Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
| Title | Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2007 |
| Series Editor | M.E. de Bruijn, R.A. van Dijk, and J.B. Gewald |
| Series title | African dynamics |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pagination | - 344 |
| Date Published | 2007/// |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Place Published | Leiden |
| Publication Language | eng |
| ISSN Number | 1568-1777 |
| Keywords | Africa, Angola, Chad, children, diaspora, dreams, empowerment, Herero, images, Kapsiki, Pentecostalism, religion, social conditions, social sciences, South Africa, women, youth, Zimbabwe |
| Abstract | This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. It emphasizes the possibilities individuals and social groups perceive when faced with the constraints that tend to mark African social life. Contributions: Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa: an introduction (Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn and Jan-Bart Gewald); Manchester as the birth place of modern agency research: the Manchester School explained from the perspective of Evans-Pritchard's book 'The Nuer' (Wim van Binsbergen); Dreams and agency during Angola's war of independence (Inge Brinkman); Chief Hosea Kutako: a Herero royal and Namibian nationalist's life against confinement 1870-1970 (Jan-Bart Gewald); Agency in Kapsiki religion: a comparative approach (Wouter van Beek); Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: la transformation des relations domestiques dans les ménages des Congolais de la diaspora (Julie Ndaya); From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals (Thomas Widlok); The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Otrude N. Moyo); Images of Africa: agency and nature conservation in South Africa (Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels); Solitary births in Téra, Niger: a local quest for safety (Gertie Janssen); Agency in and from the margins: street children and youth in N'Djaména, Chad (Mirjam de Bruijn); Negotiating the memory of Fulbe hierarchy among mobile elite women (Lotte Pelckmans); The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism: towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (Rijk van Dijk); Epilogue: theorizing agency in and on Africa: the questions are key (Francis B. Nyamnjoh). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
| IR handle/ Full text URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1887/18528 |
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| Citation Key | 3710 |