ISBN: 9781856495349

This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropol… More...

This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropologists to recognize their own complicity in producing a version of Africa that is often little more than a reflection of their own class-based, patriarchal thought. Professor Amadiume calls instead for a new history of Africa, made and written by Africans. This is such a book. The book * explores how imperialism, violence, patriarchy and class-based social structures - originally imposed by colonialism - have become internalized to result in a contemporary Africa cursed with neo-colonial states. * uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent * looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam * provides a guide to the main Afro-centric social theorists, writing a new social history of their continent. Dedicated to the diasporic African communities in their struggle to construct alternative, anti-racist and anti-imperialist epistemologies of self-representation and self-generated ideals, this is the beginning of a new vision of Africa, from the powerful voice of an African woman. Media > Book<

1998, ISBN: 9781856495349

Bloomsbury 3PL, Taschenbuch, 226 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-02-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: index, 0.55 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2734779, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Ehe & Fam… More...

Bloomsbury 3PL, Taschenbuch, 226 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-02-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: index, 0.55 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2734779, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Ehe & Familie, Soziologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Referenz, Kulturell, Anthropologie, Genderstudies, Afrika, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Fremdsprachige Bücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, Bloomsbury 3PL, 1998<