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Patterns of inclusion and exclusion in Africa can be seen ‘from the inside’ and ‘from the outside’. The bulk of the analysis in this book concentrates on insider accounts and I will return to that perspective in my conclusion. However, in this Afterword, I want briefly to present a way of understanding the outside view, graphically proposed by Levi-Strauss (1995, pp. 297–298):
If we studied societies from the outside, it would be tempting to distinguish two contrasting types; those which practise cannibalism … that is, which regard the absorption of certain individuals possessing dangerous powers as the only means of neutralising those powers and even of turning them to advantage … and those which … adopt what might be called the practice of anthropemy (from the Greek emein, to vomit) … which consists of ejecting dangerous individuals from the social body.
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Cohen, R. (2018). Afterword: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in African Societies. In: Bakewell, O., Landau, L. (eds) Forging African Communities. Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58194-5_13
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