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Edited by Robert H. Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe, and Jean F. O'Barr

Africa and the Disciplines

The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities

270 pages,  6 x 9  © 1993

Paper $23.00

ISBN: 9780226039015   Published December 1993

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert H. Bates, V.Y. Mudimbe, and Jean O'Barr
PART ONE: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
1. Changing Perspectives on a Changing Africa: The Work of Anthropology
Sally Falk Moore
2. Africa and the Study of Economics
Paul Collier
3. The African Frontier for Political Science
Richard L. Sklar
PART TWO: THE HUMANITIES
4. The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy
V.Y. Mudimbe and Kwame Anthony Appiah
5. Truth and Seeing: Magic, Custom, and Fetish in Art History
Suzanne Preston Blier
6. African Histories and the Dissolution of World History
Steven Feierman
7. Literary Studies and African Literature: The Challenge of Intercultural Literacy
Christopher L. Miller
Contributors
Index
Subjects



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