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Remotely Global (Paperback, New)
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Remotely Global (Paperback, New)
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At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of
northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of
the way" African culture--subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses,
and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life
is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot
suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and
postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through
analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot
illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the
local with the national and global. In a striking example of the
appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president
regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male
initiation ceremonies.
Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State
Department's stereotyped images of African village life, "Remotely
Global" aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to
terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where
persons and things are forever in motion.
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