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- Book Title
- Love in Africa
- Publication Date
- 2009-06-01
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN
- 9780226113531
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226113531
ISBN-13
9780226113531
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70951579
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Love in Africa
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Love & Romance, Sociology / General, Africa / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Psychology, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-043551
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"This is a breakthrough volume on a remarkably neglected topic. The contributors include many of the top scholars in the field, and the chapters offer wonderfully insightful and revealing analyses of a broad range of ethnographic and historical cases. The masterful introduction by Cole and Thomas offers an overview of the topic that will help set a new research agenda for studies of intimacy, romance, and affect on the continent."-James Ferguson, Stanford University, It has taken long in coming--evidence of scholars in love with love in Africa. This well researched and compelling book is a welcome signpost and snippet view of how scholarship on Africa can be enriched through greater attention to the theme of love., "This bold book on love in Africa at once sets two ethnographic and historical milestones. First, it demands that students of Africa confront the full spectrum of human emotion in the subcontinent. Second, and speaking more universally, it shows how love, while experienced in the most deeply personal of ways, is inevitably shaped by economic and social circumstance. Drawing on everything from the monetary exchanges that can so powerfully shape emotion and the advent of colonial conjugal ideals to Nollywood cinema and newspaper advice columns, this unflinching book will win an immediate place on the shelves of Africanists as well as social scientists in general."-Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern University, It has taken long in coming-evidence of scholars in love with love in Africa. This well researched and compelling book is a welcome signpost and snippet view of how scholarship on Africa can be enriched through greater attention to the theme of love., This bold book on love in Africa at once sets two ethnographic and historical milestones. First, it demands that students of Africa confront the full spectrum of human emotion in the subcontinent. Second, and speaking more universally, it shows how love, while experienced in the most deeply personal of ways, is inevitably shaped by economic and social circumstance. Drawing on everything from the monetary exchanges that can so powerfully shape emotion and the advent of colonial conjugal ideals to Nollywood cinema and newspaper advice columns, this unflinching book will win an immediate place on the shelves of Africanists as well as social scientists in general., This is a breakthrough volume on a remarkably neglected topic. The contributors include many of the top scholars in the field, and the chapters offer wonderfully insightful and revealing analyses of a broad range of ethnographic and historical cases. The masterful introduction by Cole and Thomas offers an overview of the topic that will help set a new research agenda for studies of intimacy, romance, and affect on the continent., This bold book on love in Africa at once sets two ethnographic and historical milestones. First, it demands that students of Africa confront the full spectrum of human emotion in the subcontinent. Second, and speaking more universally, it shows how love, while experienced in the most deeply personal of ways, is inevitably shaped by economic and social circumstance. Drawing on everything from the monetary exchanges that can so powerfully shape emotion and the advent of colonial conjugal ideals to Nollywood cinema and newspaper advice columns, this unflinching book will win an immediate place on the shelves of Africanists as well as social scientists in general., "It has taken long in coming-evidence of scholars in love with love in Africa. This well researched and compelling book is a welcome signpost and snippet view of how scholarship on Africa can be enriched through greater attention to the theme of love."-Francis B. Nyamnjoh, author of Married But Available
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.7096
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking through Love in Africa Lynn M. Thomas and Jennifer Cole Chapter 1: Love, Sex, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa Lynn M. Thomas Chapter 2: Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi Films, Zanzibari Audiences, and the Construction of Romance in the 1950s and 1960s Laura Fair Chapter 3: "Dear Dolly's" Advice: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960-1980 Kenda Mutongi Chapter 4: Love, Money, and Economies of Intimacy in Tamatave, Madagascar Jennifer Cole Chapter 5: Providing Love: Sex and Exchange in Twentieth-Century South Africa Mark Hunter Chapter 6: Managing Men, Marriage, and Modern Love: Women's Perspectives on Intimacy and Male Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria Daniel Jordan Smith Chapter 7: Media and the Therapeutic Ethos of Romantic Love in Middle-Class Nairobi Rachel Spronk Chapter 8: Lessons from Rubí : Love, Poverty, and the Educational Value of Televised Dramas in Niger Adeline Masquelier References List of Contributors Index
Synopsis
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life-a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the 1930s to the present, the contributors collectively argue for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. Covering such diverse topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people's ideas about courtship in Niger, the models of romance promoted by South African and Kenyan magazines, and the complex relationship between love and money in Madagascar and South Africa, Love in Africa is a vivid and compelling look at love's role in African society., In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life--a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the 1930s to the present, the contributors collectively argue for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. Covering such diverse topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people's ideas about courtship in Niger, the models of romance promoted by South African and Kenyan magazines, and the complex relationship between love and money in Madagascar and South Africa, Love in Africa is a vivid and compelling look at love's role in African society.
LC Classification Number
HQ18.A35L68 2009
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