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At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies.
Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.
Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2008Print ISBN
9780226669694, 9780226669687eBook ISBN
9780226189833Index
Abu-Lugod, Lila, 23, 172, 173, 198n. 1
agriculture. See cultivation
Amselle, Jean-Loup, 23, 24, 28, 182n. 4
androgyny, 78–79, 84, 186nn. 1, 7
Appadurai, Arjun, 21, 22–23, 71, 166, 174, 183n. 1
Appiah, Anthony, 1, 20, 172
Apter, Andrew, 1, 68, 143, 168
Arens, William, 180n. 12, 198n. 1
Asad, Talal, 24, 131
Auslander, Mark, 68
Barber, Karin, 2, 186n. 18, 198n. 4
Bastien, Misty, 68
Baudrillard, Jean, 22–23, 181n. 21
Beidelman, T. O., 84, 145, 186n. 4
Benjamin, Jessica, 187n. 10
Berglund, Axel-Ivar, 18, 181n. 18
Berman, Marshall, 179n. 1
Bhabha, Homi, 6, 147–48, 198n. 1
Blier, Suzanne, 107, 118, 191n. 12
Bloch, Maurice, 14, 122, 183n. 1, 189n. 20
Bohannan, Paul, 36, 71, 72, 185n. 9
Bourdieu, Pierre, 15–16, 147
Butler, Judith, 20, 123, 147, 191n. 14
Cartry, Michel, 8
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 6, 198n. 5
Chaterjee, Partha, 6
Chernoff, John, 94, 153
Chodorow, Nancy, 187n. 10
Christianity, 27–28, 49, 51, 177
Clifford, James, 25, 42
Cohen, David William, 1
colonialism
—and anthropology, 24–25, 33, 42–43, 115, 131–32
—and calendrical ceremonies, 144
—and chiefs, 148–49
—and community boundaries, 131–32, 154–55, 196nn. 24, 25
—during German rule, 37–40
—and initiation ceremonies, 84–86, 90
—and the Kabre diaspora, 40–44, 156–60, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Kabre Orthography
- One. Introduction
- Two. History: From the Black Atlantic to the Banality of Power
- Three. Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire
- Four. Persons: Engendering Subjects, Spectacular Rituals
- Five. Houses: Collapsing Binaries, Ruling Strangers
- Six. Community: Spirits, Mimesis, Modernity
- Seven. Diaspora: Reciprocal Desires, Circulating Stories, Supernatural Contestations
- Eight. A Kabre Modernity
- Notes
- References
- Index