Joanna Davidson, Benjamin N. Lawrance

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Pathos and Power

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Widowhood in Africa, Past and Present

Herausgeber: Lawrance, Benjamin N.; Davidson, Joanna

Beschreibung

Pathos and Power provides a critical exploration of widowhood in Africa through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The contributors investigate how the category of widowhood can obscure or reveal various social dynamics while demonstrating the diversity of material, symbolic, and embodied circumstances faced by African widows.

Autor

Joanna Davidson is an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa; a coeditor of Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World; and the author of articles in journals such as American Ethnologist and the African Studies Review. Benjamin N. Lawrance is a professor of history and, by courtesy, law at the University of Arizona, where he teaches courses in history and law about Africa, slavery, migration, refugees, and asylum. He has published twenty books, including Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling. He is the emeritus editor in chief of the African Studies Review.

Produktdetails

• Research in International Studies, Africa Series
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780821426432
• ISBN-10: 0821426435
• Artikelnr.: 73525844