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    The _silk road and cultural exchanges between East and West (2023)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISSN: 978-90-04-51258-0 , 90-04-51258-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 688 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: East and West (Brill) 14
    Uniform Title: Si chou zhi lu yu dong xi wen hua jiao liu
    Keywords: China Ost-Asien ; Zentral-Asien ; Xinjiang ; Seidenstraße ; Handel ; Handelsbeziehung ; Handelsroute ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kultureinfluss ; Reisebericht ; Gesellschaft, westliche
    Abstract: The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the "Western Regions", and beyond, during the first millennium."This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region"
    Note: "This book is translated into English from the original (Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu by Rong Xinjiang)."
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    Shaping a Dutch East Indies : François Valentyn's VOC empire (2023)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-52498-9 (hardback) , 978-90-04-54581-6 (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 315
    Keywords: Indonesien Kolonie, holländisch ; Historiographie ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Imperialismus ; Ideologie ; Geschichte ; Valentijn, François [Leben und Werk] ; Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
    Abstract: In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company's empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn's book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen's book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn's work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Part 1 -- 1 Describing Imperial Space -- 2 Lobbying for a Bible Translation in 'Low' Malay -- 3 The Valentyn Case: Scholarly Authorship at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- Part 2 -- 4 Natural History for liefhebbers in Valentyn's Description of Animals from Amboina -- 5 'Dutch Power in Those Territories' Historical Representation in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien -- 6 Antiquarian Ambonese Valentyn's Comparative Ethnography and Ethnology -- 7 'This Business of Our Nation' The Questionable Conduct of the Dutch in Japan -- 8 'Waste Land' into 'Earthly Paradise': The Geography of the Cape of Good Hope -- 9 A Paper Empire: Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien as a Reference Work -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Text Organisation of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [308]-354
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    A _history of Mali's national drink : following the tea ritual from China to West Africa (2023)
    Leiden : Brill
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    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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  • 4
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    Overlapping cosmologies in Asia : transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches (2022)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-51141-5 (hardback) , 978-90-04-51167-5 (e-book)
    ISSN: 2589-885X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen (teils farbig), Karten
    Series Statement: Crossroads volume 4
    Keywords: China Astronomie ; astronomische Karte ; Buddhismus ; Mission, christliche ; Kartographie ; Kalender ; Kosmologie ; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
    Abstract: The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art.Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by scholars, ritualists, and artists and transforming as they overlapped with ideas and practices from other traditions. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "this volume arose from a series of conferences" (Acknowledgements)
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    The _monk on the roof : the story of an Ethiopian manuscript found in Jerusalem (1904) (2022)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-42385-5 (hardback) , 978-90-04-42386-2 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen (teils farbig)
    Series Statement: Open Jerusalem volume 4
    Uniform Title: Le _moine sur le toît
    Keywords: Israel Äthiopien ; Diaspora ; Kopte ; Kirche ; Äthiopisch Orthodoxe Kirche ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Geschichte ; Jerusalem
    Abstract: Around 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements for the English edition -- List of figures -- Note on translation and dates -- Introduction : A Historical Emergency: the Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript -- 1. Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery -- 2. An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript -- 3. The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text -- 4. Conflicts and Protections: 1850-1903 -- 5. With Memory as His Only Weapon -- 6. The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation -- 7. The Ethiopians in a Global City -- Conclusion: The Keys to Power: the Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary -- Amharic text of Walda Madhen and English translation -- Appendix 1. German Version of the Ethiopian anonymous test of 1893 -- Appendix 2. Letter written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Eearl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852 -- Appendix 3. Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893 -- Appendix 4. Short chronology -- Sources and chronology -- Index of persons
    Note: "Originally published in French as Le moine sur le toit: histoire d'un manuscrit éthiopien trouvé à Jérusalem (1904). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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    Decolonizing heritage : time to repair in Senegal (2022)
    London : International African Institute | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316514535 , 1316514536
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The International African library 66
    Series Statement: International African library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als PDF ebook
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 966.30072
    RVK:
    LB 53526
    RVK:
    LB 24526
    Keywords: French Antiquities ; Postcolonialism ; Postkolonialismus ; Kulturerbe ; Welterbe ; Antiquities ; French - Antiquities ; Historiography ; Postcolonialism ; Senegal Antiquities ; Senegal Historiography ; Senegal ; Senegal
    Abstract: Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Léopold Sédar Senghor's philosophy of Négritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.Offers insights into how an independent nation goes about decolonising its UNESCO World Heritage sites to imagine a national futureAnalyses the appropriation of heritage to repair the wounds of colonialismExamines themes of race, restitution and reconciliation in sites such as the House of Slaves and the Museum of Black Civilisations in Senegal
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures page viii Acknowledgements xi Prologue: Faidherbe Must Fall 3 Introduction: Temporalities of Repair 13 1 History and Testimony at the House of Slaves 39 2 The Door of Return: Framing Race and Reconciliation 73 3 Shining Lights and Their Shadows 104 4 Prayer of Emergency: Black Subjects and Sufi Spirituality 140 5 Recycling Recognition: The Monument as Objet Trouvé 165 6 Ruins of Utopia: Ponty and the University of the African Future 185 7 The Museum of Black Civilizations: Race, Restitution,and Repair 211 Coda: Untimely Utopia 245 Bibliography 253 Index 281
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 253-280
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    First-century Christians in twenty-first century Africa : between law and grace in Gabon and Madagascar (2022)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-50769-2 , 978-90-04-50770-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 246 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa volume 50
    Keywords: Gabun Madagaskar ; Afrika, Subsahara ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Soziale Medien ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel-in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith-are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity's most overlooked iterations". (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Note on origina publications -- 1. Defining Messianic Judaism : historical, textual, and metacontextual considerations -- 2. Contextualizing Messianic identities in current (Africanist) scholarship -- 3. First-century Christians in Gabon : history, origins, and motivations -- 4. First-century Christians in Gabon, continued : community structure, observance, and worldviews -- 5. First-century Christians in Madagascar : history, origins, and motivations -- 6. First-century Christians in Madagascar, continued : community structure, observance, and worldviews -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [213]-241
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    Performing power in Nigeria (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Learning morality, inequalities, and faith : Christian and Muslim schools in Tanzania (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-51422-1 , 9781009082808
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 65
    Keywords: Tansania Christentum ; Islam ; Muslime ; Soziales Leben ; Schule ; Bildung ; Erziehung ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Christian and Muslim schools have become important target points in families and pupils' quests for new study opportunities and securing a 'good life' in Tanzania. These schools combine secular education with the moral (self-)formation of young people, triggering new realignments of the fields of education with interreligious co-existence and class formation in the country's urban centres. Hansjörg Dilger explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual and collective embodiment. By contextualising these dynamics through analysis of the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the positions of these highly diverse religious communities in diverging ways. In doing so, Dilger suggests that students and teachers' religious experience and practice in faith-oriented schools are shaped by the search for socio-moral belonging as well as by the power relations and inequalities of an interconnected world.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language Use -- 1 - Introduction -- Part I - (Post)Colonial Politics of Religious Difference and Education -- 2 - Entangled Histories of Religious Pluralism and Schooling -- 3 - Staging and Governing Religious Difference in the Haven of Peace -- Part II - Moral Becoming and Educational Inequalities in Dar es Salaam -- 4 - Market Orientation and Belonging in Neo-Pentecostal Schools -- 5 - Marginality and Religious Difference in Islamic Seminaries -- 6 - Privilege and Prayer in Catholic Schools -- 7 - Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 236-258
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    Mixed messages : using the Bible and Qur'an in Swahili tracts (2022)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-51903-9 (hardback) , 978-90-04-51966-4 (e-book)
    Language: English , Swahili
    Pages: XIII, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen, Faksimiles
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa volume 51
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Tansania ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Religiöser Text ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Christentum ; Islam ; Bibel ; Koran ; Sprache, afrikanische ; Quelle ; Originaltext ; Beziehungen, interreligiös
    Abstract: The present volume sets Swahili religious tracts available in Kenya and Tanzania in their context. The book starts with an overview of tracts in Swahili from the 19th century to the present day, an examination of Swahili as a religious language, and an introduction to Swahili versions of the Bible and Qur'an. Chesworth then introduces the range of tracts currently available, examining eight in detail. In particular he considers how they present scripture in order to promote their own faith, Islam or Christianity, whilst denigrating the `other`. Finally, the volume discusses the impact from modern media on these tracts. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Tables, Figures and Map -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Tracts and Translation in East Africa -- Chapter 2 Early Christian Tracts in East Africa -- Chapter 3 Christian Tracts in East Africa during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4 Muslim Tracts in East Africa during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 Swahili as a Religious Language -- Part 2 Muslim and Christian Tracts -- Chapter 6 Tracts in Current Circulation in East Africa -- Chapter 7 Using Scripture to Refute the Other`s Faith -- Chapter 8 Jesus in the Qur'an Al-Ma'ida (5):112-20 -- Chapter 9 Testimonies of Converts -- Chapter 10 Teaching Those of Your Own Faith -- Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 Passages from Different Versions of the Bible and Qur'an -- Appendix 2 Copy of Sisi ni Wasomaji wa kudumu … (We Are Constant Readers), with English Translation -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Qur'anic Passages -- General Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-276
