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    From empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel : The road to nongovernmentality (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-01654-5 , 978-1-107-60252-6 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 281 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 129
    Keywords: Westafrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Sudan ; Sahel ; Mali ; Migration ; Muslime ; Imperialismus ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Dekolonisation ; Postkolonialismus ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Bürgerrechtsbewegung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Politik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara - became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, the postcolonial West African Sahel became fertile terrain for the production of novel forms of governmental rationality realized through NGOs. The roots of this 'nongovernmentality' lay partly in Europe and North America, but it flowered, paradoxically, in the Sahel. This book is unique in that it questions not only how West African states exercised their new sovereignty but also how and why NGOs - ranging from CARE and Amnesty International to black internationalists - began to assume elements of sovereignty during a period in which it was so highly valued. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 - Knowing the Postcolony -- 2 - A New Republic -- Part II -- Introduction to Part II: Sahelian Migrations and State Thought -- 3 - "French" Muslims in Sudan -- 4 - Well-Known Strangers: How West Africans Became Foreigners in Postimperial France -- Part III -- Introduction to Part III: Saving the Sahel -- 5 - Governing Famine -- 6 - Human Rights and Saharan Prisons -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-273
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    From Africa to Brazil : Culture, identity, and an Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1830 (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-15238-9 , 978-0-521-76409-4 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 113
    Keywords: Amazonas-Gebiet Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Diaspora ; Guinea ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Emanzipation, Frau
    Abstract: From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. The Why and How of Enslavement and Transportation -- 1. From Indian to African slaves -- 2. Slave production -- 3. From Upper Guinea to Amazonia -- Part II. Culture Change and Cultural Continuity -- 4. Labor over 'brown' rice -- 5. Violence, sex and the family -- 6. Spiritual beliefs -- Conclusion -- Index
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    Sexual politics in modern Iran (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-72708-2 , 978-0-521-89846-1 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 423 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published, 3rd printing 2011
    Keywords: Iran Sexualität ; Frau und Islam ; Frau ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frauenrecht ; Geschlechterforschung ; Feminismus ; Geschlechterrolle ; Verhalten, sexuelles ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Pre-modern Practices -- 1. Formal marriage -- 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives -- 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship -- Part II. Toward a Westernized Modernity -- 4. On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage -- 5. Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, shifting desires -- 6. Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage -- 7. Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality -- 8. The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamism -- Part III. Forging an Islamist Modernity and Beyond -- 9. The Islamic revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left -- 10. Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism -- 11. Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle -- Conclusion: toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 378-410
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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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    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
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-257
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    Honor and grace in anthropology (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39055-9 , 978-0-521-39055-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 260 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 76
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Spanien ; Andalusien ; Katholik ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained. They range from the French royal rituals of the Middle Ages to the murderous feuds and peace-making rites of the Rif; they show how different peoples and periods have faced the problems of power, legitimacy, purity, divinity, and personal destiny. The concluding chapter suggests that anthropology, which ignored honor until a quarter of a century ago, should no longer ignore grace, whose varied connotations provide the basis of religious doctrines as well as the common coinage of the exchange of favors and thanks.
    Description / Table of Contents: Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France / Catherine Lafages -- The court surrounds the king: Louis XIV, the Palatine princess, and Saint-Simon / Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie -- Rites as acts of institution / Pierre Bourdieu -- Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain / Julio Caro Baroja -- The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community / J.G. Peristiany -- The Greek hero / J.K. Campbell -- Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily / Maria Pia Di Bella -- From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif / Raymond Jamous -- Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept / Sandra Ott -- Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology / Julian Pitt-Rivers.
