Maladjustments: Ritual and Reproduction in Neoliberal Africa
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Department/Program
Anthropology
Publication Date
6-7-2004
Book Title
Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age
Publisher
Brill
Volume
26
Series
Studies of Religion in Africa
Abstract
The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.
ISBN
978-9004138605
Recommended Citation
Weiss, B. (2004). Maladjustments: Ritual and Reproduction in Neoliberal Africa. Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age . Brill. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/101
