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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew ApterPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9780226023519ISBN 10: 0226023516 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 July 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse. - Charles Piot, Duke University """A counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse."" - Charles Piot, Duke University""" Author InformationAndrew Apter is professor of history and anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society and, most recently, The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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