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Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination
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9781580461795
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9781580461795
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Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination
$42.75
An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners. Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory -- an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines -- ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them -- to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation. Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand and author of over a dozen books on African history and religion. She holds an Oxford doctorate, and aD.Litt from the University of Canterbury, and is a fellow of the Royal Society [N.Z.]
| Author: Elizabeth Isichei |
| Publisher: University of Rochester Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 01, 2004 |
| Number of Pages: 297 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1580461794 |
| ISBN-13: 9781580461795 |
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