CiNii 図書 - Voices of the poor in Africa

An ambitious new approach to African studies, utilizing indigenous sources to bring back the voices of the native Africans in their own words rather than that of colonizers and foreigners. 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 the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines -- ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them -- to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation. Elizabeth Isichei is Professor of Religious Studies, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand and author of over a dozen books on African history and religion. She holds an Oxford doctorate, and aD.Litt from the University of Canterbury, and is a fellow of the Royal Society [N.Z.]

Introduction: Truth from Below An Overview The Slave Traders The Imported Commodities Cowries Transformations: Enslavement and the Middle Passage in African American Memory An Overview The Entrepreneur and the Zombie Colonial Vampires: The Theft of Life and Resources Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds Symbolic Money Dangerous Women in an Age of AIDS Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty Mami Wata: Icon of Ambiguity Symbolic Appropriations of Modernity Converging Worlds, Polarized Worlds: the Realm Beneath the Sea Revised Eating the State: Ridicule and the Crisis of the Quotidian Conclusion

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