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020			_a9780253351760 (Indiana : hbk.)
020			_a0253351766 (Indiana : hbk.)
020			_a9780253219961 (Indiana : pbk.)
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245	0	0	_aReadings in modernity in Africa / _cedited by Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer & Peter Pels.
260			_aLondon : _bInternational African Institute in association with Indiana University Press, James Currey, Unisa Press, _cc2008.
300			_aix, 226 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aReadings in--
500			_aTable of Contents Global discontent : abjection & the aftermath of modernism / James G. Ferguson Excerpts from Modernization : protest & change / S.N. Eisenstadt Fanti national constitution : administrative questions / John Mensah Sarbah The World Bank's changing discourse on development : from reliance on the state & "modernizing elites" to "bypassing the state" / World Bank Excerpts from Anthropology & development : understanding contemporary social change / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Excerpts from Buying futures : the upsurge of female entrepreneurship : crossing the formal/informal divide in southwest Cameroon / Margaret Niger-Thomas Report of the expedition sent by the government of Natal to instal Cetywayo as King of the Zulus / Theophilus Shepstone Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism / Julius Kambarage Nyerere The African Renaissance, South Africa & the world / Thabo Mbeki The pidginization of Luguru politics : administrative ethnography & the paradoxes of indirect rule / Peter Pels The resurgence of chiefs : retribalisation & modernity / Lungisile Ntsebeza Chiefs! Law, power & culture in contemporary South Africa / Barbara Oomen The African road to socialism / Leopold Sedar Senghor Society & ideology / Kwame Nkrumah African identities / Kwame Anthony Appiah Fait missionnaire & politics of the belly : a Foucaultian reading / Jean-Francois Bayart Rheumatic irony : questions of agency & self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits / Michael Lambek The new African : between nativism & cosmopolitanism / Achille Mbembe -- Staging Politisi : the dialogics of publicity & secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferme Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" & the second world / Filip de Boeck On the worlding of African cities / Abdoumaliq Simone Degraded images, distorted sounds : Nigerian video & the infrastructure of piracy / Brian Larkin Kwaku's car : the struggles & stories of a Ghanaian long-distance taxi driver / Jojada Verrips, Birgit Meyer Witch-hunting & political legitimacy : continuity & change in Green Valley, Lebowa, 1930-91 / Isak A. Niehaus The Convert : act one scene III & act two scene III / Francis Nyamnjoh Aura & icon in contemporary Senegal Between Paris and Bacongo & Dandies in Bacongo / Justin-Daniel Gandoulou Evolués & Feymen : old & new figures of modernity in Cameroon / Basile Ndijio A successful life in the illegal realm : smugglers & road bandits in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [x]) and index.
650		0	_aEthnology _zAfrica.
650	1	7	_aModerniteit. _2gtt
651		0	_aAfrica _xSocial policy.
651		0	_aAfrica _xEconomic policy.
651		0	_aAfrica _xHistory _y1960-
651		7	_aAfrika. _2gtt
700	1		_aGeschiere, Peter.
700	1		_aMeyer, Birgit.
700	1		_aPels, Peter.
830		0	_aReadings in-- (Bloomington, Ind.)
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