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- catalog abstract ""Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumor and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines - ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them - to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12636214.
- catalog coverage "Africa Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Elizabeth Isichei explores the Atlantic slave trade, as reflected in the poetics of rumor and the poetics of memory - an approach different from the quantitative and demographic studies which have transformed the subject over the past twenty years. To this and to her study of popular consciousness in the colony and postcolony, she brings together a wide range of disciplines - ethnography, art and art history, and contemporary literary theory among them - to look at the intellectual history of Africa, from African rather than European premises. The result is a history of popular consciousness which shows the experiences of ordinary people, often in protest to an ongoing experience of exploitation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-272) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Truth from Below -- Perceptions of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Slave Traders -- The Imported Commodities -- Cowries -- Transformations: Enslavement and the Middle Passage in African American Memory -- Interpreting the Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience -- The Entrepreneur and the Zombie -- Colonial Vampires: The Theft of Life and Resources -- Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds -- Symbolic Money -- Dangerous Women in an Age of AIDS -- Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty -- Mami Wata: Icon of Ambiguity -- Symbolic Appropriations of Modernity -- Converging Worlds, Polarized Worlds: the Realm Beneath the Sea Revisited -- Eating the State: Ridicule and the Crisis of the Quotidian.".
- catalog extent "ix, 287 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1580461077 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; [v. 12]".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "305.8/0096 21".
- catalog subject "Discourse analysis, Narrative.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Africa.".
- catalog subject "Ethnoscience Africa.".
- catalog subject "GN645 .I845 2002".
- catalog subject "Mythology, African.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Africa.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Truth from Below -- Perceptions of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- The Slave Traders -- The Imported Commodities -- Cowries -- Transformations: Enslavement and the Middle Passage in African American Memory -- Interpreting the Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience -- The Entrepreneur and the Zombie -- Colonial Vampires: The Theft of Life and Resources -- Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds -- Symbolic Money -- Dangerous Women in an Age of AIDS -- Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty -- Mami Wata: Icon of Ambiguity -- Symbolic Appropriations of Modernity -- Converging Worlds, Polarized Worlds: the Realm Beneath the Sea Revisited -- Eating the State: Ridicule and the Crisis of the Quotidian.".
- catalog title "Voices of the poor in Africa / Elizabeth Isichei.".
- catalog type "text".