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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-90-04-52466-8 / (hardback) , 978-90-04-52467-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 11
    Keywords: Mali Westafrika ; Tee ; Trinken ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Eßgewohnheit ; Handel ; China ; Kulturgeschichte ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: "Green tea, imported from China, occupies an important place in the daily lives of Malians. They spend so much time preparing and consuming the sugared beverage that it became the country's national drink. To find out how Malians came to practice the tea ritual, this study follows the beverage from China to Mali on its historical trade routes halfway around the globe. It examines the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed in the various places on its travel across geographical regions, political economies, cultural contexts, and religious affiliations"
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction: Following the Drink -- 1 Tea as a Subject of Study -- 2 Central Issues of This Study -- 2.1 The Choice of the Beverage and Its Social Meanings -- 2.2 Mobility and Unity -- 2.3 The Teascape and the Diffusion of Tea in the Context of Trade -- 3 Research Methodology -- 4 Organisation of the Book -- 1. The History of Tea in Mali -- 1 The History of Bamako's Tea Market -- 2 Tea in Timbuktu in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 3 The Availability of Tea during French Colonial Time (1883-1960) -- 4 The Post-colonial Period (1960-1991) and Mali's Tea Plantation -- 4.1 The Creation of the State-owned Tea Plantation in Farako -- 4.2 The SOMIEX (1962-1991) and the Government's Attempts to Control Imports -- 4.3 Mali's Tea Plantation Created an Awareness of Tea -- 5 The Tea Market after the 1991 Reforms -- 5.1 The Distribution Network of Tea Importers -- 5.2 Types of Green Tea on the Malian Market -- 6 Conclusion: Mali, a Centre of Tea Distribution -- 2. The Journey of Tea from China via Britain and Morocco to the Western Sahel -- 1 China's Tea Production for Export -- 2 When Tea Met Coffee: Historical Coincidences -- 2.1 The Coffee Frontier -- 2.2 First Reports about Tea, the Portuguese Traders in Macau and Competition with Dutch and British Merchants -- 2.3 The Introduction of Green Tea to the English Court by Catherine of Braganza -- 3 The Rise of Tea in Morocco -- 3.1 The Arrival of Tea in the Sultan's Palace -- 3.2 The Creation of Essaouira and the Sultan's Traders -- 3.3 The Afriat Family: Tujar as-Sultan and Leading Tea Traders -- 4 The Caravan Trade from Wad Noun to Timbuktu -- 4.1 The Trade Route across the Sahara from Wad Noun to Timbuktu -- 4.2 Trade Networks across the Sahara and the Financing of Caravans.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-83107-9 (hardback) , 978-1-108-92319-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 286 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Identities
    Keywords: Nigeria Pentecost ; Christentum ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Macht ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. The Pentecostal modes of constructing the world by using their performative agencies to embed their rites in social processes have imbued them with immense cultural power to contour the character of their societies. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for being. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Using extensive archival material, interviews, and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 246-279
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  • 3
    ISBN: 978-1-108-49146-4 , 978-1-108-86883-9 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 412 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 152
    Keywords: Ruanda (Staat) Völkermord ; Tutsi ; Hutu ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Gewalt ; Ethnopsychologie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Beziehungen, interethnische
    Abstract: Rwanda`s genocide in 1994 was a tragic and world-changing event that has indelibly etched itself on the global conscience. The Path to Genocide in Rwanda combines extensive, original field data with some of the best existing evidence to offer a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it.Drawing on interviews with over three hundred Rwandans, Omar Shahabudin McDoom systematically compares those who participated in the violence against those who did not. He contrasts communities that experienced violence early with communities where violence began late, as well as communities where violence was limited with communities where it was massive. His findings offer new perspectives on some of the most troubling questions concerning the genocide, while also providing a broader engagement with key theoretical debates in the study of genocides and ethnic conflict. (Klappentext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. What We Do and Do Not Know -- 2. An Extraordinary Baseline -- 3. Security: War-time Threat -- 4. Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom -- 5. Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father -- 6. Authority: Rwanda's privatized and powerful state -- 7. Why some killed and others did not -- 8. Conclusion: Rwanda in Retrospect -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 389-406
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  • 4
    ISBN: 978-90-04-47260-0 , 978-90-04-49824-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 337 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 314
    Keywords: Indonesien Lombok ; Java ; Musik und Kultur ; Musik, traditionelle ; Adat ; Kultureinfluss ; Islam ; Gamelan ; Popular Culture ; Musikethnologie ; Sozio-religiöse Organisation ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: This longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok`s history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, and the socioreligious and artistic changes that transformed many music forms. The book outlines the years of political difficulty for music and years of transition and government interventions to remake musics, and identifies the emerging ideologies and developments that laid the groundwork for a diversity of musics - traditional, Islamic, popular - to simultaneously exist in an unprecedented way. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures and tables -- Introduction: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1 Change, Religion, and Identity in Music Cultures -- Chapter 2 `Traditional` Musics: Functions, Contestations, Interpretations -- Chapter 3 The Phenomenon of Gendang Beleq -- Chapter 4 Wayang Sasak: Shadowplay, Practices, Elements, and Narratives -- Chapter 5 Music, Islam, and Islamization -- Chapter 6 Popular Musics and `Musik Rakyat` -- Chapter 7 Minority Musics of Lombok -- Chapter 8 Nexus of Sasak/Balinese Interaction: The Lingsar Festival -- Chapter 9 Performing Arts Education and Issues of Sustainability -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Making Sense of All of This -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [315]-330
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-316-51586-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 265 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 155
    Keywords: Simbabwe Recht ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Strafrecht ; Macht ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Rechtsethnologie ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of viewing appeals to law as acts of resistance by marginalised orders for inclusion in dominant modes of rule, Susanne Verheul argues that it was not recognition by but of this formal, rule-bound ordering, and the form of citizenship it stood for, that was at stake in performative legal engagements. In this manner, law was much more than a mere instrument. Law was a site in which competing conceptions of political authority were given expression, and in which people's understandings of themselves as citizens were formed and performed. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Law, State Authority and the Courts -- 1. History, Authority and the Law in Zimbabwe, 1950-2002 -- 2. `Rebels` and `Good Boys`: Examining the Working Conditions in Zimbabwe`s Attorney General`s Office after 2000 -- 3. `Zimbabweans Are Foolishly Litigious`: Debating Citizenship When Engaging with a Politicised Legal System -- 4. `What Is Abnormal Is Normal`: Performative Politics on the Stages of Arrest and Detention -- 5. Material and Sensory Courtrooms: Observing the `Decline of Professionalism` in Harare`s Magistrates` Courts -- 6. The Trials of the `Traitor` in Harare`s Magistrates` Courts under the Unity Government -- 7. History, Consciousness and Citizenship in Matabeleland -- 8. Historical Narrative and Political Strategy in Bulawayo`s Magistrates` Courts: The Case of Owen Maseko -- Conclusion: `Government Is a Legal Fiction` - Performing Law, the State, Citizenship and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-259 , Doctoral thesis , University of Oxford, 2017, unter dem Titel: "Government is a legal fiction" : performing political power in Zimbabwe's magistrates' courts after 2000
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-1-108-83180-2 (hardback) , 978-1-108-92470-2 (epub) , 978-1-108-92720-8 (paperback)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 338 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 63
