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Pages: 328
Authors: Andrew Apter
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge sha
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Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Andrew Apter
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-04-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Beyond Words
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Andrew Apter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Even within anthropology, a discipline that strives to overcome misrepresentations of peoples and cultures, colonialist depictions of the so-called Dark Contine
Reinventing Religions
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Sidney M. Greenfield
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Once a central concept in anthropology, syncretism has recently re-emerged as a valuable tool for understanding the complex dynamics of ethnicity, postcoloniali
Activating the Past
Language: en
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Authors: Andrew Apter
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-14 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-st