Peter Rigby

African Images

Racism and the End of Anthropology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars.

Produktdetails

• Global Issues
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9781859731024
• ISBN-10: 1859731023
• Artikelnr.: 21892336

Autorenporträt

Peter Rigby formerly of Moi University,Kenya

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
PART I: Of Niam-Niams
Troglodytes
and Unicorns
CHAPTER ONE - The Nightmare Republic and the Problem of the Underclass
CHAPTER TWO - The Invention of the Three Human Races
CHAPTER THREE - Sexual Inhibition and the Ethnographic Record
CHAPTER FOUR - r/K Selection
Lombroso
and the Capitalist Science of Racism
PART II: Africa Unchained: Anthropology
Ideology
and Consciousness in Contemporary Praxis
CHAPTER FIVE - Funtionalism
Positivism
Bourgeois Science
Slavery
and Racism
CHAPTER SIX - Ideology and the Consolidation of Racial Prejudice in Scientific Racism
CHAPTER SEVEN - The Hegemony of Racist Ideology: Color
Status
and the Economic Basis of Racism
CHAPTER EIGHT - Racist Ideology Inventing History: The Hamitic Myth and Rwanda-Burundi
CHAPTER NINE - Hobbesian Realism and Taking Responsibility
CHAPTER TEN - The Africanist Heart of Darkness
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Male African Pastoralists as Failed Capitalists and as Owners of Women
PART III: Theoretical Coda
CHAPTER TWELVE - Marxism and Anthropology I: Objectivity
Relativism
and the World Economic System
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Marxism and Anthropology II: Fieldwork and Language in History and the Context of Knowledge Production
Appendix
Bibliography
Index