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IMAGINING FUTURES: MEMORY AND BELONGING IN AN AFR FAMLY

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<P>What keeps a family together? In this book, the authors offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming. What keeps them together as a family? In their groundbreaking work, the authors argue that shared memories, rather than only material interests, bind a family together. This work explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. It explores how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures.</P>

Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Foreword.
Introduction.
1: Celebrating Home and Family Unity: The 2016 Yob Homecoming Festival.
2: Remembering the Ancestors: Family Anecdotes, &#x201C;Quarrel Stories,&#x201D; and Migration and Settlement Narratives.
3: Constructing an Ancestral Heritage: The First Literate Family Member&#x2019;s Politics of Memory.
4: Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Labor Migration, Heroic Tales, and Mocking Songs.
5: Creating a New Order: Christian Models of Family Life.
6: Social Mobility and Moral Obligations: Remembering Educational Trajectories.
7: Urban Nostalgia for Ancestral Traditions: New Genres of Family Memory.
8: Making a Good Name for the Family: Funerals, Memory, and Public Prestige.
9: Stemming the Tide of Dispersal: The Young Generation&#x2019;s Understandings of Family and Memory Practices.
10: Unfinished Business: Remembering for the Future.
References.
Index.
About the Author.

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