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  • Frobenius-Institut  (23)
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    Performing power in Nigeria (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83107-9 (hardback) , 978-1-108-92319-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 286 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Identities
    Keywords: Nigeria Pentecost ; Christentum ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Macht ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: For decades, Pentecostalism has been one of the most powerful socio-cultural and socio-political movements in Africa. The Pentecostal modes of constructing the world by using their performative agencies to embed their rites in social processes have imbued them with immense cultural power to contour the character of their societies. Performing Power in Nigeria explores how Nigerian Pentecostals mark their self-distinction as a people of power within a social milieu that affirmed and contested their desires for being. Their faith, and the various performances that inform it, imbue the social matrix with saliences that also facilitate their identity of power. Using extensive archival material, interviews, and fieldwork, Abimbola A. Adelakun questions the histories, desires, knowledge, tools, and innate divergences of this form of identity, and its interactions with the other ideological elements that make up the society. Analysing the important developments in contemporary Nigerian Pentecostalism, she demonstrates how the social environment is being transformed by the Pentecostal performance of their identity as the people of power. (Verlagsangaben)
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 246-279
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    Privileged precariat : white workers and South Africa's long transition to majority rule (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83180-2 (hardback) , 978-1-108-92470-2 (epub) , 978-1-108-92720-8 (paperback)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 338 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: International African Library 63
    Keywords: Südafrika Arbeiterklasse ; Bergbau ; Weiße ; Gewerkschaft ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Neoliberalismus ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Apartheid ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white workers experienced the dismantling of the racial state and the establishment of black majority rule. Starting from the 1970s, it shows how apartheid reforms constituted the withdrawal of state support for working-class whiteness, sending workers in search of new ways to safeguard their interests in a rapidly changing world. Danelle van Zyl-Hermann tracks the shifting strategies of the blue-collar Mineworkers' Union, culminating in its reinvention, by the 2010s, as the Solidarity Movement, a social movement appealing to cultural nationalism. Integrating unique historical and ethnographic evidence with global debates, Privileged Precariat offers a chronological and interpretative rethinking of South Africa's recent past and contributes new insights from the Global South to debates on race and class in the era of neoliberalism. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of table and figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction: the return of the white working class -- Part I - White workers and the racial state -- 1 - Privileged race, precarious class: white labour from the mineral revolution to the golden age -- 2 - From sweetheart to Frankenstein: the National Party's changing stance towards white labour amid the crisis of the 1970s -- Select 3 - Race and rights at the rock face of change: white organised labour and the Wiehahn Reforms -- Part II - White workers and civil society mobilisation -- 4 - From trade union to social movement: the mineworkers union solidarity's formation of a post apartheid social alliance -- 5 - An 'alternative government': the solidarity movement's contemporary strategies -- 6 - Discursive labour and strategic contradiction: managing the working class roots of a declassed organisation -- 7 - 'Guys like us are left to our own mercy': counternarratives ambivalence and the pressures of racial gatekeeping among solidarity's blue collar members -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 310-329
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    The _path to genocide in Rwanda : security, opportunity and authority in an ethnocratic state (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49146-4 , 978-1-108-86883-9 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 412 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 152
    Keywords: Ruanda (Staat) Völkermord ; Tutsi ; Hutu ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Gewalt ; Ethnopsychologie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Beziehungen, interethnische
    Abstract: Rwanda`s genocide in 1994 was a tragic and world-changing event that has indelibly etched itself on the global conscience. The Path to Genocide in Rwanda combines extensive, original field data with some of the best existing evidence to offer a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it.Drawing on interviews with over three hundred Rwandans, Omar Shahabudin McDoom systematically compares those who participated in the violence against those who did not. He contrasts communities that experienced violence early with communities where violence began late, as well as communities where violence was limited with communities where it was massive. His findings offer new perspectives on some of the most troubling questions concerning the genocide, while also providing a broader engagement with key theoretical debates in the study of genocides and ethnic conflict. (Klappentext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. What We Do and Do Not Know -- 2. An Extraordinary Baseline -- 3. Security: War-time Threat -- 4. Threat and Opportunity: The Dangers of Freedom -- 5. Opportunity II: Death of the Nation's Father -- 6. Authority: Rwanda's privatized and powerful state -- 7. Why some killed and others did not -- 8. Conclusion: Rwanda in Retrospect -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 389-406
