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  • Frobenius-Institut  (25)
  • 1995-1999  (25)
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  • 1
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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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  • 2
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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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  • 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
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    BE 2510
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    BE 2500
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    BE 2000
    RVK:
    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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    BSZ
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    MPI-MMG
    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 4
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 11
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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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  • 12
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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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    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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    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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    München BSB
    München UB
    Frobenius-Institut
    BSZ
    GBV
    KOBV
    BVB
    HBZ
    Bayreuth UB
    MARKK
    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
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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
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 255-271
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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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    The _culture of politics in Kenya (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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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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    People of the sea : identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-43350-9 , 978-0-521-43350-1
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 188 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    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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    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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    Africans : the history of a continent (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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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
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 296-309
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    Palaeopathology of aboriginal Australians : health and disease across a hunter-gatherer continent (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46044-1 , 978-0-521-46044-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 324 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Australien Paläoanthropologie ; Ureinwohner, Australien ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Paläopathologie ; Pleistozän ; Holozän ; Hominiden
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 295-320
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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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    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
    DDC: 299.33
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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.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165-170
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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
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-283
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