Anthropology is a field of study that seeks to understand that form of power that marks off the individual.
Culture is a site of difference and contestation, simultationusly ground and stake of a rich field of cultural political practices.
The Local is too often taken as a given as we ask how it is linked to the global rather than asking how perceptions of locality and community are discursively and historically constructed.
Modernity is defined in terms of instruments of communication such as newspapers, novels, statistics, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and panoramas.
The Mythology of modernization is the idea that the story of urban africa has for so long been narrated in terms of linear progressions and optimistic teleologies, so difficulties in the last two decades look like a slipping backwards.