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    Decolonizing African knowledge : autoethnography and African epistemologies (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316511237
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 513 Seiten
    Series Statement: African identities : past and present
    DDC: 305.8996333
    RVK:
    LC 50465
    Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie ; Kultur ; Entkolonialisierung ; Erzählung ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte ; Nation ; Wissen ; Afrika
    Note: Print on demand edition. , Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    Sufi women of South Asia : veiled friends of God (2021)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-46717-0/(hardback) , 978-90-04-46718-7/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe) , 978-90-04-46718-7/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 600 Seiten
    Series Statement: Women and Gender volume 20
    Keywords: Süd-Asien Sufismus ; Frau ; Frau und Islam ; Biographie
    Abstract: In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, the first biographical compendium of hundred and forty-one women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century, Tahera Aftab fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding the historical presence of women in Islam and brings women to the centre of the expanding literature on Sufism. The book's translated excerpts from the original Farsi and Urdu sources that were never put together create a much-needed English-language source base on Sufism and Muslim women. The book questions the spurious religious and cultural traditions that patronise gender inequalities in Muslim societies and convincingly proves that these pious women were exemplars of Islamic piety who as true spiritual masters avoided its public display
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Sufis, Sufism, and Transformations: 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. The Sufi Texts: From Imagination to the Inscribed Word -- 3. The Sufi Gaze: Perception of Women by Male Sufis -- 4. The Sufi Gaze: Sufi Perception of Family -- 5. The Sufi Gaze: Interaction with Maidservants and Women of Ill Repute -- 6. Women's Presence in Sufi Silsilas -- 7. Sufi Lodges: Fencing the Sacred and the Profane -- 8. Sufi Shrines: Manifesting the Deceased Sufi -- Part II. Biographies of Sufi Women: 9. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women by Time Period -- 10. Biographical Notices of Sufi Women according to Their Specific Status -- 11. Biographical Notices of Women Sufis Based on Oral Traditions Collected by Visiting Their Shrines -- 12. Sufi Women Identified by Name Only -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Change and identity in the music cultures of Lombok, Indonesia (2021)
    Leiden : Brill
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    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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    Salafism and political order in Africa (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-69057-7
    Language: English
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 154
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Salafismus ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Extremismus ; Jihad
    Abstract: Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, Sebastian Elischer provides a comparative analysis of how different West and East African states have engaged with fundamentalist Muslim groups between the 1950s and today. In doing so, he establishes a causal link between state-imposed organizational gatekeepers in the Islamic sphere and the absence of homegrown jihadi Salafism. Illustrating that the contemporary manifestation of violent Islamic extremism in sub-Saharan Africa is an outcome of strategic political decisions that are deeply embedded in countries' autocratic pasts, he challenges conventional notions of statehood on the African continent, and provides new insight into the evolving relationships between secular and religious authority. -- provided by the publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Africa`s Changing Security Landscape 1. - 1 Cases, Concepts, and Variation 21. - Critical Junctures and the Formation of State-Led National. - Islamic Associations 49. - 3 Missed Opportunities and the Formation of Islamic Federations 74. - 4 The State as Demobilizer of Activist Salafism 98. - 5 The State as Enabler and Radicalizer of Activist Salafism 124. - 6 From Theory Generation to Theory Testing 163. - 7 Autocratic Legacies, the State, and Salafism in Africa 188. - Conclusion: Reviewing State-Islamic Relations in Africa 227
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    Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe : the Cold War and decolonization,1960-1984 (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-51179-4 (hardback) , 978-1-00-905461-4 (paperback) , 978-1-00-905386-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 345 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 157
    Keywords: Simbabwe Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Außenpolitik ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa ; Rassismus ; Dekolonisation ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Kolonie, britisch ; Rassenkonflikt ; Mugabe, Robert [Leben und Werk] ; Nkomo, Joshua [Leben und Werk] ; Nyerere, Julius K. [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and elsewhere. In this African history of the diplomacy of decolonization in Zimbabwe, Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia examines the relationship and rivalry between Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe over many years of diplomacy, and how both leaders took advantage of Cold War racialized thinking about what Zimbabwe should be, including Anglo-American preoccupations with keeping whites from leaving after Independence. Based on a wealth of archival source materials, including materials that have recently become available through thirty-year rules in the UK and South Africa, it uncovers how foreign relations bureaucracies the US, UK, and SA created a Cold War 'race state' notion of Zimbabwe that permitted them to rationalize Mugabe's state crimes in return for Cold War loyalty to Western powers. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Historical background : 1960 to 1970 -- The early 1970s -- Liberation struggles in Southern Africa, 1975-1976 -- 'We don't give a damn about Rhodesia' : the Geneva talks 1976 -- Negotiating independence 1977-1978 -- Negotiating independently, 1978 -- The big gamble : the transition and pre-election period -- 1980 elections and the first years of independence -- Gukurahundi and Zimbabwe's place in the 1980s Cold War -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 323-331
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    The _path to genocide in Rwanda : security, opportunity and authority in an ethnocratic state (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Crossing religious boundaries : Islam, Christianity and "Yoruba religion" in Lagos, Nigeria (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83891-7 (hardback) , 978-1-108-96907-9 (paperback) , 978-1-108-97916-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 304 Seiten , Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 64
    Keywords: Nigeria Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religionsethnologie ; Differenzierung ; Islam ; Christentum ; Yoruba ; Religion, traditionelle ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Ethnographie ; Lagos 〈Nigeria〉 ; NASFAT
    Abstract: Religious pluralism, as encountered in multi-faith settings such as Nigeria's biggest city Lagos, challenges much of what we have long taken for granted about religion, including the ready-made binaries of Christianity versus Islam, religion versus secularism, religious monism versus polytheism, and tradition versus modernity. In this book, Marlies Janson offers a rich ethnography of religions, religious pluralism and practice in Lagos, analysing how so-called "religious shoppers" cross religions boundaries, and the co-existence of different religious traditions where practitioners engage with these simultaneously. Prompted to develop a broader conception of religion that shifts from a narrow analysis of religious tradition as mutually exclusive, Hanson instead offers a perspective that focuses on the complex dynamics of their acutal entanglements. Including real-life examples to illustrate religion in Lagos through religious practice and lived experiences, this study takes account of the ambivalence, inconsistency and unpredictability of lived religion, proposing assemblage as an analytical frame for exploring the conceptual and methodological possibilities that may open as a result. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Lyrics: Shuffering and Shmiling / by Fela Kuti -- Introduction: Reforming the study of religious reform -- The religious setting : Muslim-Christian encounters in Nigeria -- Moses is Jesus and Jesus is Muhammad : the Chrislam movement -- Pentecostalizing Islam? : Nasrul-Lahi-il Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) -- Reviving 'Yoruba religion' : the Indigenous Faith of Africa (IFA), Ijo Orunmila Ato -- Beyond religion : the Grail Movement and Eckankar -- Conclusion: Towards a new framework for the study of religious pluralism -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 197-215
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    Privileged precariat : white workers and South Africa's long transition to majority rule (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Deceptive majority : Dalits, Hinduism, and underground religion (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 1-108-82666-0 , 978-1-108-82666-2 , 1-108-84382-4 , 978-1-108-84382-9 , 978-1-108-92019-3/ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: South Asia in the Social Sciences 14
    Keywords: Indien Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Hinduismus ; Paria ; Unberührbarer ; Hindu ; Kulturwandel ; Kaste ; Nationalismus ; Lucknow 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia. Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian projects are both advanced and undermined.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 307-326
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    Performing power in Zimbabwe : politics, law, and the courts since 2000 (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Ethnographic returns : memory processes and archive film (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1108823425 , 1108823424
    Language: English
    Pages: 75 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
    Keywords: Ethnologie Archiv ; Film ; Museum ; Indigenität ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Kulturgut, Rückgabe ; Identität ; Argentinien ; Indianer, Argentinien
    Abstract: In the past decades cultural heritage stored at museums and archives has been returned to source communities in various forms and under diverse circumstances. This contribution to the Elements series explores and discusses specifically the return of digital 'ethnographic' images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic. The author argues that the affective reception of what a given archive labels as tangible and intangible heritage varies according to each audience´s particular memory practices, historical experience and way of relating to shared hegemonic notions of 'whiteness' and 'indigeneity'.
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    The _frontier in British India : space, science, and power in the nineteenth century (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-84019-4 , 1-108-84019-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 298 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Nordwest-Indien ; Grenze ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialismus ; Wissen ; Macht ; Intellektuelle ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.
