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Palmie, Stephan. 2007. Out of Africa? Introduction. 110 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

The introduction to this second special issue aims to probe the epistemological conditions of possibility of African Americanist anthropology. In particular, it highlights the problematic of definitions of units of analysis in the comparative logic on which this particular field of inquiry has long been based. Given the conceptual instability of the categories Africa' and 'America' discussed in the previous number of this special double issue, attention is given to how scholars variously became implicated in the creation of African horizons, and to potential ways in which past approaches might not only be opened up to 'symmetrical analyses', but in fact transcended. (LLBA, (c) CSA [2007]. All rights reserved.)