SOSANT1131 Africa
Background reading:
Howell, Signe, et al.: Fjern og n?r: sosialantropologiske perspektiver p? verdens samfunn og kulturer, 1996. Oslo: Ad notam Gyldendal. Les: Kapitler om Afrika, sidene 128-199 (71 sider).
Books that need to be bought at Akademika or borrowed from the library
@ Ferguson, J.: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, 2006. Durham: Duke University Press. (Les hele boken).
Articles in the compendium:
Fortes, M.: "Culture contact as a dynamic process. An investigation in the northern territories of the Gold Coast" in Africa 9(1), 1936. Sidene 24-56 (22 sider).
Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff: "Occult Economics and the violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony" in American Ethnologist. A Journal of the American Anthropological Association, 26 (2) , 2000. pp 279-303.
De Boeck, F.: "Ch. 1: Beyond the Grave. History, Memory and Death in Postclonial Congo/Za?re" in Werbner, R. P.: Memory and the Postcolony. African Anthropology and the Critique of Power, 1998. Zed Books. ISBN:?1856495922. pp. 21-57.
Prince, R.: "Salvation and Tradition. Configurations of Faith in a Time of Death" in Journal of Religion in Africa, 37, 2007. pp. 84-115.
Apter, A.: "Ch.10: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion" in Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff: Civil society and the Political Imagination in Africa. Critical Perspectives, 1999. University of Chicago Press. ISBN:?0226114147. pp. 267-307.
Sanders, T.: "Reconsidering Witchcraft. Postcolonial Africa and Analytic (Un)certainties" in American Anthropologist, 2003. pp. 338-352.
Fairhead, J., Leach, M. and M. Small: "Where Techno-science meets Poverty. Medical Research and the Economy of Blood in The Gambia, West Africa" in Social Science and Medecine 63, 2006. Pergamon Press. pp. 1109-1120.
Masquelier, A.: "Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Facade. Imagining the State in Rural Nigeria" in Public Culture, 13(2), 2001. Duke University Press. pp. 267-291.
Articles accessible on the web
Mitchell, J. C.: The Kalela Dance. Aspects of Social Relationships among Urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia., 1956. Manchester, Manchester UP on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute. Sidene 1-44 (43 sider). http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Kalela/.