Document Type
Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.4000/cea.1026
Journal Title
Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
This paper looks at such youthful cosmopolitan aspirations among Manjaco of Guinea-Bissau and Lauje in Sulawesi. It is often argued that these attempts at worldliness reflect claims for equal rights of membership in an unequal global society. Yet, an aspiration to worldliness also entails their assertion that we are, or at least should be, like them. This paper suggests that Manjaco and Lauje might seem to want to look like us but they talk very differently about what they expect of us in a world we mutually make.
Publisher Statement
Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Translated from the original Portuguese: O trabalho Cadernos de Estudos Africanos está licenciado com uma Licença Creative Commons - Atribuição-NãoComercial-CompartilhaIgual 4.0 Internacional.
Recommended Citation
Gable, Eric. “Worldliness in Out of the Way Places.” Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, no. 18/19 (2010): 75–90. https://doi.org/10.4000/cea.1026.
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Comments
The definitive article can be found on the website of Cadernos de Estudos Africanos at: https://journals.openedition.org/cea/.