Mestizo Logics Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere

Name: Mestizo Logics Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere
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ISBN: 9780804724319

ISBN-10: 0804724318

ISBN-13: 9780804724319

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jean-Loup Amselle, Claudia Royal

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Amselle seeks to reverse the perspective and reasoning of anthropology and to develop an alternative mode of conceiving culture that would not automatically privilege the colonizing West. Source material is taken from fieldwork in West Africa.

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Preface to the English-Language Edition
Translator's Note
Introduction	p. 1
Ethnological Reason	p. 5
Tensions Within Culture	p. 25
Fulani, Bambara, Malinke: A System of Transformations	p. 43
The State and the Segmentary	p. 58
A Retracted State: Gwanan	p. 74
A Dominated Segmentary State: Jitumu	p. 94
White Paganism	p. 117
Cultural Identities and Cultural Models	p. 136
Understand in Order to Act: Mestizo Logics	p. 151
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 191
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