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  • Frobenius-Institut  (55)
  • 1995-1999  (25)
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  • 1
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    Status and respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870 : a tragedy of manners (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-62122-4 , 978-0-521-62122-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) [98]
    Keywords: Südafrika Kap-Provinz ; Kolonie, holländisch ; Kapkolonie, britisch ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Status ; Statussymbol ; Christentum ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Under the VOC -- 3 English and Dutch -- 4 The content of respectability -- 5 Christianity, status and respectability -- 6 Outsiders -- 7 Acceptance and rejection -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 177-195
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  • 2
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    Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600 - c. 1960 (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56664-9 , 978-0-521-56664-3 , 0-521-56228-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-56228-7 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 252 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 96
    Keywords: Zentralafrika Kamerun ; Duala ; Handel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Kolonie, französisch ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products. Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from earlier riverain trade to develop cocoa plantations and provide their children with exceptional levels of European education. At the same time they came into early conflict with both German and French regimes and played a leading - if ultimately unsuccessful - role in anti-colonial politics. In tracing these changing economic and political roles, this book also examines the growing consciousness of the Duala as an ethnic group and uses their history to shed light on the history of 'middleman' communities in surrounding regions of West and Central Africa. The authors draw upon a wide range of written and oral sources, including indigenous accounts of the past conflicting with their own findings but illuminate local conceptions of social hierarchy and their relationship to spiritual beliefs. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Preface -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on the coast in the formative period, c. 1600-1830 -- 3. Hegemony without control: the Duala, Europeans and the Littoral hinterland in the era of legitimate/free trade, c. 1830-1884 -- 4. Mythic transformation and historical continuity: Duala middlemen and German colonial rule, 1884-1914 -- 5. Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under French mandate rule, 1914-1941 -- 5. Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of decolonization, c. 1941-c. 1960 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-249
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  • 3
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    Ritual and religion in the making of humanity (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22873-5 , 978-0-521-22873-2 , 0-521-29690-0 /Hb. , 978-0-521-29690-8 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 535 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 110
    DDC: 203.8
    RVK:
    BE 2510
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    BE 2500
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    MS 6550
    RVK:
    MS 6650
    Keywords: Evolution Religion ; Ritual
    Abstract: Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.
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    Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59678-5 , 978-0-521-59678-7 , 0-521-59324-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59324-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 354 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 94
    Keywords: Westafrika Westafrika, A.O.F. ; Kolonie, französisch ; Senegal ; Guinea ; Mali ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Abolition ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior, while in areas near the coast, hesitant actions were taken against slave-raiding, trading and use. After 1900, the French withdrew state support of slavery, and as many as a million slaves left their masters. A second exodus occurred after World War I, when soldiers of slave origin returned home. The renegotiation of relationships between those who remained and their masters carries the story into the contemporary world. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Slavery in the Western Sudan -- 2 Abolition and retreat. Senegal 1848-1876 -- 3 Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution -- 4 Senegal after Brière -- 5 Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard -- 6 Senegal in the 1890s -- 7 The end of the conquest -- 8 The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery -- 9 With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea -- 10 The Banamba Exodus -- 11 French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy -- 12 Looking for the tracks. How they did it -- 13 After the War: renegotiating social relations -- 14 A question of honor -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 317-346
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  • 5
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    Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59760-9 , 978-0-521-59760-9 , 0-521-59226-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59226-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 358 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 92
    Uniform Title: La _Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegambien ; Senegal ; Guinea Bissau ; Mauretanien ; Mali ; Guinea ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Handel ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this book explores the changing dynamics of regional and Atlantic trade, clashes between traditional African and emergent Muslim authorities, the colonial system and the slave trade, and current obstacles to the integration of the region's modern states. Professor Barry argues cogently for the integrity of the Senegambian region as a historical subject, and he forges a coherent narrative from the dismemberment and unification which characterised Senegambia's development from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This newly-translated study is a vital tool in our understanding of West African history. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- I - Senegambia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century: a haven for incoming populations, a station for migrants on the move -- 1 - Senegambia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: dependence on the Sudan and the Sahara -- 2 - Social dynamics in Senegambia -- 3 - The Atlantic trading system and the reformation of Senegambian states from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- 4 - The partition of the Senegambian coast in the seventeenth century -- II - Senegambia in the eighteenth century: the slave trade, ceddo regimes and Muslim revolutions -- 5 - The slave trade in the eighteenth century -- 6 - The strengthening of ceddo regimes in the eighteenth century -- 7 - Muslim revolutions in the eighteenth century -- 8 - The impact of the slave trade: economic regression and social strife -- III - Senegambia in the first half of the nineteenth century: legitimate trade and sovereignty disputes -- 9 - The crisis of the trans-Atlantic trading system and the triumph of legitimate trade in the first half of the nineteenth century -- 10 - Popular rebellions and political and social crises in Futa Jallon -- 11 - Futa Jallon expansion into the Southern Rivers region -- 12 - The colony of Senegal and political and social crises in northern Senegambia -- 13 - Defeat of the holy warriors in northern Senegambia -- IV - Senegambia in the second half of the nineteenth century: colonial conquest and resistance movements -- 14 - Colonial imperialism and European rivalries in Senegambia -- 15 - Last-ditch resistance movements of legitimist rulers in northern Senegambia -- 16 - The conquest of the Southern Rivers region -- 17 - The balancing act of the Almamis of Timbo in their attempts to cope with centrifugal forces -- 18 - Bokar Biro and the conquest of Futa Jallon -- 19 - Mass resistance movements among the Joola and the Konyagi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 334-349
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    The _Cambridge illustrated history of prehistoric art (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-45473-5 , 978-0-521-45473-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXII, 302 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Illustrated History
    Keywords: Prähistorische Kunst Felsbild ; Felsbildforschung ; Felsbild-Interpretation ; Art mobilier ; Australien ; Afrika ; Europa ; Südamerika ; Nordamerika ; Asien ; Ozeanien
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    Mangrove man : dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56435-2 , 978-0-521-56435-9 , 0-521-56434-4 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 106
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Sepik ; Murik ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Weiblichkeit ; Männlichkeit ; Soziale Rolle
    Abstract: This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential problem, and their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A 'maternal schema' or 'poetics of the female body', therefore underlines the sociocultural patterns of these societies. This schema expresses itself in a range of societal domains: in kinship relations, life-cycle rituals, the men's cults, and in disputes and processes of conflict resolution. The issues discussed tie in with some of the major contemporary debates in the social sciences: the relationship between ideas of male and female power. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of table -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- PART I - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA AND THE UTERINE BODY -- 2 - A predicament in space -- 3 - The maternal schema and the uterine body -- 4 - The heraldic body -- 5 - Who succeeded Ginau? -- PART II - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA AND THE COSMIC BODY OF MAN -- 6 - A body more carnal -- 7 - The sexuality and aggression of the cosmic body of man -- PART III - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA IN SOCIAL CONTROL -- 8 - Conflict and the reproduction of society -- 9 - Social control and law -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 300-326
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    Commerce and economic change in West Africa : the palm oil trade in the nineteenth century (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59074-4 , 978-0-521-59074-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 270 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 93
    Keywords: Westafrika Ölpalme ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Handel ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at the core of relations between Britain and West Africa, and of immense importance to the economies of large parts of West Africa. Martin Lynn's authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade covers the whole of this critical period for all of West Africa. It explains how the palm oil trade grew organically out of the organisation of the slave trade. The situation changed sharply with the development of steam communication between Britain and West Africa from the 1850s, leading to severe problems for the commerce in the second half of the century, the erosion of African brokers' powers, and the restructuring of the trade thereafter. The result was a crisis within the trade towards the end of the century and, eventually, with the arrival of colonial rule, the ending of the long established structures of the commerce. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Development of the Palm Oil Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 1. The West African trade in transition -- 2. African producers and palm oil production -- 3. African brokers and the growth of the palm oil trade -- 4. British traders, British ports, and the expansion of the palm oil trade -- Part II. Restructuring of the Palm Products Trade in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 5. Technological change, the British market, and African producers -- 6. British traders and the restructuring of the palm products trade -- 7. African brokers and the struggle for the palm products trade -- 8. The coming of colonial rule and the ending of legitimate trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 240-259