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    Performing power in Zimbabwe : politics, law, and the courts since 2000 (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-51586-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 265 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 155
    Keywords: Simbabwe Recht ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Strafrecht ; Macht ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Rechtsethnologie ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of viewing appeals to law as acts of resistance by marginalised orders for inclusion in dominant modes of rule, Susanne Verheul argues that it was not recognition by but of this formal, rule-bound ordering, and the form of citizenship it stood for, that was at stake in performative legal engagements. In this manner, law was much more than a mere instrument. Law was a site in which competing conceptions of political authority were given expression, and in which people's understandings of themselves as citizens were formed and performed. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Law, State Authority and the Courts -- 1. History, Authority and the Law in Zimbabwe, 1950-2002 -- 2. `Rebels` and `Good Boys`: Examining the Working Conditions in Zimbabwe`s Attorney General`s Office after 2000 -- 3. `Zimbabweans Are Foolishly Litigious`: Debating Citizenship When Engaging with a Politicised Legal System -- 4. `What Is Abnormal Is Normal`: Performative Politics on the Stages of Arrest and Detention -- 5. Material and Sensory Courtrooms: Observing the `Decline of Professionalism` in Harare`s Magistrates` Courts -- 6. The Trials of the `Traitor` in Harare`s Magistrates` Courts under the Unity Government -- 7. History, Consciousness and Citizenship in Matabeleland -- 8. Historical Narrative and Political Strategy in Bulawayo`s Magistrates` Courts: The Case of Owen Maseko -- Conclusion: `Government Is a Legal Fiction` - Performing Law, the State, Citizenship and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-259 , Doctoral thesis , University of Oxford, 2017, unter dem Titel: "Government is a legal fiction" : performing political power in Zimbabwe's magistrates' courts after 2000
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    The _politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49693-3 , 9781108690485 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 366 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 143
    Keywords: Tansania Yao (Bantu) ; Landbevölkerung ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Anthropologie, politische ; Armut ; Hunger ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknoledgements -- 1. The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru -- 2. Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism -- 3. The struggle to trade -- 4. Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility -- 5. Villagisation and the pursuit of market access -- 6. The politics of development in the era of liberalisation -- 7. Performing and pursuing development in Kineng'ene -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-355
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    Political protest in contemporary Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-43825-4 , 978-1-108-42367-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 264 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Anthropologie, politische ; Mittelklasse ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Politische Bewegung
    Abstract: From spray-painted slogans in Senegal to student uprisings in South Africa, twenty-first century Africa has seen an explosion of protests and social movements. But why? Protests flourish amidst an emerging middle class whose members desire political influence and possess the money, education, and political autonomy to effectively launch movements for democratic renewal. In contrast with pro-democracy protest leaders, rank-and-file protesters live at a subsistence level and are motivated by material concerns over any grievance against a ruling regime. Through extensive field research, Lisa Mueller shows that middle-class political grievances help explain the timing of protests, while lower-class material grievances explain the participation. By adapting a class-based analysis to African cases where class is often assumed to be irrelevant, Lisa Mueller provides a rigorous yet accessible explanation for why sub-Saharan Africa erupted in unrest at a time of apparent economic prosperity.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - List of tables - Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: the puzzle of Africa's third wave of protests -- 2. Defining Africa's protest waves -- 3. Paradoxes of prosperity -- 4. Comparative protest leadership: theories, trends, and strategies -- 5. Comparative individual participation in the third wave -- 6. Not-so-great expectations: pessimism and protest in Niger -- 7. Conclusion - Appendix - Bibliography - Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213 - 260
