Re-Inventing Africa

Re-Inventing Africa
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Publisher : Zed Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 1856495345
ISBN-13 : 9781856495349
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Book Synopsis Re-Inventing Africa by : Ifi Amadiume

Download or read book Re-Inventing Africa written by Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.


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