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Negotiating Modernity
El Sio Salva Macamo
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Description for Negotiating Modernity
Paperback. An examination of Africa's experience of modernity which draws out its wider implications for social theory Editor(s): Macamo, Elisio Salvado. Series: Africa in the New Millennium. Num Pages: 256 pages, Tables Notes References Index. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Modernity is the unfinished business of our times. In the case of Africa, as the scholars contributing to this volume show, the continent has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Most work has tended to emphasize, on the one hand, its alien nature in Africa and, on the other, the ways in which Africans have resisted it. While acknowledging this tension, the authors of this volume seek to show the extent to which this very tension has been constitutive of African social reality. Modernity is understood as the basic impulse behind the construction of changing African society over ... Read more
Modernity is the unfinished business of our times. In the case of Africa, as the scholars contributing to this volume show, the continent has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Most work has tended to emphasize, on the one hand, its alien nature in Africa and, on the other, the ways in which Africans have resisted it. While acknowledging this tension, the authors of this volume seek to show the extent to which this very tension has been constitutive of African social reality. Modernity is understood as the basic impulse behind the construction of changing African society over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Africa in the New Millennium
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842776179
SKU
V9781842776179
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About El Sio Salva Macamo
Elisio Macamo is lecturer in development sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is also a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa) and serves on the scientific advisory board of the journals Afrika Spektrum and Indilinga - African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
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