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    Beyond the silk roads : trade, mobility and geopolitics across Eurasia (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83831-3 (hardback)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 301 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Asian Connections 12
    Keywords: Eurasien China ; Türkei ; Afghanistan ; Russland ; Ukraine ; West-Europa ; Seidenstraße ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Geopolitik ; Handel ; Handelsbeziehung ; Handelsroute ; Händler ; Mobilität ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Globalisierung ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia. Reflecting on over a decade of intensive ethnographic fieldwork, Magnus Marsden introduces readers to a dynamic yet historically durable universe of commercial and cultural connections. Through an exploration of the traders' networks, cultural and religious identities, as well as the nodes in which they operate, Marsden emphasises their ability to navigate Eurasia's geopolitical tensions and to forge transregional routes that channel significant flows of people, resources, and ideas. Beyond the Silk Roads will interest those seeking to understand contemporary iterations of the Silk Road within the context of geopolitics in the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction: Beyond the Silk Roads -- 1 - `Take Your Help Away and Leave Us in Peace!`: The Anthropology of Geopolitics as Lived -- 2 - Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (1): The Eurasian World - China, Russia, Ukraine and Western Europe -- 3 - Inter-Asian Corridor of Connectivity (2): West Asia - China, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey -- 4 - `Welcome to Yiwu, China International Trade City!` Everyday Life in a Chinese Commercial Node -- 5 - Minorities, Commerce and the Legacy of Muslim Asia`s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Afghanistan`s Hindus and Sikhs -- 6 - An Alternative Eurasian Economic Geography: Afghanistan`s Role in Long-Distance Trade -- 7 - Afghan Restaurants in Inter-Asian Worlds: Prestige, Information Pooling and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Long-Distance Trade -- Conclusion: Geopolitics, Critical Responsiveness and Navigational Agency in Eurasian Connectivity -- Note on Fieldwork -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-288
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    The _politics of order in informal markets : how the state shapes private governance (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83349-3 , 978-1-108-98498-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 149 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    Keywords: Entwicklungsländer Nigeria ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Markt ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Handel ; Handel, illegaler ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Regierung ; Eigentum ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Lagos 〈Stadt, Nigeria〉
    Abstract: Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreements, but with this power comes the ability to extort group members. Under what circumstances, then, will private organizations provide a stable environment for economic activity? Based on market case studies and a representative survey of traders in Lagos, Nigeria, this book argues that threats from the government can force an association to behave in ways that promote trade. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that private good governance in developing countries thrives when the government keeps its hands off private group affairs. Instead, the author argues, leaders among traders behave in ways that promote trade primarily because of the threat of government intrusion.
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    East Africa after liberation : conflict, security and the state since the 1980s (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    The political life of an epidemic : cholera, crisis and citizenship in Zimbabwe (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108489102 , 9781108733441
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 230 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chigudu, Simukai, 1986- The political life of an epidemic
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chigudu, Simukai, 1986 - The political life of an epidemic
    DDC: 362.1969320096891
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    Keywords: Cholera ; Cholera Political aspects ; Cholera Social aspects ; Public health ; Public health administration ; Simbabwe ; Cholera ; Bevölkerung ; Sozialstruktur ; Gesundheitswesen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Nigeria and World War II : colonialism, empire, and global conflict (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42580-3 , 978-1-108-57965-0/ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 298 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Nigeria Erster Weltkrieg ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Krieger ; Kolonialismus ; Imperialismus ; Politik ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
    Abstract: Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943, over half came from Nigeria. In this important, revisionist history, Chima J. Korieh examines how the lives of Nigerian producers, workers, merchants, men, women, and children from across society were affected. It recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war, the enormous demands it made on their resources, and the way it would change both their lives and the societies they lived in. By placing the role that African societies played in the war within the contextual and theoretical frameworks of colonialism, race, gender, identity, labour, intellectual, and social history, Korieh challenges the dominant perception that World War II was primarily a European conflict and reveals the global impact of ordinary Nigerians on the war effort.
    Description / Table of Contents: Fighting for the world : imperialism, wartime policy, and colonial subjects -- For King and country : colonial subjects, and wartime intellectualism -- The home front : colonial subjects and the burden of empire -- Voices of protest : austerity, regulations, and social protest -- The Second World War and its aftermath -- Conclusion.
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    A _history of West Central Africa to 1850 (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-56593-7 , 1-107-56593-6 , 978-1-316-41156-8 , 978-1-107-12715-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 382 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: New Approaches to African History 15
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Westafrika ; Zentralafrika ; Angola ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Based on substantial new research from primary sources and archives, this accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 gives comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region. With equal focus given to both internal histories or inter-state interactions and external dynamics and relationships, this study represents an original approach to regional histories which goes beyond the existing scholarship on the area. By contextualising and expanding its range, to include treatment of the Portuguese colony of Angola, John K. Thornton provides new understandings of significant events, people, and inter-regional interactions which aid the grounding of the history of West Central Africa within a broader context. A valuable resource to students and scholars of African history.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Development of States in West Central African to 1540 -- The Struggle for Ambundu and the Founding of Angola -- Ndongo and Portugal at War -- Queen Njinga's Struggle for Ndongo -- The Thirty Years' War Comes to Central Africa -- The Emergence of Lunda -- The Weight of Lunda on the West -- Culmination: Lunda, Luba and the Ovimbundu
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    Music of the Baduy People of Western Java : singing is a medicine (2020)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-42440-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVII, 395 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Volume 313
    Keywords: Java Indigenität ; Musik ; Musik, traditionelle ; Musikethnologie ; Tanz ; Tanz, ritueller ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Hochzeitsritual ; Beschneidung
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    Power and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49404-5 , 9781108625166 /E-Book , 978-1-108-71383-2 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 306 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 146
    Keywords: Kenia Führer, politischer ; Biographie ; Kenyatta, Jomo [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: In December 1963, Kenya formally declared its independence yet it would take a year of intense negotiations for it to transform into a presidential republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Archival records of the independence negotiations, however, reveal that neither the British colonial authorities nor the Kenyan political elite foresaw the formation of a presidential regime that granted one man almost limitless executive powers. Even fewer expected Jomo Kenyatta to remain president until his death in 1978. Power and the Presidency in Kenya reconstructs Kenyatta's political biography, exploring the links between his ability to emerge as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of the country. In describing Kenyatta's presidential style as discreet and distant, Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonisation, the increasing centralisation of executive powers and the repression of political oppositions shaped Kenyatta's politics. Telling the story of state building through political biography, Angelo reveals how historical contingency and structural developments shaped both a man and an institution - the president and the presidency. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination -- 2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961) -- 3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (1961-1963) -- 4. Independence and the making of a president (1963-1964) -- 5. Kenyatta, Meru politics and the last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965) -- 6. Taming oppositions: Kenyatta's 'secluded' politics (1964-1966) -- 7. Ruling over a divided political family (1965-1969) -- 8. 'Kenyatta simply will not contemplate his own death' (1970-1978) -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-303 , PhD theses, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Florence, 2016 unter dem Titel: Becoming president: a political biography of Jomo Kenyatta (1958-1969), online unter http://hdl.handle.net/1814/44166
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    France's wars in Chad : military intervention and decolonization in Africa (2020)
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    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 360 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 150
    Keywords: Tschad Frankreich ; Krieg ; Kolonialismus ; Dekolonisation ; militärischer Einsatz ; Libyen ; Konflikt, politischer
    Abstract: Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the subsequent French efforts to counter Libyan ambitions and the rise to power of Hissène Habré, one of postcolonial Africa's most brutal dictators, Nathaniel K. Powell demonstrates that French strategies aiming to prevent the collapse of authoritarian regimes had the opposite effect, exacerbating violent conflicts and foreign interventions in Chad and further afield. Based on extensive archival research to trace the causes, course, and impact of French interventions in Chad, this study offers insights and lessons for current interveners - including France - fighting a 'war on terrorism' in the Sahel whose strategies and impact parallel those of France in the 1960s-1980s.
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    Environmental change and African societies (2020)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-41083-1 , 978-90-04-41084-8 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 347 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Climate and Culture 5
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Klimawandel ; Klima ; Ökologie ; Umweltwandel ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : environmental change and African societies / Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermannpart -- To see or not to see : on the "absence" of climate change (discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit -- Perspectives on climate change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 / Vimbai Kwashiraipart -- Environmental and climate change in Africa : global drought and local environmental infrastructure / Emmanuel Kreike -- Shamba forestry in colonial Kenya : colonial dominance or African opportunity? / Ben Fanstone -- I'm staying! : climate variability and circular migration in Burkina Faso / Jonas Østergaard Nielsen -- Living with a changing climate in sub-Saharan Africa : more of the same / Joy Clancy -- Sustainable Mauritius? : environmental change, energy efficiency, and sustainable development in a small island state in the Indian Ocean / Laura Jeffery -- Transformative learning for global change? : reflections on the Wascal Master Programme in climate change and education in the Gambia / Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambopart -- Africa in transition : what role for the environment? / Ton Dietz -- Africa's high modernism : historical ecologies of climate change and hydrologies of watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) / James C. McCann -- Increasing urbanisation and the role of green spaces in urban climate resilience in Africa / Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo-Concha, and Manfred Denich.