    Keywords: Südafrika Arbeiterklasse ; Bergbau ; Weiße ; Gewerkschaft ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Neoliberalismus ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Apartheid ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white workers experienced the dismantling of the racial state and the establishment of black majority rule. Starting from the 1970s, it shows how apartheid reforms constituted the withdrawal of state support for working-class whiteness, sending workers in search of new ways to safeguard their interests in a rapidly changing world. Danelle van Zyl-Hermann tracks the shifting strategies of the blue-collar Mineworkers' Union, culminating in its reinvention, by the 2010s, as the Solidarity Movement, a social movement appealing to cultural nationalism. Integrating unique historical and ethnographic evidence with global debates, Privileged Precariat offers a chronological and interpretative rethinking of South Africa's recent past and contributes new insights from the Global South to debates on race and class in the era of neoliberalism. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of table and figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: the return of the white working class -- Part I - White workers and the racial state -- 1 - Privileged race, precarious class: white labour from the mineral revolution to the golden age -- 2 - From sweetheart to Frankenstein: the National Party's changing stance towards white labour amid the crisis of the 1970s -- Select 3 - Race and rights at the rock face of change: white organised labour and the Wiehahn Reforms -- Part II - White workers and civil society mobilisation -- 4 - From trade union to social movement: the mineworkers union solidarity's formation of a post apartheid social alliance -- 5 - An 'alternative government': the solidarity movement's contemporary strategies -- 6 - Discursive labour and strategic contradiction: managing the working class roots of a declassed organisation -- 7 - 'Guys like us are left to our own mercy': counternarratives ambivalence and the pressures of racial gatekeeping among solidarity's blue collar members -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 310-329
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  • 7
    ISBN: 978-90-04-39993-8 (hardback) , 978-2-86978-980-7 (hardback) , 978-90-04-41781-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English , French
    Pages: VIII, 193 Seiten
    Series Statement: Africa Futures volume 2
    Keywords: Südafrika Regionalismus ; Afrika ; Apartheid ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Fremdenfeindlichkeit ; Burundi ; Madagaskar ; Elfenbeinküste ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Rechtsethnologie ; Entwicklung, kulturelle ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Anthropologie, politische ; Südafrikanische Entwicklungsgemeinschaft
    Abstract: In Regional Integration in Africa: What Role for South Africa, Henri Bah, Zondi Siphamandla and Andre Mbata Mangu reflect on African integration and the contribution of post-apartheid South Africa. From their different scientific background, they demonstrate that despite some progress made under the African Union that superseded the Organisation of African Unity, Africa is still lagging behind in terms of regional integration and South Africa, which benefitted from the rest of the continent in her struggle against apartheid, has not as yet played a major role in this process. Apart from contributing to advancing knowledge, the book should be a recommended read for all those interested in African regional integration and the relationships between Africa and post-apartheid South Africa. (Umschlagtext)
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-49427-4 , 978-1-108-66507-0 /E-Book, 978-1-108-71431-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 322 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 147
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Eritrea ; Äthiopien ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Uganda ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politischer Wandel ; Sicherheit ; Geschichte, politische ; Regierung ; Macht ; Konflikt, politischer ; Revolte ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements transformed from rebels to rulers, promising to deliver 'fundamental change'. This study exposes, examines and underlines the acute challenges each has faced in doing so. Drawing on over 130 interviews with the region's post-liberation elite, undertaken over the course of a decade, Jonathan Fisher takes a fresh and empirically-grounded approach to explaining the fast-moving politics of the region over the last three decades, focusing on the role and influence of its guerrilla governments. East Africa after Liberation sheds critical light on the competing pressures post-liberation governments contend with as they balance reformist aspirations with accommodation of counter-vailing interests, historical trajectories and their own violent organisational cultures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I - Insurgency -- 1 - East Africa`s Post-liberation Elite and the Legacy of Insurgency I: Movement State And Society -- 2 - East Africa`s Post-liberation Elite and the Legacy of Insurgency II: From Rebellion To Government -- Part II - Liberation -- 3 - From Rebels to Diplomats: Pragmatism Aspiration And Mistrust 1986 1995 -- 4 - Reinventing Liberation: Revolution And Regret In Congo And Sudan 1995 2000 -- Part III - Crisis -- 5 - The Disintegration of the Liberation Coalition, 1998-2007 -- 6 - From Regional Conflict to Domestic Crisis: Regime Consolidation And The Fragmentation Of The Old Guard Ca 2000 2007 -- Conclusion: East Africa's Second Liberation -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-311
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-90-04-39992-1 , 978-2-86978-856-5 , 978-90-04-41122-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa Futures volume 1
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Südafrika ; Südliches Afrika ; Westafrika ; Migration ; Integration ; Identität ; Freiheit ; Mobilität ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Pan-Afrikanismus ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: This comparative book debates migration and regional integration in the two regional economic blocs, namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book takes a historical and nuanced citizenship approach to integration by analysing regional integration from the perspective of non-state actors and how they negotiate various structures and institutions in their pursuit for life and livelihood in a contemporary context marked by mobility and economic fragmentation. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction and background -- Conceptual underpinnings and contemporary debates -- Historical and theoretical issues -- Migration policies in Africa -- Migration and regional integration : West Africa and Southern Africa -- SADC and ECOWAS : Comparative perspectives -- Resilient economy, migration and regional integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [179]-191
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108484343 , 9781108706186
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 218 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Tradition ; Zivilisation ; China ; Afrika ; Afrika ; China ; Zivilisation ; Tradition ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this book revitalises and changes the way to think about civilisations in the humanities, the historical and the social sciences
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  • 11
    ISBN: 978-90-04-34806-6
    ISSN: 1568-4474
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 190 Seiten
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies 41
    Keywords: Afrika China ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this new book on Africa-China relations, Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol strongly engages in the heated debates on African cooperation with China, an increassingly rich and powerful partner. The current dominant view highlights the neo-colonial and exploitative nature of these relations with a denial of any positive results for African people. However, the growing China-Africa partnership took its roots at Bandung 1955 conference, to culminate with an overt competition between China and other nations over African resources. For many, "a new scramble for Africa" emerges. Mbaidjol argues there is rather a "global scramble for China," a fierce battle to get the PRC's kind attention. Africa is right to engage the struggle to access China's development funding. Africa may wish to avoid being distracted by rival voices, but to endeavor doing its own homework and rehearse for the global competiton, in the only interest of African people. The new book unpacked Africa's preparedness and rehearsal strategy.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 159-184
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-107-62250-0 , 9781139105828 /E-Book
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 610 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 144
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegambia ; Senegal ; Ghana ; Togo ; Gambia ; Goldküste ; Anlo ; Ashanti ; Ewe ; Malinke ; Diola, Senegambien ; Grenze ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland ; Frankreich ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Keteku III, Nene Nuer [Leben und Werk] ; Nkrumah, Kwame [Leben und Werk] ; Sylla, Fodé [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations 1 Centring the Margins -- Part I From Frontiers to Boundaries. 2 Configurations of Power in Comparative Perspective. 3 Port Cities, Frontiers and Boundaries -- Part II - States and Taxes, Land and Mobility. 4 Constructing the Compound, Keeping the Gate. 5 Being Seen Like a State: Frontier Logics Colonial Administration And Traditional Authority In The Borderlands. 6 Border Regulation and State-Making at the Margins: Taxation Migration And Contraband During The Interwar Years. 7 Land, Belief and Belonging in the Borderlands -- Part III Decolonization and Boundary Closure, c.1939-1969. 8 Bringing the Space Back In: Decolonization Development And Territoriality In West Africa. 9 The Vanishing Horizon of Senegambian Unity. 10 Forging the Nation, Contesting the Border: Identity Politics And Border Dynamics In The Trans Volta -- Part IV States, Social Contracts and Respacing from Below, c.1970-2010. 11 Barnacle States and Boundary Lines: States Trade And Urbanism In The Senegambia. 12 The Remaking of Ghana and Togo at Their Common Border: Alhaji Kalabule Meets Nana Benz. 13 Boundaries, Communities and "`Re-Membering": Festivals And The Negotiation Of Difference -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 545-581
