Archie Mafeje : scholar, activist and thinker /

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Author / Creator:Nabudere, D. Wadada.
Imprint:Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011.
Description:111 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8466520
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ISBN:9780798302869 (pbk.)
0798302860 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Who is Archie Mafeje?
  • Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations
  • The critique of anthropology and alterity
  • The study of rural African society
  • Culture as the 'missing link' in African development
  • The issue of 'social formations' of African society
  • Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production
  • The African post-colonial states and the African political elite
  • Mafeje and African philosophy
  • The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations'
  • Mafeje
  • the South African radical
  • Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines
  • Conclusion.