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  • Frobenius-Institut  (7)
  • 2005-2009  (7)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (7)
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  • 1
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    Kingship and political practice in colonial India (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-55247-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published 1996, this digitally printed version 2008
    Series Statement: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 51
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Tamil Nadu ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialismus ; König ; Königtum ; Politik ; Institution ; Sozialer Wandel ; Führer, politischer ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Ramanathapuram 〈Stadt, Indien〉 ; Sivaganga 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: In this 1996 cultural history which considers the transformation of south Indian institutions under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the two former 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivaganga which came under colonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates how rivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, and the disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributed to the development of nationalism and identity amongst the people of southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religious symbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century were reformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonial context. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduism to politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continue to inform popular expectation of political leadership today.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Honour, status and state formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maravar country; 2. Cosmological fragmentation in the public sphere; 3. Domain formation in mid-nineteenth-century Ramnad; 4. Human and divine palaces in the fragmentation of monarchical cosmology; 5. Ritual performances, the ruling person and the public; 6. Raja Baskara Setupati and the emergence of a new political style; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203 - 215
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  • 2
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    Transforming Mozambique : the politics of privatization, 1975 - 2000 (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-05268-8 , 978-0-521-05268-9 , 978-0-521-82011-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: This difgitally printed version, paperback re-issue
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 104
    Keywords: Mosambik Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik ; Unabhängigkeit ; Staat ; Modernisierung ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. This 2002 study of Mozambique's shift from a command to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters and corporate advertisements, to reveal that the state is a central actor in the reform process, despite the claims of neo-liberals and their critics. Alongside the state, social forces - from World Bank officials to rural smallholders - have also accelerated, thwarted or shaped change in Mozambique. M. Anne Pitcher offers an intriguing analysis of the dynamic interaction between previous and emerging agents, ideas and institutions, to explain the erosion of socialism and the politics of privatization in a developing country. She demonstrates that Mozambique's political economy is a heterogenous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Glossary -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 - The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence -- 2 - Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique -- 3 - State sector erosion and the turn to the market -- 4 - A privatizing state or a statist privatization? -- 5 - Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing -- 6 - Capital and countryside after structural adjustment -- 7 - The end of Marx and the beginning of the market? Rhetorical efforts to legitimate transformative preservation -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-286
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  • 3
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    Worship and conflict under colonial rule : a South Indian case (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-05358-7 , 0-521-05358-7
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Digitally printed version. First published 1981
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian Studies 27
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Politik ; Regierung ; Konflikt ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie
    Abstract: Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of institutional change in South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality, Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia. These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of scholars.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1. The South Indian temple: cultural model and historical problem; 2. Kings, sects, and temples: South Indian Sri Vaisnavism, 1350-1700; 3. British rule and temple politics, 1700-1826; 4. From bureaucracy to judiciary, 1826-1878; 5. Litigation and the politics of sectarian control, 1878-1925; 6. Rethinking the present: some contextual implications; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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  • 4
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    Religious minorities in Iran (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-77073-6 , 0-521-77073-4 , 978-0-521-02974-2 , 0-521-02974-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: paperback version
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East Studies 13
    Keywords: Iran Religion ; Minorität ; Toleranz ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Geschichte ; Religionsgeschichte
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  • 5
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    Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-02761-6978-0-521-02761-8 , 0-521-81823-0 /Hb. , 978-0-521-81823-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 293 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: This digitally printed first paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 105
    Keywords: Zimbabwe-Reich Politik ; Gewalt ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Symbolik
    Abstract: Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology (1889-1980) -- List of abbreviations -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The peace settlement -- 3. The assembly phase -- 4. Military integration -- 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- Appendix: the ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997 -- Notes -- References -- List of pseudonyms used in the text -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-283
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  • 6
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    Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISSN: 978-0-521-11466-0 , 978-0-521-83950-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 376 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: Digitally printed version 2009
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kirgisien ; Tadschikistan ; Usbekistan ; Russland ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus ; Kolonialismus ; Klan ; Kommunismus ; Demokratisierung ; Institution, politische ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Selbstverwaltung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Islam und Politik ; Elite ; Nationalismus ; Akaev, Askar [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to political development and transition in Central Asia -- Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia : a framework for understanding politics in clan-based societies -- Colonialism to Stalinism: the dynamic between clans and the state -- The informal politics of Central Asia: from Brezhnev through Gorbachev -- Transition from above or below? (1990-1991) -- Central Asia's transition (1991-1995) -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part I -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part II -- Positive and negative political trajectories in clan-based societies -- Conclusions.
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  • 7
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    Honour in African history (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-54685-0 , 978-0-521-54685-0 , 0-521-83785-5 /Hb. , 978-0-521-83785-9 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 404 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 107
    Keywords: Afrika Ehre ; Geschichte ; Ashanti ; Beti ; Yoruba ; Wertvorstellung, kulturelle ; Christentum ; Islam ; Sklaverei ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Kulturgeschichte
    Abstract: This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these idesas is essential to an understandin gog part and present African behaviour. Before Euroapean conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour , others admired the civic virtues of the partiriarchal householde, and women honoured on anther for industry, endurance, and devation to their families. These caluies both conglicted and blende with Islamic and Christain teachings. Colonial conqiest fragmented heroi cultures, bur inherited ideas of hnour found new expression in reginetal loyalty, respectability, professionalism, workin-class masculinity, the changing gender relationsships of the colonial order, and the nationalis movements that overthrew the old order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, anmd motivate the defance of dignity in the face od AIDS.
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps page -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Comparative History of Honour -- Part One: Hero and Householder -- 2 Men on Horseback -- 3 Honour and Islam -- 4 Christian Ethiopia -- 5 Honour, Rank, and Warfare Among the Yoruba -- 6 Honour and the State in West and Central Africa -- 7 Honour Without the State -- 8 The Honour of the Slave -- 9 Praise and Slander in Southern Africa -- 10 Ekitiibwa and Martyrdom -- Part Two: Fragmentation and Mutation -- 11 The Deaths of Heroes -- 12 Honour in Defeat -- 13 The Honour of the Mercenary -- 14 Respectability -- 15 Honour and Gender -- 16 Urbanisation and Masculinity -- 17 Honour, Race, and Nation -- 18 Political Honour -- 19 To Live in Dignity -- 20 Concluding Questions -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 371-392
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