Reclaiming the human sciences and humanities through African perspectives /

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Other Authors: Lauer, Helen, Anyidoho, Kofi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012.
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260 |a Accra, Ghana :  |b Sub-Saharan Publishers,  |c 2012. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Overview -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors to Volume One -- Section One -- Chapter One -- SOCIAL SCIENCE AS IMPERIALISM -- General Problems of Methodological and Ideological Bias in Western Social Science -- Equation of ideal to reality -- The capitalist bias -- Social science as imperialism -- The technical sense of imperialism -- Political science -- Economics -- Sociology -- Nineteenth century origins of developmental categories 
505 8 |a Individualism and capitalist valuesChapter Two -- NATIONALISING AFRICA, CULTURALISING THE WEST, AND REFORMULATING THE HUMANITIES IN AFRICA -- Humanities and social consent -- The search for Africana -- Anthropologising the West -- The perils of modernity -- Action time -- Re-inhabiting the universities -- Chapter Three -- GLOBALISATION AND THE AFRICAN SCHOLAR -- Power base -- The politics of mainstream -- Languages -- Editorial segregation -- Culture and scholarship -- Imitative agenda -- Access and local knowledge -- Indigenous consciousness 
505 8 |a How intellectual?A politicianâ€?s vision -- Laments of tradition bearers -- Alienation as tragedy -- Orality and writing -- A new order -- Proviso -- Chapter Four -- KNOWLEDGE AS A PUBLIC GOOD IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION -- Globalisation -- Public good -- Limiting knowledge access -- Trips -- Antics of the AIDS drug industry -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five -- TOWARD AN AFRICAN CRITIQUE OF AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHY: THE USEFULNESS OF THE USELESS -- Functions of language in ethnography: Mead versus Lowie -- Data quality control and native language familiarity 
505 8 |a The ethnographerâ€?s magic: the discovery of â€?structuresâ€?The problem of â€?paraliterate feedbackâ€? -- Native scholars and ethnography -- Fortes, Evans-Pritchard & Co. and data quality control -- Evans-Pritchard and the Nuer -- Frenetic search for meaning: Dunn and Robertson -- The new ethnography of Africa -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Chapter Six -- SILENCING POWER: MAPPING THE SOCIAL TERRAIN IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- Development as discourse -- The space of the NGO -- The virtuous community -- NGOs in South Africa: from struggle to development 
505 8 |a Working with the â€?communityâ€?Community as historical precipitate and community as interest group -- Conclusions -- Chapter Seven -- FOUNDATIONS OF AFRICAN SOCIAL THOUGHT: REVAMPING THE SCOPE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE -- The field of social thought -- Social thought, social theory and social myth -- Context of refl ection on social arrangements -- Agents and referents of social thought -- Primary resistance in social thought -- African response to Islamic, Christian, and colonial intrusion -- The nature of primary resistance -- Protest letter I 
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650 0 |a Humanities  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a National characteristics, African. 
650 0 |a Africans. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Colonial influence. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Civilization. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Intellectual life. 
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700 1 |a Anyidoho, Kofi. 
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