Perspectives on Africa

""This welcome new edition of key texts written about Africa as well as from within builds on the past but speaks boldly to the current generation-with some striking contributions on contemporary issues Wendy James University of Oxford" "This carefully chosen and brilliantly edited collection is an extraordinary resource for anthropologists of Africa. Some of the most seminal work in one of the most foundational domains in the discipline take on new significance in the light of the new curtent scholarship represented in the volume and at the new conversations among them that Grinker, Lubkemann and Steiner have brought out. This volume is a treasure. Caroline H. Bledsoe, Northwestern University" "This impressive volume provides a critical genealogy of scholarship in Africa Weaving together historical and Contemporary pieces to provide insight is not only into the political economy and cultural dynamism of Africa's past but of its future too. Hennetta Moore, University of Cambridge and Centre for the Study of Global Government London School of Economics" ""This superb collection of influential contemporary and classic work in African studies will be indispensable to both students and