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    Authoritarian modernization in Indonesia's early independence period : the foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965) (2020)
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    ISSN: 1572-1892
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 295 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Volume 312
    Keywords: Indonesien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Demokratisierung ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Staatsentstehung ; Sukarno [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia`s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia`s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period. The study looks into the structural and ideological state formation during the so-called Liberal Democracy (1950-1957) and Sukarno`s Guided Democracy (1957-1965). In particular, it analyses how the international technical aid network and the dominant managerialist ideology of the period legitimized a new managerial elite. The book discusses the development of managerial education in the civil and military sectors in Indonesia. The study gives a strongly backed argument that Sukarno`s constitutional reform during the Guided Democracy period inadvertently provided a strong managerial blueprint for the New Order developmentalist state. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. The Indonesian Elite and Its Authority -- 2. The Military Expansion into the State -- 3. Expertise and National Planning -- 4. Scientific Administration and the Question of Efficiency -- 5. Economic Planning during the Guided Democracy -- 6. The Managers of Social Engineering -- 7. Economic Policymaking in the Guided Democracy (1962-1965) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 267-295 , Dissertation, Universiteit Leiden, 2014, unter dem Titel: The Rise of the Managerial State in Indonesia: Institutional Transition during the Early Independence Period. 1950-1965. Online verfügbar unter https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl
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    Regional integration in Africa : what role for South Africa? (2020)
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    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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    Regional integration and migration in Africa : lessons from Southern and West Africa (2020)
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    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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    Islam, ethnicity, and conflict in Ethiopia : the Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 (2020)
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83968-6 , 978-1-108-88483-9 /E-Book
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    Pages: xii, 363 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 151
    Keywords: Äthiopien Osthorn ; Oromo ; Amhara ; Islam und Politik ; Muslime ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Christentum ; Religion und Politik ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Elite, politische ; Elite, traditionelle ; Grundeigentum ; Landnutzung ; Geschichte, politische ; Waqo Gutu Usu [Leben und Werk] ; Bale 〈Stadt, Äthiopien〉
    Abstract: Focusing on the role of religion and ethnicity in times of conflict, Terje Østebø investigates the Muslim-dominated insurgency against the Ethiopian state in the 1960s, shedding new light on this understudied case in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of religion, inter-religious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism in the Horn of Africa. Islam, Ethnicity and Conflict in Ethiopia develops new theoretical perspectives on the interrelations between ethnic and religious identities, considering ethnic and religious groups as mutually exclusive categories by applying the term peoplehood as an analytical tool, one that allows for more flexible perspectives. Exploring the interplay of imagination and lived, affective reality, and inspired by the 'materiality turn' in cultural- and religious studies, Østebø argues for an integrated approach which recognizes and explores embodiment and emplacement as intrinsic to formations of ethnic and religious identities. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps, figures, tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Islaama Peoplehood and Landscapes of Bale -- 3 Conquest and Resistance -- 4 Bale at War -- 5 The Insurgency: Fighters and Fragmentation -- 6 Peasant Insurgency without Peasants -- 7 Land Tenure and the Land-Clan Connection -- 8 Christianity, Nation, and Amhara Peoplehood -- 9 Trans-local Dynamics: The Bale Insurgency in the Context of the Horn -- 10 Islaama vs Amhara and the Making of Local Antagonism -- 11 The Bale Insurgency, Islaama, and Oromo Ethno-nationalism -- 12 Conclusions -- Glossary -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 322-349
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    The _army and politics in Zimbabwe [Besprechung] : Mujuru, the liberation fighter and kingmaker (2020)
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    Keywords: Rezension
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    Dynamics of caste and law : Dalits, oppression and constitutional democracy in India (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: xviii, 243 Seiten
    Series Statement: South Asia in the Social Sciences
    Keywords: Indien Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Recht ; Unberührbarer ; Gesetzgebung ; Demokratie ; Ungleichheit ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: Dynamics of Caste and Law breaks new ground in understanding how caste and law relate in India's democratic order. Caste has become a visible phenomenon often associated with discrimination, inequality and politics in India and globally. India's constitutional democracy has had a remarkable goal of creating equality in a context of caste. Despite constitutional promises with equal opportunities for the lower castes and outlawing of untouchability at the time of independence, recurring atrocities and inadequate implementation of law have called for rethinking and legal change. This book sheds new light on why caste oppression persists by using new theoretical perspectives as well as Bhimrao Ambedkar's concepts of the caste system. Focusing on struggles among India's Dalits, the castes formerly known as untouchables, the book draws on a rich material and explains, among other things, mechanisms of oppression and how powerful actors may gain influence in institutions of law and state.
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    Chinese and African entrepreneurs : social impacts of interpersonal encounters (2019)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38680-8 , 978-90-04-38742-3
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    Pages: XI, 287 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Uniform Title: Entrepreneurs africains et chinois
    Keywords: Afrika China ; Beziehungen Afrika-Asien ; Globalisierung ; Unternehmen ; Arbeitsmigration ; Arbeit ; Mobilität ; Mobilität, soziale ; Sozialer Wandel ; Außenpolitik ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: From rejection to social change / Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel -- Part 1. Others in distant places: opportunities for social mobility -- Social mobility of Chinese migrants in Ghana: the making of Chinese entrepreneurs / Katy N. Lam -- The impact of migration of the Chinese women in Niamey on gender and family relations / Naima Topkiran -- African cultural brokers in South China / Gordon Mathews -- Early Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: contract labourers and traders / Yoon Jung Park -- Part 2. Encounters with the other, stimuli for social change -- Grassroots social change triggered by Africa-China encounters in urban China / Kelly Si Miao Liang -- Business partners and employers: Chinese traders as facilitators of grassroots social innovation in West Africa / Karsten Giese -- A transformative presence? Chinese migrants as agents of change in Ghana and Nigeria / Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan -- The Chinese factor in Senegal: changing entrepreneurial dynamics, and socio-economic restructuring / Amy Niang -- Part 3. The products of others: 'Made in China' as imaginary and opportunity -- This "Made in China" that gets africa moving: chinese motorcycles and entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso / Guive Khan-Mohammad -- "Made in China" and the African "China dream": an alternative to the West? / Laurence Marfaing -- Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods: negotiating imaginaries of authenticity in Accra's China trade / Alena Thiel.
    Note: "This volume was originally published by Karthala in 2017 under the title "Entrepreneurs africains et chinois. Les impacts sociaux d'une rencontre particulière". - Includes a selection of work by paticipants in a workshop held in Dakar in January 2013 ...
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    Nature conservation in southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation? (2019)
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    Pages: XII, 295 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Dynamics volume 16
    Keywords: Afrika Südliches Afrika ; Natur ; Naturschutz ; Umweltschutz ; Fauna ; Wildtier ; Moral ; Nationalpark ; Politik
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    Image-Makers : the social context of a hunter-gatherer ritual (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-10849821-0
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    Pages: XIX, 204 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrika Südliches Afrika ; Kalahari ; San ; Südafrikanischer Jäger ; Jäger und Sammler ; Felsbild ; Prähistorie ; Prähistorie, Af ; Soziale Beziehung ; Soziales Netzwerk
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    African countries and the global scramble for China : a contribution to Africa's preparedness and rehearsal (2019)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34806-6
    ISSN: 1568-4474
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    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.