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    Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59731-5 , 0-521-59246-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 423 Seiten , Tabellen
    Series Statement: Democratization and Authoritarianism in Postcommunist Societies 4
    DDC: 320.95809049
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Sowjet-Union, ehemalige ; Kaukasus ; Armenien ; Aserbaidschan ; Georgien ; Kasachstan ; Kirgisien ; Tadschikistan ; Turkmenistan ; Usbekistan ; Nationalismus ; Demokratisierung ; Politischer Wandel ; Postkommunismus ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Elite, politische ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Abstract: Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the former Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Chapters on Kazakhstan, Kyrkyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, provide a systematic analysis of elite politics, factionalism, party and interest group formation, and social and ethnic groupings. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott provide theoretical and comparative chapters on post communist political development across the region. This book will provide students and scholars with detailed analysis by leading authorities, plus the latest research data on recent political and economic developments in each country.
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    Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56251-1 , 978-0-521-56251-5 , 0-521-56600-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-56600-1 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 677 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 89
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Lohnarbeit ; Gewerkschaft ; Dekolonisation ; Kolonialpolitik ; Sozialgeschichte ; Recht
    Abstract: This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables and figure -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map of French and British colonial Africa -- 1 - Introduction -- Part I - The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform -- 2 - The labor question unposed -- 3 - Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940 -- 4 - Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: posing the labor question -- Part II - Imperial fantasies and colonial crises -- 5 - Imperial plans -- 6 - Crises -- Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state -- Part III - The imagining of a working class -- 7 - The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail -- 8 - Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa -- 9 - Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question -- Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state -- Part IV - Devolving power and abdicating responsibility -- 10 - The burden of declining empire -- 11 - Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s -- 12 - Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s -- Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization -- Conclusion -- 13. The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 627-655
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    Kingship and state : the Buganda dynasty (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47370-5 , 978-0-521-47370-5
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 293 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 88
    Keywords: Uganda Buganda ; Ganda ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Orale Tradition ; König
    Abstract: The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on language -- List of abbreviations -- 1 - Preamble -- 2 - The story and its making -- 3 - Introduction to myth -- 4 - Introduction to Buganda -- 5 - The remoter past -- 6 - Genesis -- 7 - The cycle of the kings -- 8 - Fragments of history -- 9 - Foreign affairs -- 10 - The making of the state -- 11 - Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-287
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    Rezension zu: Denoon, Donald. Multicultural Japan : Palaeolithic to postmodern (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    In:  The _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, N.S. 4/2, 1998, S. 368-369.
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    Titel der Quelle: The _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, N.S.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 4/2, 1998, S. 368-369.
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    Rezension zu: Goody, Jack. The _East in the West (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    In:  American Anthropologist 100/2, 1998, S. 551-552
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    Pages: 295 pp.
    Titel der Quelle: American Anthropologist
    Angaben zur Quelle: 100/2, 1998, S. 551-552
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    Mass culture and modernism in Egypt (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48147-3 , 978-0-521-48147-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 102
    DDC: 962.03
    Keywords: Ägypten Massenmedien ; Film ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Kultur, moderne
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-266
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    BVB
    HBZ
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    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
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    From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48127-9 , 0-521-48127-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 278 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 86
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Westafrika ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Handel ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Historiographie ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "A conference organized by the Centre of Commenwealth Studies of the University of Stirling in April 1993 [..] Revised versions of the papers from that conference are presented in the present volume" (Seite 5-6)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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    State and society in pre-colonial Asante (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41009-6 , 978-0-521-41009-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 492 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 79
    Keywords: Ghana Historischer Staat Afrika ; Königreich ; Ashanti ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, vorkoloniale ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Fest ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Historiographie
    Abstract: Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T.C. MaCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in Asante in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. Is is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of the Asante past -- 2. State and society in Asante history -- 3. Society and state in Asante history -- 4. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed -- 5. The Asante past considered -- Appendix I: Bowdich's The First Day of the Yam Custom -- Appendix II: A glossary of some Asante Twi terms -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- Guide to sources and materials consulted -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 442-473
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    Ethnic pride and racial prejudice in Victorian Cape Town : group identity and social practice, 1875-1902 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47203-2 , 978-0-521-47203-6
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIII, 281 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 81
    Keywords: Südafrika Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kapstadt 〈Stadt, Südafrika〉
    Abstract: Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster the development of a sophisticated and colour-blind English merchant class. Vivian Bickford-Smith skilfully interweaves political, economic and social analysis to show that the English merchant class, far from being liberal, were generally as racist as Afrikaner farmers. Theirs was, however, a peculiarly English discourse of race, mobilised around a "Clean Party" obsessed with sanitation and the dangers posed by "un-English" Captonians in a period of rapid urbanisation brought about by the discovery of diamonds and gold in the interior.This original contribution to South African urban history draws on comparative material from other colonial port towns and on relevant studies of the Victorian city.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Note on terminology -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The world that commerce made -- 3. Problems of prosperity -- 4. White ethnicity, rasism and social practice -- 5. The dangers of depression -- 6. Problems of prosperity revisited -- 7. Ethnicity and organisation among Cape Towns's workers -- 8. A darker shade than pale? -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    People of the sea : identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (1995)
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    ISBN: 0-521-43350-9 , 978-0-521-43350-1
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 188 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 95
    Keywords: Madagaskar Ethnie, Madagaskar ; Identität ; Verwandtschaft ; Tod ; Begräbnissitte ; Weltanschauung
    Abstract: The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acting Vezo in the present -- 3. People without wisdom -- 4. Avoiding ties and bonds -- 5. Intermezzo -- 6. Kinship in the present and in the future -- 7. Separating life from death -- 8. Working for the dead -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
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    Palaeopathology of aboriginal Australians : health and disease across a hunter-gatherer continent (1995)
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    ISBN: 0-521-46044-1 , 978-0-521-46044-6
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    Pages: XII, 324 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Australien Paläoanthropologie ; Ureinwohner, Australien ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Paläopathologie ; Pleistozän ; Holozän ; Hominiden
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    Africans : the history of a continent (1995)
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    ISBN: 0-521-48235-6 , 978-0-521-48235-6 , 0-521-48422-7 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-48422-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 323 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 85
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Zeitgeschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Metall
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
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    The _culture of politics in Kenya (1995)
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    ISBN: 0-521-47059-5 , 978-0-521-47059-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 84
    Keywords: Kenia Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people in one rural locale during the past century. This sliding scale of analysis allows the author to experiment theoretically with a number of themes informed by contemporary analytical tensions among post-modernist 'chaos', historical contingency, and structural regularities. The result is a study which combines many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.