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    Politics, identity, and Mexico's indigenous rights movements (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-69676-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 208 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published 2011, first paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Keywords: Mexiko Oaxaca ; Indianer, Mexiko ; Chiapas ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ethnizität ; Bürgerrecht ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Grundeigentum ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Drawing on an original survey of more than 5,000 respondents, this book argues that, contrary to claims by the 1994 Zapatista insurgency, indigenous and non-indigenous respondents in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic conditions and land tenure institutions as well as by ethnic identity. It concludes that--contrary to many analyses of Chiapas's 1994 indigenous rebellion--external influences can trump ideology in framing social movements. Rural Chiapas's prevalent communitarian. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments - 1. Surveying the silence - 2. A tale of two movements - 3. Individual and communitarian identities in indigenous southern Mexico - 4. Agrarian conflict, armed rebellion, and the struggle for rights in Chiapas' Lacandon Jungle - 5. Customary practices, women's rights, and multicultural elections in Oaxaca - 6. From balaclavas to baseball caps - 7. Reconciling individual rights, communal rights, and autonomy institutions - Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-201
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    Anthropology, politics, and the state : democracy and violence in South Asia (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-77177-1 , 978-0-521-77746-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 203 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    Keywords: Indien Sri Lanka ; Süd-Asien ; Kultur und Politik ; Politik ; Demokratie ; Gewalt ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Nationalismus ; Staat ; Säkularisierung ; Differenzierung ; Frieden ; Feminismus ; Konflikt, politischer ; Konflikt, ethnischer
    Abstract: In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11
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    The _politics of evil : magic, state power, and the political imagination in South Africa (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-81721-8 , 978-0-521-81721-9 , 0-521-53393-7 /African edition , 978-0-521-53393-5 /African edition
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 103
    Keywords: Südafrika Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Anthropologie, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Widerstand ; Staatsentstehung ; Autorität ; Rassismus ; Macht ; Geschichte ; Apartheid
    Abstract: In The Politics of Evil, Clifton Crais provides a new interpretation of South African history, and a fresh approach to the study of power culture, and resistance in the modern world. Encompassing all of South Africa's history in his analysis, Crais examines the formation of an authoritarian political order and the complex ways people understood and resisted the colonial state. He explores state formation as a cultural and political process as well as a moral problem, and he looks at indigenous concepts of power, authority, and evil, analyzing how they shaped cross-cultural encounters and the making of a colonial order. Apartheid represented one of the great evils of the twentieth century. This book reveals how the victims of apartheid understood the triumph of this evil in their lives as they elaborated rich and at time violent visions of a world free of colonial oppression and white supremacy. Professor Crais concludes by looking at the contemporary political transition, the challenges to creating a durable democracy, and the persistence of evil in South Africa. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultures of conquest -- 1. The death of Hope -- 2. Ethnographies of state -- 3. Rationalities and rule -- Part 2: States of emergency -- 4. Prophecies of nation -- 6. Conflict in Qumbu -- 7. The men of the mountain -- 8. Flights of the lightning bird -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 280-293
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    United States foreign policy toward Africa : incrementalism, crisis and change (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46677-6 , 978-0-521-46677-6 , 0-521-44439-X , 978-0-521-44439-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 347 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in International Relations 31
    Keywords: Afrika USA ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopen ; Somalia ; Südafrika ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power which each have the ability to pull policy in different directions. The book describes the evolution of policy at three levels: Presidents and their close advisors; the bureaucracies of the executive branch; and Congress and African affairs interest groups. Most importantly, the evidence presented demonstrates that the nature of events in Africa has itself affected the operation of the US policymaking process, and the substance of US policy. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy towards Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa; 2. Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa; 3. US foreign policy toward Zaire; 4. US foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia; 5. US foreign policy toward South Africa; 6. US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era.
