ISBN:
0-521-54685-0
,
978-0-521-54685-0
,
0-521-83785-5 /Hb.
,
978-0-521-83785-9 /Hb.
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIV, 404 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 107
Keywords:
Afrika Ehre
;
Geschichte
;
Ashanti
;
Beti
;
Yoruba
;
Wertvorstellung, kulturelle
;
Christentum
;
Islam
;
Sklaverei
;
Soziokultureller Kontext
;
Kulturgeschichte
Abstract:
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these idesas is essential to an understandin gog part and present African behaviour. Before Euroapean conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour , others admired the civic virtues of the partiriarchal householde, and women honoured on anther for industry, endurance, and devation to their families. These caluies both conglicted and blende with Islamic and Christain teachings. Colonial conqiest fragmented heroi cultures, bur inherited ideas of hnour found new expression in reginetal loyalty, respectability, professionalism, workin-class masculinity, the changing gender relationsships of the colonial order, and the nationalis movements that overthrew the old order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, anmd motivate the defance of dignity in the face od AIDS.
Description / Table of Contents:
Maps page -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Comparative History of Honour -- Part One: Hero and Householder -- 2 Men on Horseback -- 3 Honour and Islam -- 4 Christian Ethiopia -- 5 Honour, Rank, and Warfare Among the Yoruba -- 6 Honour and the State in West and Central Africa -- 7 Honour Without the State -- 8 The Honour of the Slave -- 9 Praise and Slander in Southern Africa -- 10 Ekitiibwa and Martyrdom -- Part Two: Fragmentation and Mutation -- 11 The Deaths of Heroes -- 12 Honour in Defeat -- 13 The Honour of the Mercenary -- 14 Respectability -- 15 Honour and Gender -- 16 Urbanisation and Masculinity -- 17 Honour, Race, and Nation -- 18 Political Honour -- 19 To Live in Dignity -- 20 Concluding Questions -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 371-392
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