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  • 1
    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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  • 2
    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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  • 3
    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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  • 4
    ISBN: 978-90-04-47164-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 387 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies volume 27
    Keywords: Afrika Entwicklung ; Prognose ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Zivilisation
    Abstract: The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Part 1. Re/Thinking -- Part 2. Living -- Part 3. Confronting -- Part 4. Imagining -- Part 5. Relating -- Part 6. Concluding -- Index
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  • 5
    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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  • 6
    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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  • 7
    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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  • 8
    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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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789004500228 , 9004500227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 333 pages) , illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for interdisciplinary studies volume 26
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Africa, the cradle of human diversity
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Human beings Origin ; Human evolution ; Human genetics Variation ; Ethnology ; Human beings - Origin ; Human evolution ; Human genetics - Variation ; Population ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Africa Population ; Africa
    Abstract: "This book explores important chapters of past and recent African history from a multidisciplinary perspective. It covers an extensive time range from the evolution of early humans to the complex cultural and genetic diversity of modern-day populations in Africa. Through a comprehensive list of chapters, the book focuses on different time-periods, geographic regions and cultural and biological aspects of human diversity across the continent. Each chapter summarises current knowledge with perspectives from a varied set of international researchers from diverse areas of expertise. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in evolutionary history and human diversity in Africa. Contributors are Shaun Aron, Ananyo Choudhury, Bernard Clist, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Rosa Fregel, Jackson S. Kimambo, Faye Lander , Marlize Lombard, Fidelis T. Masao, Ezekia Mtetwa, Gilbert Pwiti, Michèle Ramsay, Thembi Russell, Carina Schlebusch, Dhriti Sengupta, Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi, Mário Vicente"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : Engagement Cross-Disciplinary Research in Africa / , Early Humans in Africa. , A Southern African Perspective on Human Origins Research between 500,000 and 50,000 Years Ago : Current Dilemmas and Questions for the Future / , Further Notes on the Ngaloba Industry, a Middle Stone Age Assemblage Directly Associated with Early Homo in the Greater Laetoli, Northern Tanzania / , Cultural Transitions in Africa. , West-Central African Diversity from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, Continuities and Transitions during the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene / , Ancient Urban Assemblages and Complex Spatial and Socio-Political Organization in Iron Age Archaeological Sites from Southern Africa / , Diversity and Variability in the Preindustrial Iron-Smelting Technologies of Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa / , Grappling with Diversity in Livestock-Related, Non-Agriculturist Archaeology in the Light of Genetic Research into the Lactase Persistence Allele, -14010*C, in Southern Africa / , Genomic Research of Ancient and Modern Populations in Africa. , Paleogenomics of the Neolithic Transition in North Africa / , Ancient DNA Studies and African Population History / , The H3Africa Consortium: Publication Outputs of a Pan-African Genomics Collaboration (2013 to 2020) / , Disentangling the Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in African Diaspora Populations from a Genomic Perspective /
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  • 10
    Book
    Book
    Leiden : Brill
    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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  • 11
    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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  • 12
    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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  • 13
    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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  • 14
    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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  • 15
    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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  • 16
    ISBN: 978-90-04-40474-8 , 978-90-04-43772-2 /E-Book
    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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  • 17
    Book
    Book
    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 247 S.
    Note: Beitr. teilw. in engl., teilw. in dt. Sprache
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  • 18
    Book
    Book
    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 256 S.
    Note: Beitr. teilw. in engl., teilw. in dt. Sprache
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-17128-2 , 90-04-17128-2
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 347 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 19
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Regierung ; Dezentralisation ; Gesundheitswesen ; Gemeinschaft ; Eigentum
    Abstract: Anchored in an empirically-grounded anthropology, this book explores the notion of governance in a non-normative way. It describes and analyses the institutional and political processes through which social actors and groups - be they state, private or 'third-sector' - contribute to the provision of public and collective goods or services. The book draws on case studies from Anglophone and Francophone Africa, crossing anthropological traditions that have too often evolved in parallel directions and dealing with a range of topics such as health, water supply, sanitation and waste management, security, humanitarian aid, land issues and decentralisation. Beyond African boundaries, it contributes to current debates about governmentality, public policy, subject making, public/private boundaries, and the role of the state. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 12 Beiträge
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 S.