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    Mamluk Cairo, a crossroads for embassies : studies on diplomacy and diplomatics (2019)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38463-7/(ebook) , 978-90-04-38462-0 , 9004384626
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    Pages: xxvii, 881 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Islamic History and Civilization 161
    Keywords: Ägypten Diplomatie ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Geschichte ; Kairo 〈Stadt, Ägypten〉
    Abstract: Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Mamluk diplomatics: the present state of research / Frederic Bauden -- Mamluk diplomacy: the present state of research / Malika Dekkiche -- Diplomatics, or another way to see the world / Malika Dekkiche -- Strong letters at the Mamluk Court / Lucian Reinfandt -- Embassies and ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Careers in diplomacy among Mamluks and Mongols, 658-741/1260-1341 / Anne F. Broadbridge -- The golden horde and the Mamluks: the birth of a diplomatic set-up (660-5/1261-7) / Marie Favereau -- Mamluk-Ilkhanid diplomatic contacts: negotiations or posturing? / Reuven Amitaie -- Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: emissaries to the Mamluks as expressions of local political ambitions and ideologies during the Seventh/Thirteenth and Eighth/Fourteenth centuries / Hend Gilli-Elewy -- Between Iraq and a hard place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir's time as a refugee in the Mamluk sultanate / Patrick Wing -- Nizam al-din Shami's description of the Syrian Campaign of Timur / Michele Bernardini -- Diplomatic entanglements between Tabriz, Cairo, and Herat: a reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu letter datable to 818/1415 / Frederic Bauden -- Fixed rules to a changing game? Sultan Mehmed II's realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk diplomatic conventions / Kristof d'Hulster -- Diplomatic correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo: the last hope for Al-Andalus / Barbara Boloix-Gallardo -- Entre ifriqiya hafside et Egypte Mamelouke: des relations anciennes, continues et consolidees / Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi -- Tracking down the Hafsid diplomatic missions all the way to the Turco-Mamluk borders (892-6/1487-91) / Lotfi ben Miled -- Diplomatic networks of Rasulid Yemen in Egypt (Seventh/Thirteenth to early Ninth/Fifteenth centuries) / Eric Vallet -- "Aggression in the best of lands": Mecca in Egyptian-Indian diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth century / John I. Meloy -- Some remarks on the diplomatic relations between Cairo, Delhi/Dawlatabad, and Ahmadabad during the Eighth/Fourteenth and Ninth/Fifteenth centuries / Stephan Conermann, Anna Kollatz -- The Hati and the Sultan: letters and embassies from Abyssinia to the Mamluk Court / Julien Loiseau -- "Peace be upon those who follow the right way": diplomatic practices between Mamluk Cairo and the Borno Sultanate at the end of the Eighth/Fourteenth century / Remi Dewiere -- The European embassies to the court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo / Pierre Moukarzel -- In the name of the minorities: Lisbon's muslims as emissaries from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt / Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros -- Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 838-78/1435-73: the accounts of Pero Tafur, George Boustronios and Ibn Taghri Birdi / Nicholas Coureas -- Negotiating the last Mamluk-Venetian commercial decree (922-3/1516-7): commercial liability from the Sixth/Twelfth to the early Tenth/Sixteenth century / Gladys Frantz-Murphy -- Three Mamluk letters concerning the Florentine trade in Egypt and Syria: a new interpretation / Alessandro Rizzo -- Ecritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des ceremonies officielles a l' epoque Mamelouke / Ludvik Kalus -- Precious objects for eminent guests: the use of chinese ceramics in Mamluk Cairo: the Fustat ceramic collection from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) / Valentina Vezzoli.
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    The _politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania (2019)
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    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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    Travelling pasts : the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean world (2019)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-40270-6 , 978-90-04-40271-3 / (E-Book)
    ISSN: 2589-885X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Crossroads Volume 1
    Keywords: Indischer Ozean Süd-Asien ; Saudi-Arabien ; Indien ; Komoren ; Malediven ; Südafrika ; Malaysia ; Sansibar ; Deutschland ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Kulturpolitik ; Kulturkontakt ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kulturethologie ; Weltkulturerbe ; Historiographie ; Mobilität ; Identität ; Photographie, ethnographische ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the fields of Indian Ocean Studies and Heritage Studies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, maps and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Travelling pasts: an introduction / Burkhard Schnepel -- Part 1. Indian Ocean cultural heritage and the 'world' -- Part 2. (Im-)materialities on the move -- Part 3. Travelling pasts in the Eastern Indian Ocean world -- Part 4. Travelling pasts in the Western Indian Ocean world -- Index
    Note: "based on a conference which took place in May 2017 within the framework of a larger research programme, situated at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, entitled 'Connectivity in Motion: Port Cities of the Indean Ocean'." (Seite 1-2)
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    Conflict, identity, and state formation in East Timor 2000-2017 (2019)
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    Pages: XII, 252 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 311
    Series Statement: Power and Place in Southeast Asia 311
    Keywords: Osttimor Konflikt ; Konflikt, politischer ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Staatsentstehung ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Politik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts groups, has been a constant feature of East Timor`s post-independence landscape. A focus on statebuilding, however, in academic discourse has largely overlooked this conflict, and the informal networks that drive Timorese politics and society. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Scambary documents the range of different cultural and historical dynamics and identities that drive conflict, and by which local conflicts and non-state actors became linked to national conflict, and laid the foundations of a clientelist state. (Umschlagtext)
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    Radio soundings : South Africa and the black modern (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47064-3 , 978-1-108--5690-3 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 224 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International African Library 59
    Keywords: Südafrika Zulu ; Radio ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Apartheid ; Kulturwandel ; Modisane, Bloke [Leben und Werk] ; Nkosi, Lewis [Leben und Werk] ; Buthelezi, Alexius [Leben und Werk] ; Masinga, K. E. [Leben und Werk] ; Lamula, Petros [Leben und Werk] ; SABC 〉 South African Broadcasting Corporation ; South African Broadcasting Corporation ; BBC 〉 British Broadcasting Corporation ; British Broadcasting Corporation
    Abstract: Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: voice, race, radio -- Part I. Sound and 'migration' -- 1. K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio and the politics of 'migrant' orality -- 2. Communities through the back door: the radio worlds of Alexius Buthelezi 1961-1978 -- Part II. Distance and intimacy -- 3. Exile: Bloke Modisane and the BBC, 1959-1987 -- 4. 'Africa on the rise': the early 1960s, and the radio voice of Lewis Nkosi -- Part III. Drama, language, and daily life -- 5. Untidy boundaries, restless identities: Zulu serial drama in the 1970s -- 6. Radio drama in the time of violence: Yiz' Uvalo (In Spite of Fear), December 1986 - May 1987 -- 7. 'Ikusasa lethu' (Our Tomorrow): the 'glorious decade'? Radio drama of the 1990s -- 8. Finding a centre -- Conclusion: dances of power -- Bibliography - Index.
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    Boundaries, communities and state-making in West Africa : The centrality of the margins (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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
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    The _Persianate world : rethinking a shared sphere (2019)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38562-7 , 978-90-04-38728-7 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: 256 Seiten , Illustrationen, genealogische Tafeln, Karten
    Series Statement: Iran Studies volume 18
    Keywords: Iran Kultur ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Kulturgeschichte ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction : Pathways to the Persianate / Assef Ashraf -- Remembering the Persianate / Abbas Amanat -- The Persian cosmopolis (900-1900) and the Sanskrit cosmopolis (400-1400) / Richard M. Eaton -- Living in marvelous lands : Persianate vernacular literatures and cosmographical imaginaires around the Bay of Bengal / Thibaut D'Hubert -- The politics of saint shrines in the Persianate empires / A. Azfar Moin -- From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul : the rise of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi networks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Waleed Ziad -- Lives of the Enikolopians : multilingualism and the religious-national identity of a Caucasus family in the Persianate world / Hirotake Maeda -- Inclusion and exclusion in the "Persianate world" : views of Baluch people in the nineteenth century / Joanna de Groot -- The antipodes of "progress" : a journey to the end of Indo-Persian / Nile Green -- Index
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    Trust in contemporary society (2019)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-0434880-6 , 978-90-0439043-0 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International Comparative Social Studies 42
    Keywords: Vertrauen Soziologie ; Kulturvergleich ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosophy, and from Britain, the United States, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Japan. They bring their vast knowledge from different historical and cultural backgrounds to illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. The socio-cultural perspective of trust is important and increasingly acknowledged as central to trust research. Accordingly, future directions for comparative trust research are also discussed
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction / Masamichi Sasaki -- Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives -- The Experience of Trust: Its Content and Basis / Jack Barbalet -- Trust in the Moral Space / Piotr Sztompka -- Trust in Habit: A Way of Coping in Unsettled Times / Barbara A. Misztal -- Uncertainty and the Economic Need for Trust / Bart Nooteboom -- Historical Perspectives -- The Decline of Trust in Government / Geoffrey Hosking -- Trust in Transition: Culturalist and Institutionalist Debate Reflected in the Democratization Process in the Czech Republic, 1991-2008 / Marke´ta Sedla´c?kova´ and Jir?i´ S?afr -- Dynamics of Organizational and Interpersonal Interaction -- Trust Trap? Self-Reinforcing Processes in the Constitution of Inter-organizational Trust / Guido Mo¨llering and Jo¨rg Sydow -- The Relation between Interpersonal Trust and Adjustment: Is Trust Always Good? / Ken J. Rotenberg -- Cross-National Comparative Studies -- A Cross-National Study of Criteria for Judging the Trustworthiness of Others before a First Meeting / Masamichi Sasaki -- Social Trust in Japan and Taiwan: A Test of Fukuyama's Thesis / Robert Marsh -- Methodology -- What Do Survey Measures of Trust Actually Measure? / John Brehm and Meg Savel -- Back Matter -- Index.
