Douglas
9 Research on an African Mode of Production 139
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
10 The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930–83 151
Sharon Hutchinson
Part IV: Hunter-Gatherers in Africa 167
Introduction 169
11 The Lesson of the Pygmies 175
Colin M. Turnbull
12 Houses in the Rainforest: Gender and Ethnicity among the Lese and Efe in Zaire 184
Roy Richard Grinker
13 Land Filled with Flies: The Evolution of Illusion 200
Edwin N. Wilmsen
14 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in History 219
Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee
Part V: Witchcraft, Science, and Rationality: The Translation of Culture 237
Introduction 239
15 Conversations on Rain-making 245
David Livingstone
16 The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events 249
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
17 Understanding a Primitive Society 257
Peter Winch
18 The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History 270
Ralph A. Austen
Part VI: Ancestors, Gods, and the Philosophy of Religion 283
Introduction 285
19 Conversations with Ogotemmêli 291
Marcel Griaule
20 African Philosophy, Myth and Reality 302
Paulin J. Hountondji
21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 314
Igor Kopytoff
Part VII: Arts, Aesthetics, and Heritage 323
Introduction 325
22 Humorous Masks and Serious Politics among the Afi kpo Igbo 335
Simon Ottenberg
23 Art, Identity, Boundaries: Postmodernism and Contemporary African Art 348
Olu Oguibe
24 As Plato Duly Warned: Music, Politics, and Social Change in Coastal East Africa 354
Kelly M. Askew
25 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity 372
Bayo Holsey
Part VIII: Sex and Gender Studies in Africa: Economy and Society 379
Introduction 381
26 The Economics of Polygamy 389
Ester Boserup
27 “Sitting on a Man”: Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women 399
Judith Van Allen
28 Virginity Testing: Managing Sexuality in a Maturing HIV/AIDS Epidemic 411
Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
Part IX: Europe in Africa: Colonization 423
Introduction 425
29 The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa: Methods of Ruling Native Races 431
Frederick D. Lugard
30 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 439
Walter Rodney
31 The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa 450
Terence Ranger
32 Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary 462
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Part X: Nations and Nationalism 471
Introduction 473
33 Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century 477
Léopold Sédar Senghor
34 On National Culture 484
Frantz Fanon
35 Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Modernity: The Paradox of Mau Mau 498
Bruce J. Berman
36 The Invisible Face: Masks, Ethnicity, and the State in Côte d’Ivoire 514
Christopher B. Steiner
Part XI: Violent Transformations: Conflict and Displacement 521
Introduction 523
37 Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa 531
Max Gluckman
38 Fighting for the Rainforest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone 543
Paul Richards
39 Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 555
Christopher C. Taylor
40 Where to Be an Ancestor? Reconstituting Socio-spiritual Worlds among Displaced Mozambicans 569
Stephen Lubkemann
Part XII: Development, Governance, and Globalization 583
Introduction 585
41 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt 595
James Ferguson
42 Development Aid and Structural Violence: The Case of Rwanda 609
Peter Uvin
43 Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419 616
Daniel Jordan Smith
44 The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly 629
Jean-François Bayart
45 “Govern Yourselves!” Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique 644
Harry G. West
46 Nuer-American Passages 660
Dianna Shandy
Index 671
Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology andInternational Affairs at George Washington University, Director ofthe GW Institute for Ethnographic Research, and Editor-in-Chief ofAnthropological Quarterly. He is author of four other books,including In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M.Turnbull, Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity andInequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa, and Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. Christopher B. Steiner is the Lucy C. McDannel 22Professor of Art History and Director of Museum Studies atConnecticut College. He is the author of the award-winningbook African Art in Transit, and co-editor (with RuthPhillips) of Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity inColonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Stephen Lubkemann is Associate Professor of Anthropologyand International Affairs at George Washington University. Heis author of Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the SocialCondition in War and is associate editor for AnthropologicalQuarterly and a co-founder of GWU s Diaspora ResearchProgram.
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