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    Power, prayer and production : the Jola of Senegal (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40132-1 , 978-0-521-40132-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 82
    Keywords: Afrika Senegal ; Diola, Senegambien ; Islam ; Landwirtschaft ; Reis ; Soziales Leben ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: The Jola (Diola) are intensive wet-rice cultivators in the Lower Casamance region of Senegal. In this study, the author examines the reasons behind startling contrasts in the organization of agricultural tasks among three Jola communities located within a 45-kilometre radius from Ziguinchor. In Sambujat, situated in the non-Islamisized region south of the river, wet rice is a monocrop cultivated by both men and women. In Jipalom, in the Kajamutay region north of the river, Islam and cash cropping have been adopted; and in Fatiya, in the so-called 'Mandingized' region of the Kalunay, social relations have become hierarchical and this has had profound effects on the cropping system and on the division of labour. The author examines the shift of power relations over time, and their effects on the way in which production has been organized by age and gender, kin and class. Larger issues dealt with are Islamization, women's labour and the introduction of cash cropping. A concluding section places the history of Jola labour relations within the context of the political economy of Senegal.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on orthography; Introduction: ideology and agrarian change; Part I. The Political Economy of Sambujat: 1. The power of the spirit-shrines; 2. Rice fields and labour relationships; Conclusions to part I; Part II. At the Crossroads: The Kujamaat Jola of Jipalom: 3. Islamization and the introduction of a cash crop; 4. The impact on social and productive relations; Conclusions to part II; Part III. Manding Models and Fatiya Mores: 5. Ideology and legitimation; 6. Social relations of production restructured; Conclusions to part III; Epilogue: the Jola in the present national scene; Notes; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-252
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    Classic Maya political history : hieroglyphic and archaeological evidence (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39210-1 , 978-0-521-39210-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [33]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [33]
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Mittelamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika ; Maya ; Geschichte, politische ; Politisches System ; Führer, politischer ; Elite, politische ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Ancient Maya civilization once flourished in the rainforests of what is today southern Mexico and Central America. It possessed the only full system of writing ever to be developed in the Americas. The pace of decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has accelerated in the last few years, and half of the inscriptions from the sites of the Classic Period (AD?250-900) have now been read. Much of the newly available information consists of historical records of the careers of Maya rulers of the time.This volume is the first to present in detail the results of decipherment and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine the way in which the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare, and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded. Drawing upon important material just recently made available, they have transformed our understanding of the Maya. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction, Norman Hammond -- 2. Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs, Peter Mathews -- 3. Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings, Peter Mathews and Gordon R. Willey -- 4. An epigraphic history of the western Maya region, Linda Schele -- 5. Cycles of growth at Tikal, Christopher Jones -- 6. Polities in the northeast Peten, Guatemala, T. Patrick Culbert -- 7. Dynastic history and culutral evolution at Copan, Honduras, William L. Fash and David S. Stuart -- 8. Diversity and continuity in Maya civilization: Quirigua as a case study, Robert J. Sharer -- 9. Elite interaction during the Terminal Classic period: new evidence from Chichen Itza, Linnea H. Wren and Peter Schmidt -- 10. Royal visits and other intersite relationships among the Classic Maya, Linda Schele and Peter Mathews -- 11. Inside the black box: defining Maya polity, Norman Hammond -- 12. Maya elite interaction: through a glass, sideways, Norman Yoffee -- 13. Maya political history and elite interaction: a summary view, T. Patrick Culbert -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 347-378""Elite Interaction in Classi Maya Civilization" [...] the seminar was held at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, on October 20-24, 1986." (Preface)Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental and African slave trades (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 , 978-0-521-34867-6 , 0-521-34396-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34396-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 67
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Demographie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturwandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Abolition ; Methodologie ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century.While the book is primarily a general survey, it presents original research and analysis, especially in the author's demographic model, computer simulation of the slave trade, and analysis of slave prices. The demographic, economic, and social analyses are carefully introduced, so that the book may serve not only as a general introduction to African slavery for an undergraduate audience, but as a primer on interdisciplinary application of social science methodolgy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa -- 2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 2-- 3 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model -- 4 The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 -- 5 The economics and morality of slave supply -- 6 Patterns of slave life -- 7 Transformations of slavery and society ,1650-1900 -- 8 The end of slavery -- 9 The world and Africa -- Appendix 1: Slave prices -- Appendix 2: The demographic simulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-226
