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Carola Lentz: "Family history and the politics of memory in Africa"
Over the course of the past decades, lifestyles and ideas about family have become more and more different. In Africa, as elsewhere, urbanites and villagers, educated elites and modest folks, men and women, older and younger generations have developed diverging visions of a desirable future for themselves and their kin. After briefly introducing the Ghanaian extended family, Carola Lentz will discuss three cross-cutting themes: (1) the divisive and unifying forces at work in family memory; (2) family histories as a window to African experiences of colonialism (and decolonization), Christianity, and Western education; and (3) the potential and limits of long-term and engaged collaborative research.
Carola Lentz is a social anthropologist and senior research professor at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. Since the late 1980s, her research has focussed on West Africa, and she is particularly interested in land rights, ethnicity and nationalism, colonialism, the politics of memory, and the emergence of a middle class.
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Meeting-ID: 669 6081 7326
Code: 6HNGk7S2c
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