Voices of the Poor in Africa - Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination

List of contents

Introduction: Truth from Below
An Overview
The Slave Traders
The Imported Commodities
Cowries
Transformations: Enslavement and the Middle Passage in African American Memory
An Overview
The Entrepreneur and the Zombie
Colonial Vampires: The Theft of Life and Resources
Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds
Symbolic Money
Dangerous Women in an Age of AIDS
Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty
Mami Wata: Icon of Ambiguity
Symbolic Appropriations of Modernity
Converging Worlds, Polarized Worlds: the Realm Beneath the Sea Revised
Eating the State: Ridicule and the Crisis of the Quotidian
Conclusion

About the author

Elizabeth Isichei

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Isichei
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2004
• EAN: 9781580461795
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-179-5
• No. of pages: 297
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics