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  • Frobenius-Institut  (9)
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  • 1990-1994  (9)
  • 1930-1934
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (9)
  • Anthropologie, soziale  (9)
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  • 1
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    Power, prayer and production : the Jola of Senegal (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40132-1 , 978-0-521-40132-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 82
    Keywords: Afrika Senegal ; Diola, Senegambien ; Islam ; Landwirtschaft ; Reis ; Soziales Leben ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: The Jola (Diola) are intensive wet-rice cultivators in the Lower Casamance region of Senegal. In this study, the author examines the reasons behind startling contrasts in the organization of agricultural tasks among three Jola communities located within a 45-kilometre radius from Ziguinchor. In Sambujat, situated in the non-Islamisized region south of the river, wet rice is a monocrop cultivated by both men and women. In Jipalom, in the Kajamutay region north of the river, Islam and cash cropping have been adopted; and in Fatiya, in the so-called 'Mandingized' region of the Kalunay, social relations have become hierarchical and this has had profound effects on the cropping system and on the division of labour. The author examines the shift of power relations over time, and their effects on the way in which production has been organized by age and gender, kin and class. Larger issues dealt with are Islamization, women's labour and the introduction of cash cropping. A concluding section places the history of Jola labour relations within the context of the political economy of Senegal.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on orthography; Introduction: ideology and agrarian change; Part I. The Political Economy of Sambujat: 1. The power of the spirit-shrines; 2. Rice fields and labour relationships; Conclusions to part I; Part II. At the Crossroads: The Kujamaat Jola of Jipalom: 3. Islamization and the introduction of a cash crop; 4. The impact on social and productive relations; Conclusions to part II; Part III. Manding Models and Fatiya Mores: 5. Ideology and legitimation; 6. Social relations of production restructured; Conclusions to part III; Epilogue: the Jola in the present national scene; Notes; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-252
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  • 2
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    Honor and grace in anthropology (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39055-9 , 978-0-521-39055-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 260 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 76
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Spanien ; Andalusien ; Katholik ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained. They range from the French royal rituals of the Middle Ages to the murderous feuds and peace-making rites of the Rif; they show how different peoples and periods have faced the problems of power, legitimacy, purity, divinity, and personal destiny. The concluding chapter suggests that anthropology, which ignored honor until a quarter of a century ago, should no longer ignore grace, whose varied connotations provide the basis of religious doctrines as well as the common coinage of the exchange of favors and thanks.
    Description / Table of Contents: Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France / Catherine Lafages -- The court surrounds the king: Louis XIV, the Palatine princess, and Saint-Simon / Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie -- Rites as acts of institution / Pierre Bourdieu -- Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain / Julio Caro Baroja -- The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community / J.G. Peristiany -- The Greek hero / J.K. Campbell -- Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily / Maria Pia Di Bella -- From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif / Raymond Jamous -- Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept / Sandra Ott -- Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology / Julian Pitt-Rivers.
