Archie Mafeje
Biographic Data
| ID | 126290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Archie Mafeje |
| GIVEN NAMES | Archie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mafeje |
| SIGNATURE | MAFEJE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Africanity
The Beast and the Icon
A Commentary on Anthropology and Africa
Benign’ Recolonization and Malignant Minds in the Service of Imperialism
African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes
Africanity
Africanity
Recolonisation’ or ‘Self-colonisation’ in Pursuit of ‘Pax Africana’
On ‘Icons’ and African Perspectives on Democracy
Culture and Development in Africa
Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on Africa
Economic Models and Practice in Africa
Economic models, like scientific paradigms, predispose actors towards certain patterns of behavior or practices. Over time these become accepted as normal practice which everybody is expected to observe or to follow. This is how theoretical orthodoxies are established. However, even orthodoxies rely on refinement of techniques. In economics this is widely recognized, as it guarantees competitiveness among various practitioners. The context within…
The national question in southern African settler societies
Development Literature and Writers from Underdeveloped Countries
This article deals with discussions of economic development among Turkish intellectuals in the 1930s, when the characteristics of a "Kemalist development strategy" were being defined. As an exercise in the history of economic thought, it attempts to show that those discussions anticipated many of the issues of development economics, a special field which appeared only after the Second World War. The discussion challenges the general lack of conce…
On the articulation of modes of production
(1981). On the articulation of modes of production: review article. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 8, Anthropology and History, pp. 123-138
On Technology and the Organization of Agriculture
Soweto and its aftermath
The student revolt that flared up in Soweto in June 1976 was a clear indication of the extent of mass resistance to oppression and exploitation under apartheid. Yet the revolt posed a number of important questions for a revolutionary strategy in South Africa, especially in terms of its implications for an alliance of workers and students and for its relation with the liberation movements. This article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the …
Livres/Books
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
Agrarian Revolution and the Land Question in Buganda
The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective
In times of crisis there is an inevitable return to fundamentals. Questions such as the relation of knowledge to the world of experience are revived, often in a disharmonious way. That such a state of affairs obtains in anthropology can only be judged by the frequence which divergent views concerning the status of their discipline have occurred among modern anthropologists. Starting with isolated individual and intuitive insights and misgivings i…
The Ideology of 'Tribalism
This article challenges the pervasive use of "tribalism" in analyses of African societies. Mafeje argues that the concept is not an objective descriptor of African reality but rather a reflection of the perceptions and biases of European observers and their African "converts." He questions whether African history, if written by Africans themselves, would have employed different concepts and narratives. The author explores the ideological underpin…
Langa
Anthropology and Independent Africans
The Ideology of 'Tribalism
This article challenges the pervasive use of "tribalism" in analyses of African societies. Mafeje argues that the concept is not an objective descriptor of African reality but rather a reflection of the perceptions and biases of European observers and their African "converts." He questions whether African history, if written by Africans themselves, would have employed different concepts and narratives. The author explores the ideological underpin…
Langa
The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective
In times of crisis there is an inevitable return to fundamentals. Questions such as the relation of knowledge to the world of experience are revived, often in a disharmonious way. That such a state of affairs obtains in anthropology can only be judged by the frequence which divergent views concerning the status of their discipline have occurred among modern anthropologists. Starting with isolated individual and intuitive insights and misgivings i…
On the articulation of modes of production
(1981). On the articulation of modes of production: review article. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 8, Anthropology and History, pp. 123-138
Soweto and its aftermath
The student revolt that flared up in Soweto in June 1976 was a clear indication of the extent of mass resistance to oppression and exploitation under apartheid. Yet the revolt posed a number of important questions for a revolutionary strategy in South Africa, especially in terms of its implications for an alliance of workers and students and for its relation with the liberation movements. This article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the …
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
Culture and Development in Africa
Development Literature and Writers from Underdeveloped Countries
This article deals with discussions of economic development among Turkish intellectuals in the 1930s, when the characteristics of a "Kemalist development strategy" were being defined. As an exercise in the history of economic thought, it attempts to show that those discussions anticipated many of the issues of development economics, a special field which appeared only after the Second World War. The discussion challenges the general lack of conce…
Langa
The Ideology of 'Tribalism
This article challenges the pervasive use of "tribalism" in analyses of African societies. Mafeje argues that the concept is not an objective descriptor of African reality but rather a reflection of the perceptions and biases of European observers and their African "converts." He questions whether African history, if written by Africans themselves, would have employed different concepts and narratives. The author explores the ideological underpin…
Agrarian Revolution and the Land Question in Buganda
The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective
In times of crisis there is an inevitable return to fundamentals. Questions such as the relation of knowledge to the world of experience are revived, often in a disharmonious way. That such a state of affairs obtains in anthropology can only be judged by the frequence which divergent views concerning the status of their discipline have occurred among modern anthropologists. Starting with isolated individual and intuitive insights and misgivings i…
Livres/Books
Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
Soweto and its aftermath
The student revolt that flared up in Soweto in June 1976 was a clear indication of the extent of mass resistance to oppression and exploitation under apartheid. Yet the revolt posed a number of important questions for a revolutionary strategy in South Africa, especially in terms of its implications for an alliance of workers and students and for its relation with the liberation movements. This article assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the …
On Technology and the Organization of Agriculture
On the articulation of modes of production
(1981). On the articulation of modes of production: review article. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 8, Anthropology and History, pp. 123-138
Development Literature and Writers from Underdeveloped Countries
This article deals with discussions of economic development among Turkish intellectuals in the 1930s, when the characteristics of a "Kemalist development strategy" were being defined. As an exercise in the history of economic thought, it attempts to show that those discussions anticipated many of the issues of development economics, a special field which appeared only after the Second World War. The discussion challenges the general lack of conce…
The national question in southern African settler societies
Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on Africa
Economic Models and Practice in Africa
Economic models, like scientific paradigms, predispose actors towards certain patterns of behavior or practices. Over time these become accepted as normal practice which everybody is expected to observe or to follow. This is how theoretical orthodoxies are established. However, even orthodoxies rely on refinement of techniques. In economics this is widely recognized, as it guarantees competitiveness among various practitioners. The context within…
The Beast and the Icon
A Commentary on Anthropology and Africa
Benign’ Recolonization and Malignant Minds in the Service of Imperialism
African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes
Africanity
Africanity
Recolonisation’ or ‘Self-colonisation’ in Pursuit of ‘Pax Africana’
On ‘Icons’ and African Perspectives on Democracy
Culture and Development in Africa
Africanity
Anthropology and Independent Africans
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · African history and culture analysis (5 works)