Roy Richard Grinker and Stephen C. Lubkemann (eds.) 2019 A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology). Wiley-Blackwell
Part I Enduring Themes 13
1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa 15
Jane I. Guyer
2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa 33
Pauline E. Peters
3 Witchcraft in Africa 63
James H. Smith
4 Law, Dispute Resolution, and Justice 81
Jessica Johnson
5 Illness and Healing: Africanist Anthropology 97
Rebecca L. Upton
6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies 119
Joseph Hellweg and Jesse C. Miller
Part II Critical and Decolonizing Themes 145
7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa 147
George Paul Meiu
8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War 173
Danny Hoffman
9 The Anthropology of Forced Migration in Africa 199
Stephen C. Lubkemann
10 Sex and Sexuality in Africa 229
Suzanne Leclerc‐Madlala
Part III Post‐colonial and Emerging Themes 249
11 Social Trauma and Recovery: Emergent Themes 251
Victor Igreja and Erin Baines
12 Questioning Humanitarian Exceptions 271
Louisa Lombard
13 Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice 289
Carolyn Rouse
14 Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa 307
Kristen E. Cheney
15 Africa Has Moved!: New African Diasporas and the Anthropology of Transnationalizing Africa 323
Dianna Shandy and Stephen C. Lubkemann
16 Anthropolgical Approaches to Media in Africa 351
Katrien Pype and Alessandro Jedlowski
17 Environmental Anthropology in Africa: From Cattle Complex to Environmentality 375
Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro and Roy Richard Grinker
Part IV Reflexivity 397
18 Anthropology and Africanist Political Science 399
Eric Kramon
19 African Anthropological Practice in the “Era of Aid”: Towards a Critique of Disciplinary Canons 415
Euclides Gonçalves
20 African Participation in, and Perspectives on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology 439
Mwenda Ntarangwi