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C H fl ¥1 L E S P I T REMOTELY GLOBAL Milage Nodernity est 1 n II f r i c a Co-minner of the II!! m a u r y Talbot Prize for African Anthropology UBS EXCHANGE - 2007/2008 Book Number 502244 Price $ Subject Remotely Global Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/remotelyglobalviOOpiot Remotely Global Uillage Modernity in West Africa Charles Piot The University ofChicago Press • Chicago & London — — The UniversityofChicagoPress, Chicago60637 The UniversityofChicagoPress, Ltd., London © 1999byThe University ofChicago Allrightsreserved. Published 1999 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 11100908070605 4567 ISBN: 0-226-66968-8 (cloth) ISBN: 0-226-66969-6 (paper) LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Piot, Charles. Remotelyglobal : village modernity in WestAfrica/ CharlesPiot. p. cm. Includesbibliographical references andindex. ISBN0-226-66968-8 (cloth : alk. paper).—ISBN0-226-66969-6 (paper : alk. paper) — 1. Kabre (Afri—canpeople) Social life andcustoms. 2. Kabre (Africanpeople) Government relati—ons. 3.—Kabre (Africanpeople) Politics—andgovernment. 4. Villages Togo Kuwd—e. 5. Kuwde (Togo) Social life andcustoms. 6. Kuwde (Togo) Politics and government. I. Title. DT584.45.K33P56 1999 966.81—dc21 99-11071 CIP ©The paperused in thispublicationmeetsthe minimumrequirementsof the American National Standard forInformation Sciences Permanence ofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For Kalina Contents Acknowledgments / ix Noteon Kabre Orthography / xiii Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two History: From the Black Atlantic to the Banality ofPower 27 Chapter Three Exchange: Hierarchies ofValue in an Economy ofDesire 52 ChapterFour Persons: Engendering Subjects, Spectacular Rituals 76 ChapterFive Houses: Collapsing Binaries, Ruling Strangers 105 ChapterSix Community: Spirits, Mimesis, Modernity 131 ChapterSeven Diaspora: Reciprocal Desires, Circulating Stories, Supernatural Contestations 156 Hi I Contents ChapterEight A Kabre Modernity 772 Notes / 179 References / 199 Index / 215

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