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    Readings in Modernity in Africa

    Readings in Modernity in Africa by Geschiere, Peter; Meyer, Birgit; Pels, Peter;

    Series: Readings in African Studies;

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    • Publisher MH ? Indiana University Press
    • Date of Publication 17 December 2008
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9780253351760
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 203x229x18 mm
    • Weight 522 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Questions include: How can we discuss modernity without lapsing into a Western-dominated view of history? How do we avoid losing sight of the diversity of local forms? How is it that modernity has such a powerful impact on African lives? This wide-ranging volume provides new perspectives and suggests alternatives for how a better future might be implemented in Africa and beyond.

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    Questions surrounding modernity and its meanings weigh heavily on students and scholars who study Africa. Becoming modern carries a lot of different meanings and puts concepts of culture, tradition, and nation into uneasy use. Readings in Modernity in Africa brings together classic essays, old and new, to help assess the issues and problems of modernity in an African context. Questions include: How can we discuss modernity without lapsing into a Western-dominated view of history? How do we avoid losing sight of the diversity of local forms? How is it that modernity has such a powerful impact on African lives? This wide-ranging volume provides new perspectives and suggests alternatives for how a better future might be implemented in Africa and beyond.



    "This is a fascinating and valuable book with a mix of reprinted contributions from well-known non-archaeological Africanist scholars such as, for instance, Allen Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, Peter Pels, and Marianne Ferme." ?Journal of African Archaeology, Vol. 7, no. 2

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