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.

Comments

The definitive article can be found on the website of Cadernos de Estudos Africanos at: https://journals.openedition.org/cea/.

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.

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