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  • 1
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    Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 90-04-14817-5 , 978-90-04-14817-8
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 272 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 9
    Keywords: Westafrika Grundeigentum ; Landrecht ; Landnahme ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Politik ; Ressource ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as `customary` tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "Conference, held in October 2002 at the University of Frankfurt on Main [...] selection of revised conference papers" (Preface)Enthält eine Einführung und 10 Beiträge
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  • 2
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    Comrades, clients and cousins : colonialism, socialism and democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14736-2 , 90-04-14736-5
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 615 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 13
    Keywords: São Tomé São Tomé e Príncipe ; Kolonialismus ; Sozialismus ; Demokratisierung ; Politik ; Regierung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Colonized in the late 15th century, São Tomé and Príncipe were ruled by Portugal for 500 years, one of the longest periods of European domination in colonial history. In fact, during this period the Portuguese colonized the islands twice. Both colonizations were driven by the production of tropical cash crops; however, they occurred under rather different circumstances. Its long history as a plantation colony has made this African archipelago in many aspects more akin to the small Caribbean states. Since its decolonization in 1975 the small and impoverished country has experienced two fundamental changes to its political and economic system in a short period of 15 years. After embracing socialism and a centralized economy at independence, in 1990 the country introduced liberal democracy and a free-market economy. This case study analyses the course of political and economic changes in postcolonial São Tomé and Príncipe. The central issue of the book is to which extent institutional changes based on external models altered local patterns of political culture and of doing politics. In addition, it examines the outcome of the consecutive economic policies and development approaches patterned on theses models. This second edition has been completely revised and updated for the period of 1998-2005, including the recent developments in the country`s emerging oil sector.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Formation and Recolonization of an African Creole Society -- Chapter Two From the Origins of Forro Nationalism to Independence -- Chapter Three The Socialist One-Party Regime -- Chapter Four Political Transition and Economic Reform -- Chapter Five Governance, Conflict and Public Property under the Democratic System -- Chapter Six Structural Adjustment and Economic Performance Under Democratic Rule -- Chapter Seven Political Pluralism and Competitive Elections -- Chapter Eight Party Trajectories and Presidential Elections -- Chapter Nine Local Dimensions of Politics: Kinship, Rumours and Pamphlets -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1 Presidents and government ministers -- Appendix 2 Executive committees of liberation movements and parties -- Appendix 3 Election Results -- Appendix 4 Basic Economic Data 1988-2004 -- Index
    Note: "revised and updated the text for this second edition" (Preface); Previously (1999) published by CNMS PublicationsLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite [557]-574
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  • 3
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    Liturgie, Ritual, Frömmigkeit und die Dynamik symbolischer Ordnungen (2006)
    Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz
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    ISBN: 3-447-05356-9 , 978-3-447-05356-3
    Language: German
    Pages: 148 S.
    Series Statement: Wolfenbütteler Hefte 19
    Keywords: Religion Kirche ; Katholik ; Geschichte ; Ordnung, normative ; Ritual ; Ritual, religiöses ; Syntax
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  • 4
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    Living in the shadow of the large dams : Long term responses of downstream and lakeside communities of Ghana's Volta River Project (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14144-5 , 90-04-14144-8
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 439 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 11
    Keywords: Ghana Fluß ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ökologie ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Voltasee 〈Ghana, Stausee〉
    Abstract: Studies of populations affected by Large Dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, and livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the book considers the contribution of factors such as the environmental restructuring of the Lower Volta, the exodus of its most economically active population to the Volta Lake, the State's neglect of affected communities, the changing socio-economic context of Ghana, and social relations of class, gender and kinship, to livelihood trajectories and outcomes. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Glossary -- Changes in the Ghanaian Currency (1958-2002) -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Volta River Project: Historical Perspectives -- 3. The Lower Volta and the Volta River Project: Dam Impacts and Environmental Change -- 4. State Policy and Community Responses: The politics of reluctant selective action and ineffectual activism -- 5. Livelihoods in Times of Stress: Long term Responses to Environmental Change at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 6. The Social Relations of Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 7. Responses to the Volta River Project: Voluntary Migration and the Establishment of Lakeside Settlements -- 8. From Multiple Activities to Group Specialisation: Livelihoods at Kpando Torkor, Surveyor Line and Kudikope -- 9. Concluding Chapter -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [417]-434
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  • 5
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    Shaping tradition : civil society, community and development in colonial Northern Ghana, 1899 - 1957 (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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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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  • 6
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    Sir Walter Ralegh's "Discoverie of Guiana" (2006)
    Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate
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    ISBN: 0-904180-87-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XCVII, 360 S.