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    Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38504-0 , 978-0-521-38504-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: [xv], 221 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 71
    Keywords: Ozeanien Papua-Neuguinea ; Melanesien ; Sepik ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Manambu ; Ethnographie ; Politisches System ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Namen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Manambu; 2. Avatip; 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology; 4. Ceremonial rank; 5. Male initiation; 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot; 7. The debating system; 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw; 9. Symbolic economies in Melanesia; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-213 , [Based on author's thesis, Australian National University] , Thesis, Ph.D., Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, 1982 entitled "Stealing people's names: social structure, cosmology and politics in a Sepik River village". Online verfügbar unter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116867
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    The _abandoned narcotic : kava and cultural instability in Melanesia (1989)
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    ISBN: 0-521-37375-1 , 978-0-521-37375-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 219 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 69
    Keywords: Vanuatu Melanesien ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Rausch- und Genußmittel ; Kava ; Kultureller Prozess ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Religion, traditionelle ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Rivers, William H. R. [Leben und Werk] ; Bundoora 〈Victoria, Staat〉
    Abstract: Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology. However, Dr Brunton disagrees. Taking the varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanauta, as his starting point, he suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults, and not because of the adoption of betel. The problem of kava is therefore part of a broader problem of why many traditional Melanesian societies were characteristically highly unstable, and Dr Brunton sees this instability as both an outcome and a cause of weak institutions of authority and social coordination.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: W. H. R. Rivers and kava -- The traditional distribution of kava drinking -- Reconsidering Rivers' argument: the evidence -- Reconsidering River's argument: assessment and implications -- Kava on Tanna: traditional ritual and contemporary modifications -- Kava on Tanna: the development of secular patterns of consumption -- The problems of Tannese society -- Conclusion.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-203 , "This book is a revised version of my Ph.D. thesis, presented to the Department of Sociology at La Trobe University in 1988." (page viii) , [Revision of] Thesis, Ph.D., La Trobe University, 1988
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    The _southern marches of imperial Ethiopia : essays in history and social anthropology (1986)
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    ISBN: 0-521-32237-5 , 978-0-521-32237-9
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    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 51
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. The making of an imperial state -- 2. Renegotiating power and authority -- 3. Reorienting kinship and identiy -- 4. Expanding tribute and trade -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: "Revised versions of selected papers originally presented at a workshop of the Cambridge African Studies Centre, in July 1979 and at a conference at Monterey, California, in March 1982" (Preface)Enthält 9 BeiträgeLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 295-298
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    Kings, commoners and concessionaires : the evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth-century Swazi state (1983)
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    ISBN: 0-521-24270-3 , 978-0-521-24270-7
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    Pages: VIII, 315 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 31
    Keywords: Swaziland Swazi ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Dlamini IV, König, Swaziland [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states which were formed in the course of the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. The early chapters examine the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems, paying particular attention to the 'layering' of inequality through marriage and inheritance patterns, and the simultaneous integration of age regiments and the elaboration of a national ideology based on the Swazi royalty. Dr Bonner then sets the Swazi state in the wider context of south-eastern Africa and discusses its relations with the surrounding Boer societies. The later chapters analyse the role played by the great mining companies and their white concessionaires in the partition of southern Africa and in bringing about the dissolution of the Swazi state. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The northern Nguni states 1700-1815 -- 3. The conquest state 1820-1838 -- 4. Factions and fissions: Mswati's early years -- 5. The balance tilts: Swazi-Boer relations 1852-1865 -- 6. The deepening and widening of Dlamini power 1852-1865 -- 7. Regency and retreat 1865-1874 -- 8. Confederation, containment and conciliar rule: Mbandzeni's apprenticeship 1874-1881 -- 9. The puff-adder stirs: Mdandzeni and the beginnings of concessions 1881-1886 -- 10. The conquest by concessions 1886-1889 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Inde
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-303 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1977, entitled The Rise, Consolidation and Disintegration of Dlamini Power in Swaziland Between 1820 and 1889. A Study in the Relationship of Foreign Affairs to Internal Political Development
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    Patrons and partisans : a study of politics in two southern Italian comuni (1980)