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    Pages: IV, 280 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    ISBN: 9789004162648
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 306 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies volume 3
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African cities
    DDC: 307.76096
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    Keywords: Urbanization Africa ; Land use, Urban Africa ; Africa ; Afrika ; Urbanization ; Land use, Urban ; Stadt ; Verstädterung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Dienstleistungsangebot ; Angebot ; Grundbedürfnis ; Versorgungssicherheit ; Wasserversorgung ; Landzuweisungspolitik ; Konflikt ; Ressourcen ; Afrika südlich der Sahara Stadt ; Urbanisierung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Angebot an Gütern und Dienstleistungen ; Grundbedürfnisse ; Versorgungssicherheit ; Wasserversorgung ; Landverteilung/Landumverteilung ; Ressourcenkonflikt ; Kriminalität Wasserkonflikt ; Migranten ; Angola ; Eritrea ; Asmara ; Ghana ; Kumasi ; Kongo (Brazzaville) ; Kongo (Kinshasa) ; Mosambik ; Maputo ; Nigeria ; Lagos (City) ; Simbabwe ; Bulawayo ; Südafrikanische Republik ; Johannesburg ; Uganda ; Kampala ; Tansania ; Dar es Salaam ; Mwanza ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Stadt
    Abstract: Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the tendency to forget that cities are also embedded in deeper historical processes that are integral to the framing of entitlements. Histories of migrancy and the creation of urban 'stranger' communities are fundamental in deciding who lives where and what this means, materially and socially. The gated communities that are springing up are often layered across older forms of urban segregation and/or segmentation. Urban water and food supply, the management of urban land claims, inequality and popular culture are closely examined. --From publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents ; Figures, Tables and Maps; Introduction (Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent); Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa (Theodore Trefon); Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? (Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues); Who Control the Streets? Crime, 'Communities' and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg (Claire Bénit-Gbaff ou); African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land (Paul Jenkins); Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos (Rufus T. Akinyele); 'Water Wars' in Kumasi, Ghana (Tom C. McCaskie)
    Description / Table of Contents: Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982-1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (Muchaparara Musemwa)Dealing with 'Strangers': Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End of the Nineteenth Century to 1960 (Laurent Fourchard); Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and 'Criminals' in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890-1941 (Francesca Locatelli); The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam (Deborah Fahy Bryceson)
    Description / Table of Contents: Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961) (Maria Suriano)List of Contributors; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 182 S.
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  • 24
    ISBN: 90-04-17165-7 , 978-90-04-17165-7
    ISSN: 1566-7162
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 243 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Blätter Farbbilder, 1 Faltblatt , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Brill`s Inner Asian Library 21
    Keywords: Asien Zentral-Asien ; Seidenstraße ; Handelsroute ; Geographie, historische ; geographische Karte ; Kartographie
    Note: Enthält 10 Beiträge; "This volume contains ten chapters [...] of a conference held at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (Collegium Helveticum) in May 2004" Acknowledgments, p. [xi].
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    Pages: XXXI, 243 S.
