Identity, ethnicity and religion in Africa

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Identity, Ethnicity and Religion in Africa
- Ethnicity & Modernity
  - Marx & Weber: emergence of nation state = decline of tradition
  - Posner: Ethnicity offers a repoitoire of identities/game theory
  - EThnic identity as a resource for rational actors at popular levels?
  - Neopatrimonial theory
- Ethnicity and post modernity
  - Ethnicity 'fills in' for the failings of modernist projects: Berman
    - Ethnicity is new and old: it is dynamic, not primordial nor institutional
      - A social construction of the colonial period. A reaction to capitalist modernity, not just a mode of administration
  - Rise of prosperity theology in places of poverty
  - During times of crisis leaders resort to ethnicity
  - Reveals weaknesses of modern state filled with social crisis and uncertainty.
- Ethnicity is not modernity
  - Ethnicity as language of justice and change
  - Moral ethnicity: Lonsdale
    - Moral ethnicity transcends antagnoistic political tribalisms. It is a language of antagnoism related to clientelism.
EThnic identity as a resource for rational actors at popular levels?
Ethnicity is not modernity
- Ethnicity as language of justice and change
- Moral ethnicity: Lonsdale
  - Moral ethnicity transcends antagnoistic political tribalisms. It is a language of antagnoism related to clientelism.

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