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Charles Piot

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
Awards
  • Amaury Talbot Prize
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