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  • 1995-1999  (12)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
  • Afrika  (8)
  • Ethnologie
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  • 1
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    Cultural diversity among twentieth-century foragers : an African perspective (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0521482372
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 344 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
    Edition: Transferred to digital print.
    DDC: 306.0896
    RVK:
    LC 21465
    Keywords: Hunting and gathering societies Africa ; Pluralism (Social sciences) Africa ; Subculture Africa ; Ethnic groups Culture ; Africa ; Afrika ; Wildbeuter
    Note: Bibliography: S. 305-333. - Includes index
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  • 2
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    Beyond chiefdoms : pathways to complexity in Africa (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511558238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 306.2/096
    RVK:
    LE 4800
    RVK:
    NF 8460
    Keywords: Funde ; Politik ; Political anthropology / Africa ; Social archaeology / Africa ; Archaeology and state / Africa ; Sozialarchäologie ; Archäologie ; Politische Anthropologie ; Altertümer ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Antiquities ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Altertümer ; Afrika ; Archäologie ; Afrika ; Politische Anthropologie ; Sozialarchäologie
    Abstract: Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book considers how case material from the region can enhance our understanding of the nature, origins and development of complexity. The archaeological, historical and anthropological case materials are relevant to a number of recent concerns, revealing how complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. Contributors engage important theoretical issues, including the continuing influence of deeply embedded evolutionary notions in archaeological concepts of complexity, the importance of alternative modes of complex organization such as flexible hierarchies, multiple overlapping hierarchies, and horizontal differentiation, and the significance of different forms of power. The distinguished list of contributors include historians, archaeologists and anthropologists
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Pathways to complexity: an African perspective , The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy , Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies , Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns , Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the Inland Niger Delta , Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa , Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon , Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory , Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700-1700 , Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda , The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past , Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511558238
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  • 3
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    Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511800276
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 340 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Studies in comparative world history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/2604
    RVK:
    NK 4300
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    NN 1730
    RVK:
    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 1400-1680 ; Geschichte 1500-1680 ; Geschichte 1400-1800 ; Geschichte 1482-1648 ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Slavery ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Europa ; Africa / Relations / Europe ; Europe / Relations / Africa ; Africa / Relations / America ; America / Relations / Africa ; Europe / History / 1492-1648 ; Amerika ; Europa ; Afrika ; Westafrika ; Westafrika ; Sklaverei ; Amerika ; Kolonialismus ; Geschichte 1500-1680 ; Amerika ; Afrika ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1400-1680 ; Europa ; Afrika ; Geschichte 1400-1680 ; Afrika ; Europa ; Geschichte 1400-1800 ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Geschichte 1400-1800 ; Afrika ; Europa ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Amerika ; Geschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte 1400-1800 ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Geschichte 1482-1648
    Abstract: This 1998 book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics of colonization which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers, and he explains why African slaves were placed in roles of central significance. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors, transferring and transforming African culture in the New World
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511800276
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  • 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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    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
    RVK:
    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
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  • 6
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    Statistics for anthropology (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139171113
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages)
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    DDC: 301
    RVK:
    LB 21000
    RVK:
    LB 33000
    RVK:
    MR 2100
    RVK:
    MS 9350
    RVK:
    WC 7000
    RVK:
    WU 1000
    Keywords: Anthropology / Statistical methods ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Statistik ; Anthropologie ; Statistik ; Ethnologie ; Statistik
    Abstract: Anthropology students increasingly need a quantitative background, but statistics are often seen as difficult and impenetrable. Statistics for Anthropology offers students of anthropology and other social sciences an easy, step-by-step route through the statistical maze. In clear, simple language, using relevant examples and practice problems, it provides a solid footing in basic statistical techniques, and is designed to give students a thorough grounding in methodology, and also insight into how and when to apply the various processes. The book assumes a minimal background in mathematics, and is suitable for the computer-literate and illiterate. Although only a hand calculator is needed, computer statistical software can be used to accompany the text. This book will be a 'must-have' for all anthropology and social science students needing an introduction to basic statistics
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139171113
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  • 7
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    Patterns of thought in Africa and the West : essays on magic, religion and science (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780521369268 , 0521369266
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 471 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition published
    DDC: 299.6
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    LC 30465
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    BE 5500
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    MS 6950
    Keywords: Religion, Primitive Africa ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Africa Religion ; Religion Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Religion ; Geistesgeschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-464) and index
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  • 8
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    Mangrove man : dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139166867
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 335 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 106
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    DDC: 306/.089/9912
    Keywords: Murik (Papua New Guinean people) ; Murik ; Ethnologie ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Murik ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: This was 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
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139166867
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  • 9
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    About the house : Lévi-Strauss and beyond (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511607653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)
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    DDC: 307.3/36
    RVK:
    LB 66000
    RVK:
    LB 66400
    RVK:
    LB 66645
    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Indianer ; Dwellings / Social aspects ; Dwellings / Southeast Asia ; Dwellings / South America ; Kinship / Southeast Asia ; Indians of South America / Kinship ; Hausbau ; Verwandtschaft ; Wohnen ; Haus ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohnen ; Verwandtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Wohnen ; Hausbau ; Ethnologie ; Haus ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Wohnen ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people, and ideas. They reveal some of the ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order
    Description / Table of Contents: Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson -- The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Houses in Langkawi : stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten -- Having your house and eating it : houses and siblings in Ara, South Sualwesi / Thomas Gibson -- The Lio House : building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell -- Houses and hierarchy : the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon -- Houses, places and people : community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Rivière -- The houses of the Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea -- Inside-out and back-to-front : the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
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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)
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    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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  • 11
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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: 9780511521041
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 95
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    DDC: 305.89/93
    RVK:
    LB 48594
    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Vezo (Malagasy people) ; Vezo (Malagasy people) / Ethnic identity ; Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Ethnologie ; Vezo ; Betania (Madagascar) / Social life and customs ; Madagaskar ; Madagaskar ; Vezo ; Ethnologie ; Ethnische Identität ; Vezo ; Identität
    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
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  • 12
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    Power, marginality and African oral literature (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511521164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
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    DDC: 398.2/096
    RVK:
    EP 20223
    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Politik ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Narrative poetry, African ; Power (Social sciences) / Africa ; Social structure / Africa ; Marginality, Social / Africa ; Literatur ; Sozialstruktur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Volksliteratur ; Mündliche Literatur ; Macht ; Randgruppe ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Social life and customs ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Sozialstruktur ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Volksliteratur ; Afrika ; Randgruppe ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Mündliche Literatur ; Afrika ; Macht
    Abstract: African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature / Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner -- 2. Oral art and contemporary cultural nationalism / Penina Mlama -- 3. The letter and the law: the politics of orality and literacy in the chiefdoms of the northern Transvaal / Isabel Hofmeyr -- 4. A king is not above insult: the politics of good governance in Nzema avudwene festival songs / Kofi Agovi -- 5. Igbo enwe eze: monarchical power versus democratic values in Igbo oral narratives / Chukwuma Azuonye -- 6. Tales and ideology: the revolt of sons in Bambara-Malinke tales / Veronika Gorog-Karady -- 7. Images of the powerful in Lyela folktales / Sabine Steinbrich -- 8. Power, marginality and Somali oral poetry: case studies in the dynamics of tradition / John William Johnson -- 9. The function of oral art in the regulation of social power in Dyula society / Jean Derive -- 10. The power of words and the relation between Hausa genres / Graham Furniss
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