Conflict and its Resolution in Contemporary Africa: A World In Change Series, Volume 9 - Couverture souple

Harry G. West

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761808515 ISBN 13 : 9780761808510

Editeur : University Press of America, 1997

Synopsis

This book is part of a continuing series that explores international political change. The volume focuses on African nation-states, their internal conflicts, and their role in the international arena, and also delves into history, political leadership, rebellion, military conflict, policymaking, and diplomacy in Africa. Topics such as ethnic differences, political corruption, and revolution are discussed against the backdrop of contemporary political life. Recent experiences in Somalia and Rwanda and the United States and the United Nations intervention in African conflicts are also given particular attention. Rather than attempting to offer definitive solutions to the problems and questions facing Africa today, the work takes a more proactive and informative approach.
Co-published with the Miller Center.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harry G. West is Professor of Anthropology, and Chair of the Food Studies Centre, at SOAS, University of London. He worked for many years in rural Mozambique, focusing his research onthe ways in which colonialism and revolutionary socialism reconfigured institutions of local authority, and, more recently, how post-socialist reforms fostered a "revival of tradition". His major published works include: Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique(University of Chicago Press, 2005, first-runner-up for the US-based African Studies Association's Melville J. Herskovits Award in 2006, winner of the UK-based Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology in 2007, and in Portuguese translation awardedSpecial Distinction in the Portuguese-based Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa's A. Sedas Nunes Social Sciences Prize Competition in 2012);Ethnographic Sorcery(University of Chicago Press, 2007, first-runner-up for the US-based Society for Humanistic Anthropology's Victor Turner Prize in 2008);Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order(Duke University Press, 2003, co-edited with Todd Sanders);Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa(Indiana University Press, 2005, co-edited with Tracy Luedke); andEnduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation(Berghahn Books, 2008, co-edited with Parvathi Raman). His recent research in the anthropology of food, funded by the British Academy, has focused on artisan cheese, discourses of 'terroir', and the global market niche in 'heritage foods.' He is particularly interested in how cheese makers have preserved and/or transformed cheesemaking techniques while navigating a changing marketplace, as well as how they have presented themselves, their locales of production, and their productive traditions to consumers new and old. Professor West directs the SOAS MA in the Anthropology of Food and was co-recipient of the 2009 Excellence in Instruction Award given by the US-based Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, and joint runner-up for the SOAS Director's Teaching Prize in 2011-2012. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery Trust and a Trustee of the Sophie Coe Memorial Fund, as well as a member of the summer school organizing committee of the European Institute of Food History and Culture (François-Rabelais University, Tours, France). He also serves on the editorial boards of: American Anthropologist;Food, Culture and Society; andThe Journal of Agrarian Change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761808515
• ISBN 13: 9780761808510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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