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  • 3
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    Bartered brides : politics, gender and marriage in an Afghan tribal society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38158-4 , 978-0-521-38158-1 , 0-521-02467-6 , 978-0-521-02467-9
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 309 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 74
    Keywords: Afghanistan Ethnie, Asien ; Paschtune ; Durrani ; Familie ; Frau ; Heirat ; Hochzeit ; Brautpreis ; Ehe ; Scheidung ; Sexualität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Schande ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Contexts Personal background -- Comparative perspectives on marriage -- Regional background: the Durrani of Saripul -- Part 2. Social groups and marriage. Patriliny, gender and endogamy -- The Maduzai subtribe -- Household production and reproduction -- Part 3. Ideologies of equality and inequality. Brideprice and direct exchange -- Rituals of marriage -- Marriage choice -- Part 4. Case studies and structural implications. The power of shame -- The marriages of Jahhi Adam's descendants -- Durrani marriage: conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [293]-299 , [Based on] Thesis, Ph.D., University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1979 entitled "Marriage and social organization among Durrani Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan"
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  • 4
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    Identity through history : living stories in a Solomon Islands society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40172-0 , 978-0-521-40172-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 83
    Keywords: Salomonen Ethnologie ; Orale Tradition ; Mission ; Mission, christliche ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Orientations: 2. First encounters; 3. Portraits of the past; 4. Chiefs, persons and power; Part II. Transformations: 5. Crisis and Christianity; 6. Conversions and consolidation; Part III. Narrations: 7. Becoming Christian: playing with history; 8. Missionary encounters: narrating the self; Part IV. Revitalization: 9. Collisions and convergence; 10. The paramount chief: rites of renewal; 11. Conclusion; Notes; References.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-264
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  • 5
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    Sacred void : spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40466-5 , 978-0-521-40466-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 80
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kenia ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Giryama ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Raumvorstellung ; Viehhalter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Arbeitsmigration ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations among communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as laborers or fisherman on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Fantasies of the West -- 2. Western Kaya, sacred centre -- 3. View from the west: cattle and co-operation -- 4. From west to east: the works of marriage -- 5. Spanning west and east: dances of death -- 6. Alternative authorities: incest and fertility -- 7. Alternative selves: invasions and cure -- 8. Coastal desires and personal centre -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [247]-253
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  • 6
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    Tradition as truth and communication : a cognitive description of traditional discourse (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-37417-0 , 978-0-521-37417-0
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 143 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 68
    Keywords: Tradition Kommunikation ; Sprache und Kultur ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which results in the repetition of certain communicative events', and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Conserved world-views or salient memories? -- 2. How to think with 'empty' notions -- 3. Criteria of truth -- 4. Customised speech (I): truth without intentions -- 5. Customised speech (II): truth without meaning -- 6. Customised persons: initiation, competence and position -- 7. Conclusion and programme.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 121-137
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  • 7
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    Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental and African slave trades (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 , 978-0-521-34867-6 , 0-521-34396-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34396-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 67
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Demographie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturwandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Abolition ; Methodologie ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century.While the book is primarily a general survey, it presents original research and analysis, especially in the author's demographic model, computer simulation of the slave trade, and analysis of slave prices. The demographic, economic, and social analyses are carefully introduced, so that the book may serve not only as a general introduction to African slavery for an undergraduate audience, but as a primer on interdisciplinary application of social science methodolgy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa -- 2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 2-- 3 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model -- 4 The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 -- 5 The economics and morality of slave supply -- 6 Patterns of slave life -- 7 Transformations of slavery and society ,1650-1900 -- 8 The end of slavery -- 9 The world and Africa -- Appendix 1: Slave prices -- Appendix 2: The demographic simulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-226
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  • 8
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    The _anthropology of numbers (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38045-6 , 978-0-521-38045-4
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 70
    Keywords: Zahl Symbolik ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ontology of number; 2. The cognitive foundations of numeracy; 3. Number and language; 4. Cosmology, society and politics; 5. Economy, society and politics; 6. Measurement, comparison and equivalence; 7. Time; 8. Money; 9. Music poetry and dance; 10. Games and chance; 11. Art and architecture; 12. The ecology of number; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-189
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  • 9
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    Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38504-0 , 978-0-521-38504-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: [xv], 221 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 71
    Keywords: Ozeanien Papua-Neuguinea ; Melanesien ; Sepik ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Manambu ; Ethnographie ; Politisches System ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Namen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Manambu; 2. Avatip; 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology; 4. Ceremonial rank; 5. Male initiation; 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot; 7. The debating system; 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw; 9. Symbolic economies in Melanesia; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-213 , [Based on author's thesis, Australian National University] , Thesis, Ph.D., Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, 1982 entitled "Stealing people's names: social structure, cosmology and politics in a Sepik River village". Online verfügbar unter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116867
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