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  • 1
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    Christianity and genocide in Rwanda (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-26953-7 , 978-0-521-19139-5 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 350 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 112
    Keywords: Ruanda (Staat) Geschichte ; Völkermord ; Christentum ; Religion ; Kirche ; Gewalt ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: Although Rwanda is among the most Christian countries in Africa, in the 1994 genocide, church buildings became the primary killing grounds. To explain why so many Christians participated in the violence, this book looks at the history of Christian engagement in Rwanda and then turns to a rich body of original national- and local-level research to argue that Rwanda's churches have consistently allied themselves with the state and played ethnic politics. Comparing two local Presbyterian parishes in Kibuye before the genocide demonstrates that progressive forces were seeking to democratize the churches. Just as Hutu politicians used the genocide of Tutsi to assert political power and crush democratic reform, church leaders supported the genocide to secure their own power. The fact that Christianity inspired some Rwandans to oppose the genocide demonstrates that opposition by the churches was possible and might have hindered the violence. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction. 1. "People came to mass each day to pray, then they went out to kill": Christian churches, civil society, and genocide -- Part 1. "River of blood": Rwanda's national churches and the 1994 genocide -- 2. "Render unto Caesar and Musinga ...": Christianity and the colonial state -- 3. The churches and the politics of ethnicity -- 4. "Working hand in hand": Christian churches and the postcolonial state (1962-1990) -- 5, "Giants with feet of clay": Christian churches and democratization (1990-1992) -- 6. "It is the end of the world": Christian churches and genocide (1993-1994) -- Part II. "God has hidden his face": Local churches and the exercise of power in Rwanda -- 7. Kirinda: local churches and the construction of hegemony -- 8. Biguhu: local churches, empowerment of the poor, and challenges to hegemony -- 9. "Commanded by the devil": Christian involvement in the genocide in Kirinda and Biguhu -- 10.Churches and accounting for genocide -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 325-340 , Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 1995, entitled Christianity and Crisis in Rwanda: Religion, Civil Society, Democratization, and Decline
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  • 2
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    Book
    Islam and social change in French West Africa : history of an emancipatory community (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-15629-5 , 978-0-521-89971-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 311 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 110
    Keywords: Westafrika Sufismus ; Geschichte ; Islam ; Sozialer Wandel ; Religion ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sylla, Yacouba [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on orthographic conventions -- Abbreviations used in references -- Introduction -- Part One: "The Suffering of Our Father": Story and Context -- 1. Sufism and Status in the Western Sudan -- 2. Making a Revival: Yacouba Sylla and His Followers -- 3. Making a Community: The "Yacoubists" from 1930 to 2001 -- Part Two: "I Will Prove to You That What I Say Is True": Knowledge and Colonial Rule -- 4. Ghosts and the Grain of the Archives -- 5. History in the Zawiya: Redemptive Traditions -- Part Three: "What Did He Give You?": Interpretation -- 6. Lost Origins: Women and Spiritual Equality -- 7. The Spiritual Economy of Emancipation -- 8. The Gift of Work: Devotion, Hierarchy, and Labor -- 9. "To Never Shed Blood": Yacouba, Houphouet, and Cote d'lvoire -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Note on References -- Index
    Note: "to hew the book out of the dissertation on which it is based." (Acknowledgements) , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003, entitled Constructing a religious community in French west Africa: the Hamawi Sufis of Yacouba Sylla
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  • 3
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    Worship and conflict under colonial rule : a South Indian case (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-05358-7 , 0-521-05358-7
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Digitally printed version. First published 1981
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian Studies 27
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Religion ; Religion und Politik ; Politik ; Regierung ; Konflikt ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie
    Abstract: Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and social history to construct a model of institutional change in South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality, Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia. These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of scholars.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1. The South Indian temple: cultural model and historical problem; 2. Kings, sects, and temples: South Indian Sri Vaisnavism, 1350-1700; 3. British rule and temple politics, 1700-1826; 4. From bureaucracy to judiciary, 1826-1878; 5. Litigation and the politics of sectarian control, 1878-1925; 6. Rethinking the present: some contextual implications; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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  • 4
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    Living Islam : Muslim religious experience in Pakistan's North-West frontier (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-61765-0 , 978-0-521-61765-9 , 0-521-85223-4 , 978-0-521-85223-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 297 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: reprinted
    Keywords: Pakistan Muslime ; Religion ; Islam ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Alltag ; Kultur ; Grenze ; Afghanistan ; Chitral 〈Region, Pakistan〉
    Abstract: Popular representations of Pakistan's North West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden is an anthropologist who has immersed himself in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years. His evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. Through an exploration of the everyday experiences of both men and women, he shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life, enhanced by the creative force of poetry, dancing and critical debate. Challenging much that has been assumed about the Muslim world, this study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics both within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Rowshan: Chitral village life; 3. Emotions upside-down: affection and Islam; 4. The play of the mind: debating village Muslims; 5. Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz; 6. Rowshan's amulet making ulama; 7. To eat or not to eat: Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan; 8. Conclusion.