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-49693-3 , 9781108690485 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 366 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 143
    Keywords: Tansania Yao (Bantu) ; Landbevölkerung ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Anthropologie, politische ; Armut ; Hunger ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknoledgements -- 1. The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru -- 2. Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism -- 3. The struggle to trade -- 4. Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility -- 5. Villagisation and the pursuit of market access -- 6. The politics of development in the era of liberalisation -- 7. Performing and pursuing development in Kineng'ene -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-355
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  • 14
    ISBN: 978-90-04-36701-2 , 978-90-04-36619-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 233 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 20
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Elfenbeinküste ; Südafrika ; Simbabwe ; Tansania ; Ghana ; Republik Niger ; Tschad ; Grenze ; Grenzstreit ; Außenpolitik ; Infrastruktur ; Territorialität ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Selbstbestimmung ; Nationalismus ; Wasserversorgung ; Erdöl ; China ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉
    Abstract: The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council`s Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Change in Africa" (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures - Abbreviations - Contributors -- Part 1. Territories and Sovereignties -- Part 2. Borders and Mobilities -- Part 3. Infrastructure and Order(s) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
    Note: Enthält 12 Beiträge
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-108-43825-4 , 978-1-108-42367-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 264 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Anthropologie, politische ; Mittelklasse ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Politische Bewegung
    Abstract: From spray-painted slogans in Senegal to student uprisings in South Africa, twenty-first century Africa has seen an explosion of protests and social movements. But why? Protests flourish amidst an emerging middle class whose members desire political influence and possess the money, education, and political autonomy to effectively launch movements for democratic renewal. In contrast with pro-democracy protest leaders, rank-and-file protesters live at a subsistence level and are motivated by material concerns over any grievance against a ruling regime. Through extensive field research, Lisa Mueller shows that middle-class political grievances help explain the timing of protests, while lower-class material grievances explain the participation. By adapting a class-based analysis to African cases where class is often assumed to be irrelevant, Lisa Mueller provides a rigorous yet accessible explanation for why sub-Saharan Africa erupted in unrest at a time of apparent economic prosperity.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - List of tables - Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: the puzzle of Africa's third wave of protests -- 2. Defining Africa's protest waves -- 3. Paradoxes of prosperity -- 4. Comparative protest leadership: theories, trends, and strategies -- 5. Comparative individual participation in the third wave -- 6. Not-so-great expectations: pessimism and protest in Niger -- 7. Conclusion - Appendix - Bibliography - Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213 - 260
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  • 16
    ISBN: 978-90-04-36619-0 , 978-90-04-36701-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 1574-6925
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 233 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 20
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Elfenbeinküste ; Südafrika ; Simbabwe ; Tansania ; Ghana ; Republik Niger ; Tschad ; Grenze ; Grenzstreit ; Außenpolitik ; Infrastruktur ; Territorialität ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Selbstbestimmung ; Nationalismus ; Wasserversorgung ; Erdöl ; China ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉
    Abstract: The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council`s Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Change in Africa" (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial practices that have emerged after the end of the Cold War in the fields of conflict, climate change, migration and urban development, to name but a few, and their ordering effects with regard to social relations. These findings bear particular relevance for the co-production of territorialities and sovereignties, for borders and migrations, as well as infrastructures and orders.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures - Abbreviations - Contributors -- Part 1. Territories and Sovereignties -- Part 2. Borders and Mobilities -- Part 3. Infrastructure and Order(s) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
    Note: Enthält 12 Beiträge
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-107-19832-6 , 978-1-316-64812-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 402 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 137
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The frontiersmen of mankind; 2. The emergence of food-producing communities; 3. The impact of metals; 4. Christianity and Islam; 5. Colonising society in western Africa; 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa; 7. The Atlantic slave trade; 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial invasion; 10. Colonial society and African nationalism; 11. Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994; 12. Independent Africa, 1956-1995; 13. Recovery?
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  • 18
    ISBN: 978-90-04-34697-0
    Language: English
    Pages: 315 Seiten
    Series Statement: A _Decade of ... Series
    Keywords: Nigeria Politik ; Demokratisierung ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Terrorismus ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Gewalt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Geschichte
    Note: "Based on chapters previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, economy and society South of Sahara."
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-107-18605-7 , 978-1-316-63696-1 , 978-1-316-88870-4 /PDF , 978-1-316-95295-5 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Wirtschaft Ethik ; Moral ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Christentum ; Islam ; Sufismus ; Hinduismus ; Almosen ; Wohlfahrt ; Kapitalismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Indien ; Sri Lanka ; Mali ; Indonesien ; China ; Malaysia
    Abstract: Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice, holding that market principles should be applied to human action at large. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the ascendance of market reason has been countered by calls for reforms of financial markets and for the consideration of moral values in economic practice. This book intervenes in these debates by showing how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions. It reveals how religious movements and organizations have reacted to the increasing prominence of market reason in unpredictable, and sometimes counterintuitive, ways. Using a range of examples from different countries and religious traditions, the book illustrates the myriad ways in which religious and market moralities are closely imbricated in diverse global contexts.
    Note: Enthält eine Introduction und 12 Beiträge; "The conception for this volume began in June 2013 with a two-day workshop at King's College, London" (Acknowledgements)
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    ISBN: 9789004288041
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 262 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 300
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Environment, trade and society in Southeast Asia
    DDC: 959
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Southeast Asia Congresses History ; Southeast Asia Congresses Civilization ; Southeast Asia Congresses Environmental conditions ; History ; Southeast Asia Congresses Commerce ; History ; Südostasien ; Geschichte ; Klima ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: "Eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-254) and index , Von der Rückseite des Titelblatts: "Papers originally presented at a conference in honor of Peter Boomgaard held August 2011 and organized by Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-254) and index , Introduction : structures, cycles, scratches on rocks , Breeding and power in Southeast Asia : horses, mules and donkeys in the longue durée , Under the volcano : stabilizing the early Javanese state in an unstable environment , History seismology in the ring of fire : punctuating the Indonesian past , The longue durée in Filipino demographic history : the role of fertility prior to 1800 , Glimpsing Southeast Asian naturalia in global trade, c. 300 BCE-1600 AD , Ages of commerce in Southeast Asian history , Pursuing the invisible : Makassar, city systems , The expansion of Chinese inter-insular hinterland trade in Southeast Asia, c.1400-1850 , From contest state to patronage democracy : the longue durée of clientelism in Indonesia , Visual history : a neglected resource for the longue durée , List of writings of Peter Boomgaard
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 978-90-04-28687-0
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ([xi], 216 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 57
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Dani ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie, politische
    Note: "based on an thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Australian National University" (Preface) , Thesis, Australian National University, [1965]
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-29070-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 303 S.
