Mirjam (Hrsg.) Bruijn

Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

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Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gewald, Jan-Bart (Hrsg.) / Dijk, Rijk (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-90-04-15696-8
EAN: 9789004156968
Produktnummer: 3037192
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.2 cm 653 g
Reihenbandnummer: 6
Gewicht: 653

Über den Autor

Mirjam de Bruijn, Ph.D. (1995) Utrecht University, is an Anthropologist at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Her work on nomadism, children and youth, mobility, (in)security, poverty, and social and economic in- and exclusion has an interdisciplinary character. She has done extensive fieldwork in Chad and Mali. Rijk van Dijk, Ph.D. (1992) Utrecht University, is an anthropologist at the African Studies Centre where he researches the rise of new religious movements in Africa, particularly Pentecostalism, in relation to globalization, transnational connections and youth. He has published widely on the emergence of Pentecostal movements in Malawi, Ghana and, more recently, Botswana. Jan-Bart Gewald, Ph.D. (1996) University of Leiden, is a historian at the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He has published extensively on aspects of African history and is currently focusing on the history of the relationship between people and technology in Africa.