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    Strong NGOs and weak states : pursuing gender justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-41058-8 , 978-1-108-41937-6 , 978-1-108-29774-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 303 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Südafrika Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Frauenrecht ; Gewalt ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: Over the past decade, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and South Africa have attracted global attention for high rates of sexual and gender-based violence. Why is it that courts in eastern DR Congo prioritize gender crimes despite considerable logistical challenges, while courts in South Africa, home to a far stronger legal infrastructure and human rights record, have struggled to provide justice to victims of similar crimes? Lake shows that state fragility in DR Congo has created openings for human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to influence legal processes in ways that have proved impossible in countries like South Africa, where the state is stronger. Yet exploiting opportunities presented by state fragility to pursue narrow human rights goals invites a host of new challenges. Strong NGOs and Weak States documents the promises and pitfalls of human rights and rule of law advocacy undertaken by NGOs in strong and weak states alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I -- Law in Unforeseen Places -- Researching Violence, Law, and Human Rights in South Africa's Western Cape and DR Congo's Eastern Provinces -- Explaining State-Level Policy and Practice -- Local Justice Institutions and Opportunities Created by State Fragility -- Ordinary Women in Court : Socialization and Outreach from the Ground Up -- Part II -- Hard-Fought Victories : Assessing the Human Rights Benefits Felt by Victims of Violence in DR Congo -- Justice for Whom? : The Unintended Consequences of Hard-Fought Victories -- Conclusion : NGOs and State (Un)Making -- Appendix A. Decisions in the Field -- Appendix B. Interviews with Victims of Gender Violence -- Appendix C. DR Congo's Criminal Justice System -- Appendix D. South Africa's Criminal Justice System.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-299
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    From anthropology to social theory : rethinking the social sciences (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108423809 , 9781108438384
    Language: English
    Pages: v, 289 Seiten
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    Keywords: Social sciences
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    The anthropology of the future (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108434379 , 9781108421850
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 226 Seiten
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    DDC: 304.23
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    Keywords: Philosophische Anthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Zukunft ; Zukunftserwartung
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    Africa since 1940 : the past of the present (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108480680 , 9781108727891
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 320 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Afrika
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    Emotional worlds : beyond an anthropology of emotion (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107020993 , 9781107605374
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 305 Seiten
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beatty, Andrew Emotional worlds
    DDC: 152.4
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    Keywords: Emotions Anthropological aspects ; Gefühl ; Kulturvergleich ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Groundings -- Emotions in the field: recognition and location -- Nias: emotions dramatized -- Java: emotions analysed -- Narrative -- The case for narrative -- Persons and particulars -- The narrative understanding of emotion -- Writing emotion -- Perspectives -- Affect: a wrong turn? -- Concepts, words, feelings -- The uses of empathy -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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    The Cambridge handbook of kinship (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107041189 , 9781107697744
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 740 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge handbook of kinship
    DDC: 306.83
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    Keywords: Kinship Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Verwandtschaft ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Introduction: conceiving kinship in the 21st century / S. Bamford -- The seeds of kinship theory / C. Delaney -- Descent in retrospect and prospect / G. Feeley-Harnik -- The alliance theory of kinship in South Indian ethnography / I. Clark-Decès -- The anthropology of biology: a lesson from the new kinship studies / S. Franklin -- The stuff of kinship / J. Carsten -- Embodied relationality beyond "nature" vs "nurture": materializing absent kinships in Japanese child welfare / K. Goldfarb -- Kinship in the Andes / M. Weismantel & Mary Elena Wilhoit -- Kinship and place: the existential and moral process of landscape formation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / J. Leach -- Adoption / C. Gailey -- Natural achievements: how lesbian and gay families in North America make claims to kinship / E. Lewin -- Kinship, knowledge and the state: the case of Argentina's adult "living disappeared" / Noa Vaisman -- Kinship, affliction, proximity, and unfinished healing in India / Sarah Pinto -- Reproductive remix: law, kinship and origin stories / Valerie Hartouni -- Selecting for sons: kinship as a product of desire / T. Gammeltoft -- Maids, mistresses and wives: rethinking kinship and the domestic sphere in 21st century global Hong Kong / N. Constable -- Transnational adoption / J. Leinaweaver -- Kinship in transnational encounters: Filipino migrants as "ideal brides" in rural Japan / L. Faier -- Un/making family: relatedness, migration, and displacement in a global age / D. Boehm -- My folder is not a person: kinship, knowledge, biopolitics and the adoption file / E. Kim -- Surrogate motherhood and transforming families / J. Dolgin -- Kinship and assisted reproductive technologies: a Middle Eastern comparison / M. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Soraya Tremayne & Zeynep Gurtin -- A comparison of kinship understandings among Israeli and U.S. surrogates / Elly Teman & Zsuzsa Berend -- Self, personhood and belonging: the role of technology in childhood disability / G. Landsman -- Paid and unpaid gestational labor: pregnancy and surrogacy in anthropological studies of reproduction / Tsipy Ivry & Elly Teman -- Reading the contested forms of nation through the contested forms of kinship and marriage / S. McKinnon -- The prison as a technology of care in North-east Brazil / Hollis Moore -- The interface between kinship and politics in three different social settings / S. Howell -- A global family: kinship, nations, and transnational organizations in Botswana's time of AIDS / K. Reece -- Kinship, world religions and the nation state / F. Cannell.
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    Politics and violence in Burundi : the language of truth in an emerging state (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108499347
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 311 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African studies series 145
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 967.57204
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    Keywords: Decolonization ; Political violence History ; Geschichte ; Entkolonialisierung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Ethnizität ; Innenpolitik ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Autorität ; Macht ; Propaganda ; Sprachgebrauch ; Burundi Politics and government 20th century ; Burundi Ethnic relations ; Burundi ; Burundi ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Völkermord
    Abstract: "The postcolonial state in Burundi emerged through talk of truth and acts of violence. Beginning with the first democratic contest in late 1959, this book examines decolonisation as a search for certainty over the nature of postcolonial community and authority, seen from the vantage point of two communes on the border with Rwanda. While ethnicity was largely absent from early political struggles, by 1972 the postcolony was realised in a genocidal repression. Yet from democracy to genocide people and state spoke about politics in the language of truth: declarations of official truths, discussions of rumour, and riddles of political persuasion. Through these idioms of truth-speaking, the book examines differing conceptions over the nature of authority and its relationship to its subjects, the possibilities and closures of postcolonial citizenship, the deep hostility and suspicion of successive regimes towards a borderland population, and their performances of loyalty, petition and vigilance in response. It shows how politics was made between peasants and state elites, the nature of violence in the processes of decolonisation, and how the language of truth continues to matter today"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Introduction: talking politics and watching the border prologue, 1796–1959 : people of the land , Part I. 1959–1961: 'To See the Son of a King' , Ukuri ni kumwe : talking truth , Ibigendajoro : rebels in the name of the king , Part II. 1961–1967: 'A Most Total Anarchy' , Abanyabihuha : talking loyalty , Ukuri n'ubutungane : the fate of the Bourgmestres , Part III. 1968–1972: 'Please Send Me a Car to Take Them Away' , Politiques bw'insaku : talking vigilance , Couper tout ce qui dépasse : truth and violence , Conclusion: the Court of Baribuka
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    Colonizing consent : rape and governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108472807
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African studies series 141
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    Keywords: Rape History ; Rape Law and legislation ; History ; Sexual consent Political aspects ; History ; Xhosa (African people) Sexual behavior ; History
    Abstract: Introduction: Writing the history of rape -- Custom and consent in Xhosaland -- Sex and spiritual power -- Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence -- Rape and racial boundaries -- Navigating the politics of consent -- Conclusion: Rape and the postcolony
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    Crime, law and society in Nigeria : essays in honour of Stephen Ellis (2019)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789004396241
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, 1 Porträt
    Series Statement: Afrika-Studiecentrum series volume 37
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crime, law and society in Nigeria
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    Keywords: Crime History ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Kriminalität ; Organisiertes Verbrechen ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Strafrecht ; Nigeria ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Nigeria ; Kriminalität ; Strafjustiz
    Note: Stephen-Ellis-Bibliographie: Seite 28-30 , Literaturangaben, Register , Introduction , Stephen Ellis : his life and work , Theft in early colonial Lagos, 1861-1906 , Smuggling across the Nigeria-Benin border and its impact on Nigeria's economic development , Changing patterns of crime and malfeasance in Nigerian port environments since the 1990s , Nature and management of human trafficking : the Nigerian Edo people's experience , Militancy and criminality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria , Crime at the University of Lagos : insights from Akoka campus , Reporting crime in contemporary Lagos , Currency counterfeiting and "substantial justice" in colonial Nigeria : Rex vs Tijani Ali, 1931-33 , Class based criminal justice regime, supermarket courts, and illicit interests : the Nigerian criminal justice administration system in critical perspective , Book review: Stephen Ellis, (2016) This present darkness: a history of Nigerian organised crime. London: Hurst and Co