    Keywords: Rezension
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German
    Pages: 181 S.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15217-5 , 90-04-15217-2
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 325 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 17
    Keywords: Westafrika Kamerun ; Kameruner Hochland ; Mankon ; Macht ; König ; Königtum, sakrales ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Soziales Leben
    Abstract: The king of Mankon, in the western highlands of Cameroon, is an agricultural engineer by training, a businessman, and a prominent politician on the national stage. He partakes in the "return of the kings" in the forefront of an African public space. This book analyses the principles of the sacred kingship which lie at the core of the king`s different roles. While showing that the king`s body acts as a container of bodily substances transformed into unifying ancestral life-essence by appropriate means, and bestowed upon its subjects, it develops an innovative approach to bodily and material cultures as an essential component of the technologies of power. In so doing, it departs significantly from previous approaches to sacred kingship. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments and sources -- List of Figures, Maps and Photos -- Chapter One The human flesh -- Chapter Two The subjects as containers -- Chapter Three The skin-citizens -- Chapter Four "Smoke must be kept inside the house" -- Chapter Five The gifts of the dead monarchs -- Chapter Six The closure of the country -- Chapter Seven The king's three bodies -- Chapter Eight The royal excrement -- Chapter Nine Unbreakable vital piggy-banks -- Chapter Ten De-sexualised bachelors -- Chapter Eleven Theoretical questions, in bodily/material cultures -- Bibliography -- The Mankon language and its transcription -- Mankon glossary -- Indices. Index of words. Index of places and groups. Index of persons
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [301]-309
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14724-9 , 90-04-14724-1
    ISSN: 1567-6951
    Language: French
    Pages: XVII, 398 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Sources for African History 9
    Keywords: Guinea Bissau Malinke ; Soninke ; Soziales Leben ; Geschichte ; Quelle
    Abstract: Ce tome présente le Ta:rikh Mandinka, un manuscrit rédigé en Arabe et en Mandinka, originaire du village de Bijini en Guinée-Bissau. Inédit jusqu`à présent, le manuscrit consiste en une compilation structurée et très originale sur le Kaabu, réunissant divers récits et chroniques focalisant les débuts mythiques et la chute de cet « empire » païen au milieu du 19ième siècle. Deux versions du manuscrit et plusieurs interprétations (lectures) du Ta:rikh sont reproduites, transcrites, traduites et analysées en tenant compte de questions philologiques, historiques et anthropologiques. L'analyse regarde la communauté cléricale de Bijini en tant que lieu de transmission de savoirs dans un contexte local et régional. Le point focal du livre est l`importance de la diaspora cléricale des Mandinka et Jaakanka (Jakhanké) dans le processus de la construction de l`histoire de l` « empire » sòoninkee du Kaabu en Sénégambie. Le tome contient un glossaire des noms et des termes mentionnés par les sources, des illustrations, des tableaux, des cartes et des photographies. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [387]-395
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    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 90-04-15065-X , 978-90-04-15065-2
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 212 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 10
    Keywords: Senegal Gesundheitswesen ; Geschichte ; Politische Ökonomie ; Medizin ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: This work is a political economic history that analyzes approximately 350 years of rivalry between traditional, Islamic, and European systems of health in the Senegambian region of West Africa. The work is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the theoretical parameters of a political economy of health care. Part II addresses the historical nature of health care rivalries in the Senegambian region from the mid-seventeenth century through independence. And Part III looks at contemporary contention concerning health care delivery and the ways in which 'average' people craft alternative health care mechanisms while bringing pressure to bear on national and international bodies as well. A Political Economy of Health Care in Senegal should prove useful as a critical indicator of the ways in which historical agency is manifested historically and in contemporary health policy; policy that is often initiated outside of the "official" sector. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Part One Methodology, Theory, and Context. 1. A Political Economy of Health Care in Senegal. 2. Theory: Health Care as a Political Economic Entity. 3. The Historical Context of Health Care in Africa -- Part Two Historicizing the Political Economy of Health Care in Senegal. 4. The Metaphor of Health: Rivalry in Precolonial Senegambia. 5. The French, Colonization, and Health Care. 6. Colonial Health Care -- Part Three Sogolon, Her Daughters, Their Children. 7. Post-colonial Health Care. 8. Health Care and Independence: "Trickery" and "Deviation". 9. A Political Economy of Health Care in Senegal Re-visited -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [199]-209
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-16091-0 , 90-04-16091-4
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 268 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 18
