No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct historical description of the way the Africanist field has evolved in anthropology, together with a broad bibliographical guide. This book supplies that basic information. But it does more It reviews the field as a controversial history of ideas. African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.
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No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct historical description of the way the Africanist field has evolved in anthropology, together with a broad bibliographical guide. This book supplies that basic information. But it does more It reviews the field as a controversial history of ideas. African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.
Imprint | University of Virginia Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | April 1994 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 1994 |
Authors | Sally Falk Moore |
Dimensions | 216 x 133 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 205 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8139-1505-0 |
Barcode | 9780813915050 |
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LSN | 0-8139-1505-8 |