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African futures :

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022640241X

(Number (ISBN

9780226402413

Erroneous ISBN

022640224X

Erroneous ISBN

022640238X

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9780226402246

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9780226402383

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African futures :

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[Book]

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essays on crisis, emergence, and possibility /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio.

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London :

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The University of Chicago Press,

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[2016]

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©2016

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1 online resource

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Most contributions derive from an invited session on "African Futures in Crisis", held at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 2010.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa's future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.

Title

African futures.

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022640224X

Forecasting.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Prognose

Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

Soziale Situation

Africa, Forecasting, Congresses.

Africa, Social conditions, 21st century, Congresses.

Africa.

Afrika

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POL-- 038000

SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 022000

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Goldstone, Brian

Obarrio, Juan

American Anthropological Association., Annual Meeting(109th :2010 :, New Orleans, La.)

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20200822102306.0

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