Tiger in an african palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation

302 Pages·2014·6.31 MB·English

by  Richard Fardon

Tiger in an
Tiger in an African Palace collects eight essays about kinship
and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement African Palace
his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend
those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider
and other thoughts
implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring
the relationship between comparison and historical
about identifi cation and
reconstruction, and questioning the fi t between personal,
ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West
transformation
African nations. In an Introduction written specially for
this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-
long development of his preoccupation with concepts of
identifi cation and transformation, and their relevance to
understanding West African societies comparatively and
historically.
RICHARD FARDON is a social anthropologist and ethnographer of
West Africa whose interest in Cameroon and Nigeria stretches
back to his doctoral studies in the 1970s. Since then he has
published monographs on a variety of aspects of West African
society and culture, including politics, history, religion and art. He
was appointed to a Chair of West African Anthropology at SOAS,
University of London, in 1996, and elected a Fellow of the British
Academy in 2004. He is currently Head of the SOAS Doctoral
School.
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