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Tiger in an African palace, and other th
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Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship between comparison and historical reconstruction, and questioning the fit between personal, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West African nations. In an Introduction written specially for this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long development of his preoccupation with concepts of identification and transformation, and their relevance to understanding West African societies comparatively and historically.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Copyright acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 - Sisters, wives, wards and daughters. A transformational analysis of the political organization of the Tiv and their neighbours
- Chapter 2 - ALLIANCE AND ETHNICITY. Aspects of an Adamawan regional system
- Chapter 3 - âAFRICAN ETHNOGENESISâ. Limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena
- Chapter 4 - THE PERSON, ETHNICITY AND THE PROBLEM OF âIDENTITYâ IN WEST AFRICA
- Chapter 5 - âCROSSED DESTINIESâ - The entangled histories of West African ethnic and national identities
- Chapter 6 - ETHNIC PERVASION. Covering ethnicity? Or, ethnicity as coverage?
- Chapter 7 - TIGER IN AN AFRICAN PALACE
- Chapter 8 - COSMOPOLITAN NATIONS, NATIONAL COSMOPOLITANS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Back cover