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This book's ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly

Introduction. The 'I' as 'we' : corporate agency in an African lifeworld --Elite agency : the making of the modern progenitor --The secular ancestor : the political life of a dead leader --The politics of heritage : (re)constitution, conservation and corporateness in Yorùbá politics --The mantle of Awo : the politics of succession --Reconciliation and retrenchment --How (not) to be a proper Yorùbá --Seizing the heritage : playing proper Yorùbá in an age of uncertainty --Conclusion. Corporate agency and ethnic politics.

"Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of east Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition"--

1. From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa / Francois G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald -- 2. Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, Senegambia (ca. 1700-1950) / Cameron Gokee -- 3. 'The very embodiment of the black peasant?' : archaeology, history, and the making of the Seereer of Siin (Senegal) / Francois G. Richard -- 4. 'A chacun son Bambara," encore une fois : history, archaeology and Bamana origins / Kevin C. MacDonald -- 5. The uses of the past : indigenous ethnography, archaeology and ethnicity in Nigeria / Roger Blench -- 6. What was the Wandala State and who are the Wandala? / Scott MacEachern -- 7. Who's who? : the case of the Luba / Pierre de Maret and Alexandre Livingstone Smith -- 8. Political and theoretical problems for the archaeological identification of precolonial Twa, Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda / John Giblin -- 9. Ethnicity, archaeological ceramics and changing paradigms in East African archaeology / Paul J. Lane -- 10. Ethnic ambiguity : a cultural evolutionary perspective / Stephen J. Shennan.

This book contains a compelling collection of work that provides insight into many complexities encountered by contemporary African Americans. The editor introduces this diverse volume of work with a preface that provides background regarding African Americans that sets the stage for the wide range of topics explored in this powerful compendium of work that includes a demographic picture of African Americans. This edited collection of original chapters by leading scholars from many disciplines and backgrounds brings together work that equally balances theoretical, research, and clinical papers