ISBN:
9780896803237
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0896803236
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9780896803244
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0896803244
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 371 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Ohio University research in international studies / Africa series no. 94
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
978-0-89680-506-4
Keywords:
Alltag
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Freizeit
;
Fest
;
Expressivität
;
Afrika
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Afrika
;
Alltag
;
Freizeit
;
Fest
;
Expressivität
Abstract:
"Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs, telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food, and finding pleasure in their daily lives. Across seven sections-Celebrations and Rites of Passage; Socializing and Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and Recreation; Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and Media; and Labor and Livelihoods-the accessible, multidisciplinary essays in Africa Every Day address these creative and dynamic elements of daily life, without romanticizing them. Ultimately, the book shows that forms of leisure and popular culture in Africa are best discussed in terms of indigenization, adaptation, and appropriation rather than the static binary of European/foreign/global and African. Most of all, it invites readers to reflect on the crucial similarities, rather than the differences, between their lives and those of their African counterparts"--
Note:
1911
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Introduction: Why Study Everyday Life in Africa?
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Hosting a First Haircutting in Diégo Suarez, Madagascar
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Eku'n-Ìyàwo': African Bridal Showers in Yorubaland
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Funeral Swag: A Celebration of Death in Urban Zambia
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Beyond Religion: Food, Decoration, and Songs of Egyptian Feasts
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New Year's Eve in Niamey, Niger
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Tank Park's Children: Recreational Activities of Namibian Children in Oranjemund During the 1980s
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"Have You Been to All the Malls?" The New Mall Scene in Botswana
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Sociality, Money, and the Making of Masculine Privilege in Nigerian Sports Clubs
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"Let's Turn it Up": TGIF and the Effervescent Night Life in Nigeria
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Young Love: Dancing by the Light of the Moon in Tanzania
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Love, Play, and Sex: Polyamory and the Hidden Pleasures of Everyday Life in Kaoko, Northwest Namibia
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Love in and after War: Courtship (Cuna) in Rural Acoliland, Northern Uganda
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"Where Are All the Women Who Used to Be Good Athletes in Their School Days?": Sports, Gender, and Leisure in English-Speaking Cameroon, 1960s-1970s
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"We are Building the New Nigeria": Lagos, Boys' Clubs, and Leisure, 1945-1960
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Leisure, Resistance, and Identity Formation amongst People with Disabilities in Ghana
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Bits and Beats from Senegalese Wrestling
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Sheng: Expressivity, Creativity, and Rebellion in Nairobi
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The Journal Rappé: "Edutaining" the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop
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Teeth Appear Themselves: Laughter and Humor in East Africa
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Chilimika: Dancing in the New Year in the Nkhata Bay District of Malawi
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Portrait of a Playful Man: Mustafa, Master of Mapiko
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Mobile Malawi and Everyday Handsets
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Meeting up at the Movies in Tanzania
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Retelling the World in KiSwahili-Revisiting the Practice of Film Translation in Tanzania
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The Listeners' City: Radio, Congolese Rumba and the Appropriation of Urban Space in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s
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Mechanical Expression in a Broken World: Repair, Fun, and Everyday Life in Tanzanian Garages
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Male Friendship and the Writing Life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Work and Happiness: Songs of Indigenous Ghanaian Fisherman
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Leisure at the Edge of Legality: Cannabis in 20th Century Swaziland & South Africa
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