Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa In Focus - Hardcover

Bond, George Clement

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081333974X ISBN 13: 9780813339740

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories brings together intellectuals from a variety of fields, backgrounds, generations, and continents to deepen and reinvigorate the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies. Building on recent debate within African studies that has revolved about the role of Africanists in the United States as "gatekeepers" of knowledge about Africa and Africans, this volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the contested character of the production of knowledge itself. In every chapter, case studies and ethnographic materials, drawn from West, Central, East and Southern Africa, demonstrate the application of theory to concrete situations.

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About the Author

George Clement Bond, former Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University and a member of the Council of the International African Institute (London), is a Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College Columbia University. He is a co-editor of several books, including AIDS in African and the Caribbean (Westview). Nigel Gibson, former Assistant Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College and also a research associate in the Afro-American Studies program at both Brown and at Harvard University. He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 081333974X
• ISBN 13: 9780813339740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450