    Description / Table of Contents: IList of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction; 1. Staging politics in Kenya -- 2. Shattered silences: political culture and "democracy" in the early 1990s -- 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990 -- 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century -- 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s -- 6. Conclusions: the showpiece of an hour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47179-6 , 978-0-521-47179-4 , 0-521-10347-9 , 978-0-521-10347-3
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 83
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Korruption ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Hegemonie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Informal markets and the shadow state: some theoretical issues -- 2. Colonial rule and the foundations of the shadow state -- 3. Elite hegemony and the threat of political and economic reform -- 4. Reining in the informal market: the early Stevens' years, 1968-1973 -- 5. An exchange of services: state power and the diamond business -- 6. The shadow state and international commerce -- 7. Foreign firms, economic 'reform' and shadow state power -- 8. The changing character of African sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography --Index
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    Spirit possession and personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47007-2 , 978-0-521-47007-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 178 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 94
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    Keywords: Republik Niger Aïr ; Tuareg ; Kel Ewey ; Frau ; Besessenheit ; Kult ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Weltanschauung
    Abstract: Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult, Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies of possessed women, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Illnesses of the heart and soul: the case of Asalama -- Part I. Images of Possession -- 2. Inversion and other tropes in spirit possession rituals -- 3. "Like a tree branch swaying in the wind": the head dance -- 4. Illnesses of God: personhood, knowledge, and healing -- Part II. Art, Agency, and Power in the Ritual Sessions -- 5. Sound, solitude, and music -- 6. The tande n goumaten songs -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    The _roads of Chinese childhood : learning and identification in Angang (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-02656-3 , 78-0-521-02656-7 , 0-521-46574-5 /Hb. , 978-0-521-46574-8 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 213 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 97
    DDC: 305.23/051
    Keywords: Taiwan China ; Ethnie, Asien ; Indigenität ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Erziehung ; Kindheit ; Kind ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Psychologie ; Schule ; Religion ; Tradition
    Abstract: Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's 1995 study of childhood in this community (with additional material from north-eastern mainland China) explores absorbing issues related to nurturance, education, family, kinship and society in its analysis of how children learn, or do not learn, to identify themselves as both familial and Chinese. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 - Background -- Introduction -- 1 - Two roads -- Part 2 - Angang -- 2 - Ghosts are not connexions -- 3 - The proper way of being a person -- 4 - Textbook mothers and frugal children -- 5 - Red envelopes and the cycle of yang -- 6 - Going forward bravely -- 7 - Divining children -- 8 - Dangerous rituals -- 9 - Conclusion -- Part 3 - Epilogue -- 10 - Notes on childhood in northeastern China -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
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    Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48030-2 , 978-0-521-48030-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 288 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 96
    DDC: 995.3
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    Keywords: Neu-Irland Papua-Neuguinea ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Totenfest ; Ritual ; Begräbnissitte ; Tausch, zeremonieller ; Soziale Beziehung ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving through which the living publicly define their social relations with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased. In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies brought about by colonialism and capitalism. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrationes, tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- 1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology -- I Mortuary rites as kastam -- 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam -- 3. Kastam, bisnis and matriliny -- II. Mortuary rites as "finishing" and "replacing" the dead -- 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges -- 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession -- 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation -- 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites -- III Toward comparative historical ethnography -- 8. Social reproduction and kastam in comparative perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    Slaves, peasants and capitalists in southern Angola 1840-1926 (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22406-3 , 978-0-521-04743-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 132 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 27
    Keywords: Angola Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Landbevölkerung ; Historiographie
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Note on proper names -- Note on currency -- Abbreviation -- Introduction -- 1. Land and peoples -- 2. The colonial context -- 3. The economy of the colonial nucleus -- 4. Society and politics in the colonial nucleus -- 5. The peasant economy --6. Peasant societies --7. Epilogue -- Maps and graphs -- Sources and bibliography -- Index
    Note: "The present book is based on this thesis, but the two differ very substantially." (Preface)Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 118-127 , Doctoral thesis, University of London, 1975, entitled Mossamedes and its hinterland, 1975-1915
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    Literature and violence in North Arabia (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29399-5 , 978-0-521-29399-0 , 0-521-22074-2 , 978-0-521-22074-3
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 3
    Keywords: Arabische Halbinsel Mittlerer Osten ; Beduine ; Nomade ; Nomadismus ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Literatur, arabische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Rwala ; Cyrenaika ; Kriegsführung
    Abstract: Among the Bedouins of North Arabia, accounts of intertribal conflicts were the focus of ceremonial oral performances. In this study, Michael Meeker examines the relationship between these oral performances of the Bedouins and their way of life and poses questions about these performances which raise important issues in the fields of Orientalism and anthropology. This book, first published in 1979, challenges the tendency of historians to neglect the relationship between conditions in the literate urban centers and those in the hinterlands. As he discusses the intersection of art and life among the Bedouins, Meeker is able to show how the place of pastoral nomadism in Near-Eastern history has a bearing on many of the problems that have concerned Orientalists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Part I. The Epoch of Near-Eastern Pastoral Nomadism in Arabia: 1. The ethnography of Near-Eastern tribal societies; 2. The personal voice and the uncertainty of relationships; 3. The composition of the voice and the popular investment in political adventures; Part II. The Narratives of Raiding and Warfare: 4. Cautious and sensible chiefs and the strategic use of aggressive resources; 5. Political authority, the metaphor of scriptural signification and the metaphor of a domestic covering; 6. Rwala monotheism and the wish for authority; Part III. The Poems of Raiding and Warfare: 7. Heroic skills and beastly energies; 8. Poetic structure and the pressure of heroic interests; 9. Shadows and echoes of the priority of the concrete; Part IV. Segmentary Politics and the Cult of Saints in North Africa: 10. The forms of segmentary politics and their relative absence among the North Arabian Bedouins; 11. Political wildness and religious domesticity among the Cyrenaican Bedouins; 12. Narratives of the mystical power of saints in Morocco; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    A _modern history of Tanganyika (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22024-6 , 978-0-521-22024-8 , 0-521-29611-0 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-29611-3 /Pbk. , 0-521-29612-9 /Pbk. for sale in Africa , 978-0-521-29612-0 /Pbk. for sale in Africa
