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African philosophy as cultural inquiry
- Title
- African philosophy as cultural inquiry / edited by Ivan Karp and D.A. Masolo.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vii, 270 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- African systems of thought
- Subject
- Philosophy, African
- Note
- "Published in association with the International African Institute, London".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Tok Af, Lef Af": a political economy of Temne techniques of secrecy and self / Rosalind Shaw -- Islam among the humors: destiny and agency among the Swahili / David Parkin -- Some African conceptions of person: a critique / Didier N. Kaphagawani -- The play of deconstruction in the speech of Africa: the role of Pakruok and Ngero in telling culture in Dholuo / Peter S.O. Amuka -- Personhood and art: social change and commentary among the Acoli / J.P. Odoch Pido -- Forging unions and negotiating ambivalence: personhood and complex agency in Okiek marriage arrangement / Corinne A. Kratz -- Our problem of knowledge: brief reflections on knowledge and development in Africa / Kwasi Wiredu -- The topic of change / F. Eboussi-Boulaga -- Chéri Samba's postcolonial reinvention of modernity / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Luo perspectives on knowledge and development: Samuel G. Ayany and Paul Mbuya / E.S. Atieno-Odhiambo.
- Call Number
- Sc E 01-649
- ISBN
- 0253214173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253338085 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00038870
- OCLC
- 43913249
- Title
- African philosophy as cultural inquiry / edited by Ivan Karp and D.A. Masolo.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.
- Series
- African systems of thought
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Karp, Ivan.Masolo, D. A.International African Institute.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 01-649