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 301
    Keywords: Malaysia Literatur ; Türkei ; Türke ; Ottomanisches Reich ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Mythologie ; Selbstbild ; Fremdwahrnehmung
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-63353-7 , 978-0-521-34136-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 237 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 56
    Keywords: Nigeria Demokratie ; Politik ; Patronage ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Beziehung ; Militärregierung ; Militär ; Ethnizität ; Gewalt ; Persönlichkeit
    Abstract: Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts. In addition, the abiding desire for a democratic political system is frustrated by the deepening of ethnic, linguistic and regional identities. By exploring the ways in which individuals at all social levels contribute to the maintenance of these practices, the book provides an analysis of the impediments to constitutional democracy that is also relevant to the study of other nations. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The problem of democracy -- 2 A democracy that works -- Part II Nigeria's social dynamics and military rule -- 4 . Politics in a multi-ethnic society -- 5 Clientelism and prebendal politics -- 6 Military rule and economic statism -- Part III The return to tripartism in the Second Republic -- 7 Personality and alignment in Igbo politics -- 8 Ethnicity, faction and class in Western Nigeria -- 9 Northern primacy and prebendal politics: the making of the NPN -- Part IV The crisis of Nigerian democracy -- 10 The challenge of the 1983 elections: a republic in peril -- 11 Electoral fraud and violence: the Republic's demise -- 12 Conclusion: democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 224-232
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    ISBN: 90-247-5137-3 , 978-90-247-5137-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ( XV, 511 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 60
    Uniform Title: Het _politieke systeem van de Atoni van Timor
    Keywords: Indonesien Timor ; Atoin Meto ; Ethnie, Südostasien ; Politisches System ; Anthropologie, politische
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part One. The Atoni and his world -- Chapter I. The people and their environment -- Chapter Il. The economic life - Chapter III. The kinship system -- Chapter IV. The religion -- Part Two. The political system -- Chapter V. The political communities of Timor in the precolonlal period -- Chapter VI. The political system of Insana -- Chapter VII. Belu, Beboki and Fialaran -- Chapter VIII. The immediate sphere of influence of Sonba'i -- Chapter IX. The princedoms beyond the immediate sphere of influence of Sonba'i -- Chapter X. The functioning of the political community in Timor -- Chapter XI. The system of the political community in Timor -- Chapter XII. The political system of the Atoni as viewed by modern science and as classified by Timorese thinking -- Chapter XIII. Totality, unity and adaptability of the system -- Chapter XIV. The place of the culture of the Atoni in the Indonesian culture province -- List of abbreviations used in the bibliography -- Bibliography -- List of Timorese words -- Index of names -- Subject Index
    Note: "an earlier version has been published in Dutsch as a doctoral thesis" (Ruckseite des Titelblattes)Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [482]-500 , Doctoral thesis, Free University, Amsterdam, 1966 unter dem Titel Het politieke systeem van de Atoni van Timor
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-22681-4 , 978-90-04-24950-9/ebook
    ISSN: 1567-2794
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 413 Seiten , Tabellen
    Series Statement: Social Sciences in Asia 34
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Migration ; Globalisierung ; Konflikt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Grenze ; Grenzstreit ; China ; USA ; Türkei ; Schmuggel ; Familie ; Recht ; Gastarbeiter
    Abstract: Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations due to social upheavals over the last twenty years impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identities; and gender relations in Central Asia. This volume raises the importance of internal migrations, those at a regional, intra-Central Asian, level, labor migrations to Russia, and carries us as far away to the Uzbek migrants based in Istanbul, New York, or Seoul, as well as to the young women of Tashkent who head to Germany or France, and to the Germans, Greeks, and Jews of Central Asia who have returned to their "ethnic homelands".Contributors include Aida Aaly Alimbaeva, Stéphanie Belouin, Adeline Braux, Asel Dolotkeldieva, Olivier Ferrando, Sophie Hohmann, Nafisa Khusenova, Erica Marat, Sophie Massot, Saodat Olimova, Sébastien Peyrouse, Luisa Piart, Madeleine Reeves, Elena Sadovskaya.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 397-408
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-1-107-69676-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 208 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published 2011, first paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Keywords: Mexiko Oaxaca ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Chiapas ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ethnizität ; Bürgerrecht ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Grundeigentum ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity. It concludes that--contrary to many analyses of Chiapas's 1994 indigenous rebellion--external influences can trump ideology in framing social movements. Rural Chiapas's prevalent communitarian. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments - 1. Surveying the silence - 2. A tale of two movements - 3. Individual and communitarian identities in indigenous southern Mexico - 4. Agrarian conflict, armed rebellion, and the struggle for rights in Chiapas' Lacandon Jungle - 5. Customary practices, women's rights, and multicultural elections in Oaxaca - 6. From balaclavas to baseball caps - 7. Reconciling individual rights, communal rights, and autonomy institutions - Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-201
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-22261-8 , 978-90-04-22201-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvi, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 28
    Keywords: Angola Guinea Bissau ; Mosambik ; Kolonie, portugiesisch ; Nationalismus ; Kulturwandel ; Dekolonisation ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo`s liberation literature, UNITA`s moral economy and the disaggregation of Guinea-Bissau. The authors provide novel insights in the hope of contributing to the academic and public debate on the subject, not least in those countries where, in the face of liberalisation, ruling parties and their opponents have been arguing intensively over, and have sometime struggled to re-invent, a sense of national community. Through their engagement with the subject, authors also make a contribution to the general discussion of the concepts of nations and nationalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations - List of contributors -- Thematic Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 10 Beiträge; Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-264
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-521-26953-7 , 978-0-521-19139-5 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 350 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 112
    Keywords: Ruanda (Staat) Geschichte ; Völkermord ; Christentum ; Religion ; Kirche ; Gewalt ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic politics. Comparing two local Presbyterian parishes in Kibuye before the genocide demonstrates that progressive forces were seeking to democratize the churches. Just as Hutu politicians used the genocide of Tutsi to assert political power and crush democratic reform, church leaders supported the genocide to secure their own power. The fact that Christianity inspired some Rwandans to oppose the genocide demonstrates that opposition by the churches was possible and might have hindered the violence. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction. 1. "People came to mass each day to pray, then they went out to kill": Christian churches, civil society, and genocide -- Part 1. "River of blood": Rwanda's national churches and the 1994 genocide -- 2. "Render unto Caesar and Musinga ...": Christianity and the colonial state -- 3. The churches and the politics of ethnicity -- 4. "Working hand in hand": Christian churches and the postcolonial state (1962-1990) -- 5, "Giants with feet of clay": Christian churches and democratization (1990-1992) -- 6. "It is the end of the world": Christian churches and genocide (1993-1994) -- Part II. "God has hidden his face": Local churches and the exercise of power in Rwanda -- 7. Kirinda: local churches and the construction of hegemony -- 8. Biguhu: local churches, empowerment of the poor, and challenges to hegemony -- 9. "Commanded by the devil": Christian involvement in the genocide in Kirinda and Biguhu -- 10.Churches and accounting for genocide -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 325-340 , Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1995, entitled Christianity and Crisis in Rwanda: Religion, Civil Society, Democratization, and Decline
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-20729-5
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 214 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 25
    Keywords: Äthiopien Süd-Äthiopien ; Minorität ; Ethnizität ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Politik ; Politische Partei ; Föderalismus ; Regierung ; Sidama ; Wolayta ; Nationalismus ; Nationalitätenkonflikt ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Abstract: Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis for political representation. The one prominent exception is Ethiopia, which since 1991 has imposed a system of ethnic-based federalism that offers each ethnic group the right of `self-determination`. This book provides a detailed empirical study of this system at work in the complex multiethnic environment of southern Ethiopia. It finds that ethnic self-rule, in combination with the power politics of an authoritarian regime, has produced both intended and unintended outcomes. While arguably easing large-scale ethnic conflicts, it has led to `ethnicisation` of local socioeconomic disputes and to sharper inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic divides, often to the disadvantage of historically marginalised groups. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the limits of institutions in multiethnic societies -- 'National self-determination': federalism the Ethiopian way -- The historical trajectories of local ethnic polities: the Sidama and the Wolayta -- Ethnic politics in play: implementing self-determination in a South Ethiopian context -- Crafting ethnic politics: the formation of parties in Sidama and Wolayta -- Dealing with local minorities: the persistence of discriminatory practices under ethnic federalism -- Identities or resources at stake? controversies on national self-determination in Sidama and Wolayta -- Conclusion: the facets of ethnic federalism -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [195]-201