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 616 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 25
    Keywords: Tansania Tanganjika ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Arusha ; Dschagga ; Fipa ; Haya ; Kerewe ; Kimbu ; Bena ; Luguru ; Makonde ; Massai ; Meru ; Mwera ; Nyakyusa ; Nyamwezi ; Pare ; Pogoro ; Sandawe ; Shambala ; Sukuma ; Yao (Bantu) ; Maji-Maji ; Kulturwandel ; Arbeiterklasse ; Kapitalismus ; Eisenbahn ; Nyerere, Julius K. (1922-1999) ; African Association (Tanzania) ; Rabitah al-Ifriqiyah (Tanzania) 〉 African Association (Tanzania)
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particularl attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitlaism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesise their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Map I - Tanganyika -- 1 - Intentions -- 2 - Tanganyika in 1800 -- 3 - The nineteenth century -- 4 - The German conquest -- 5 - Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890-1914 -- 6 - The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905-7 -- 7 - Religious and cultural change before 1914 -- 8 - Fortunes of war -- 9 - The origins of rural capitalism -- 10 - The creation of tribes -- 11 - The crisis of colonial society, 1929-45 -- 12 - Townsmen and workers -- 13 - The African Association, 1929-48 -- 14 - The new colonialism -- 15 - The new politics, 1945-55 -- 16 - The nationalist victory, 1955-61 -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Spatial analysis in archaeology (1979)
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    ISBN: 0-521-29738-9 , 978-0-521-29738-7
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Series Statement: New Studies in Archaeology 1
    Keywords: Archäologie Archäologie, Methodologie ; Methodologie ; Statistik
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    From the Milk River : spatial and temporal processes in Northwest Amazonia (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22544-2 , 978-0-521-22544-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 302 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 26
    Keywords: Barasana Kolumbien ; Indianer, Südamerika ; Kakwa ; Kultureller Prozess ; Ethnographie ; Soziale Organisation ; Verwandtschaft ; Heirat ; Ehe ; Lebenszyklus ; Zeit ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Since its first publication in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, The Palm and the Pleiades by Stephen Hugh-Jones, has become established as 'the most competent and sophisticated ethnography to date of any South American tropical forest people' (The Times Higher Education Supplement). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an integrated account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural models that underlie and unify the domains of kinship, religion, politics and economics. These dynamic models are built from a rich corpus of ethnographic data drawn from extensive field research, and are developed in such a way that, as far as possible, they reproduce an Indian theory of society. Besides enhancing anthropological understanding of a fascinating culture area, the book's highly original approach makes it an important contribution to the general theory of social and cultural structures.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, tables and maps -- List of myths -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social structure -- 3. The set of specialist roles -- 4. Kinship and marriage -- 5. The life-cycle -- 6. Production and consumption -- 7. Concepts of space-time -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Works cited -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 291-292 , "Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1977" (Rückseite des Titelblattes) , Thesis, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1977 entitled "Social classification among the South American indians of the Vaupés region of Colombia"
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    The _palm and the Pleiades : initiation and cosmology in Northwest Amazonia (1979)
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    ISBN: 0-521-21952-3 , 978-0-521-21952-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 332 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 24
    Keywords: Barasana Kolumbien ; Amazonas-Gebiet ; Indianer, Südamerika ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Initiation ; Mythologie ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers, one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest Amazonia. The book is also an exercise in the anthropological interpretation of ritual, myth and religious symbolism from a structuralist point of view.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables and figures; List of maps and plates; Preface; Orthography; Part I. The Rites in Context: 1. Introduction; 2. The Barasana: land and people; Part II. The Rites Described: 3. Fruit House; 4. He House: the main initiation rite; Part III. Explanation and Analysis: 5. The participants; 6. The flutes and trumpets; 7. The gourd of beeswax; 8. Open and closed: the howler monkey and the sloth; 9. Death and rebirth; 10. The Sun and the Moon; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Conclusion; Part V. The Myths; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index; Index of names.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 317-322 , "Based on the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, which was presented under title: Male initiation and cosmology among the Barasana Indians of the Vaupés area of Colombia." (Rückseite des Titelblattes) , Thesis, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1974, entitled "Male initiation and cosmology among the Barasana Indians of the Vaupés area of Colombia"
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    A _history of African Christianity : 1950-1975 (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29397-9 , 978-0-521-29397-6 , 0-521-22212-5 /Hb. , 978-0-521-22212-9 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 336 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 26
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Katholik ; Protestant ; Äthiopien ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopisch Orthodoxe Kirche ; Sekte, christliche ; Mission, christliche
    Abstract: The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world Church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1950 -- 1951-1958 -- 1959-1966 -- 1967-1975 -- Between Politics and Prayer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-321
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    Questions and politeness : strategies in social interaction (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29250-6 , 978-0-521-29250-4 , 0-521-21749-0 , 978-0-521-21749-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 323 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology 8
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    Keywords: Soziolinguistik Sprache und Kultur ; Sprachgebrauch, besonderer ; Umgangsform
    Description / Table of Contents: Lists of figures and tables -- Preface -- Symbols and abbreviations -- Introduction, Esther N. Goody -- Towards a theory of questions, Esther N. Goody -- Questions of immediate concern, Elinor Ochs Keenan, Bambi B. Schieffelin and Martha Platt -- Universals in language usage: politeness phenomena, Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson -- Notes -- References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-323 , Enthält eine Einführung und 3 Beiträge
