A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa by Roy Richard Grin... - 9781119251484

A Companion to the Anthropology of AfricaAuthor(s): Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, Euclides Gonalves\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781119251484, 978-1119251484\nSynopsis\nAn essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study\n\n The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study.\n\n A Com.