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Fashioning Futures - Uncertainty And Young Women'S Livelihoods In Urban Nigeria

by Juliet (University Of Birmingham) Gilbert

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 Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in urban Nigeria to realise respectable futures. Moving from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, Juliet Gilbert explores how these women fashion themselves in a city shaped by Pentecostal fervour and patriarchal conservatism.
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Fashioning Futures - Uncertainty And Young Women'S Livelihoods In Urban Nigeria

by Juliet (University Of Birmingham) Gilbert

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 Through vibrant ethnographic storytelling, this study reveals how young women capitalise on uncertainty in urban Nigeria to realise respectable futures. Moving from the house to church, sewing shops and beauty salons, Juliet Gilbert explores how these women fashion themselves in a city shaped by Pentecostal fervour and patriarchal conservatism.
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Disability And Distribution - Becoming A Valuable Person In Kinshasa

by Clara (Universite De Lausanne, Switzerland) Devlieger

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 Set in the postcolonial city of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnography considers how disabled persons navigate debates about the distribution of resources in a setting with little state organised welfare. Clara Devlieger examines controversial niches deemed as imperfect alternatives, which shape routes towards being considered a 'valuable person'
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Disability And Distribution - Becoming A Valuable Person In Kinshasa

by Clara (Universite De Lausanne, Switzerland) Devlieger

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 Set in the postcolonial city of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnography considers how disabled persons navigate debates about the distribution of resources in a setting with little state organised welfare. Clara Devlieger examines controversial niches deemed as imperfect alternatives, which shape routes towards being considered a 'valuable person'
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Peasants To Paupers - Land, Class, And Kinship In Central Kenya

by Peter (University Of Manchester) Lockwood

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 This study examines the fate of smallholder families in central Kenya during a period of rapid change, as Nairobi's urban sprawl approaches. Peter Lockwood focuses on tensions over land within families and the emergence of a new class of land-poor youth. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Nuer Messianic Judaism - Truth And Mediation In The Ethiopia-South Sudan Borderlands

by Yotam (Ku Leuven, Belgium) Gidron

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 Traces the rise and evolution of Christian Zionist and Messianic Jewish faiths among Nuer communities in the Ethiopia-South Sudan borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ethiopia's Gambella region, Yotam Gidron explores processes of religious change and pursuits of knowledge from the perspective of believers.
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Dress Cultures In Zambia - Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, And Everyday Life

by Karen Tranberg (Northwestern University, Illinois) Hansen

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 Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.
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Relative Distance - Kinship, Migration, And Christianity Between Kenya And The United Kingdom

by Leslie (University Of Birmingham) Fesenmyer

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 Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas â€" moral, material, and affective â€" facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.
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Water And Aid In Mozambique - Gendered Perspectives Of Change

by Emily Van Houweling

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 Centring the experiences of men and women affected by rural water projects in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling provides insights into the failures of the current aid model in the region. By engaging with debates on women's empowerment, she facilitates new ways of thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.
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Decolonizing Heritage - Time To Repair In Senegal

by Ferdinand (Freie Universitat Berlin) De Jong

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 Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
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Learning Morality, Inequalities, And Faith - Christian And Muslim Schools In Tanzania

by Hansjorg (Freie Universitat Berlin) Dilger

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 Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country's educational sector, and students', parents' and teachers' quests for a â€œgood lifeâ€ in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.
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Privileged Precariat - White Workers And South Africa'S Long Transition To Majority Rule

by Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann

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 A rethinking of South Africa's recent past, this book presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, from the 1970s to present, placing this in the context of global debates on neoliberalism and identity politics.
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Islam In A Zongo - Muslim Lifeworlds In Asante, Ghana

by Benedikt Pontzen

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 Drawing on empirical and archival research, this ethnography is an exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in Ghana's Asante region, demonstrating the interconnectedness of Islam with people's lives in a zongo community.
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Inventing An African Alphabet - Writing, Art, And Kongo Culture In The Drc

by Ramon Sarró

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Inventing An African Alphabet - Writing, Art, And Kongo Culture In The Drc

by Ramon Sarró

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 In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958-2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now has thousands of learners in not only the Democratic Republic of Congo, but also France, Angola and many other countries. Drawing upon Ramon Sarró''s personal friendship with Wabeladio, this book tells the story of Wabeladio, his alphabet and the creativity that both continue to inspire. A member of the Kimbanguist church, which began as an anticolonial movement in 1921, Wabeladio and his script were deeply influenced by spirituality and Kongo culture. Combining biography, art, and religion, Sarró explores a range of ideas, from the role of pilgrimage and landscape in Wabeladio''s life, to the intricacies and logic of Mandombe. Sarró situates the creative individual within a rich context of anthropological, historical and philosophical scholarship, offering a new perspective on the relationships between imagination, innovation and revelation.
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Dress Cultures In Zambia - Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, And Everyday Life

by Karen Tranberg (Northwestern University, Illinois) Hansen

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 Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.
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Relative Distance - Kinship, Migration, And Christianity Between Kenya And The United Kingdom

by Leslie (University Of Birmingham) Fesenmyer

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 Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas â€" moral, material, and affective â€" facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.
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Crossing Religious Boundaries - Islam, Christianity, And Â€˜Yoruba Religion' In Lagos, Nigeria

by Marloes Janson

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 A rich ethnography of religions, religious pluralism and practice in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, and of lived experiences within Islam, Christianity, and 'Yoruba religion'.
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Inventing An African Alphabet - Writing, Art, And Kongo Culture In The Drc

by Ramon (University Of Oxford) Sarro

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 Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon SarrÃ³ combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.
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Water And Aid In Mozambique - Gendered Perspectives Of Change

by Emily Van Houweling

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 Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors'' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women''s empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.
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Water And Aid In Mozambique - Gendered Perspectives Of Change

by Emily Van Houweling

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors'' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women''s empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.
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Pandemic Kinship - Families, Intervention, And Social Change In Botswana''S Time Of Aids

by Koreen M. Reece

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Pandemic Kinship - Families, Intervention, And Social Change In Botswana''S Time Of Aids

by Koreen M. Reece

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 Shaped around the stories of one extended family, their friends, neighbours, and community, Pandemic Kinship provides an intimate portrait of everyday life in Botswana''s time of AIDS. It challenges assumptions about a ''crisis of care'' unfolding in the wake of the pandemic, showing that care - like other aspects of Tswana kinship - is routinely in crisis, and that the creative ways families navigate such crises make them kin. In Setswana, conflict and crisis are glossed as dikgang, and negotiating dikgang is an ethical practice that generates and reorients kin relations over time. Governmental and non-governmental organisations often misread the creativity of crisis, intervening in ways that may prove more harmful than the problems they set out to solve. Moving between family discussions, community events, and the daily work of orphan care projects and social work offices, Pandemic Kinship provides provocative insights into how we manage change in pandemic times.
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Decolonizing Heritage - Time To Repair In Senegal

by Ferdinand De Jong

~~39,74€~~ 31,79€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
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