    Keywords: Westafrika Nigeria ; Ghana ; Alkohol ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Statussymbol ; Konsum ; König ; Geschichte ; Soziales Verhalten ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: Imported schnapps gin has a remarkable history in West Africa. Gin was imported in great quantities between 1880 and World War I, when its consumption showed access to the modern, international world. Subsequently schnapps was transformed into a good that signified traditional, local culture. Today, imported schnapps has high status because of its importance for African ritual and as symbol of the status of chiefs and elders, but actual consumption is limited. This book explores this unexpected trajectory of commoditisation to investigate how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. This analysis of consumption and marketing of gin contributes to our understanding of patterns of consumption, rejection and appropriation within processes of identity formation, elite formation, and the redefinition of community in colonial and postcolonial West Africa. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: foreign imports, local meanings -- 2. The Rise of Gin -- 3. Becoming the King of Drinks -- 4. "Bird gin" and "money gin": brands and marketing -- 5. Poison or medicine? Changing perceptions of Dutch gin -- 6. "Your very good health!" Gin for an independent West Africa -- 7. Schnapps gin from modernity to tradition -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [247]-258
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15790-3
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 277 Seiten , Karte
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 16
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Nation ; Nationalität ; Konflikt ; Identität ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract recent political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d`Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa. Conflicts which have arisen over the resources of the post-colonial state are increasingly legitimated through recourse to claims of nationhood and citizenship. The contributors address the historical roots of national and ethnic identities, the material and symbolic resources which are contested within states, and the relative importance of elite manipulation and subaltern agency. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Part One Citizenship, Nation and Africa -- Part Two Inclusion, Exclusion and Conflict -- Part Three Land and Belonging -- Part Four Nations Building Boundaries -- Part Five Present, Past and Future of Citizenship in Africa -- Index
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Leiden : Brill
    ISBN: 978-90-47-42093-4 , 90-04-16113-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-90-04-16113-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 2
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Entwicklung ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Migration ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Landrecht ; Eigentum ; Popular Culture ; Tourismus ; Armut ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African `victimhood` by stressing African `agency` and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. This is further detailed in the context of the literary contest between local and global; of issues of land rights and property; of livelihoods and poverty; of the popular culture; of demystifying African migrations; the changing parameters of territoriality; and the dynamics of the tourist encounter. (Verlagsangaben)
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 213 S.
    Note: Beitr. teilw. in engl., teilw. in dt. Sprache
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    Pages: 336 S.
    Keywords: Rezension ; Rezension
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 239 S.
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 175 S.
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14059-2 , 90-04-14059-X
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXV, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 12
    Keywords: Gambia Nutzpflanze ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaft ; Handel ; Nahrungsmittel ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: After the ending of the Atlantic slave trade West Africa experienced a period of transition to legitimate trade, which provided agricultural staples for the burgeoning European market. One early example was the groundnut trade, which developed along the River Gambia where myriad households grew the crop, which was purchased and transported by the merchant interest. Of crucial importance were pioneer migrant farmers, whose numbers were later swelled by other labour migrants drawn from a wide area. The trade pre-dated colonial partition, and producers were integrated into the international market by extended chains of merchant credit and indebtedness. By the latter part of the 19th century the vagaries of the world market were becoming apparent, as well as the climate, which together affected output and incomes. Colonial rule created conditions for the expansion of the trade, but food supply in the face of groundnut specialization became a fundamental issue and led to experiments with irrigation and mixed farming. In the 20th century the trade was marked by drought, the First World War, credit crises, de-monetization and trade depression, while throughout it remained a migrant driven economy. The book provides an account of the Gambian groundnut trade and the associated environmental, social and economic conditions, as well as commenting on liberal and radical analyses on the shift from the Atlantic slave trade through legitimate trade to colonial rule. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Measurements, weights and monetary values -- Introduction -- 1. The Gambian groundnut trade 1834-1893: the emergence of an agricultural export --2. Migrant farmers: SeraWoollies and Tillibunkas -- 3. Food farming and the groundnut trade -- 4. The beginnings of colonial rule, 1893-1913 -- 5. Success and disaster, boom and slump : the groundnut trade, 1913-1922 -- 6. Towards an agricultural policy 1923-1934 -- Summary and conclusion -- Index
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    ISBN: 90-04-14817-5 , 978-90-04-14817-8
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 272 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 9
    Keywords: Westafrika Grundeigentum ; Landrecht ; Landnahme ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Politik ; Ressource ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as `customary` tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "Conference, held in October 2002 at the University of Frankfurt on Main [...] selection of revised conference papers" (Preface)Enthält eine Einführung und 10 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15243-4 , 90-04-15243-1
