“Fishers” session at the 23rd biennal meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA). What Past for Africa?... by Veerle Linseele

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Transimperial Sociology: A Peripheral Dictatorship at the Centre of Late Colonial Social-Scientific Cooperation Between Empires by Ágoas Frederico

Subjects: “…international conference of western africanists…”
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À propos d'un projet en cours d'édition de manuscrits arabes de Tombouctou et d'ailleurs by Bernard Salvaing

“…This apprenticeship is not fostered among the africanists by French scientific institutions, whereas the arabists neglect peripheral islam.However, since 2009, a team of africanists and arabists, led by Georges Bohas, has edited nearly twenty texts, and translated several of them. …”
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Morality and religion in African thought by P. J. Nel

“…These discourses reflect the ambivalence between those scholars seeking to define African morality within the parameters of a conventionalised, Western, religious episteme, and those pursuing an “Africanist” (Afrocentric) explanation which embraces an authentic mode of African knowledge construction within indigenous communities. …”
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Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…This essay recognizes but goes beyond the more general overviews on classical Yoruba education and its contemporary significance represented in works of Yorùbá and Africanist scholars. I demonstrate the significance of Yoruba philosophy of education beyond its cultural context, by projecting its universal and timeless value, foregrounding its distinctive concepts in dialogue with ideas from other cultures. …”
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Feline Alter Egos in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance” and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…At once me and not-me, the feline is racialized in the two writers’ works, and its function is akin to that of the “Africanist other” as defined by Toni Morrison in Playing in the Dark, Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. …”
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Religião, ciência e transdisciplinaridade: o conhecimento afro-religioso como objeto de estudo by Rodrigo Leistner

“…Thus, the text discusses some aspects of the African-originated religions taking the dimension of the knowledge produced by them as the main point of analysis, as well as their social implications, from a reflexive approach about the contents which compound an original Africanist cosmovision, and its consequent adaptation to contemporary society. …”
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Prensa e imperialismo popular. La Vanguardia y el lobby africanista a finales del siglo XIX by Pol Dalmau

“…Under a new guise as an informative and business newspaper, La Vanguardia climbed the ranks to become the best-selling daily in Barcelona, while at the same time becoming the main spokesman for Africanist interests in Catalonia. The case of this newspaper offers the opportunity to study the relations between the press and lobbies, as well as examine the public dimension of issues such as imperialism and national identities. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…Specifically, I argue that the opposition recently voiced by some Africanist historians against the so-called « rapid early synthesis » model developed by Sidney Mintz and Richard Price not just misinterprets the theoretical issues at hand, but foregrounds highly problematic, and ultimately ahistorical, notions of « Africanity ». …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

“…A Caribbean communist, historian of the black and Pan-Africanist movements, C.L.R. James was a pioneer of cultural studies, often forgotten yet important for his influence on the black and anticolonial movement and workers’ struggles from the late 1930s to the 1960s. …”
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Ironies of Christian Presencein Southern Africa by Sibusiso Masondo

“…Christianity became part of the complex that laid the foundations for African nationalism and the pan-Africanist ideology. It provided a platform in mission stations and mission schools for the forging of a unified African identity. …”
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Les « terroirs » maritimes revisités by Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Adama Mbaye

“…This paper intends to revisit the notion of marine “terroir”, based on empirical studies, particularly in Senegal in the 1980s and an analysis of the international literature in the social sciences, and re-exploring the concept from diverse fieldworks, in West Africa and in the light of recent discources and mecanisms regarding the sea policies.This concept of terroir, typically French and even Africanist, was originally used to designate portions of territory which rural communities depend for their livelihoods. …”
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Afrika’s Cause Must Triumph: Towards the Hegemony of Lembede’s “Afrika for the Afrikans” as a Political Philosophy of National Liberation in “South Africa”. by Masilo Lepuru

“…This nonracialism has taken the form of the Congress/Charterist nonracialism of the African National Congress and its Tripartite Alliance and the Azanian nonracialism of the Pan-Africanist Congress and the Black Consciousness Movement. …”
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa by Tayler FRIAR

“…Black sexual politics and its interaction with the eroticized female body in African art are still surprisingly underexplored topics in African academia (“African” not “Africanist”, to follow the distinction made by Jones in “African Scholarship, Eurocentricism and the Politics of Knowledge”). …”
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