| Description |
xi, 318 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Practicing citizenship in imperial Paris / Gary Wilder -- Developing Bushmen : building civil(ized) society in the Kalahari and beyond / Elizabeth Garland -- Civil society and its presuppositions : lessons from Uganda / Mikael Karlstrom -- Colonial constructions : historicizing debates on civil society in Africa / William Cunningham Bissell -- Staging politisi : the dialogics of publicity and secrecy in Sierra Leone / Mariane Ferne -- Civil lives : leadership and accomplishment in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices : struggles for the realization of an alternative moral order in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Curl up and dye: civil society and the fashion-minded citizen / Amy Stambach -- IBB = 419 : Nigerian democracy and the politics of illusion / Andrew Apter. |
| Subject |
Civil society -- Africa.
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| Added Author |
Comaroff, John L., 1945-
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Comaroff, Jean.
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| ISBN |
0226114147 (paper : alk. paper) |
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0226114139 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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