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    Australian kin classification (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21906-X , 978-0-521-21906-8
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: [xxi], 569 Seiten , Genealogische Tafeln, Karte
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 23
    Keywords: Australien Ureinwohner, Australien ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Organisation ; Verwandtschaft ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This study aims to resolve the century-old debate about the nature of Australian aboriginal societies and the comparability of their structures with the structures of other tribal and kinship-based societies. It begins with a critical evaluation and refutation of the claims that Australians are 'ignorant of physical paternity' and therefore cannot have systems of kin classification. Professor Scheffler then demonstrates that systems of kin classification are a common feature of Australian languages and that, contrary to the theory proposed by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown and others, variation in the rules of interkin marriage does not account for variation in systems of kin classification. This was the first monographic treatment of the subject since Radcliffe-Brown's classic work, The Social Organization of the Australian Tribes, published in 1931, and is much more comprehensive and synthetic in its coverage of the range of variation in Australian systems of kin classification. It applies the concepts and methods of structural semantic analysis to a broad range of ethnographic and linguistic data, and demonstrates how they resolve one of anthropology's oldest and most perplexing theoretical puzzles.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Map of tribal locations in Australia -- 1. Preliminary considerations -- 2. Types and varieties -- 3. Pitjantjara -- 4. Kariera-like systems -- 5. Nyulnyul and Mardudhunera -- 6. Karadjeri -- 7. Arabana -- 8. Yir Yoront and Murngin -- 9. Walbiri and Dieri -- 10. Ngarinyin -- 11. An overview -- 12. Kin classification and section systems -- 13. Variation in subsection systems -- 14. Kinship and the social order -- Notes -- References -- Indexes
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 545-555
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    Class, power and ideology in Ghana : the railwaymen of Sekondi (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21806-3 , 978-0-521-21806-1
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 244 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 22
    Keywords: Ghana Gewerkschaft ; Eisenbahn ; Arbeiterklasse
    Abstract: Although there is a growing body of literature on the process and potential political consequences of class-formation in Africa, there are virtually no detailed studies of the political attitudes and behaviour of African industrial workers. First published in 1978, this study analyses the political history and sociology of one particular group - the railway workers of Ghana's third city, Sekondi-Takoradi, who are renowned for their leading role in the Ghanaian nationalist movement and for their sustained opposition to the elitism and authoritarianism of post-Independence governments. In seeking to explain the ideological consistency which has informed the political activities of the railway workers, Richard Jeffries shows how, within a close-knit and relatively stable community, a keen sense of their own history has provided the basis for a shared political culture. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I - A political history of Ghanaian railway unionism -- 1 - The railway and harbour workers of Sekondi-Takoradi: a sociological profile -- 2 - The origins and dynamics of Railway Union development -- 3 - The railway workers in the nationalist movement - the meaning of political commitment -- 4 - The politics of TUC reorganisation under the CPP regime -- 5 - The railway workers' response to CPP socialism: the strike of 1961 -- 6 - The development of an independent and democratic trade union movement -- 7 - The railway workers divided: the sources and structure of political conflict in the Railway Union -- Part II - Class, power and ideology -- 8 - Class formation in Ghana -- 9 - Power and organisation -- 10 - The political culture of the railway workers -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Survey questionnaire administered to a sample of railway workers at Sekondi Location -- Notes -- Bibliography of sources cited -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-239 , Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1974, entitled The politics of trade unionism in Ghana: A case-study of the Railway Workers Union
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    West African states : failure and promise : a study in comparative politics (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21801-2 , 978-0-521-21801-6 , 0-521-29283-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-29283-2 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: 259 Seiten , Graphen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 23
    Keywords: Westafrika Ghana ; Guinea ; Elfenbeinküste ; Liberia ; Nigeria ; Senegal ; Sierra Leone ; Politischer Wandel ; Systemtheorie ; Staatszerfall ; Recht ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroon was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state. All of these colonial units have joined Liberia in formal political independence. Their political experiences since 1956 and indeed the forms of their present political regimes themselves have varied very widely over this period, from the defiant and paranoid austerity of Guinea to the gleeful surge of Nigeria's oil-generated capitalist expansion. In political taste the present governments cover almost the full spectrum of Third World regimes. Yet the societies themselves have many geographical and historical features in common, certainly far more in common than in the case of most units studied by analysts of comparative politics. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contributors -- Preface -- Map of West Africa -- 1 - Comparing West African states. By John Dunn -- 2 - Ghana. By Richard Rathbone -- 3 - Guinea. By R. W. Johnson -- 4 - Ivory Coast. By Bonnie Campbell -- 5 - Liberia. By Christopher Clapham -- 6 - Nigeria. By Gavin Williams, Terisa Turner -- 7 - Senegal. By Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- 8 - Sierra Leone. By Christopher Allen -- 9 - Conclusion. By John Dunn -- Notes -- Index
    Note: Enthält 8 Beiträge
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    Sherpas through their rituals (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21536-6 , 978-0-521-21536-7 , 0-521-29216-6 , 978-0-521-29216-0
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 195 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 2
    Keywords: Himalaya Nepal ; Buddhismus ; Sherpa ; Soziales Leben ; Kulturwandel ; Kultureller Prozess ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology, social structure and experience. Professor Ortner analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; 1. Introduction: some notes on ritual; 2. The surface contours of the Sherpa world; 3. Nyungne: problems of marriage, family and asceticism; 4. Hospitality: problems of exchange, status and authority; 5. Exorcisms: problems of wealth, pollution and reincarnation; 6. Offering rituals: problems of religion, anger and social cooperation; 7. Conclusions: Buddhism and society; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 187-189
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    People of the zongo : the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21483-1 , 978-0-521-21483-4
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 302 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 20
    Keywords: Ghana Migration ; Differenzierung ; Ethnizität ; Mossi ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Identität
