Catastrophe and Creation: The transformation of an African culture: 5 (Studies in Anthropology and History) - Hardcover

Friedmann, K. Elkholm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3718651866 ISBN 13: 9783718651863

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis:

This book is an historical anthropological study of Congolese society (primarily the Lower Congo region) in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its primary focus is the transition from a pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global anthropology" that seeks to understand social and cultural transformation as the historical product of global relations. Friedman demonstrates that much of "traditional" Congolese society and culture is a product of the transformation generated by integration of the region into the world system. He shows that phenomena that have been accepted as fixed cultural structure such as the kinship system, fetishism and cannibalism are historical products of a turbulent transition. The book combines structural analysis of social and cultural logics with a framework that stretches from the self to the global system to grasp the nature of social transformation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 3718651866
• ISBN 13: 9783718651863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284