By Richard Fardon
Tiger in an African palace collects 8 essays approximately kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to counterpoint his monographs on West Africa. The essays expand these book-length descriptions by means of pursuing their wider implications for concept in social anthropology: exploring the connection among comparability and old reconstruction, and wondering the healthy among own, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in modern West African countries. In an creation written especially for this Langaa assortment, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long improvement of his preoccupation with strategies of id and transformation, and their relevance to realizing West African societies relatively and traditionally.
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