    Abstract: Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures and maps -- Preface -- Glossary -- Part I. Ethnicity and Migration. 1. Introduction: conceptual approaches to the study of ethnicity. 2. The Mossi: ethnicity in Voltaic society. 3. Migration and settlement of Mossi in Ghana -- Part II. Kinship and Community. 4. The growth of the zongo community in Kumasi. 5. Ethnicity and the domestic context. 6. Ethnicity and the idiom of kinship. 7. Kinship and marriage in the second generation -- Part III. Politics and Change. 8. The political history of the zongo community: 1900-1970. 9. The social organization of the Mossi community. 10. Ethnicity, generational cleavages, and the political process. 11. Conclusion: ethnicity, cultural integration and social stratification -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: A revision of the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1969 , Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 287-295 , Thesis Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1969
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    Casting out anger : religion among the Taita of Kenya (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21729-6 , 978-0-521-21729-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 193 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 21
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Kenia ; Kenia-Hochland-Bantu ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Teita ; Religion, traditionelle ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: This account of an East African religion as it was during the 1950s discusses a variety of issues in the study of religion, within the context of case materials and other field data. The Taita people of southern Kenya called their religion Butasi after its central act which combined utterance with spraying-out of liquid from the mouth. Taking up the central theme of mystical anger, Dr Harris explores the social and cultural aspects of doctrines and rituals. She shows that the interpretation and shaping of the experience of misfortune occurred in religious interaction: between living humans having mystical attributes, and between them and person-like mystical agencies. Many of the concepts, practices, themes and elements discussed have been reported for other African religions, often with little comment or analysis. Here they are brought together, explored, and related to one another. The result is a many-sided, yet integrated picture of a single religion. Presented in clear and non-technical language, the study serves to illuminate many religions throughout the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates and figures -- Preface -- Note on orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The domain of Taita religion -- 3. Ritual and the moral career -- 4. The hearts of kin: anger-removal rites -- 5. Group welfare and the Great Medicines -- 6. Ritual elements and ritual efficacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literatuverzeichnis: Seite 186-188
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    Rituals of the Kandyan state (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21736-9 , 978-0-521-21736-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii,190 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 22
    Keywords: Sri Lanka Kandy State ; Buddhismus ; Ritual und Zeremonie, buddhistisches ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religiöse Institution ; Tempel ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Kulturwandel ; Temple of the Tooth (Kandy, Sri Lanka) ; Dalada Maligava 〉 Temple of the Tooth (Kandy, Sri Lanka)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- 1. Kandyan society -- 2. The temple and its functionaries -- 3. Rituals of maintenance -- 4. Victory and prosperity -- 5. Ritual and society -- 6. The temple and modern society -- 7. The Perahära and modern society -- 8. The directions of change -- Postscript -- Notes -- References cited -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-184
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    Perspectives in Marxist anthropology (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29098-8 , 978-0-521-29098-2 , 0-521-21311-8 , 978-0-521-21311-0
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: v, 243 Seiten , Tabellen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 18
    Uniform Title: Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie
    Keywords: Marxismus Anthropologie ; Anthropologie, marxistische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Ethnologie ; Kommunismus ; Handel, primitiver ; Gesellschaft, primitive ; Kommunismus, primitiver ; Inka ; Neuguinea ; Baruya ; Marx, Karl [Leben und Werk]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Structural causality in economics and some ideas concerning Marxism and anthropology: 1. Anthropology and economics. 2. The concept of social and economic formation. 3. The concept of the tribe -- Part 2. Dead sections and living ideas in Marx's thinking on primitive society. 4. An attempt at a critical evaluation -- Part 3. Money and its fetishes. 5. Salt money and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea. 6. Market economy and fetishism, magic, and science according to Marx's Capital -- Part 4. The 'phantasmatic' nature of social relations. 7. Fetishism, religion and Marx's general theories concerning ideology. 8. The non-correspondence between form and content in social relations. 9. The visible and the invisible among the Baruya of New Guinea. 10. Myth and history -- Notes
    Note: Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie
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    Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate : historical and sociological perspectives (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21069-0 , 978-0-521-21069-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 19
    Keywords: Westafrika Guinea ; Kamerun ; Nigeria ; Sokoto, Kalifat ; Geschichte ; Krieg ; Kriegsführung ; Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Hausa ; Fulah Empire ; Fulani ; Waffe
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- General Glossary -- Part One: Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Sudanic Warfare and Military Organization to c. 1800 -- 2 The Jihad Period, c. 1790-1817 -- 3 Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1817-1860 -- 4 Organization for Defense and Security -- 5 The Theory and Practice of War -- 6 The Firearms Trade in the Central Sudan: The Expansion of the "Gun-frontier" -- 7 Firearms in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1860-1903 -- Part Two: Sociological Perspectives -- 8 The Evolution of Politico-Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1790-1903 -- 9 The Functions of War in the Sokoto Caliphate -- 10 Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Glossary of Hausa-Fulani Military Titles -- A Glossary of Hausa Military Terminology -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-215"Originally prepared as a doctoral thesis at Northwestern University (1970). Since then it has been revised [...]" (Preface) , Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, 1970, entitled Historical and sociological aspects of warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate.
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    The _fate of Shechem, or The politics of sex : essays in the anthropology of the Mediterranean (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21427-0 , 978-0-521-21427-8
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 193 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 19
    Keywords: Spanien Mittelmeerraum ; Ehre ; Sexualität ; Andalusien ; Ethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: The anthropology of honour -- Honour and social status in Andalusia -- Spiritual kinship in Andalusia -- The moral foundations of the family -- The law of hospitality -- Women and sanctuary in the Mediterranean -- The fate of Shechem or the politics of sex -- Notes -- Index
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    Victims of the miracle : development and the Indians of Brazil (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21738-5 , 978-0-521-21738-5 , 0-521-29246-8 , 978-0-521-29246-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 205 Seiten , Tabellen, Karten
    Edition: First publ.