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-18541-8 , 978-90-04-18536-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 90-04-18536-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    ISSN: 1574-6925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 265 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 5
    Keywords: Afrika Somalia ; Mosambik ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Südafrika ; Kenia ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Krieg ; Bürgerkrieg ; Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Gewalt
    Abstract: This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-521-68297-8 , 978-0-521-86438-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 365 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Second edtion First published 2007, reprinted (twice)
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 108
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Abstract: In a vast and all-embracing 2007 study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface to the second edition -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- 10. Colonial change, 1918-50 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- 13. In the time of AIDS -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 329-343
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-521-77177-1 , 978-0-521-77746-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 203 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    Keywords: Indien Sri Lanka ; Süd-Asien ; Kultur und Politik ; Politik ; Demokratie ; Gewalt ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Nationalismus ; Staat ; Säkularisierung ; Differenzierung ; Frieden ; Feminismus ; Konflikt, politischer ; Konflikt, ethnischer
    Abstract: In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15243-4 , 90-04-15243-1
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 264 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 14
    Keywords: Ghana Nord-Ghana ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Gesellschaft ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of "native states" in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 -- From developing the estates to preserving the peasantry: development in the northern territories, 1895-1919 -- Corruptions of development and the "steep slope of civilisation", 1919-1933 -- Developing community: land, native administration and direct taxation, 1928-1936 -- Overpopulation, depopulation and the loss of productive power: development in the Zuarungu and Lawra-Tumu districts, 1935-44 -- Questioning mixed farming, tsetse eradication and indirect rule, 1940-1949 -- Land planning, local government and party politics, 1940-1957 -- Mechanised agriculture and community development, 1948-1957 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [243]-254 , Doctoral dissertation, Queen's University, Department of History, Kingston, Onatrio, Canada, 1999, entitled A history of development in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1899-1957
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-521-77073-6 , 0-521-77073-4 , 978-0-521-02974-2 , 0-521-02974-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: paperback version
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies 13
    Keywords: Iran Religion ; Minorität ; Toleranz ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Geschichte ; Religionsgeschichte
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    ISBN: 0-521-81721-8 , 978-0-521-81721-9 , 0-521-53393-7 /African edition , 978-0-521-53393-5 /African edition
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 103
    Keywords: Südafrika Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Anthropologie, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Widerstand ; Staatsentstehung ; Autorität ; Rassismus ; Macht ; Geschichte ; Apartheid
    Abstract: In The Politics of Evil, Clifton Crais provides a new interpretation of South African history, and a fresh approach to the study of power culture, and resistance in the modern world. Encompassing all of South Africa's history in his analysis, Crais examines the formation of an authoritarian political order and the complex ways people understood and resisted the colonial state. He explores state formation as a cultural and political process as well as a moral problem, and he looks at indigenous concepts of power, authority, and evil, analyzing how they shaped cross-cultural encounters and the making of a colonial order. Apartheid represented one of the great evils of the twentieth century. This book reveals how the victims of apartheid understood the triumph of this evil in their lives as they elaborated rich and at time violent visions of a world free of colonial oppression and white supremacy. Professor Crais concludes by looking at the contemporary political transition, the challenges to creating a durable democracy, and the persistence of evil in South Africa. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultures of conquest -- 1. The death of Hope -- 2. Ethnographies of state -- 3. Rationalities and rule -- Part 2: States of emergency -- 4. Prophecies of nation -- 6. Conflict in Qumbu -- 7. The men of the mountain -- 8. Flights of the lightning bird -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 280-293
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    ISBN: 90-04-12003-5 /falsche ISBN , 90-04-12033-5 , 978-90-04-12033-4
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 339 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 1
    Keywords: Mali Mande-Volk ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Fruchtbarkeit ; Schwangerschaft ; Geburtenrate ; Demographie ; Soziale Beziehung ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und Politik ; Familienrecht ; Anthropologie, politische ; Bamako 〈Stadt, Mali〉
    Abstract: Why do birth rates fail to drop in Sub-Saharan Africa? This question has preoccupied demographers and population planners for decades. The expectation of fertility decline is based on the demographic transition model which still dominates demographic thinking, and which assumes a universal development towards low mortality and fertility levels following modernisation. This book argues that population dynamics can only be understood when viewed in their particular context. It provides both a critique of demographic methods and theorizing, and a detailed analysis of fertility issues in the rapidly changing urban environment of Bamako, capital city of Mali. A new light is shed on the population debate through the conceptualization of the meso-level, illuminating a part of the social world which usually remains obscure. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Contextualizing Fertility -- 2 Bamako and its Inhabitants -- 3 Marriage and Conjugal Relations -- 4 Women Without Husbands: Choice or Force Majeure? -- 5 Hidden Ways and Words of Women -- 6 Pregnancy and Delivery -- 7 Single Mothers -- 8 The Politics and Practice of Fertility Regulation -- 9 Conclusions -- Appendix Research Methodology -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [323]-335 , PhD, Universiteit Leiden, 2000
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-62122-4 , 978-0-521-62122-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) [98]
    Keywords: Südafrika Kap-Provinz ; Kolonie, holländisch ; Kapkolonie, britisch ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Status ; Statussymbol ; Christentum ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Under the VOC -- 3 English and Dutch -- 4 The content of respectability -- 5 Christianity, status and respectability -- 6 Outsiders -- 7 Acceptance and rejection -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 177-195
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-47179-6 , 978-0-521-47179-4 , 0-521-10347-9 , 978-0-521-10347-3
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 83
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Korruption ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Hegemonie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Informal markets and the shadow state: some theoretical issues -- 2. Colonial rule and the foundations of the shadow state -- 3. Elite hegemony and the threat of political and economic reform -- 4. Reining in the informal market: the early Stevens' years, 1968-1973 -- 5. An exchange of services: state power and the diamond business -- 6. The shadow state and international commerce -- 7. Foreign firms, economic 'reform' and shadow state power -- 8. The changing character of African sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography --Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-222
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-46677-6 , 978-0-521-46677-6 , 0-521-44439-X , 978-0-521-44439-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 347 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in International Relations 31
    Keywords: Afrika USA ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopen ; Somalia ; Südafrika ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power which each have the ability to pull policy in different directions. The book describes the evolution of policy at three levels: Presidents and their close advisors; the bureaucracies of the executive branch; and Congress and African affairs interest groups. Most importantly, the evidence presented demonstrates that the nature of events in Africa has itself affected the operation of the US policymaking process, and the substance of US policy. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy towards Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa; 2. Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa; 3. US foreign policy toward Zaire; 4. US foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia; 5. US foreign policy toward South Africa; 6. US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-40552-1 , 978-0-521-40552-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 212 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 73
    Keywords: Kenia Landwirtschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Weidewirtschaft ; Tierhaltung ; Dürre ; Hungersnot ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Bauer ; Wasserversorgung ; Bewässerung ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung
    Abstract: This book examines the social and political dimensions of Africa's food and environmental crises. Written by an anthropologist, it focuses on the changes and the problems faced during the last century by one particular ethnic group, the Il Chamus of Kenya and traces the area's transformation from a food-surplus 'granary' to one that is dependent on food imports and aid. By documenting the history, social structure and ecology of the area, Peter Little is able to show that the crisis among the region's herders is rooted in processes that preceded the devastating droughts of the 1980s. Drought is in fact a 'normal' state of affairs in semiarid Kenya, but the processes that have inhibited herders from adequately coping with it are not. The author analyses the relationships between social, political and ecological variables and he treats topics such as land management, food production, marketing, state policy making and labour organisation in an integrated fashion. This is a book that challenges many of the stereotypes about African social life, agriculture and ecology and it will be of interest to anthropologists, academics and practitioners in development studies, historians, ecologists and geographers. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction: the study of agrarian change among African herders -- 2 - Society, ecology, and history -- 3 - Markets and the state -- 4 - Labor and agropastoral production -- 5 - Income, wages, and investment -- 6 - Expenditures, consumption, and the food crisis -- 7 - Land conflicts and sustainability -- 8 - In pursuit of the granary: development responses of community, donor, and state -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-200
