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Civil society and the political imagination in Africa : critical perspectives / edited by John L. and Jean Comaroff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago (USA) : University of Chicago Press, 1999.Description: xi, 318 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226114139
  • 9780226114132
  • 0226114147
  • 9780226114149
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JQ1879 .C58 1999
Contents:
Practicing citizenship in imperial Paris / Gary Wilder -- Developing Bushmen: building civil(ized) society in the Kalahari and beyond / Elizabeth Garland -- Civil society and its presuppositions: lessons from Uganda / Mikael Karlstr�om -- Colonial constructions: historicizing debates on civil society in Africa / William Cunningham Bissell -- Staging politisi: the dialogics of publicity and secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferne -- Civil lives: leadership and accomplishment in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: struggles for the realization of an alternative moral order in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Curl up and dye: civil society and the fashion-minded citizen / Amy Stambach -- IBB = 419: Nigerian democracy and the politics of illusion / Andrew Apter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Practicing citizenship in imperial Paris / Gary Wilder -- Developing Bushmen: building civil(ized) society in the Kalahari and beyond / Elizabeth Garland -- Civil society and its presuppositions: lessons from Uganda / Mikael Karlstr�om -- Colonial constructions: historicizing debates on civil society in Africa / William Cunningham Bissell -- Staging politisi: the dialogics of publicity and secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferne -- Civil lives: leadership and accomplishment in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: struggles for the realization of an alternative moral order in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Curl up and dye: civil society and the fashion-minded citizen / Amy Stambach -- IBB = 419: Nigerian democracy and the politics of illusion / Andrew Apter.

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