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  • 1
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    Decolonizing African knowledge : autoethnography and African epistemologies (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316511237
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 513 Seiten
    Series Statement: African identities : past and present
    DDC: 305.8996333
    RVK:
    LC 50465
    Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie ; Kultur ; Entkolonialisierung ; Erzählung ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte ; Nation ; Wissen ; Afrika
    Note: Print on demand edition. , Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • 2
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    Africa since decolonization : the history and politics of a diverse continent (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108599566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 375 Seiten)
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    DDC: 960.32
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    LB 53465
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    NQ 8800
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    MI 10030
    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2020 ; Decolonization / Africa ; Politik ; Entkolonialisierung ; Africa / History / 1960- ; Africa / Politics and government / 1960- ; Africa / Foreign relations / 1960- ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung ; Politik ; Geschichte 1960-2020
    Abstract: Home to more than 1.2 billion people, living in 54 recognized states, speaking around 3,000 languages, Africa is a diverse and complex continent made up of states which differ in regard to their colonial history, political system, socio-economic development, economic polices and their experience with crises and conflicts. This introduction and overview of African history and politics since decolonization emphasises throughout, the diversity of the continent. Organised thematically to include chapters on decolonization and its legacies, external influences, economics, political systems, inter-African relations, crises, conflicts and conflict management, and Africa's external relations, Martin Welz strikes a fine balance between the use of contextual information, analysis, case studies and examples with theoretical debates in development, politics and global policy. Accessible to students at all levels, it counters histories which offer reductive explanations of complex issues, and offers new insights into the role African actors have played in influencing international affairs beyond the continent
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021) , Prologue -- From the Golden Age to Conquest and Colonization -- Liberation and Decolonization -- Decolonization's Legacies -- External Influences -- Africa's Economy, 1960 - -- Economy, socio-economic development, and development cooperation -- States, Political Systems, and Actors -- Intra-African Cooperation and Integration -- Political Crises -- Large-Scale Conflicts -- International Conflict Management -- African Actors Role in International Politics -- Epilogue
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108599566
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  • 3
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    Africa since 1940 : the past of the present (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
    RVK:
    NQ 8800
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    NQ 8850
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    LB 39465
    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108672214
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  • 4
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    Africa since 1940 : the past of the present (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108480680 , 9781108727891
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 320 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
    RVK:
    NQ 8800
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    NQ 8850
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    LB 39465
    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Afrika
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  • 5
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    A history of African popular culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107624474 , 9781107016897
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular cultured
    DDC: 306.096
    RVK:
    EP 20007
    RVK:
    LB 24465
    RVK:
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    MR 7100
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 6
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    The logic of ethnic and religious conflict in Africa (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107175013 , 9781316626801
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 233 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McCauley, John F The logic of ethnic and religious conflict in Africa
    DDC: 303.6096
    RVK:
    LB 48465
    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Religiöse Identität ; Religiöser Konflikt ; Afrika ; Elfenbeinküste ; Ghana ; Biafra ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, and why a conflict might change from ethnic to religious even as the opponents remain fixed. Conflicts in the region are often viewed as either 'tribal' or 'Muslim-Christian', seemingly rooted in deep-seated ethnic or religious hatreds. Yet, as this book explains, those labels emerge as a function of political mobilization. It argues that ethnicity and religion inspire distinct passions among individuals, and that political leaders exploit those passions to achieve their own strategic goals when the institutions of the state break down. To support this argument, the book relies on a novel experiment conducted in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to demonstrate that individual preferences change in ethnic and religious contexts. It then uses case illustrations from Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Sudan to highlight the strategic choices of leaders that ultimately shape the frames of conflict
    Note: Enthält: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 205-224, Register
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  • 7
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    Ethnicity and empire in Kenya : loyalty and martial race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the present (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107447714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.8963953
    RVK:
    LB 48546
    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1963 ; Geschichte 1800-2010 ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Politik ; Kamba (African people) / History ; Ethnicity / Political aspects / Kenya ; Allegiance / Kenya ; Ethnizität ; Loyalität ; Kamba ; Kolonie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Kenya / Politics and government / To 1963 ; Great Britain / Colonies / Africa / Administration ; Kenia ; Großbritannien ; Kenia ; Großbritannien ; Kolonie ; Kamba ; Loyalität ; Geschichte 1800-1963 ; Kenia ; Ethnizität ; Kamba ; Geschichte 1800-2010
    Abstract: This book is about the creation and development of ethnic identity among the Kamba. Comprising approximately one-eighth of Kenya's population, the British considered the Kamba East Africa's premier 'martial race' by the mid-twentieth century: a people with an apparent aptitude for soldiering. The reputation, indeed, was one that Kamba leaders used to leverage financial rewards from the colonial state. However, beneath this simplistic exterior was a maelstrom of argument and debate. Men and women, young and old, Christians and non-Christians, and the elite and poor fought over the virtues they considered worthy of honor in their communities, and which of their visions should constitute 'Kamba' identity. Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Traders, warriors, and hunters , Red dirt, red strangers , Of volunteers and conscripts , The destocking episode , War and demobilization , Controlling development , Mau Mau , Independence and beyond
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107447714
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  • 8
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    The anthropology of texts, persons and publics : oral and written culture in Africa and beyond (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511619656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
    RVK:
    EP 20200
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    LB 33800
    Keywords: Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Schriftlichkeit ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika ; Mündliche Überlieferung
    Abstract: What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Anthropology and text -- 2. Genre, society and history -- 3. The constitution of oral texts -- 4. Text and personhood -- 5. Audiences and publics -- 6. The private -- 7. Textual fields and popular creativity
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511619656
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  • 9