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-39210-1 , 978-0-521-39210-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [33]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [33]
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Mittelamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika ; Maya ; Geschichte, politische ; Politisches System ; Führer, politischer ; Elite, politische ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Ancient Maya civilization once flourished in the rainforests of what is today southern Mexico and Central America. It possessed the only full system of writing ever to be developed in the Americas. The pace of decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has accelerated in the last few years, and half of the inscriptions from the sites of the Classic Period (AD?250-900) have now been read. Much of the newly available information consists of historical records of the careers of Maya rulers of the time.This volume is the first to present in detail the results of decipherment and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine the way in which the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare, and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded. Drawing upon important material just recently made available, they have transformed our understanding of the Maya. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction, Norman Hammond -- 2. Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs, Peter Mathews -- 3. Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings, Peter Mathews and Gordon R. Willey -- 4. An epigraphic history of the western Maya region, Linda Schele -- 5. Cycles of growth at Tikal, Christopher Jones -- 6. Polities in the northeast Peten, Guatemala, T. Patrick Culbert -- 7. Dynastic history and culutral evolution at Copan, Honduras, William L. Fash and David S. Stuart -- 8. Diversity and continuity in Maya civilization: Quirigua as a case study, Robert J. Sharer -- 9. Elite interaction during the Terminal Classic period: new evidence from Chichen Itza, Linnea H. Wren and Peter Schmidt -- 10. Royal visits and other intersite relationships among the Classic Maya, Linda Schele and Peter Mathews -- 11. Inside the black box: defining Maya polity, Norman Hammond -- 12. Maya elite interaction: through a glass, sideways, Norman Yoffee -- 13. Maya political history and elite interaction: a summary view, T. Patrick Culbert -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 347-378""Elite Interaction in Classi Maya Civilization" [...] the seminar was held at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, on October 20-24, 1986." (Preface)Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-37375-1 , 978-0-521-37375-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 69
    Keywords: Vanuatu Melanesien ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Rausch- und Genußmittel ; Kava ; Kultureller Prozess ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Religion, traditionelle ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Rivers, William H. R. [Leben und Werk] ; Bundoora 〈Victoria, Staat〉
    Abstract: Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology. However, Dr Brunton disagrees. Taking the varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanauta, as his starting point, he suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults, and not because of the adoption of betel. The problem of kava is therefore part of a broader problem of why many traditional Melanesian societies were characteristically highly unstable, and Dr Brunton sees this instability as both an outcome and a cause of weak institutions of authority and social coordination.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: W. H. R. Rivers and kava -- The traditional distribution of kava drinking -- Reconsidering Rivers' argument: the evidence -- Reconsidering River's argument: assessment and implications -- Kava on Tanna: traditional ritual and contemporary modifications -- Kava on Tanna: the development of secular patterns of consumption -- The problems of Tannese society -- Conclusion.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-203 , "This book is a revised version of my Ph.D. thesis, presented to the Department of Sociology at La Trobe University in 1988." (page viii) , [Revision of] Thesis, Ph.D., La Trobe University, 1988
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-33441-1 , 978-0-521-33441-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 284 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 61
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte, politische ; Revolution ; Politisches System ; Politischer Wandel ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Minorität ; Agrarreform ; Sozialismus ; Nationalismus ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Beziehungen, internationale
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Glossary of Amharic words -- Map of administrative regions of Ethiopia -- 1 Revolutions. The conditions for revolution. The construction of a revolutionary political order. The analysis of revolution -- 2 Monarchical modernisation and the origins of revolution. The bases of state and nation. The rise of a modernising autocracy. The origins of revolution. The debacle -- 3 The mobilisation phase, 1974-1978. The revolutionary option, February-November 1974. The great reforms, December 1974-July 1975. The control of the towns, 1975-1978. The conflict for the periphery, 1975-1978. 4 The formation of the party, 1978-1987. The origins of party formation. COPWE. The Workers' Party of Ethiopia. The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia -- 5 The Ethiopian state: structures of extraction and control. The old regime. The impact of revolution. The structures of control. The structure of production. The external economy. Surplus extraction and government spending. The structures of distribution -- 6 The control of the towns. The kebelle. The mass organisations. Housing and the control of residence. Socialist distribution. Industry, employment and the urban economy. Education and literacy. The reaction from control -- 7 Rural transformation and the crisis of agricultural production. The peasants' associations. Land reform: its implementation and effects. Agricultural marketing. Agricultural producers' cooperatives. Villagisation. The state farms. The export sector: coffee, sesame and chat. The origins of famine. The domestic politics of famine relief -- 8 The national question. Ethnicity and revolution. Representation and control in regional administration. Regional opposition: the north. Regional opposition: the south -- 9 The external politics of revolution. The structure of foreign relations. Revolution and the reversal of alliances. The foreign policy of proletarian internationalism. The Western response -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 262-275
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    ISBN: 0-521-30299-4 , 978-0-521-30299-9
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 274 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 59
    Keywords: Südamerika Anden ; Indianer, Südamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Indianer, Anden ; Inga ; Inka ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politisches System ; Handel, primitiver ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies. Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies. He also contributes to our understanding of expansion, colonization, and the adaptive relationships between indigenous and imposed regimes in a context of precapitalist statecraft.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The problem of the 'paramo Andes'; 2. The llajtakuna; 3. Local and exotic components of llajta economy; 4. Interzonal articulation; 5. The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities; 6. The Incaic impact; 7. Quito in comparative perspective; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-268 , "[D]octoral dissertation [...] now in a revised, updated text with translations of all non-English sources." (Acknowledgements) , Theses, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1978 entitled "Ethnic lords of Quito in the age of the Incas"
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    ISBN: 0-521-32237-5 , 978-0-521-32237-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 51
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. The making of an imperial state -- 2. Renegotiating power and authority -- 3. Reorienting kinship and identiy -- 4. Expanding tribute and trade -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: "Revised versions of selected papers originally presented at a workshop of the Cambridge African Studies Centre, in July 1979 and at a conference at Monterey, California, in March 1982" (Preface)Enthält 9 BeiträgeLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 295-298
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-23813-7 , 978-0-521-23813-7
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xxviii, 369 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 44
    Uniform Title: Kocevniki i vnesnij mir
    Keywords: Nomade Nomadismus ; Beduine ; Berber ; Tuareg ; Uigure ; Usbeke ; Viehhalter ; Viehhaltung ; Weidewirtschaft ; Steppe ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Nomade-Seßhafter ; Akkulturation ; Transhumanz ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Afrika ; Äthiopen ; Mongolei ; Mongolen ; Russland ; Somalia ; Asien ; China ; Tibet ; Turkmenistan ; Eurasien ; Türkei ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten ; Afghanistan ; Kulturvergleich
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Ernest Gellner -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the phenomenon of nomadism: myths and problems -- 1. Nomadism as a distinct form of food-producing economy -- 2. The origins of pastoral nomadism -- 3. The social preconditions of the relations beween nomads and the outside world -- 4. Modes of nomadic adaptation to the outside world -- 5. Nomads and the state -- By way of a conclusion: the outside world and nomads -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Words in languages other than Russian -- Works in Russian -- Index
    Note: Literatuverzeichnis: Seite 307-355
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-24657-1 , 978-0-521-24657-6 , 0-521-28880-0 , 978-0-521-28880-4
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 239 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 7