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  • 5
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    Priests, witches and power : popular Christianity after mission in Southern Tanzania (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-62189-5 , 978-0-521-62189-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 180 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 112
    DDC: 306.609678
    RVK:
    BO 1875
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    LC 30549
    Keywords: Tansania Christentum ; Mission, christliche ; Religion ; Religion, traditionelle ; Verwandtschaft
    Abstract: In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.
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    HU Berlin
    München BSB
    Frobenius-Institut
    KOBV
    BVB
    Bayreuth UB
  • 6
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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
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-210
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    München BSB
    Frobenius-Institut
    Regensburg UB
    BSZ
    GBV
    KOBV
    BVB
    Ethn. Museum Berlin
    MARKK
    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • 7
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    Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of aastern India (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38447-8 , 978-0-521-38447-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 88
    Keywords: Indien Savara ; Tod ; Religion ; Schamanismus ; Begräbnissitte ; Trauer ; Seelenvorstellung ; Ethnopsychologie ; Psychologie ; Psychoanalyse ; Psychiatrie
    Abstract: Piers Vitebsky's study of religion and psychology in tribal India focusses upon a unique form of dialogue between the living and the dead, conducted through the medium of a shaman in trance. The dead sometimes nurture their living descendants, yet at other times they inflict upon them the very illnesses from which they died. Through intimate dialogue, the Sora use the occasion of death to explore their closest emotional attachments in all their ambivalence. Dr. Vitebsky analyses the actors' words and relationships over several years and develops a typology of moods among the dead and of kinds of memory among the living. In comparing Sora shamanism with the treatment of bereavement in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, he highlights a contrast in their assumption which has far-reaching consequences for the social and professional scope of the two kinds of practice. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates, figures, texts -- Preface -- Part I. Sonum: the continuation of consciousness after death. 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead. 2. The Sora people. 3. The formation of the Sora person. 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead -- Part II. Responding to a new death. 5. Transcription of a dialogue from the inquest on Jamano. 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living -- Part III. Operating the calculus of all previous deaths. 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons. 8. Memories and rememberers: states of mind among the dead and the living. 9. Forgetting the dead. 10. Dialogues with the self? Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy -- Appendix 1. List of sonums recorded in Alinsing -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-281 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982 entitled Dialogues with the dead: the experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of central India.
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  • 8
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    Australian rock art : a new synthesis (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34666-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 284 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 709/.01/130994
    Keywords: Australien Ureinwohner, Australien ; Felsbild ; Felsbild-Interpretation ; Felsbild-Stil ; Kunst, ozeanische ; Prähistorische Kunst ; Anthropologie ; Archäologie ; Religion ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, australisch
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    Weltkulturen Museum
    Frobenius-Institut
    BSZ
    GBV
    Ethn. Museum Berlin
    MPI Ethno. Forsch.
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