Africa And The Disciplines

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Africa And The Disciplines

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Author : Robert H. Bates
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-12

Africa And The Disciplines written by Robert H. Bates and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-12 with Education categories.

African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders touch those of economics, literature, history, philosophy, and art; its history is the story of the world, both ancient and modern. This is the clear conclusion of Africa and the Disciplines, a book that addresses the question: Why should Africa be studied in the American university? This question was put to distinguished scholars in the social sciences and humanities, prominent Africanists who are also leaders in their various disciplines. Their responses make a strong and enlightening case for the importance of research on Africa to the academy. Paul Collier's essay, for example, shows how studies of African economies have clarified our understanding of the small open economies, and contributed to the theory of repressed inflation and to a number of areas in microeconomics as well. Art historian Suzanne Blier uses the terms and concepts that her discipline has applied to Africa to analyze the habits of mind and social practice of her own field. Christopher L. Miller describes the confounding and enriching impact of Africa on European and American literary theory. Political scientist Richard Sklar outlines Africa's contributions to the study of political modernization, pluralism, and rational choice. These essays, together with others from scholars in history, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative literature, attest to the influence of African research throughout the curriculum. For many, knowledge from Africa seems distant and exotic. These powerful essays suggest the contrary: that such knowledge has shaped the way in which scholars in various disciplines understand their worlds. Eloquent testimony to Africa's necessary place in the mainstream of American education, this book should alter the academy's understanding of the significance of African research, its definition of core and periphery in human knowledge. "These essays are at once exceptionally thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive. Not only do they offer an unusually interesting overview of African studies; they are also striking for the depth and freshness of their insights. This is the sort of volume from which both seasoned regional experts and students stand to learn an enormous amount."—John Comaroff, University of Chicago "These essays provide an important perspective on the evolution of African studies and offer insights into what Africa can mean for the different humanistic and social science disciplines. Many show in ingenious and subtle ways the enormous potential that the study of Africa has for confounding the main tenets of established fields. One could only hope that the strictures expressed here would be taken to heart in the scholarly world."—Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University

The African Diaspora And The Disciplines

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Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010

The African Diaspora And The Disciplines written by Tejumola Olaniyan and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives that take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly global way.

Philosophy From Africa

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Author : Pieter Hendrik Coetzee
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002

Philosophy From Africa written by Pieter Hendrik Coetzee and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Philosophy categories.

In eight introductory essays and collections of readings, South African voices engage with voices from Francophone Africa and Anglophone Africa to provide an introduction to the work of leading thinkers from across Africa.

Globalizing Africa

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Author : Malinda Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Globalizing Africa written by Malinda Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.

"At the outset of the twenty-first century, Afropessimism permeates both the scholarly and popular literatures on Africa. In the dominant discourses, Africa is constructed as ""hopeless,"" ""hemmed in,"" on the periphery, and even as ""left out"" of the global e"

Africa

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974

Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Philosophy, African categories.

Africanizing Knowledge

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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-30

Africanizing Knowledge written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with History categories.

Nearly four decades ago, Terence Ranger questioned to what extent African history was actually African, and whether methods and concerns derived from Western historiography were really sufficient tools for researching and narrating African history. Despite a blossoming and branching out of Africanist scholarship in the last twenty years, that question is still haunting. The most prestigious locations for production of African studies are outside Africa itself, and scholars still seek a solution to this paradox. They agree that the ideal solution would be a flowering of institutions of higher learning within Africa which would draw not only Africanist scholars, but also financial resources to the continent. While the focus of this volume is on historical knowledge, the effort to make African scholarship "more African" is fundamentally interdisciplinary. The essays in this volume employ several innovative methods in an effort to study Africa on its own terms. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "Africanizing African History," offers several diverse methods for bringing distinctly African modes of historical discourse to the foreground in academic historical research. Part 2, "African Creative Expression in Context," presents case studies of African art, literature, music, and poetry. It attempts to strip away the exotic or primitivist aura such topics often accumulate when presented in a foreign setting in order to illuminate the social, historical, and aesthetic contexts in which these works of art were originally produced. Part 3, "Writing about Colonialism," demonstrates that the study of imperialism in Africa remains a springboard for innovative work, which takes familiar ideas about Africa and considers them within new contexts. Part 4, "Scholars and Their Work," critically examines the process of African studies itself, including the roles of scholars in the production of knowledge about Africa. This timely and thoughtful volume will be of interest to African studies scholars and students who are concerned about the ways in which Africanist scholarship might become "more African."

Africa And The Archive

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Author : Jared Banks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Africa And The Archive written by Jared Banks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.

The Unity Of African Ancient History

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Author : Felix Chami
language : en
Publisher: E&d Limited
Release Date : 2006

The Unity Of African Ancient History written by Felix Chami and has been published by E&d Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

In one the first studies to gather data from as many related disciplines as possible – linguistics and etymology, anthropology and rock art, and drawing on new archaeological findings and re-readings of historical documents, the author traces the contours of ancient cultural and trade links between the various peoples and polities of ancient Africa. The aim is to discern patterns of peopling and history of the continent, and rediscover unknown cultural systems and dynamics of ancient sub-Saharan Africa. By demonstrating how Africa people developed culturally, exchanged knowledge and migrated, the study challenges denials of early African cultural sophistication, setting an important agenda for future research directions.

Africa

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Author : Phyllis M. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Midland Books
Release Date : 1977

Africa written by Phyllis M. Martin and has been published by Midland Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.

African Sociological Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

African Sociological Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Africa categories.