Producing African Futures

Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age

AvBrad Weiss

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Del 26 i serien Studies of Religion in Africa

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Beskrivning

The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:672 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies of Religion in Africa
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Brill
Medarbetare:Brad Weiss
ISBN:9789004138605

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Brad Weiss, Ph.D. (1992) University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary (USA) and is currently a Burkhardt Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies at the National Humanities Center. He wrote extensively on Tanzania.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contentious Futures: Past and Present, Brad Weiss1. Domestic Object(ion)s: The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Politics of Marriage Payments, Love, and State Privatization, Beth Anne Buggenhagen2. Neoliberalism, Homosexuality, Africa, the Anglican Church: The World Conference of Anglican Bishops at Lambeth, July 18–August 9, 1998, Neville Hoad3. Muslim Saints in the Age of Neoliberalism, Benjamin F. Soares4. “The Best Tradition Goes On”: Audience Consumption and the Transformation of Popular Theatre in Neoliberal Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley5. Ritual Haunts: The Timing of Estrangement in a Post-Apartheid Countryside, Hylton White6. “Real Men Reawaken their Fathers’ Homesteads, The Educated Leave them in Ruins”: The Politics of Domestic Reproduction in Post-Apartheid Rural South Africa, Zolani Ngwane7. Street Dreams: Inhabiting Masculine Fantasy in Neoliberal Tanzania, Brad Weiss8. Poetic Justice: Xhosa Idioms and Moral Breach in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Anne-Maria B. Makhulu9. Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education, and Their Enchantments in Neoliberal Kenya, James H. Smith10. “Satan Is an Imitator”: Kenya’s Recent Cosmology of Corruption, Robert BluntNotes on Afromodernity and the Neo World Order: An Afterword, Jean Comaroff and John L. ComaroffContributors Index