Anthropology & Africa

No one working in Africa today or studying Africa in any discipline whatever can afford to ignore the anthropological literature. It has long been the foundational background for a variety of African studies. However, there has never been a succinct historical description of the way the Africanist field has evolved in anthropology, together with a broad bibliographical guide. This book supplies that basic information. But it does more It reviews the field as a controversial history of ideas. African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.


Author: Sally Falk Moore
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 04/29/1994
Pages: 164
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.62w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780813915050
About the Author
Sally Falk Moore is Victor Thomas Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She is the author of Social Facts and Fabrications: Customary Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980; Law as Process; and Power and Property in Inca Peru.