6085 -- PROBST, PETER & GERD SPITTLER

##The present volume brings together a number of essays exploring the answers to... the vitality of African popular culture, the vitality of religious ideas or the vitality of artistic forms of expression ­ invoking the notion of vitality has become a common practice in Africanist discourses.## The book is the outcome of a conference in 2002 at Bayreuth University which was part of the interdisciplinary research project (no. 560) funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

• PROBST, PETER & GERD SPITTLER: From an anthropology of astonishment to a critique of anthropology´s common sense: An exploration of the notion of local vitality in Africa
• OWENS, JONATHAN: Ethnolinguistic vitality theory and complex linguistic societies
• DOMBROWSKY-HAHN, KLAUDIA & GABRIELE SLEZAK: Local Vitality: On a complex linguistic situation in the West African town of Banfora (Burkina Faso)
• SCHOLZE, MARKO & INGO BARTHA: Trading cultures: Berbers and Tuareg as souvenir vendors
• WEIßKÖPPEL, CORDULA: A Sudanese snack bar in Berlin: Vitalization and presence in the diaspora
• LOIMEIER, ROMAN: Muslim communities in Africa and translocal movements of reform
• LANGE, DIERK: Preservation of the Canaanite creation culture in Ife
• WERLEN, BERNO: The globalization of local action: A geographical perspective
• OPPEN, ACHIM VON: A place in the world: Markers of the local along the Upper Zambezi
• BEEZ, JIGAL: The appropriation of rice at Mt. Kilimanjaro: A Japanese development project and its consequences
• HAHN, HANS PETER: Global goods and the process of appropriation
• SIPPEL, HARALD & ULRIKE WANITZEK: The vitality of local land law - a fatal "Vitality?" A case study of Peri-Urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• GRAEBNER, WERNER: Wape Vidonge Vyao: Taarab as a vital language in urban East Africa
• DIAWARA, MAMADOU: Colonial appropriation of local knowledge
• BOLLIG, MICHAEL & SUSANNE BERZBORN: The making of local traditions in a global setting: Indigenous peoples´ organizations and their effects at the local level in Southern Africa
• PROBST, PETER: Vital politics: History and heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria
• FABIAN, JOHANNES: Charisma: global movement and local survival
• WERBNER, RICHARD: Sacred centrality and flows across town and country: Sedimo in Botswana´s time of AIDS
• UKAH, ASONZEH F.-K.: Pentecostalism, religious expansion and the city: Lessons from the Nigerian Bible Belt
• SPITTLER, GERD: Explorations in African vitality: Local actions in conquest, resistance, famine and interethnic relations

Keywords: vitality, resistance, Bible Belt (Nigeria), pentecostalism, AIDS, charisma, local traditions, appropriation, globalization, Islam in Africa, Berbers and Tuareg