Falola Decolonizing African Knowledge

Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-05937-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: African Identities: Past and Present

Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction; 1. Prologue: My Archive; 2. Autoethnography and Epistemic Liberation; Part II. Fictions and Factions; 3. Narrative Politics and Cultural Ideologies; 4. Memory, Magic, Myth, and Metaphor; 5. A Poetological Narration of the Nation; 6. A Poetological Narration of the Self; 7. Satire and Society; 8. Narrative Politics and the Politics of Narrative; Part III. Visual Cultures; 9. Sculpture as Archive; 10. Textiles as Texts; 11. Canvas and Archiving Ethnic Reality; 12. Hair Art and the Women Agency; 13. Photography and Ethnography' Part IV. Conclusion; 14. Self, Collective, and Collection.