African Anthropologies

Mwenda Ntarangwi teaches anthropology at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, and is the author of Gender Identity and Performance (2003, Africa World Press).Mustafa Babiker teaches anthropology at the University of Khartoum. His research and development consultancies address issues of social change within pastoral communities.David Mills lectures at the University of Birmingham. He has just finished a book on the political history of British social anthropology.

• 1. Introduction: Histories of Training, Ethnographies of Practice - Mwenda Ntarangwi, Mustafa Babiker and David MillsPart 1: Regional Histories of Anthropological Practice2. Research and Teaching in Ethiopian Anthropology: An Overview of traditions, Trends and Recent Developments - Alula Pankhurst3. How Not to Be a 'Government House Pet': Audrey Richards and the East African Institute for Social Research - David Mills4. The Teaching of Anthropology in Zimbabwe over the Past Forty Years: Continuities and Discontinuities - Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa5. The Practice of Anthropology in Francophone Africa: The Case of Cameroon - Severin Cecile AbegaPart 2: Acknowledging Critiques, Debunking the Myths6. Forgetting Africa - Johannes Fabian7. But We Know It All! African Perspectives on Anthropological Knowledge - Christine Obbo8. African Pastoralism through Anthropological Eyes: Whose Crisis? - Mustafa Babiker9. An Invisible Religion? Anthropology's Avoidance of Islam in Africa - Robert LaunayPart 3: The Future of Anthropology in Africa: Application and Engagement10. Anthropology in Post-colonial Africa: The Nigerian Case - P.-J. Ezeh11. Reflections on the Challenges of Teaching Anthropology to American Students in Post-colonial Kenya12. Challenges and Prospects for Applied Anthropology in Kenya - Mwenda Ntarangwi13. Practising Anthropology at Home: Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas - W. Onyango - Ouma

'This is a timely and extremely valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about the crisis of identity in anthropology, offering fresh and unique insights into the fundamental challenges facing African anthropology. The book focuses on the theoretical, epistemological and practical problems resulting from Africa's encounter with Euro-colonialism and addresses the difficulties, limitations, achievements and potential African anthropology - the "mother" of Africa studies - from the perspective of "insiders".' Maxwell Owusu, University of Michigan 'This is a fresh and important new overview of the place of anthropological research and practice in Africa, past and present'. Wendy James, University of Oxford 'This book uses the "expansive moment" of African anthropology under late colonialism to re-explore the relationship between government and the discipline, pulling together three strands to the arguments: the historical identification of what specific anthropological endeavours actually did under colonial conditions; the complex relationships between anthropology and nationalism in Africa; and the exploration of what "practice" within national contexts in the present'. Jane Guyer, John Hopkins University 'Here is a book teachers of African anthropology have been hoping for - an intervention that lays to rest the notion of anthropology as colonial science. Released from the "Africanist" confines, anthropology assumes its rightful place in the reflexive and engaged production of knowledge on and for Africa'. Harri Englund, University of Cambridge