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 264 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 14
    Keywords: Ghana Nord-Ghana ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Gesellschaft ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Entwicklung, sozio-ökonomische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of "native states" in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 -- From developing the estates to preserving the peasantry: development in the northern territories, 1895-1919 -- Corruptions of development and the "steep slope of civilisation", 1919-1933 -- Developing community: land, native administration and direct taxation, 1928-1936 -- Overpopulation, depopulation and the loss of productive power: development in the Zuarungu and Lawra-Tumu districts, 1935-44 -- Questioning mixed farming, tsetse eradication and indirect rule, 1940-1949 -- Land planning, local government and party politics, 1940-1957 -- Mechanised agriculture and community development, 1948-1957 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [243]-254 , Doctoral dissertation, Queen's University, Department of History, Kingston, Onatrio, Canada, 1999, entitled A history of development in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1899-1957
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14736-2 , 90-04-14736-5
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 615 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 13
    Keywords: São Tomé São Tomé e Príncipe ; Kolonialismus ; Sozialismus ; Demokratisierung ; Politik ; Regierung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsethnologie
    Abstract: Colonized in the late 15th century, São Tomé and Príncipe were ruled by Portugal for 500 years, one of the longest periods of European domination in colonial history. In fact, during this period the Portuguese colonized the islands twice. Both colonizations were driven by the production of tropical cash crops; however, they occurred under rather different circumstances. Its long history as a plantation colony has made this African archipelago in many aspects more akin to the small Caribbean states. Since its decolonization in 1975 the small and impoverished country has experienced two fundamental changes to its political and economic system in a short period of 15 years. After embracing socialism and a centralized economy at independence, in 1990 the country introduced liberal democracy and a free-market economy. This case study analyses the course of political and economic changes in postcolonial São Tomé and Príncipe. The central issue of the book is to which extent institutional changes based on external models altered local patterns of political culture and of doing politics. In addition, it examines the outcome of the consecutive economic policies and development approaches patterned on theses models. This second edition has been completely revised and updated for the period of 1998-2005, including the recent developments in the country`s emerging oil sector.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One Formation and Recolonization of an African Creole Society -- Chapter Two From the Origins of Forro Nationalism to Independence -- Chapter Three The Socialist One-Party Regime -- Chapter Four Political Transition and Economic Reform -- Chapter Five Governance, Conflict and Public Property under the Democratic System -- Chapter Six Structural Adjustment and Economic Performance Under Democratic Rule -- Chapter Seven Political Pluralism and Competitive Elections -- Chapter Eight Party Trajectories and Presidential Elections -- Chapter Nine Local Dimensions of Politics: Kinship, Rumours and Pamphlets -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1 Presidents and government ministers -- Appendix 2 Executive committees of liberation movements and parties -- Appendix 3 Election Results -- Appendix 4 Basic Economic Data 1988-2004 -- Index
    Note: "revised and updated the text for this second edition" (Preface); Previously (1999) published by CNMS PublicationsLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite [557]-574
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-14144-5 , 90-04-14144-8
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 439 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 11
    Keywords: Ghana Fluß ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ökologie ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Voltasee 〈Ghana, Stausee〉
    Abstract: Studies of populations affected by Large Dams are usually about physically displaced and resettled communities. This book on the Volta River Project breaks with the mould and tackles the long term environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Akosombo and Kpong Dams, and livelihood responses of two neglected groups- downstream and lakeside communities. In a detailed study which takes a gendered political economy of livelihoods approach, the book considers the contribution of factors such as the environmental restructuring of the Lower Volta, the exodus of its most economically active population to the Volta Lake, the State's neglect of affected communities, the changing socio-economic context of Ghana, and social relations of class, gender and kinship, to livelihood trajectories and outcomes. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Glossary -- Changes in the Ghanaian Currency (1958-2002) -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Volta River Project: Historical Perspectives -- 3. The Lower Volta and the Volta River Project: Dam Impacts and Environmental Change -- 4. State Policy and Community Responses: The politics of reluctant selective action and ineffectual activism -- 5. Livelihoods in Times of Stress: Long term Responses to Environmental Change at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 6. The Social Relations of Livelihoods at Mepe and Sokpoe -- 7. Responses to the Volta River Project: Voluntary Migration and the Establishment of Lakeside Settlements -- 8. From Multiple Activities to Group Specialisation: Livelihoods at Kpando Torkor, Surveyor Line and Kudikope -- 9. Concluding Chapter -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [417]-434
