AFRIKA AFRICAN STUDIES

Yacouba Konaté NEU
Croquis de frontières, profils de passeurs
L’art contemporain africain en perspective
Le départ est un thème dans l’histoire de l’art moderne
et contemporain en Afrique: depuis au moins l’an
2000 plusieurs pièces exposent une lucidité critique
vis-à-vis des restrictions souvent inhumaines. Le développement
de l’art moderne et contemporain en Afrique
doit beaucoup à l’action de passeurs. Sous leur égide,
des rencontres ont révélé des artistes les uns aux autres,
des emprunts ont été contractés, des brassages et des
métissages consommés, des compagnonnages fécondés.
48 S., 9,90 €, br., ISBN 978-3-643-80003-9
Gerd Spittler
Founders of the Anthropology of Work
German Social Scientists of the 19th and Early
20th Centuries and the First Ethnographers
Work is vital for most individuals and for every society.
Yet it leads a Cinderella-like existence within social
anthropology. Even today we can learn from older social
scientists like Karl Marx, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl,
Karl Bücher, Eduard Hahn, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Max
Weber. Comparing industrial and non-industrial work,
they were interested in the character of work as performance,
play or ethical deed, and as rational action. Due
to a lack of ethnographic studies, the empirical basis of
their analysis remained weak. A serious ethnography of
work was started by Karl Weule, Richard Thurnwald,
and Bronislaw Malinowski. Having close links to the
older social scientists they introduced new perspectives
based on fieldwork in Africa and Melanesia.
320 S., 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-0780-1
Auswahl
Christoph Marx NEU
Oxwagon Sentinel
Radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the History of
the Ossewabrandwag
This new approach to the social history of Afrikaner
nationalism looks into the diverse causes for the rise of
a political movement which was to shape South African
history profoundly during the 20th Century. In the
1930s Afrikaner nationalism transformed itself from
a populist into a cultural nationalism, becoming politically
radicalised at the same time. The nationalist
symbol of the oxwagon was used not only by the National
Party, but also by the extra- and antiparliamentarian
mass movement Ossewabrandwag, which was founded
in 1939. Drawing on a broad range of archival resources
the social history of this extremist organisation
is analysed, showing local and regional differences. The
Ossewabrandwag as a nationalist movement counted
a considerable part of the Afrikaans white population
among its members.
672 S., 49,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-9797-0
Erdmute Alber; Sjaak van der Geest;
Susan R. Whyte (Eds.)
Generations in Africa
Connections and Conflicts
Though long neglected in anthropological research, the
connections and conflicts between generations are at
the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies
examine relations between generations of kin and
between historical and political generations.
The topics range from grandmother’s cooking, migrant
remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy,
Valentine’s Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious
virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint,
and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate
and expand the old anthropological interest in
generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding
contemporary African societies.
432 S., 39,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-0715-3
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Alan Bryden; Boubacar N’Diaye;
Funmi Olonisakin (Eds.) NEU
Challenges of Security Sector
Governance in West Africa
There is currently no comprehensive study of the status
of security sector governance in West Africa. Many
efforts to understand governance of the security sector
in Africa have been directed either at individual countries
or at providing a general analysis of the state and
security in Africa. This book is intended to contribute
to confidence and peace-building through developing a
better understanding of the challenges of security sector
governance and generating practical policy recommendations
based on work conducted by West African
experts. It analyses the nature of security sector governance
in each of the 16 West African states, provides an
assessment of the effectiveness of governance mechanisms,
in particular relating to democratic oversight of
the security sector, and takes into account the regional
and international dimensions to the issue.
432 pp., 29,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-8681-3
Karl Wohlmuth; Reuben Adeolu Alabi;
Philippe Burger; Achim Gutowski;
Afeikhena Jerome; Tobias Knedlik;
Mareike Meyn; Tino Urban (Eds.) NEU
New Growth and Poverty Alleviation
Strategies for Africa – Institutional and
Local Perspectives
Institutional issues and perspectives in designing new
growth and poverty alleviation strategies are considered
in various case studies (Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Botswana
and Tanzania). Other studies deal with institutional
problems of resource-rich countries after conflict
(Sudan), and with the institutions to enhance environmental
protection parallel with economic growth and
poverty reduction (Niger).
576 S., 69,90 €, pb., ISBN 978-3-8258-1966-8