Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some elements of the scholarly debate on the postcolonial turn in academia, in and of Africa, and in anthropology in particular. It is a part of the context in which anthropology remains unpopular among many African intellectuals. How do local knowledge practices take up existential issues and epistemological perspectives that may interrogate and enrich more global transcultural debates and scholarly reflexivity? Many an anthropologist still resists opening his or her mind up to life-worlds unfolding themselves through the interplay between everyday practice and the manifold actions and messages of humans, ancestors and non-human agents in sites of emerging mea...
A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its co...
Culture, the customary, and the role of (colonial) anthropology in creating these remain critical pr...
We are currently witnessing the increased diversification of the field of academic knowledge product...
Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some element...
Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some element...
Abstract: Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some elem...
This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial t...
M WENDA NTARANGWI , D AVID M ILLS AND M USTAFA B ABIKER (eds). African Anthropologies: History, Crit...
Der Übersichtsartikel erörtert aus einer anthropologischen Perspektive die Geschichte der Afrikastud...
In this article it is argued that, since the abuse of anthropology in the colonial and apartheid era...
Images about Africa in the northern hemisphere are generally negative and pessimistic. In spite of i...
East Africa is known the world over for its extensive contribution to the history of humankind espec...
After having been relegated to the austere halls of academia for centuries, in the last decades huma...
The article is a reflection on the place, tasks and purpose of cultural anthropology in the contempo...
“Ethnography as tradition in Africa” is our way of stressing that our discipline’s favoured methodol...
A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its co...
Culture, the customary, and the role of (colonial) anthropology in creating these remain critical pr...
We are currently witnessing the increased diversification of the field of academic knowledge product...
Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some element...
Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some element...
Abstract: Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, this paper discusses some elem...
This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial t...
M WENDA NTARANGWI , D AVID M ILLS AND M USTAFA B ABIKER (eds). African Anthropologies: History, Crit...
Der Übersichtsartikel erörtert aus einer anthropologischen Perspektive die Geschichte der Afrikastud...
In this article it is argued that, since the abuse of anthropology in the colonial and apartheid era...
Images about Africa in the northern hemisphere are generally negative and pessimistic. In spite of i...
East Africa is known the world over for its extensive contribution to the history of humankind espec...
After having been relegated to the austere halls of academia for centuries, in the last decades huma...
The article is a reflection on the place, tasks and purpose of cultural anthropology in the contempo...
“Ethnography as tradition in Africa” is our way of stressing that our discipline’s favoured methodol...
A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its co...
Culture, the customary, and the role of (colonial) anthropology in creating these remain critical pr...
We are currently witnessing the increased diversification of the field of academic knowledge product...