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050	0		_aB5310 _b.M84 1988
082			_222 _a709.6
100	1		_aMudimbe, V. Y., _d1941-
245	1	4	_aThe invention of Africa : _bgnosis, philosophy, and the order of knowledge / _cV.Y. Mudimbe.
260			_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _cc1988.
300			_axii, 241 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aInclude bibliography and index
520			_a"What is the meaning of Africa and being an African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this book addresses. V. Y. Mudimbe argues that the various discourses themselves establish the worlds of thought in which people conceive their identity. Western anthropology and missionaries have introduced distortions not only for outsiders but also for Africans trying to understand themselves. Mudimbe goes beyond the classic issues of African anthropology or history. He says that the book attempts an archeology of African gnosis as a system of knowledge in which major philosophical questions recently have arisen: first, concerning the form, the content, and the style of Africanizing knowledge; second, concerning the status of traditional systems of thought. He is directly concerned with the processes of transformation of different types of knowledge." -- Book cover.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, African.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of.
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