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Title Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa / edited by Miriam [sic] de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; v. 6
African dynamics ; 6.
Contents Figures; Maps; Photographs; Preface; 1 Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa: An introduction (Rijk van Dijk, Mirjam de Bruijn & Jan-Bart Gewald); 2 Manchester as the birth place of modern agency research: The Manchester School explained from the perspective of Evans-Pritchard's Book The Nuer (Wim van Binsbergen); 3 Dreams and agency during Angola's War of Independence (Inge Brinkman); 4 Chief Hosea Kutako: A Herero royal and Namibian nationalist's life against confinement 1870-1970 (Jan-Bart Gewald); 5 Agency in Kapsiki religion: A comparative approach (Wouter van Beek)
6 Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel: La transformation des relations domestiques dans les ménages des Congolais de la diaspora (Julie Ndaya)7 From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals (Thomas Widlok); 8 The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Otrude N. Moyo); 9 Images of Africa: Agency and nature conservation in South Africa (Malcolm Draper, Marja Spierenburg & Harry Wels); 10 Solitary births in Téra, Niger: A local quest for safety (Gertie Janssen)
11 Agency in and from the margins: Street children and youth in N'djaména, Chad (Mirjam de Bruijn)12 Negotiating the memory of Fulbe hierarchy among mobile elite women (Lotte Pelckmans); 13 The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; Towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency (Rijk van Dijk); Epilogue Theorizing agency in and on Africa: The questions are key (Francis B. Nyamnjoh); List of Authors
Summary Drawing on a range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes One paper in French
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Subject PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Social conditions
Gesellschaft
Soziale Situation
Gestaltungsfreiheit
Handlungskompetenz
Handlungsfähigkeit
Politik
Agency theorie.
Sociale verandering.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Africa
Afrika
Subsaharisches Afrika
Afrika.
Form Electronic book
Author Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
Gewald, Jan-Bart.
ISBN 9789047421030
9047421035
1281921246
9781281921246
9786611921248
6611921249