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Title

Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture / edited by Wim van Binsbergen & Rijk van Dijk.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.
• Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-

Description

vii, 314 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Situating Globality challenges the dominant view according to which globalization is a primary threat to African societies and cultures. It explores how, in the face of declining economies, Africans, far from being passive and victimized, exercise their agency in situating globality, i.e. in selectively and creatively appropriating elements of the emerging global culture.
• The book argues the significance of this appropriation in ongoing local struggles, the expression of critical thinking, ideologies, and ritual styles of behaviour. Situating Globality straddles the divide between anthropological and philosophical representations of Africa in the new world order.
• It combines a focus on micro-level processes of strategic cultural appropriation, with explorations of reflexivity, creativity and the production of knowledge. The first section examines philosophical issues relating to the production of knowledge in and about Africa from a globalizing perspective, while the subsequent sections include case studies showing how these processes are accommodated in everyday life.
• This volume should be of great value to all readers interested in the study of cultural globalization from the perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, political science and international relations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; 3

Uniform Title

African dynamics 3.

Subject

• Globalization > Social aspects > Africa > Congresses
• Group identity > Africa > Congresses
• Mass media > Social aspects > Africa > Congresses
• Religion and sociology > Africa > Congresses
• Africa > Social conditions > 1960- > Congresses
• Africa > Civilization > Congresses
• Africa > Religion > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture / Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald -- Globality through appropriation: Analyses at the continental level -- Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? / Wim van Binsbergen -- 'Man will live well': On the poetics of corruption in a global age / Sanya Osha -- Globality through world religions -- 'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain / Rijk van Dijk -- Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal / Roy Dilley -- How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women's value in an Islamic town of Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Globality and African historic religions -- The social life of secrets / Ferdinand de Jong -- The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia / Thera Rasing.

ISBN

9004131337 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003069628

OCLC

• 53971650
• SCSB-12768089

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library