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    ISBN: 978-90-04-15345-5 , 90-04-15345-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 286 Seiten
    Series Statement: Iran Studies Volume 1
    Keywords: Iran Schia ; Islam ; Religion ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Ritual ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book is about Iranian Islamism on grass-roots level. It provides a vivid, near-life portrait of young activist men who uphold this movement through their zealous support of revolutionary ideals and the present regime. It is based on interviews with a group of volunteers in the Iranian home guard movement known as basij during a period of four years. By focusing on beliefs and rituals of individual persons, it gives a unique picture of the shifting motifs behind Islamist engagement in today`s Iran. The book contextualises the interviewed individuals within the wider framework of Iranian society and relates their stories to a discussion on ritual, emotion, embodiment and authority. It is of interest to anyone who seeks to understand the multifaceted driving forces behind Shi`ite Islamism today. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- --Points of Departure -- Setting the Scene -- Embodying Virtue -- The Poetics of Emotion -- Tools of Authorisation -- Crumbling Authority? -- Lectures and Lamentations -- The Creativity of Ritual -- Summary in Persian -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index
    Note: "This book was originally my doctoral thesis in History of Religions at Uppsala University" (Acknowledgements) , Dissertation, Uppsala Universitet, 2003Zusammenfassung in persischer Sprache
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    ISBN: 90-04-14450-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe) , 978-90-04-14450-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies Volume 1
    Keywords: Afrika Gewalt ; Konflikt ; Konfliktmanagement ; Konflikt, politischer ; Demokratisierung ; Dezentralisation ; Theorie
    Note: Reihentitel laut Vorlage: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German
    Pages: 217 S.
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    Hamburg
    ISSN: 1438-5244
    Language: German , English
    Pages: 225 S.
    Note: Beitr. teilw. in engl., teilw. in dt. Sprache
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  • 46
    ISBN: 90-04-14107-3 , 978-90-04-14107-0
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 254 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 7
    Keywords: Senegal Diola, Senegambien ; Bekleidung ; Symbol, religiöses ; Identität ; Symbol ; Alltagsobjekt ; Frau ; Frauenforschung ; Frau und Kunst ; Muslime
    Abstract: This book looks at the encounter between dress and the body. In the social sciences, dress tends to be viewed as a form of communication, a way in which the wearer gives expression to his or her ideas or situation. 'Bodywork', rather than looking at what people do with their clothes, looks at what clothes do with the wearers. In the context of three small West African communities - Muslim, Christian and Animist - the book describes the dress styles and dress practices of the villagers and shows how a particular way of dressing influences the body's demeanour and habit. It considers thereby the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Dress: A Form Of Communication Or A Cultural Tool? -- Chapter Three The Basse Casamance In Context -- Chapter Four Samatite: Balance, Continuity And The Working Body -- Chapter Five Santiaba: Hierarchy And The Performing Body -- Chapter Six M'lomp: Christianity, Education And The Enclosed Body -- Chapter Seven Postscript: Dress In The City -- Chapter Eight Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [245]-252
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  • 47
    ISBN: 90-04-14097-2 , 978-90-04-14097-4
    ISSN: 1567-6951
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 497 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: New annotated edition
    Series Statement: African Sources for African History 7
    Uniform Title: The _pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities
    Keywords: Afrika Ghana ; Goldküste ; Persönlichkeit ; Elite ; Biographie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison`s own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book. The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [455]-461
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  • 48
    ISBN: 90-04-13913-3 , 978-90-04-13913-8
    ISSN: 1568-1203
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 372 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Social Studies Series 8
    Keywords: Afrika Sozialgeschichte ; Geographie ; Raum ; Anthropogeographie
    Abstract: The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They demonstrate the active quality of space and analyze the ways in which people have contested and shaped space, including responses to crises. In addition, a lengthy essay re-interprets tropical African history, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. Contributors look at how people have constructed mental maps, used discourse to organize territories, and perceived social landscapes. The studies employ a tri-level approach, one that moves from specific places to regions to macro-regional or transnational systems and back again. Authors draw upon written and oral sources to reconstruct the past and employ innovative mapping techniques to illustrate spatial dynamics. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 7 Beiträge
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  • 49
    ISBN: 90-04-14634-2
    ISSN: 1570-7628
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 327 S.
    Series Statement: Women and Gender 3
    Keywords: Jordanien Frau ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und Religion ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechterforschung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Symbol, religiöses
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