Strength beyond Structure

Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

By: Mirjam Bruijn (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 July 2007

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This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. Agency directs our quest for an understanding of the dynamics and social transformations of African situations to the domains of creativity, inventiveness and reflexivity. It emphasizes the possibilities individuals and social groups perceive when faced with the constraints that tend to mark African social life. The case studies provide an alternative view of people and society in Africa by looking at the ways social strength is created in the hope of overcoming many of the structural limitations encountered in daily life. "Strength beyond Structure" challenges the optimism that is engrained in the development rhetoric about Africa by making agency the subject of empirical scrutiny.

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Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction	p. 1
Manchester as the birth place of modern agency research : The Manchester School explained from the perspective of Evans-Pritchard's book The Nuer	p. 16
Dreams and agency during Angola's War of Independence	p. 62
Chief Hosea Kutako : a Herero royal and Namibian nationalist's life against confinement 1870-1970	p. 83
Agency in Kapsiki religion : a comparative approach	p. 114
Les enveloppes pour Papa Daniel : La transformation des relations domestiques dans les manages des Congolais de la diaspora	p. 144
From individual act to social agency in San trance rituals	p. 163
The dynamics of families, their work and provisioning strategies in the changing economies in the urban townships of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	p. 189
Images of Africa : agency and nature conservation in South Africa	p. 215
Solitary births in Tera, Niger : a local quest for safety	p. 240
Agency in and from the margins : street children and youth in N'djamena, Chad	p. 263
Negotiating the memory of Fulbe hierarchy among mobile elite women	p. 285
The safe and suffering body in transnational Ghanaian Pentecostalism; towards an anthropology of vulnerable agency	p. 312
Epilogue : theorizing agency in and on Africa : the questions are key	p. 334
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