    Keywords: Brasilien Amazonas-Gebiet ; Indianer, Brasilien ; Indianerpolitik ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Konflikt, wirtschaftlicher ; Humanökologie ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Brazilian Indian policy: an historical overview -- Part One. The Economic History of the Brazilian Amazon, 1940 to 1970. 2. Development plans in the postwar period. 3. The significance of the military coup of 1964 -- Part Two. Contemporary Indian Policy in Brazil, 1970 to 1975. 4. The Villas Boas brothers and Indian policy in Brazil. 5. Pacification expeditions along the Trans-Amazon highway network. 6. The invasion of the Aripuana Indian Park. 7. Indian policy and the Amazon mining frontier -- Part Three. The Social and Ecological Effects of the Polamazonia Program, 1975 to 1979. 8. The rise of agribusiness in Brazil. 9. The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. 10. The Amazon Basin: implications for US foreign policy in Brazil -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-192
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    World prehistory in new perspective (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29178-X , 978-0-521-29178-1 , 0-521-21506-4 , 978-0-521-21506-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 554 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: an illustrated third edition
    Keywords: Prähistorie
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, Acknowledgements, Preface -- Early Prehistory -- Evolution of man as an organism -- Environmental change -- Palaeolithic hunters and foragers -- Beginnings of Civilization in South-West Asia -- Background -- The transition: 9000-6000 B. C. -- Neolithic/Charcolithic settlement -- Emergence of civilization in south Mesopotamia -- Civilizations of the Highlands -- Foundations of European Civilization: The Stone Age -- Upper Palaeolithic hunters and artists -- Mesolithic hunter-fishers -- Late Stone Age farmers -- Farmers and hunter-fishers -- Europe: From Metallurgy to Civilization -- Early metallurgy -- Minoan-Mycenaean civilization -- The Bronze Age in temperate Europe -- Antecedents of classical Greece -- The barbarian world in the pre-roman Iron Age -- Antecendents and expansion of Roman civilization -- The Iron Age in northern Europe -- Christianity and the end of European prehistory -- The African Achievement -- The Stone Age -- Ancient Egyptian civilization -- The opening up of sub-Saharan Africa -- The Indian Sub-Continent -- Early prehistory -- Later prehistory -- Protohistory -- East Asia -- China -- Japan -- South-east Asia -- North and Middle America -- Late Pleistocene settlement -- Middle American sequence -- North America -- Temperate zone -- Arctic zone -- South America -- The first settlers: Andean zone -- Intermediate zone: marginal territories -- Australia and Oceania -- Australia -- Oceania -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 510-533
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    Outline of a theory of practice (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29164-X , 978-0-521-29164-4 , 0-521-21178-6 , 978-0-521-21178-9
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 248 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published in English translation
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 16
    Uniform Title: Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Soziale Klasse ; Algerien ; Kabyle ; Ritual ; Ehe
    Abstract: Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.
    Description / Table of Contents: Translator's foreword -- 1. The objective limits of objectivism -- 2. Structures and the habitus -- 3. Generative schemes and practical logic: invention within limits -- 4. Structures, habitus, power: basis for a theory of symbolic power -- Notes -- Index
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    Muslim brotherhoods in nineteenth-century Africa (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21062-3 , 978-0-521-21062-1
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 267 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 18
    Keywords: Afrika Algerien ; Westafrika ; Guinea ; Senegal ; Mali ; Libyen ; Somalia ; Mauretanien ; Islam ; Sufismus ; Muslime ; Bruderschaft ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Usuman dan Fodio [Leben und Werk] ; Mohammed Abdulle Hassan [Leben und Werk]
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Usman dan Fodio and the Fulani Jihad in Northern Nigeria -- Oppostion to French colonialism in Algeria: 'Abd as-Qadir, his predecessors and rivals -- Al-Hajj 'Umar Tal and his Jihad in Guinea, Senegal, and Mali -- The Sanusi brotherhood in Libya and the Sahara -- Ma' as-'Aynayn al-Qulqami, Mauritanian mystic and politician -- The Qadiri and Shadili brotherhoods in East Africa, 1880-1910 -- Sayyid Muhammad 'Abdallah Hasan of Somalia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-246
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    Spirits of protest : spirit-mediums and the articulation of consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21052-6 , 978-0-521-21052-2
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 145 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 14
    Keywords: Simbabwe Ethnie, Afrika ; Bantu ; Religion, traditionelle ; Geist ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Spiritualität ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: In this study, Peter Fry describes and analyses spirit-mediumship amongst a community of Zezuru people living near Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He examines the belief system which underpins spirit-mediumship and the basis of the mediums' authority. He pays special attention to the way in which religious beliefs are used politically in specific social situations ranging from village disputes to issues of national importance. Instead of portraying the spirits and their mediums as a fixed and stable hierarchy, Peter Fry stresses the dynamics of a religious system which changes over time in relation to changing external factors and to the ability of individual competing mediums to build up followings by responding to and moulding consensus. The book makes comparisons between the religious systems of the Zezuru and the Valley Korekore, both subgroups of Shona-speaking peoples, and concludes by discussing the role of Zezuru mediums in the context of the confrontation between black and white nationalisms. The spirit-mediums, opposed structurally to the white mission churches, are seen as vehicles of black cultural nationalism in the area.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. The secular background -- 2. Magico-religious beliefs - the moral significance of explanation -- 3. The sociology of spirit-mediumship -- 4. Zezaru flexibility and Korekore rigidity -- 5. Spirit-mediums in ritual action -- 6. Spirit-mediums and missionaries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 133-136
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    Mediterranean family structures (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-20964-1 , 978-0-521-20964-9
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 414 Seiten , Tabellen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 13
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Libanon ; Israel ; Nordafrika ; Türkei ; Italien ; Spanien ; Griechenland ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Soziales Leben ; Soziologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Note on Arabic words and names -- Introduction -- Lebanon
    Note: Enthält eine Einführung und 20 Beiträge
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    Production and reproduction : a comparative study of the domestic domain (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21294-4 , 978-0-521-21294-6 , 0-521-29088-0 , 978-0-521-29088-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 157 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 17
    Keywords: Afrika Eurasien ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Familie ; Arbeit ; Ehe ; Sexualität ; Heirat ; Sozialer Status ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Eherecht ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: This book is an attempt to see the development of domestic institutions, the family, marriage, conjugal roles, in relation to changes in the mode of productive activity, and specifically with the change from hoe to plough agriculture. These differences are related to societies in Africa on the one hand, and in Asia and Europe on the other. The author tries to do this in two ways. He compares information derived from a range of human societies, historical as well as contemporary, employing the impressionistic techniques of the social scientist and comparative historian. But in addition, he has tried to make systematic use of material on a range of world societies, coded in the Ethnographic Atlas. In the main chapters of the book, the author examines general features of the network of traditional social roles found in these two continental areas of the Old World. He discusses the reasons why Europe and Asia should stress marriage within the social group, monogamous unions as well as the roles of concubine, step-parent, spinster and adopted child, whereas in Africa, the emphasis is on marriage outside the group, polygyny and co-wives. Similar differences emerge in a range of other features, including the division of labour by sex. Behind all these lie differences in the systems of agriculture and the nature of the social hierarchies which they support. Professor Goody is firmly committed to the idea that the social sciences have no alternative but to be comparative and explicitly historical if they are to contribute to the serious causal analysis of fundamental features of social organisation and development. His broad and ambitious book will appeal to anyone with a professional interest in social sciences - historians, anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and economists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The evolution of the domestic economy: the hoe and the plough -- 2. The theory, the variables and a test -- 3. Making causal inferences -- 4. Farming, labour and sex -- 5. Concubines and co-wives: the structure of roles in Africa and Eurasia -- 6. Adoption in cross-cultural perspective -- 7. Strategies of heirship -- 8. Class and marriage -- 9. Retrospect -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 145-152
