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Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age

Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age

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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.

Weiss, Brad (NHC Fellow, 2003–04), ed. Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Studies of Religion in Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2004. ISBN 9789004138605.

Publisher

Brill

Year

2004

Asset Type

Images

Language

English

Subject Term

Neoliberalism Ritual Cultural Studies