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    ISBN: 0-521-22872-7 , 978-0-521-22872-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii,195 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 31
    Keywords: Italien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Anthropologie, politische ; Grundeigentum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: In this book, Caroline White presents a challenge to the orthodox approach to southern Italian politics. From her study of two neighbouring villages in the Abruzzi region, she argues that patron-clientism - a form of political relations by means of which resources are distributed in exchange for political support, and which has been seen as typical in southern Italy - is not universal, and that the particularities of local history may give rise to alternative forms that are open and democratic, and oppose the domination of political elites. By immersing herself in the two communities Dr White has developed a deep understanding of the interrelations between economic life, kinship ties, friendship networks, clubs, and religious beliefs in each: her explanation of the striking political differences between the villages in terms of the historical development of the social relations of production is rigorous and convincing.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory -- 2. Trasacco -- 3. Luco dei Marsi -- 4. Conclusion -- Glossary of characters -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The _Lumbee problem : the making of an American Indian people (1980)
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    ISBN: 0-521-22525-6 , 978-0-521-22525-0 , 0-521-29542-4 , 978-0-521-29542-0
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 276 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 5
    Keywords: USA North Carolina ; Indianer, USA ; Lumbee ; Geschichte ; Ethnographie ; Ethnizität ; Identität ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße
    Abstract: The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina, although the fifth largest Indian group in the United States, have had a history of difficulty in convincing others of their Indian identity. Like other 'neglected' Eastern Indian groups, they lack treaties, reservations and a continuous record of settlement, and apparently have not practised 'traditional Indian ways' for over two hundred years. This raises questions of how their distinctiveness is formulated and maintained. Using material derived from fieldwork among the Lumbee, Professor Blu argues that deeply-felt notions about their group identity have played a major role in shaping and guiding their political activities for over a century. She traces the changing relationships of the Lumbee with their black and white neighbours in this period. In carving out a third niche for themselves in a biracial system, the Lumbee have demonstrated that the Southern racial structure has been more flexible and complicated than has often been suggested.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Why the Lumbee? -- 2. Where did they come from and what were they like before? -- 3. What changed and how? -- 4. What are they trying to do now? -- 5. Who do they say they are? -- 6. What difference does who they say they are make? -- 7. Where does the Lumbee problem lead? -- Appendix: events in Lumbee political history -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-263
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    West African states : failure and promise : a study in comparative politics (1978)
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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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    Liberia and Sierra Leone : an essay in comparative politics (1976)
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    ISBN: 0-521-21095-X , 978-0-521-21095-9
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    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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    Asante in the nineteenth century : the structure and evolution of a political order (1975)
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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 [Leben und Werk] ; Owusu-Ansa, Albert Arthur [Leben und Werk] ; 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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    Elite politics in rural India : political stratification and political alliances in Western Maharashtra (1974)
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    ISBN: 0-521-20366-X , 978-0-521-20366-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 9
    Keywords: Indien Maharashtra ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Elite, politische ; Sozialer Status ; Macht ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: A study of the system of political stratification and the pattern of political alliances in rural Western Maharashtra. Based on fieldwork in a large village, a nearby market town and taluka headquarters, and political institutions in the surrounding countryside, the first half of the book is a full examination of the phenomenon of regional dominance originally described by Adrian Mayer. The second part is a detailed study of the pattern of political alliances from village to district level. Dr Carter's central concern is with the manner in which the pattern of political alliances is shaped by political stratification. Tracing the relationships between these alliances and such factors as political stratification, political arenas, caste, class, and kinship, Dr Carter demonstrates that much Indian political behaviour which has been regarded as irrational or as a sign of an immature, tradition-bound and unstable system may be understood more usefully as a rational response to the conditions of political action in rural India.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. The problem; 2. The region: Girvi, Phaltan Taluka and Western Maharashtra; Part II. Aspects of Political Stratification: 3. Political arenas and the political class; 4. Caste status and distribution; 5. Land, labour, credit and share capital; 6. Descent groups and affinal networks; Part III. Political Alliances: 7. Vertical alliances; 8. Horizontal alliances; 9. Alliances and political stratification; 10. Conclusions; Map of main Girvi settlement area; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-201
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