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    Comparison in anthropology : the impossible method (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108474603 , 1108474608 , 9781108465045 , 1108465048
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 392 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    Keywords: Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnomethodologie ; Vergleich
    Abstract: "Anthropologists today use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts. In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength. Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation, providing a ground-up reassessment of the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology and beyond
    Note: The impossible method -- The garden of forking paths -- Caesurism and heuristics -- Comparatio -- Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity -- Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity -- Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity -- The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity -- Rigour
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    Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : the Hijra, c.1850-1900 (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108492553
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 305 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.7680954
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/de/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/governing-gender-and-sexuality-colonial-india-ihijrai-c18501900?format=HB
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    Civilisation recast : theoretical and historical perspectives (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Atomic junction [Besprechung] : nuclear power in Africa after independence (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: xix, 278 Seiten
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Reclaiming the women of Britain's first mission to West Africa : three lives lost and found (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38711-9 , 978-90-04-38744-7/Online
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 448 Seiten
    Series Statement: Studies of Religion in Africa 47
    Keywords: Westafrika Sierra Leone ; Mission, christliche ; Frau ; Kolonie, britisch ; Missionsgeschichte ; Abolition ; Sklavenhandel ; Biographie ; Winsor, Sarah [Leben und Werk] ; Richards, Elizabeth [Leben und Werk] ; Klein, Suzanna [Leben und Werk]
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    Anthropology of law in Muslim Sudan : land, courts and the plurality of practices (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 90-04-35911-7 , 978-90-04-35911-6 , 978-90-04-36218-5 /eBook
    ISSN: 2210-8920
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 315 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
    Series Statement: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 7
    Keywords: Sudan Recht ; Recht, islamisches ; Recht, traditionelles ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Landrecht ; Eigentum ; Konfliktmanagement ; Beziehungen Nomade-Seßhafter
    Abstract: Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE ( Anthropologie du Droit dans les Mondes Musulmans Africains et Asiatiques), funded by the French ANR ( Agence National de la Recherche) between 2011 and 2014. Crossing two disciplinary perspectives, anthropology and law, the present volume contains original fieldwork data on contemporary urban and rural Sudan. Focusing on two major domains, land property and courts, several case studies demonstrate the relevance of an approach based on "legal practices" to underline, first, the plurality and hybridity of law systems and the relative role of the Islamic reference in Sudanese society, and, secondly, the reshaping of legal behaviors and norms after the breaking point of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Land issues: dynamics of appropriation and legal frameworks -- Part 2. Statutory and non-statutory court: principles and practices for dispute settlement -- Annexes -- Excerpts from Sunda's Statutory Land Laws 1900-2015 -- Index
    Note: Enthält 10 Beiträge
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    Imagining Africa : Whiteness and the Western gaze (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108473606
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gabay, Clive Imagining Africa
    DDC: 305.8200967
    Keywords: Whites Race identity 20th century ; History ; Whites Race identity 21st century ; History ; Great Britain Colonies ; Africa, Sub-Saharan Race relations ; Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonial influence ; Europa ; Afrikabild ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Postkolonialismus ; Weiße ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Sozialgeschichte 1900-2017
    Abstract: Whiteness, the Western gaze and Africa -- Finding anti-civilisation in Africa -- Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku -- "Exploding Africa": of post-war modernisers and travellers -- The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present -- Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa -- Africa rising, Whiteness falling -- Making Whiteness strange
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-37261-0 , 00-04-37261-X , 978-90-04-37270-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 1572-1892
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 214 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 310
    Keywords: Südostasien Philippinen ; Burma ; Indonesien ; Malaysia ; Singapur ; Thailand ; Vietnam ; Historiographie ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Film ; Elite ; Konsum ; Feminismus ; Pi Mui Nan [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This book reveals how everyday experiences of being `modern` (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "This volume is the outcome of a workshop [...] held in January 2015, Tracing Trajectories of Modernity in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s." (Acknowledgements); Enthält 9 Beiträge
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    Transfers of belonging : child fostering in West Africa in the 20th century (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-365980-2 , 978-90-04-36041-9 /eBook
    ISSN: 1574-6925
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 19
    Uniform Title: Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel
    Keywords: Westafrika Benin ; Borgu ; Elternschaft ; Kindheit ; Familie ; Familienrecht ; Verwandtschaft ; Adoption ; Pflegekindschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Vater-Kind ; Beziehungen Mutter-Kind ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
    Abstract: In Transfers of Belonging, Erdmute Alber traces the history of child fostering in northern Benin from the pre-colonial past to the present by pointing out the embeddedness of child foster practices and norms in a wider political process of change. Child fostering was, for a long time, not just one way of raising children, but seen as the appropriate way of doing so. This changed profoundly with the arrival of European ideas about birth parents being the `right` parents, but also with the introduction of schooling and the differentiation of life chances. Besides providing deep historical and ethnographical insights, Transfers of Belonging offers a new theoretical frame for conceptualizing parenting.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Glossary 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Child Fostering -- 2. Parenthood in Rural Borgu -- 3. Child Fostering in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix -- References -- Index of persons -- Index
    Note: "Revised and tightened version" of Soziale Elternschaft im Wandel: Kindheit, Verwandtschaft und Zugehorigkeit in Westafrika by Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
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    Two thousand years in Dendi, northern Benin : archaeology, history and memory (2018)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35584-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 801 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Journal of African Archaeology. Monograph Series 13
    Keywords: Benin Republik Niger ; Dendi ; Archäologie ; Landschaft ; Geschichte ; Gedächtnis ; Paläoanthropologie ; Architektur ; Besiedlungsgeschichte ; Materielle Kultur ; Menschlicher Überrest
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    Landscapes, sources and intellectual projects of the West African past : Essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34883-7 , 978-90-04-38018-9 /eBook
    ISSN: 2211-1441
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 521 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 6
    Keywords: Westafrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Mali ; Gambia ; Oyo ; Barden ; Ashanti ; Sokoto ; Bornu (NO-Nigeria) ; Historiographie ; Mythos und Legende ; Sklaverei ; Nigeria ; Fortier, Edmond [Leben und Werk] ; Timbuktu 〈Mali〉
    Abstract: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book`s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes -- Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies -- Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources -- Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists -- Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations -- Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias' Publications -- Interview: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects -- Index
    Note: Enthält 22 Beiträge, eine Introduction der Herausgeber und ein Interview
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    Spatial practices : territory, border and infrastructure in Africa (2018)
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    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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    Recovering the human subject : freedom, creativity and decision (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42496-7
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Freiheit Kreativität ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Postmoderne ; Humanismus ; Philosophie ; Anthropologie, philosophische ; Individuum und Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Wert, ideeller
    Abstract: "This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography."
    Description / Table of Contents: Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad, and James Laidlaw: Introduction: Freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering the human subject -- Caroline Humphrey: Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times -- Part I. Decision -- Veena Das: On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary -- Lars Hojer: Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia -- Agnieszka Halemba: Apparitions of the virgin mary as decision-events -- Part II. Freedom -- Morten Axel Pedersen Incidental Connections: Freedom and urban life in Mongolia -- Katherine Swancutt & Jiarimuji : the return to slavery' nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China -- Creativity -- Matei Candea: Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds -- Joel Robbins: Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process.
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    A _history of African popular culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-01689-7 , 978-1-107-62447-4
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: New Approaches to African History 11
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Popular Culture ; Musik ; Theater ; Literatur, afrikanische ; Lied ; Tanz ; Dichtung
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-194
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    Forts, castles and society in West Africa : Gold Coast and Dahomey, 1450 - 1960 (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-38014-1 , 978-90-04-38017-2 /eBook
    ISSN: 2211-1441
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African History 7
    Keywords: Goldküste Ghana ; Benin ; Westafrika ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, holländisch ; Kolonialtruppe ; Niederlande ; Dänemark ; Großbritannien ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa
    Abstract: Long regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours.
