Voices of the Poor in Africa: : Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
Автор:Elizabeth Isichei Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 1580461077 "Isichei's fine book points the way to further integration between anthropology and history, providing a rich example of the means by which scholars can investigate popular consciousness by taking seriously the world of symbolic meaning." INTL J OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES Vol 36 No 2 (2003) Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumour and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed thesubject over the past twenty years. She brings together a wide range of disciplines - anthropology, fiction, art and art history, philosophy, and contemporary literary theory - to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premisses. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest at their exploitation by generation after generation of powerful foreigners and locals. ELIZABETH ISICHEI...