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    Liberia and Sierra Leone : an essay in comparative politics (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21095-X , 978-0-521-21095-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 156 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 20
    Keywords: Liberia Sierra Leone ; Politisches System ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Kulturvergleich ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Very similar in some ways, but strikingly different in others, Sierra Leone and Liberia have an obvious appeal for comparative analysis. They share the legacy of foundation by immigrants of African descent and the juxtaposition of these with indigenous peoples, but within the contrasting institutional frameworks of settler independence and British colonialism. They have similar social and economic structures but sharply dissimilar political records: Liberia has long been regarded as the classic case of stability at the price of oligarchy, whereas Sierra Leone, after a period as West Africa's most successful two-party democracy, suffered a succession of military coups and by 1973 was effectively a single-party state. This study seeks to analyse and account for both similarities and differences, looking at the two countries' experience in the 1960s and early 1970s, not only in central politics but also at the local level and in economic policy. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Political Comparison -- Historical Summary -- Resources -- Rules -- Political Allocation at the Centre -- Centre and Periphery -- Aspects of Political Economy -- Concluding Review -- Statistical Appendix: Area and population. Economic Indices -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 138-148
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    Resources and population : a study of the Gurungs of Nepal (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-20913-7 , 978-0-521-20913-7
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 364 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 12
    Keywords: Nepal Ethnie, Asien ; Ethnographie ; Heirat ; Gurung ; Thakali ; Landwirtschaft ; Fruchtbarkeit ; Sterblichkeit ; Arbeit ; Landnutzung ; Reis ; Demographie ; Soziale Organisation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
    Abstract: In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, first published in 1976, utilises the tools of social anthropology and population studies in an attempt to see some of the causes and consequences of populations growth and some of the effects of change on natural resources. It analyses a particular 'community' in the Annapurna range of the central Himalayas during this century, and investigates how the destruction of forests and the growth of settled rice cultivation have occurred, and some of the consequences. The Gurungs are famous as recruits to the Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies, and the demographic and economic effects of foreign mercenary labour are among the topics examined.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Weights, measures, and conversion factors -- 1. Demography and anthropology -- 2. The Gurungs of Nepal -- Part I. Resources: 3. Long-term change in the Gurung economy. 4. Forest and land resources. 5. Changes in the distribution of arable land. 6. Capital assets excluding land and forest. 7. The application of capital input-output data. 8. Income, consumption and expenditure. 9. Surpluses, deficits and the accumulation of capital -- Part II. Population: 10. Population growth in Nepal. 11. Social structure and fertility I: intercourse variables. 12. Social structure and fertility II: conception and gestation variables. 13. The demographic consequences of social structure: fertility statistics. 14. Social structure and mortality. 15. The age and sex structure of the Gurung population. 16. Resources and population: some general models -- Appendices: 1. Census schedule utilized. 2. Production and consumption units per household. 3. Growth in the number of houses in Thak and Mohoriya. 4. Population and the price of land and other goods. 5. Household and family structure among the Gurungs. 6. Marriage, inheritance and death of parents in Thak. 7. Estimates of relative wealth by three Gurungs -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 354-358 , Thesis Ph.D., University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (United Kingdom), 1972 entitled "Population and Economy in Central Nepal: A Study of the Gurungs"
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    The _lions of Dagbon : political change in northern Ghana (1975)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-20682-0 , 978-0-521-20682-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 241 Seiten , Karten, Diagramme, Tabellen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 16
    Keywords: Ghana Geschichte, politische ; Elite, politische ; Dagomba ; Mole ; Führer, politischer ; Häuptlingstum ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half century has been a chieftaincy dispute in the northern kingdom of Dagomba, known as the Yendi skin dispute. The major loss of life took puce in 1969 but the dispute has continued to trouble Ghanaian politics and has affected the careers of national leaders under both civilian and military regimes. It is one of the most complex, explosive and intractable disputes in a country noted for conflicts over chieftaincy. Mr Staniland examines the political history of Dagomba, one of the most important pre-colonial states in what is now Ghana, from its partition between the British and the Germans in 1899. He analyses the attitudes and policies of successive governments towards chieftaincy and 'traditionalism', and the effects which outside control has had on dynastic politics. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The country and the people -- Dagbon -- Colonial rule, 1899-1930 -- Dagomba divided and united, 1899-1930 --The Battle of Watherston Road --Dagomba politics under indirect rule, 1932-1947 -- Votibu -- Party Politics -- The Yendi tragedy --Conclusions -- Postscript -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 227-233
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    Asante in the nineteenth century : the structure and evolution of a political order (1975)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-20463-1 , 978-0-521-20463-7 , 0-521-37994-6 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-37994-6 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: LV, 800 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 13
    Keywords: Ghana Ashanti ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politische Bewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Demographie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Owusu-Ansa, John ; Owusu-Ansa, Albert Arthur ; Kumasi 〈Ghana〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Spatial aspects of government: the network of communications -- Spatial aspects of government; the structure of empire -- The politics of polulation: the demography of metropolitan Asante -- Kumase and the southern provinces: the politics of control -- Kumase and the southern provincrs: the politics of retrenchement -- Asante and the Gold Coast: the politics of indecision -- Kumase and the northern provinces: an overview -- Asante and its neighbours: the politics of entente -- The dynastic factor in Asante history: a family reconstuction of the Oyoko royals -- Kumase and the seat of government: the structure of decision-making -- Kumase as the seat of government: the structure of the executive -- Political polarization in nineteenth century Asante -- Disorder in politics: from constitutional crisis to civil war -- Modernization, reform, and the role of the Owusu Ansas in politics -- Politics and policies in nineteenth century Asante: the ideological variabel -- Gloassary of principal Asante terms -- Guide to sources consulted -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 731-743
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    Rethinking symbolism (1975)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-09967-6 , 978-0-521-09967-7 , 0-521-20834-3 , 978-0-521-20834-5 , 2-7056-5787-8 , 978-2-7056-5787-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 153 Seiten
    Edition: First published in English translation
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 11
    Uniform Title: Le _symbolisme en général
    Keywords: Symbolik Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Dorze ; Theorie, ethnologische
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Symbolism and language -- 2. Hidden meanings -- 3. Absent meaning -- 4. Symbolism and knowledge -- 5. The symbolic mechanism -- References
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 151-153
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