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 7 Beiträge
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    Law and property in Algeria : anthropological perspectives (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35762-4 , 978-90-04-36211-6 /E-Book
    ISSN: 1877-9808
    Language: English
    Pages: 189 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib Volume 10
    Keywords: Algerien Landnutzung ; Grundeigentum ; Eigentum ; Recht, islamisches ; Rechtsethnologie ; Rechtswissenschaft, ethnologische ; Adoption
    Abstract: In spite of its privileged place on the African continent, in the Muslim world and in the Middle East and North Africa region, Algeria remains poorly known, and the works relating to contemporary Algerian society published outside of Algeria are rare. This book seeks to contribute to our understanding of Algerian society today, through its relationships to property and to law. Beyond this, the objective is to propose, in a comparative perspective proper to anthropology, new theoretical and methodological perspectives by which to apprehend the anthropology of law in a Muslim context. Algeria, as a post-colonial and post-Socialist State, whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim, proves to be a particularly interesting case to study. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Note on Arabic transliteration -- Introduction: Anthropological perspectives on law and property in Algeria / Yazid Ben Hounet and Baudouin Dupret -- Land tenure and capital ownership in Algeria / Ammar Belhimer -- The legitimacy of tilling the land versus land use rights : Algerian farmers' land appropriation processes on public land / Hichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa -- Rights of access or rights to bypass? Maritime concessions in Algeria / Tarik Dahou -- Dignity and honour : struggles over land and legitimacy in the Soummam Valley / Judith Scheele -- Land appropriation, tenure and legal practices in a steppe-like environment (Algeria) / Yazid Ben Hounet -- Anomie and the post-colonial state : local justice in the M'zab / Nejm Benessaiah -- To compensate or not to compensate? Law, property and Sahrawi refugees in Algeria / Alice Wilson -- Kafala and succession : the practices of transfer of the "parent's" name and goods to an adopted child / Emilie Barraud -- Index
    Note: "This volume was [...] an outcome of the research project "Property in Moslem Transitional Environments" (PROMETEE) that was conducted within the frame of the German-French program FRAL and associated teams affiliated to the Centre Jacques Berque (CJB) of Rabat and the Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE)" (Rückkseite des Titelblattes)Enthält eine Einführung und 8 Beiträge
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    Elasticity in domesticity : white women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 (2018)
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-37056-2 , 978-90-04-38112-4/e-book
    ISSN: 1568-1777
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 227 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 38
    Keywords: Simbabwe Rhodesien ; Weiße ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women`s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women`s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources. (Umschalagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: White women and the unfolding Rhodesian society -- Domesticity, constructions of whiteness, and white femininity in Southern Rhodesia -- White women and the domestic space: housewifery in the Rhodesian context -- Emerging out of the sheaths of domesticity? White women in formal wage employment, c. 1914-1980 -- White women and wage employment -- Mothering the empire: overview of White women's organisations -- White women's organisations and settler society, 1920s-1970s -- Encounter with Africans, 1920s-1980 -- White women and the homecraft movement.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-223
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    Property and dispossession : natives, empires and land in early modern North America (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-67590-8 , 978-1-107-16064-4 , 978-1-316-61369-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 450 Seiten
    Edition: reprinted
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian History
    Keywords: Nordamerika Kanada ; Mexiko ; New England ; Landnahme ; Grundeigentum ; Enteignung ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonie, spanisch ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Eigentum ; Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent's resources, extended the reach of empire, and established states and jurisdictions for themselves. Challenging long-held, binary assumptions of property as a single entity, which various groups did or did not possess, Greer highlights the diversity of indigenous and Euro-American property systems in the early modern period. The book's geographic scope, comparative dimension, and placement of indigenous people on an equal plane with Europeans makes it unlike any previous study of early colonization and contact in the Americas.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: property and colonization -- Part I. Three zones of colonization -- Indigenous forms of property -- Early contacts -- New Spain -- New France -- New England -- Part II. Aspects of property formation -- The colonial commons -- Spaces of property -- A survey of surveying -- Empires and colonies -- Part III. Conclusion and epilogue -- Property and dispossession in an age of revolution.
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    Translocal connections across the Indian Ocean : Swahili speaking networks on the move (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-35407-4 , 978-90-04-36598-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 322 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series volume 37
    Keywords: Kenia Tansania ; Somalia ; Mosambik ; Sansibar ; Tanganjika ; Indischer Ozean ; Europa ; USA ; Suaheli ; Migration ; Flüchtling ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sufismus ; Islam ; Poesie ; Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Soziale Medien ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction -- Translocality in the Past -- Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality --Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom - Translocality in Daily Experience -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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    Political protest in contemporary Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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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    Farm to fingers : the culture and politics of food in contemporary India (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-41629-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 280 Seiten , Diagramme
    Keywords: Indien Nahrungsmittel ; Nahrungszubereitung ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: This book studies food practices in contemporary India by situating them in their political, economic and socio-cultural contexts.
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    The _protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa : international, regional and national perspectives (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-62586-6 , 978-1-107-17365-1 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 583 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Südafrika ; Kenia ; Angola ; Mosambik ; Senegal ; Äthiopien ; Uganda ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Kamerun ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Kind ; Alter ; Behinderung ; Menschenrecht ; Recht ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsethnologie ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Kate O'Regan -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. International Protection -- Part III. African Regional and Sub-Regional Protection -- Part IV. Domestic Constitutional Protection Models and Jurisprudence -- Index
    Note: Enthält 19 Beiträge
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    Transforming Sudan : decolonization, economic development, and state formation (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107172494 , 9781316623848
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 180 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African studies 140
    Series Statement: African studies
    DDC: 338.9624
    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Postkolonialismus ; Wirtschaftslage ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Staatsbildung ; Sudan ; Decolonization ; Economic development History 20th century ; Sudan Economic conditions ; Sudan Economic policy ; Sudan ; Entkolonialisierung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 155-171
    DOI: 10.1017/9781316779071
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    African cities and the development conundrum (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 9789004387928
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 330 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International development policy Volume 10
    Series Statement: International development policy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African cities and the development conundrum
    DDC: 307.76096
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    LB 72465
    Keywords: Urbanization ; Urban policy ; City planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Verstädterung ; Kommunalpolitik ; Stadtplanung ; Sozialer Wandel
    Note: Includes index
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    What politics? : Youth and Political Engagement in Africa (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-32244-8 , 978-90-04-35636-8 /eBook
    ISSN: 2212-9383
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 346 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Youth in a Globalizing World 6
    Keywords: Afrika Politik und Gesellschaft ; Jugend ; Jugendlicher ; Politische Bewegung ; Moderne Kunst ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ägypten ; Tunesien ; Äthiopien ; Burkina Faso ; Kenia ; Uganda ; Benin ; Somalia ; Republik Niger ; Simbabwe ; Ghana ; Südafrika
    Abstract: What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today`s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people`s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow`s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Part 1. Envisioning -- Part 2. Entitlement -- Part 3. Embeddedness -- Index
    Note: Enthält 16 Beiträge , "[T]he Academy of Finland funded the research project Youth and Polical Engagement in Contemporary Africa (2012-2016), project nr 258235) under whose auspices this volume was compiled" (Preface)
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    Christianity, colonization, and gender relations in North Sumatra : a patrilineal society in flux (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-34574-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 547 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 309
    Keywords: Sumatra Batak (Sumatra) ; Christentum ; Kolonisierung ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra offers an account of changes in Toba Batak society (Sumatra, Indonesia) under the influence of Christianity and Dutch colonial rule (1861-1942). Sita van Bemmelen's research focuses on customs and customary law related to the life cycle and gender relations. The book's first part is a historical ethnography, describing society as it existed at the onset of colonial rule. The second part zooms in on the negotiations between the Toba Batak elite, the missionaries of the German Rhenish Mission and colonial administrators about the marriage customs. Each contestant had an evolving view on desirable modernity. Christianity and colonial rule changed the way the Toba Batak reproduced their patrilineal kinship system. This affected gender relations permanently. (Umschlagtext)
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    Human rights in Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-60239-7 , 978-1-107-01631-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 245 Seiten
    Series Statement: New Approaches to African History 12
    Keywords: Afrika Menschenrecht ; Rechtsgeschichte
    Abstract: Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the "civilizing mission"; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of abbreviation -- Visions and disputes -- Elders and sages -- Humanitarians and abolitionists -- Natives and colonists -- Nationalists and anti-colonists -- Dictators and dissidents -- Old struggles and new causes -- Index
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    Culture still matters [Besprechung] : Notes from the field (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    Pages: XXII, 174 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam [Besprechung] : Eine Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze zum 65. Geburtstag (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    Pages: 603 S
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Coastal Sierra Leone [Besprechung] : Materiality and the unseen in maritime West Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 248 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Security at the borders [Besprechung] : transnational practices and technologies in West Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 218 Seiten
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Cognitive capitalism [Besprechung] : Human capital and the wellbeing of nations (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 576 S.
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    The _pretender of Pitcairn Island [Besprechung] : Joshua W. Hill - the man who would be king among the Bounty mutineers (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: xix, 344 Seiten
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    Being Muslim in Central Asia [Besprechung] : practices, politics, and identities (2018)
    Leiden : Brill
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    Pages: 327 Seiten
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    Rwanda after genocide [Besprechung] : gender, identity and post-traumatic growth (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 240 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Sharks upon the land [Besprechung] : Colonialism, Indigenous health and culture in Hawai'i (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: xv + 285 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Climate without nature [Besprechung] : A critical anthropology of the anthropocene (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 167 S.
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    Oceanic histories [Besprechung] (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: x + 328 S.
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    Insurgent fragmentation in the horn of Africa [Besprechung] : rebellion and its discontents (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 330 S
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    Return to Kahiki [Besprechung] : Native Hawaiians in Oceania (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    Pages: 270 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Decade of Nigeria : Politics, economy and society 2004-2016 (2017)
    Leiden : Brill
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    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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