    Keywords: Indien Westbengalen ; Ethnie, Indien ; Bengalen ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Soziales Leben ; Kastenwesen ; Kaste ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Anthropological enquiry is best done by attending equally to both social and cultural material. This is the view propounded here by Marvin Davis, who uses such an holistic approach to develop an original perspective on hierarchy and politics in rural Bengal. In the first part of the book, Professor Davis describes the indigenous theory of rank held by Hindus in rural West Bengal and shows that the premise of inequality is a central organising principle of their entire society and cosmos. In the second part, he shows that the Bengali preoccupation with rank generates frequent political rivalries at each level of rural social organisation. His book will interest all anthropologists and other social scientists concerned with the social and political organization of rural India. In addition, his explication of the links between ideology and social structure, often viewed in isolation from each other, makes the book an important contribution to anthropological theory and method.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; 1. Des; 2. Jati; 3. Lok; 4. Gramer kaj; 5. Sorkai kaj; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 232-236
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    ISBN: 0-521-24270-3 , 978-0-521-24270-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 315 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 31
    Keywords: Swaziland Swazi ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Dlamini IV, König, Swaziland [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of inequality through marriage and inheritance patterns, and the simultaneous integration of age regiments and the elaboration of a national ideology based on the Swazi royalty. Dr Bonner then sets the Swazi state in the wider context of south-eastern Africa and discusses its relations with the surrounding Boer societies. The later chapters analyse the role played by the great mining companies and their white concessionaires in the partition of southern Africa and in bringing about the dissolution of the Swazi state. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The northern Nguni states 1700-1815 -- 3. The conquest state 1820-1838 -- 4. Factions and fissions: Mswati's early years -- 5. The balance tilts: Swazi-Boer relations 1852-1865 -- 6. The deepening and widening of Dlamini power 1852-1865 -- 7. Regency and retreat 1865-1874 -- 8. Confederation, containment and conciliar rule: Mbandzeni's apprenticeship 1874-1881 -- 9. The puff-adder stirs: Mdandzeni and the beginnings of concessions 1881-1886 -- 10. The conquest by concessions 1886-1889 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Inde
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-303 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977, entitled The Rise, Consolidation and Disintegration of Dlamini Power in Swaziland Between 1820 and 1889. A Study in the Relationship of Foreign Affairs to Internal Political Development
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-23475-1 , 978-0-521-23475-7
    ISSN: 0068-6670
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 340 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American Studies 44
    Keywords: Mexiko, alt Indianer, Mexiko ; Indianer, Mittel-Amerika ; Azteken ; Geschichte ; Recht, traditionelles ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book addresses two important deficiencies in the fields of Aztec studies and the anthropology of law. It is the first modern analysis of the legal system of any Aztec state and the first comprehensive study of the history and culture of Texcoco, the second most important Aztec city. Law controlled the institutions and processes that were of central importance in all Aztec societies, such as land tenure, inheritance, kinship relations, business, trade, and local and imperial administration. This analysis of the Aztec legal system provides a guide to the poorly understood social and political structures of the various Aztec states and the political dynamics within these states. Legal change, internal factionalism, and Texcocan jurisprudence are examined as important indicators of social and cultural transformations. Offner has concentrated on discovering relationships inherent in the Aztec data rather than interpreting data in terms of externally derived evolutionary theories. By presenting Texcocan legal systems within the context of other major sociocultural subsystems, this work should provide students of Aztec society and of the anthropology of law with new and reliable findings for further substantive and theoretical elaboration.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures and maps; Preface; List of abbreviations and symbols; 1. The setting and early history of Texcocan imperial development; 2. The legal history of Texcocan; 3. The structure of the Texcocan empire; 4. The political and legal dynamics of Texcocan; 5. Local-level organization in the Texcocan empire: the lower legal levels of Texcocan; 6. The development and maturation of the Texcocan legal system: principles of Texcocan jurisprudence; 7. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 314-323
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-23690-8 , 978-0-521-23690-4
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 144 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 34
    Keywords: China Ritual und Zeremonie ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kommunikation
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Interpersonal communication. 1. Interpersonal versus non-interpersonal transaction. 2. Written bureaucratic communication. 3. Etiquette and control -- Part 2: Codes. 4. Devination. 5. Open and closed practices -- Part 3: Politics. 6. Ritual and political authorities. 7. Ritual as a learning game -- Conclusions and further questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Character list -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 120-128
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-23889-7 , 978-0-521-23889-2
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 458 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 38
    Keywords: Indien Soziologie ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziale Schichtung ; Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Armut ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kommunismus ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjavur district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951-3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a vivid account of village life in southeast India in the 1950s (to be followed by a later study done in the 1970s), but also contributes to theory concerning modes of production, class structures in the Third World, and underdevelopment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I. Thanjavur. 1. The district. 2. Castes and religious groups. 3. The agriculturalists. 4. The nonagriculturalists. 5. Variations in ecology, demography and social structure. 6. The colonial background and the sources of poverty. 7. Political parties -- Part II. Kumbapettai. 8. The face of the village. 9. Kumbapettai before 1855. 10. Kumbapettai from 1855 to 1952. 11. The annual round. 12. Economics and class structure: the petty bourgeoisie. 13. Independent commodity producers and traders. 14. The semiproletariat. 15. Village politics: religion, caste and class. 16. Village politics: the street assembly. 17. Class struggle and village power structure -- Part III. Kirippur. 18. East Thanjavur. 19. The village. 20. Economy and class structure. 21. Village politics: the caste Hindus. 22. The Communist movement. 23. Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 441-446
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-22160-9 , 978-0-521-22160-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 267 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 32
    Keywords: Arabische Staaten Islam ; Soziologie ; Nordafrika ; Tunesien ; Algerien ; Marokko ; Maghreb ; Recht, islamisches ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of blending with extreme social radicalism. As an agent of political mobilisation, it seems to be overtaking Marxism, arid surpassing all other religions. The present book seeks the roots of this situation in the past. The traditional Muslim society of the arid zone has, in the past, displayed remarkable stability and homogeneity, despite great political fragmentation, and the absence of a centralised religious hierarchy. The book explores the mechanisms which have contributed to this result - a civilisation in which (in the main) weak states co-existed with a strong culture, which had a powerful hold over the populations under its sway. A literate Great Tradition, in the keeping of urban scholars, lived side by side with a more emotive, ecstatic folk tradition, ill tile keeping of holy lineages, religious brotherhoods and freelance saints. One tradition was sustained by the urban trading class and periodically swept the rest of the society in waves of revivalist enthusiasm; the other was based on the multiple functions it performed in rural tribal society and amongst the urban poor. The two traditions were intertwined, yet remained in latent tension which from time to time came to tile surface. The book traces the manner in which the impact of the modern world, acting through colonialism arid industrialisation upset the once stable balance, and helped the erstwhile urban Great Tradition to become the pervasive arid dominant one, culminating in the zealous arid radical Islam which is so prominent now. The argument is both formulated in the abstract and illustrated by a series of case studies and examinations of specific aspects, and critical examinations of rival interpretations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Flux and reflux in the faith of men -- 2. Cohesion and identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim -- 3. Post-traditional forms in Islam: the turf and trade, and votes and peanuts -- 4. Doctor and saint -- 5. Sanctity, puritanism, secularisation and nationalism in North Africa: a case study -- 6. The unknown Apollo of Biskra: the social base of Algerian puritanism -- 7. Trousers in Tunisia -- 8. The sociology of Robert Montagne (1893-1954) -- 9. Patterns of rural rebellion in Morocco during the early years of independence -- 10. Saints and their descendants -- 11. The marabouts in the market place -- 12. Rulers and tribesmen -- Notes -- Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's North African writings -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-251
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-22872-7 , 978-0-521-22872-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii,195 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 31
    Keywords: Italien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Anthropologie, politische ; Grundeigentum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: In this book, Caroline White presents a challenge to the orthodox approach to southern Italian politics. From her study of two neighbouring villages in the Abruzzi region, she argues that patron-clientism - a form of political relations by means of which resources are distributed in exchange for political support, and which has been seen as typical in southern Italy - is not universal, and that the particularities of local history may give rise to alternative forms that are open and democratic, and oppose the domination of political elites. By immersing herself in the two communities Dr White has developed a deep understanding of the interrelations between economic life, kinship ties, friendship networks, clubs, and religious beliefs in each: her explanation of the striking political differences between the villages in terms of the historical development of the social relations of production is rigorous and convincing.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory -- 2. Trasacco -- 3. Luco dei Marsi -- 4. Conclusion -- Glossary of characters -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-187
