Challenges for Anthropology in the "African Renaissance": A Southern African Contribution

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Debie LeBeau and Robert J. Gordon, eds. Challenges for Anthropology in the "African Renaissance": A Southern African Contribution. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press, 2002. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park End St., Oxford 0X1 IHU. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Figures. £23.95/$39.95. Paper.

Challenges for Anthropology in the "African Renaissance" proceeds from a conference of the Association for Anthropology in Southern Africa that was held in Windhoek in May 2000. The conference organizers had asked how the concept of the "African Renaissance," coined by South African President Thabo Mbeki, challenged postcolonial southern African anthropology, and …