Remotely Global
Village Modernity in West Africa
238 pages, 12 halftones, 2 maps 6 x 9
©
1999
Cloth $34.00
ISBN: 9780226669687
Published October 1999
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226669694
Published October 1999
Acknowledgments Note on Kabre Orthography 1. Introduction 2. History: From the Black Atlantic to the Banality of Power 3. Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire 4. Persons: Engendering Subjects, Spectacular Rituals 5. Houses: Collapsing Binaries, Ruling Strangers 6. Community: Spirits, Mimesis, Modernity 7. Diaspora: Reciprocal Desires, Circulating Stories, Supernatural Contestations 8. A Kabre Modernity Notes References Index
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