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-22525-6 , 978-0-521-22525-0 , 0-521-29542-4 , 978-0-521-29542-0
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 276 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 5
    Keywords: USA North Carolina ; Indianer, USA ; Lumbee ; Geschichte ; Ethnographie ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße
    Abstract: The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina, although the fifth largest Indian group in the United States, have had a history of difficulty in convincing others of their Indian identity. Like other 'neglected' Eastern Indian groups, they lack treaties, reservations and a continuous record of settlement, and apparently have not practised 'traditional Indian ways' for over two hundred years. This raises questions of how their distinctiveness is formulated and maintained. Using material derived from fieldwork among the Lumbee, Professor Blu argues that deeply-felt notions about their group identity have played a major role in shaping and guiding their political activities for over a century. She traces the changing relationships of the Lumbee with their black and white neighbours in this period. In carving out a third niche for themselves in a biracial system, the Lumbee have demonstrated that the Southern racial structure has been more flexible and complicated than has often been suggested.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Why the Lumbee? -- 2. Where did they come from and what were they like before? -- 3. What changed and how? -- 4. What are they trying to do now? -- 5. Who do they say they are? -- 6. What difference does who they say they are make? -- 7. Where does the Lumbee problem lead? -- Appendix: events in Lumbee political history -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-263
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-21801-2 , 978-0-521-21801-6 , 0-521-29283-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-29283-2 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: 259 Seiten , Graphen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 23
    Keywords: Westafrika Ghana ; Guinea ; Elfenbeinküste ; Liberia ; Nigeria ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Politischer Wandel ; Systemtheorie ; Staatszerfall ; Recht ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroon was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state. All of these colonial units have joined Liberia in formal political independence. Their political experiences since 1956 and indeed the forms of their present political regimes themselves have varied very widely over this period, from the defiant and paranoid austerity of Guinea to the gleeful surge of Nigeria's oil-generated capitalist expansion. In political taste the present governments cover almost the full spectrum of Third World regimes. Yet the societies themselves have many geographical and historical features in common, certainly far more in common than in the case of most units studied by analysts of comparative politics. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Preface -- Map of West Africa -- 1 - Comparing West African states. By John Dunn -- 2 - Ghana. By Richard Rathbone -- 3 - Guinea. By R. W. Johnson -- 4 - Ivory Coast. By Bonnie Campbell -- 5 - Liberia. By Christopher Clapham -- 6 - Nigeria. By Gavin Williams, Terisa Turner -- 7 - Senegal. By Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- 8 - Sierra Leone. By Christopher Allen -- 9 - Conclusion. By John Dunn -- Notes -- Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-21095-X , 978-0-521-21095-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 156 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 20
    Keywords: Liberia Sierra Leone ; Politisches System ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Kulturvergleich ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Very similar in some ways, but strikingly different in others, Sierra Leone and Liberia have an obvious appeal for comparative analysis. They share the legacy of foundation by immigrants of African descent and the juxtaposition of these with indigenous peoples, but within the contrasting institutional frameworks of settler independence and British colonialism. They have similar social and economic structures but sharply dissimilar political records: Liberia has long been regarded as the classic case of stability at the price of oligarchy, whereas Sierra Leone, after a period as West Africa's most successful two-party democracy, suffered a succession of military coups and by 1973 was effectively a single-party state. This study seeks to analyse and account for both similarities and differences, looking at the two countries' experience in the 1960s and early 1970s, not only in central politics but also at the local level and in economic policy. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Political Comparison -- Historical Summary -- Resources -- Rules -- Political Allocation at the Centre -- Centre and Periphery -- Aspects of Political Economy -- Concluding Review -- Statistical Appendix: Area and population. Economic Indices -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 138-148
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-20682-0 , 978-0-521-20682-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 241 Seiten , Karten, Diagramme, Tabellen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 16
    Keywords: Ghana Geschichte, politische ; Elite, politische ; Dagomba ; Mole ; Führer, politischer ; Häuptlingstum ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half century has been a chieftaincy dispute in the northern kingdom of Dagomba, known as the Yendi skin dispute. The major loss of life took puce in 1969 but the dispute has continued to trouble Ghanaian politics and has affected the careers of national leaders under both civilian and military regimes. It is one of the most complex, explosive and intractable disputes in a country noted for conflicts over chieftaincy. Mr Staniland examines the political history of Dagomba, one of the most important pre-colonial states in what is now Ghana, from its partition between the British and the Germans in 1899. He analyses the attitudes and policies of successive governments towards chieftaincy and 'traditionalism', and the effects which outside control has had on dynastic politics. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The country and the people -- Dagbon -- Colonial rule, 1899-1930 -- Dagomba divided and united, 1899-1930 --The Battle of Watherston Road --Dagomba politics under indirect rule, 1932-1947 -- Votibu -- Party Politics -- The Yendi tragedy --Conclusions -- Postscript -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 227-233
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-20463-1 , 978-0-521-20463-7 , 0-521-37994-6 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-37994-6 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: LV, 800 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 13
    Keywords: Ghana Ashanti ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politische Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Demographie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Owusu-Ansa, John [Leben und Werk] ; Owusu-Ansa, Albert Arthur [Leben und Werk] ; Kumasi 〈Ghana〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Spatial aspects of government: the network of communications -- Spatial aspects of government; the structure of empire -- The politics of polulation: the demography of metropolitan Asante -- Kumase and the southern provinces: the politics of control -- Kumase and the southern provincrs: the politics of retrenchement -- Asante and the Gold Coast: the politics of indecision -- Kumase and the northern provinces: an overview -- Asante and its neighbours: the politics of entente -- The dynastic factor in Asante history: a family reconstuction of the Oyoko royals -- Kumase and the seat of government: the structure of decision-making -- Kumase as the seat of government: the structure of the executive -- Political polarization in nineteenth century Asante -- Disorder in politics: from constitutional crisis to civil war -- Modernization, reform, and the role of the Owusu Ansas in politics -- Politics and policies in nineteenth century Asante: the ideological variabel -- Gloassary of principal Asante terms -- Guide to sources consulted -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 731-743
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    ISBN: 0-521-20366-X , 978-0-521-20366-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 9
    Keywords: Indien Maharashtra ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Elite, politische ; Sozialer Status ; Macht ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: A study of the system of political stratification and the pattern of political alliances in rural Western Maharashtra. Based on fieldwork in a large village, a nearby market town and taluka headquarters, and political institutions in the surrounding countryside, the first half of the book is a full examination of the phenomenon of regional dominance originally described by Adrian Mayer. The second part is a detailed study of the pattern of political alliances from village to district level. Dr Carter's central concern is with the manner in which the pattern of political alliances is shaped by political stratification. Tracing the relationships between these alliances and such factors as political stratification, political arenas, caste, class, and kinship, Dr Carter demonstrates that much Indian political behaviour which has been regarded as irrational or as a sign of an immature, tradition-bound and unstable system may be understood more usefully as a rational response to the conditions of political action in rural India.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem; 2. The region: Girvi, Phaltan Taluka and Western Maharashtra; Part II. Aspects of Political Stratification: 3. Political arenas and the political class; 4. Caste status and distribution; 5. Land, labour, credit and share capital; 6. Descent groups and affinal networks; Part III. Political Alliances: 7. Vertical alliances; 8. Horizontal alliances; 9. Alliances and political stratification; 10. Conclusions; Map of main Girvi settlement area; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-201
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0-521-07627-7 , 978-0-521-07627-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 247 Seiten, 2 Faltblätter , Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 1
    Keywords: Demokratische Republik Kongo Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kinshasa 〈Stadt, Demokratische Republik Kongo〉
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-244
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