Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters , edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp. edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp.
Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters , edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp. edited by Wale Adebanwi, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2022, xxi + 427 pp.
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非洲的日常国家与民主：民族志的遭遇 非洲的日常国家与民主：民族志的遭遇，由 Wale Adebanwi，俄亥俄州雅典，俄亥俄大学出版社编辑，2022 年，xxi 427 页。由 Wale Adebanwi，俄亥俄州雅典，俄亥俄大学出版社编辑
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这本由Wale Adebanwi编辑的书是对非洲日常国家和民主人类学著作的一个宝贵贡献。这本书背离了对这一主题的广泛接受的方法，特别是在政治学家中，这种方法将后殖民时代的非洲国家描绘为人工结构，与社会脱节，仅仅是外壳，真实的政治只发生在社会形态中。而不是对一个人的本质做出先验的假设，（民主）国家，它采取民族志的方法来探索不同背景下普通人的日常经验和解释的多样化挂毯，跨越西部，东部，中部和南部非洲，以及非洲之角。在导言中，编辑Wole Adebanwi巧妙地编织了关于国家，民主，和日常生活，无论是内部和外部的非洲主义人类学研究，从而设置舞台的中心主题的卷。Adebanwi的介绍既详细又细致入微。他敦促我们探索具体的社会进程，时间和空间的经验，以及在国家机构的边缘和核心运作的物质动力，并赋予非洲大陆的国家和民主生活以意义。
This edited volume by Wale Adebanwi is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning corpus of works on the anthropology of everyday state and democracy in Africa. The book departs from the widely accepted approach towards this topic, particularly among political scientists, which portrays postcolonial African states as artificial constructs, disconnected from society, and mere shells where real politics only happen within social formations. Instead of making a priori assumptions about the nature of a (democratic) state, it takes an ethnographic approach to explore the diverse tapestry of everyday experiences and interpretations of ordinary people across various contexts, spanning West, East, Central, and Southern Africa, as well as the Horn of Africa.In the introduction, editor Wole Adebanwi skilfully weaves together a diverse range of literature on the state, democracy, and everyday life, both within and beyond Africanist anthropological studies, thereby setting the stage for the central themes of the volume. Adebanwi’s introduction is both detailed and nuanced. He urges us to explore concrete social processes, temporal and spatial experiences, and the very material dynamics that operate at both the margins and the core of state institutions and give meaning to the state and democratic life on the continent.