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    Bodies and persons : comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511802782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4
    RVK:
    LB 15465
    RVK:
    LB 31000
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    LB 31900
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human body / Social aspects / Africa ; Human body / Social aspects / Melanesia ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Africa ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Melanesia ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Afrika ; Melanesien ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Melanesien
    Abstract: Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals to heal the sick, 'electric vampires', and even the impact of capitalism. There are detailed ethnographic analyses, and suggestive comparisons of classic African and Melanesian ethnographic cases, such as the Nuer and the Melpa. The contributors debate alternative strategies for cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate that there is a surprising range of continuities, putting in question common assumptions about the huge differences between these two parts of the world
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Transcending dichotomies: "It's a boy," "it's a girl!": reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Rita Astuti -- Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Edward Lipuma -- Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Ellen Corin -- Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Michael Lambek -- pt. 2. Transitions, containments, decontainments: Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult / René Devisch -- To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Sandra Bamford -- Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Brad Weiss -- pt. 3. From exchange to history: Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Bruce M. Knauft -- Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Eytan Bercovitch -- Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Afterword: embodying ethnography / Janice Boddy
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511802782
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  • 10
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    The expansive moment : the rise of social anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511557927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 235 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306/.0941
    RVK:
    LB 25190
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    LB 25465
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    MS 9600
    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1970 ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Geschichte ; Ethnology / Great Britain / History ; Ethnology / Africa / History ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Afrika ; Ethnosoziologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Kulturanthropologie ; Geschichte Anfänge-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Ethnosoziologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Sozialanthropologie ; Geschichte Anfänge-1970
    Abstract: Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed. However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism - specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard, and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book
    Description / Table of Contents: The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies -- Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices -- Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red -- Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard -- Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others -- The Oxford Group -- Some achievements of anthropology in Africa -- Personal contributions -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix I: Changing research schemes -- Appendix 2: Towards the study of the history of social anthropology
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511557927
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  • 11
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    Child care and culture : lessons from Africa (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511720321
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.23/1/096762
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    DV 2410
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    Keywords: Children, Gusii / Kenya / Kisii District ; Women, Gusii / Family relationships / Kenya / Kisii District ; Child rearing / Kenya / Kisii District / Cross-cultural studies ; Socialization / Kenya / Kisii District / Cross-cultural studies ; Child rearing / Massachusetts / Boston / Cross-cultural studies ; Socialization / Massachusetts / Boston / Cross-cultural studies ; Erziehung ; Kultur ; Kinderpflege ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Kinderpflege ; Kultur ; Afrika ; Erziehung ; Kultur
    Abstract: Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about 'normal' child care in the human species. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya, whose practices were intensively observed from the combined perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / Urie Bronfenbrenner -- pt. I. African infancy: Frameworks for understanding. 1. The comparative study of child care. 2. Infant care in sub-Saharan Africa -- pt. II. Parenthood among the Gusii of Kenya. 3. Gusii culture: A person-centered perspective. 4. Gusii fertility, marriage, and family. 5. Pregnancy and birth -- pt. III. Infant care and development in a Gusii community. 6. Infant care: Cultural norms and interpersonal environment. 7. Survival and health: Priorities for early development. 8. Communication and social learning during infancy. 9. Variations in infant interaction: Illustrative cases -- pt. IV. Interpretations. 10. Early child development in an African context: Comparative lessons -- Appendix A Fieldwork procedures: Initial phases and planning -- Appendix B Coding categories for spot observations -- Appendix C Blankhart Nutrition Questionnaire -- Appendix D Temperament Assessment Method -- Appendix E Coding categories for narrative observations
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511720321
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  • 12
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    Language repertoires and state construction in Africa (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511666759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 306.4/49/096
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    Keywords: Language planning / Africa ; Language policy / Africa ; Sprache ; Gründung ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Gründung ; Afrika ; Sprache ; Staat ; Gründung
    Abstract: Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa analyses the complex language scene in Africa today and asks whether this distinctive web of language use is symptomatic of the early stage of state construction. If so, one would expect that as each of these states develops there will be a rationalisation of language use and agreement on a common language within the country's borders. Alternately, Africa's language scene may be the result of a particular historical context of state construction, with the implication that political development will not lead to the one-state, one-language outcome typical of the idealised nation-state
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  • 13
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    The logic of writing and the organization of society (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511621598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state
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    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Writing / History ; Writing / Social aspects ; Social evolution ; Civilization, Ancient ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialgeschichte ; Schrift ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Geschichte ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Africa, West / Civilization ; Afrika ; Alter Orient ; Westafrika ; Westafrika ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Alter Orient ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialer Wandel ; Schrift ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication. Such features are central to any attempt at the theoretical definition of human society and such constituent phenomena as religious and legal systems, and in this study Professor Goody explores the role of a specific mechanism, the introduction of writing and the development of a written tradition, in the explanation of some important social differences and similarities. Goody argues that a shift of emphasis from productive to certain communicative processes is essential to account adequately for major changes in human societies. Whilst there have been previous descussions of the effect of literacy upon social organisation, no study has hitherto presented the general synthesis developed here
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511621598
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