An Approach to the Study of Culture as People in the African World
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| author | Kwasi Konadu |
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| contents | An Approach to the Study of Culture as People in the African World Kwasi Konadu Estudios Culturales Diaspora African world Culture theory In recent years, "diaspora" and "diaspora studies," as well as thinking about communities or identities as imagined or invented, have become popular even fashionable as these imprecise notions have received their share of widespread use and some criticism. While there have been a proliferation of research and academic programs in African "diaspora" studies, the approach to the culture of those who are (supposedly) the subject of such endeavors suffer from inappropriate interpretations of culture. Therefore, the narrative and personhood of Africans are often plagiarized versions presented through the conceptual idioms of hybridity, creole-ness, and syncretism. The issues addressed in this essay are concerned about the interpretation of culture as a multilayered concept or axis around which temporal life is organized and interpreted. By reassessing mostly secondary and some archival materials in conjunction with research in the Caribbean and West Africa regions, I argue for an composite approach to culture as people in the African world (rather than "diaspora") in the context of dominant socio-political and cultural strategies employed concurrently by Africans and those who manage the social order within which Africans find themselves. 2005 artículo científico 1518-6784 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=159113676014 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1591 Revista Brasileira do Caribe application/pdf Universidade Federal do Maranhão Revista Brasileira do Caribe (Brasil) Num.11 Vol.VI |
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| spellingShingle | An Approach to the Study of Culture as People in the African World Kwasi Konadu Estudios Culturales Diaspora African world Culture theory An Approach to the Study of Culture as People in the African World Kwasi Konadu Estudios Culturales Diaspora African world Culture theory In recent years, "diaspora" and "diaspora studies," as well as thinking about communities or identities as imagined or invented, have become popular even fashionable as these imprecise notions have received their share of widespread use and some criticism. While there have been a proliferation of research and academic programs in African "diaspora" studies, the approach to the culture of those who are (supposedly) the subject of such endeavors suffer from inappropriate interpretations of culture. Therefore, the narrative and personhood of Africans are often plagiarized versions presented through the conceptual idioms of hybridity, creole-ness, and syncretism. The issues addressed in this essay are concerned about the interpretation of culture as a multilayered concept or axis around which temporal life is organized and interpreted. By reassessing mostly secondary and some archival materials in conjunction with research in the Caribbean and West Africa regions, I argue for an composite approach to culture as people in the African world (rather than "diaspora") in the context of dominant socio-political and cultural strategies employed concurrently by Africans and those who manage the social order within which Africans find themselves. 2005 artículo científico 1518-6784 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=159113676014 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1591 Revista Brasileira do Caribe application/pdf Universidade Federal do Maranhão Revista Brasileira do Caribe (Brasil) Num.11 Vol.VI |
| title | An Approach to the Study of Culture as People in the African World |
| topic | Estudios Culturales Diaspora African world Culture theory |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=159113676014 |