Research Catalog

Title

Producing African futures : ritual and reproduction in a neoliberal age / edited by Brad Weiss.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weiss, Brad.
• American Anthropological Association
• University of Chicago

Description

viii, 356 p. : 1 ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; v. 26

Uniform Title

Studies on religion in Africa ; 26.

Subject

• Liberalism > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Liberalism > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
• Liberalism > Religious aspects
• Liberalism > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Religion > Congresses
• Africa, Sub-Saharan > Religion

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a conference held at the American Anthropological Association and a conference entitled "Neo-Liberalism and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Africa" which was held in December 2000 by the Committee on African and African-American Studies at the University of Chicago.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : contentious futures : past and present / Brad Weiss -- 1. Domestic object(ion)s : the Senegalese Murid trade diaspora and the politics of marriage payments, love, and state privatization / Beth Anne Buggenhagen -- 2. Neoliberalism, homosexuality, Africa, the Anglican Church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops at Lambeth, July 18-August 9, 1998 / Neville Hoad -- 3. Muslim saints in the age of neoliberalism / Benjamin F. Soares -- 4. "The best tradition goes on" : audience consumption and the transformation of popular theatre in neoliberal Ghana / Jesse Weaver Shipley -- 5. Ritual haunts : the timing of estrangement in a post-apartheid countryside / Hylton White -- 6. "Real men reawaken their fathers' homesteads, the educated leave them in ruins" : the politics of domestic reproduction in post-apartheid rural South Africa / Zolani Ngwane -- 7. Street dreams : inhabiting masculine fantasy in neoliberal Tanzania / Brad Weiss -- 8. Poetic justice : Xhosa idioms and moral breach in post-apartheid South Africa / Anne-Maria B. Makhulu -- 9. Of spirit possession and structural adjustment programs : government downsizing, education, and their enchantments in neoliberal Kenya / James H. Smith -- 10. "Satan is an imitator" : Kenya's recent cosmology of corruption / Robert Blunt -- Note on Afromodernity and the neo world order : afterword / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff.

ISBN

9004138609 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004040779

OCLC

• 54373122
• SCSB-12674623

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library