    Series Statement: Works. The Hakluyt Society Third Series, no. 15
    Keywords: Südamerika Guyana ; Forschungsreise ; Expedition ; Reisebericht, alt ; Quelle, alte ; Raleigh, Walter [Leben und Werk]
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    The _role of the press and communication technology in democratization : The Nigerian story (2006)
    New York [u.a.] : Routledge
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    ISBN: 0-415-98149-2
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 119 S.
    Series Statement: African Studies (Routledge)
    Keywords: Nigeria Demokratisierung ; Presse ; Massenmedien
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  • 8
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    Migrants, credit and climate : the Gambian groundnut trade, 1834-1934 (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14059-2 , 90-04-14059-X
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXV, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 12
    Keywords: Gambia Nutzpflanze ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaft ; Handel ; Nahrungsmittel ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: After the ending of the Atlantic slave trade West Africa experienced a period of transition to legitimate trade, which provided agricultural staples for the burgeoning European market. One early example was the groundnut trade, which developed along the River Gambia where myriad households grew the crop, which was purchased and transported by the merchant interest. Of crucial importance were pioneer migrant farmers, whose numbers were later swelled by other labour migrants drawn from a wide area. The trade pre-dated colonial partition, and producers were integrated into the international market by extended chains of merchant credit and indebtedness. By the latter part of the 19th century the vagaries of the world market were becoming apparent, as well as the climate, which together affected output and incomes. Colonial rule created conditions for the expansion of the trade, but food supply in the face of groundnut specialization became a fundamental issue and led to experiments with irrigation and mixed farming. In the 20th century the trade was marked by drought, the First World War, credit crises, de-monetization and trade depression, while throughout it remained a migrant driven economy. The book provides an account of the Gambian groundnut trade and the associated environmental, social and economic conditions, as well as commenting on liberal and radical analyses on the shift from the Atlantic slave trade through legitimate trade to colonial rule. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Measurements, weights and monetary values -- Introduction -- 1. The Gambian groundnut trade 1834-1893: the emergence of an agricultural export --2. Migrant farmers: SeraWoollies and Tillibunkas -- 3. Food farming and the groundnut trade -- 4. The beginnings of colonial rule, 1893-1913 -- 5. Success and disaster, boom and slump : the groundnut trade, 1913-1922 -- 6. Towards an agricultural policy 1923-1934 -- Summary and conclusion -- Index
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    Living Shi'ism : instances of ritualisation among Islamist men in contemporary Iran (2006)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15345-5 , 90-04-15345-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 286 Seiten
    Series Statement: Iran Studies Volume 1
    Keywords: Iran Schia ; Islam ; Religion ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Ritual ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book is about Iranian Islamism on grass-roots level. It provides a vivid, near-life portrait of young activist men who uphold this movement through their zealous support of revolutionary ideals and the present regime. It is based on interviews with a group of volunteers in the Iranian home guard movement known as basij during a period of four years. By focusing on beliefs and rituals of individual persons, it gives a unique picture of the shifting motifs behind Islamist engagement in today`s Iran. The book contextualises the interviewed individuals within the wider framework of Iranian society and relates their stories to a discussion on ritual, emotion, embodiment and authority. It is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand the multifaceted driving forces behind Shi`ite Islamism today. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- --Points of Departure -- Setting the Scene -- Embodying Virtue -- The Poetics of Emotion -- Tools of Authorisation -- Crumbling Authority? -- Lectures and Lamentations -- The Creativity of Ritual -- Summary in Persian -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index
    Note: "This book was originally my doctoral thesis in History of Religions at Uppsala University" (Acknowledgements) , Dissertation, Uppsala Universitet, 2003Zusammenfassung in persischer Sprache
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