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    Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental and African slave trades (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 , 978-0-521-34867-6 , 0-521-34396-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34396-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 67
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Demographie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturwandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Abolition ; Methodologie ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century.While the book is primarily a general survey, it presents original research and analysis, especially in the author's demographic model, computer simulation of the slave trade, and analysis of slave prices. The demographic, economic, and social analyses are carefully introduced, so that the book may serve not only as a general introduction to African slavery for an undergraduate audience, but as a primer on interdisciplinary application of social science methodolgy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa -- 2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 2-- 3 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model -- 4 The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 -- 5 The economics and morality of slave supply -- 6 Patterns of slave life -- 7 Transformations of slavery and society ,1650-1900 -- 8 The end of slavery -- 9 The world and Africa -- Appendix 1: Slave prices -- Appendix 2: The demographic simulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-226
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    The _southern marches of imperial Ethiopia : essays in history and social anthropology (1986)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-32237-5 , 978-0-521-32237-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 308 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 51
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Tagungsbericht
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. The making of an mperial state -- 2. Renegotiating power and authority -- 3. Reorienting kinsho and identiy -- 4. Expanding tribute and trade -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: "Revised versions of selected papers originally presented at a workshop of the Cambridge African Studies Centre, in July 1979 and at a conference at Monterey, California, in March 1982" (Preface)Enthält 9 BeiträgeLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 295-298
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    Law, custom, and social order : the colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia (1985)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-30137-8 , 978-0-521-30137-4
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 286 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 45
    Keywords: Zentralafrika Sambia ; Malawi ; Recht, traditionelles ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Kolonie, britisch ; Rechtsethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface page -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Law, anthropology and history -- 1 Social and legal history in Central Africa -- 2 African law and anthropologists -- 3 African law and lawyers -- Part II Right and wrong -- 4 The lawgivers in Central Africa: social control -- 5 Witches and ordeals -- 6 The courts and the people: law in action I -- 7 Africans and the law -- Part III Men and women -- 8 The lawgivers in Central Africa: marriage and morality -- 9 Slaves and masters -- 10 The courts and the people: law in action II -- 11 Africans, law and marriage -- Part IV Discussion -- 12 Writing African legal history -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-281
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    Individual and society in Guiana : a comparative study of Amerindian social organization (1984)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-26997-0 , 978-0-521-26997-1 , 0-521-26453-7 , 978-0-521-26453-2
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 127 Seiten , Tabelle, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 51
    Keywords: Guyana Indianer, Südamerika ; Individuum und Gesellschaft ; Karibe ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Riviere employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere in Lowland South America, he constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure, and argues that the Guianan variant represents the logically simplest form of organization in the area.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; 1. Peoples and approaches; 2. The settlement pattern: size, duration, and distribution; 3. Village composition; 4. The categories of social classification; 5. Aspects of social relationships; 6. Autonomy and dependency; 7. The individual in society; 8. Guiana society and the wider context
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 115-120
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    Nomads and the outside world (1984)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-23813-7 , 978-0-521-23813-7
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xxviii, 369 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 44
    Uniform Title: Kocevniki i vnesnij mir
    Keywords: Nomade Nomadismus ; Beduine ; Berber ; Tuareg ; Uigure ; Usbeke ; Viehhalter ; Viehhaltung ; Weidewirtschaft ; Steppe ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Beziehungen Nomade-Seßhafter ; Akkulturation ; Transhumanz ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Afrika ; Äthiopen ; Mongolei ; Mongolen ; Russland ; Somalia ; Asien ; China ; Tibet ; Turkmenistan ; Eurasien ; Türkei ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten ; Afghanistan ; Kulturvergleich
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Ernest Gellner -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the phenomenon of nomadism: myths and problems -- 1. Nomadism as a distinct form of food-producing economy -- 2. The origins of pastoral nomadism -- 3. The social preconditions of the relations beween nomads and the outside world -- 4. Modes of nomadic adaptation to the outside world -- 5. Nomads and the state -- By way of a conclusion: the outside world and nomads -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Words in languages other than Russian -- Works in Russian -- Index
    Note: Literatuverzeichnis: Seite 307-355
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    The _untouchable as himself : ideology, identity and pragmatism among the Lucknow Chamars (1984)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-26314-X , 978-0-521-26314-6 , 0-521-26926-1 , 978-0-521-26926-1
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 189 Seiten , Illustration, Tabellen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 8
    Keywords: Indien Uttar Pradesh ; Ethnie, Indien ; Unberührbarer ; Askese ; Kaste ; Kastenwesen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The world of the Indian Untouchable is often invisible behind that of the dominant Hindu caste, but it is of no less significance for the understanding of contemporary Indian society. The Untouchables, like the caste Hindu, have been substantially affected by the political, economic and social changes that are occurring in independent India. While India has legally abolished untouchability, the society scarcely has and the Untouchables continue to face social resistance and deprivation. However, the changing social circumstances have given rise to a new awareness and increased expectations among the Untouchables and, although their social achievements may have been limited, they are engaged in a process of questioning and reformulating old definitions of self and society. This book is a study of the new frame of mind of the Untouchable. The work presents a complete discussion of the value structure and meaning of Untouchable ideology. It is a subtle combination of sensitive ethnographic data, taken from a field study of the Chamars of Lucknow, with an analysis of Untouchable accounts of their perceptions and experiences expressed in their own terms and a penetrating interpretation of wider cultural concepts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Note on transliteration; Introduction: The inquiry and its context; Part I. Untouchable Ideology: 1. The moral basis; 2. Formulations, categories and procedures; 3. Evaluating an ideal ascetic; 4. Moral individuation: a climax; Part II. Pragmatic Strategies: 5. Transition I: The worldly ascetic; 6. Transition II: The radical and protesting ascetic; 7. Articulation of the practical ethos; 8. Identification of deprivation and its manipulation; 9. Evaluation and accountability; Conclusion: aspects of significance; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 174-181
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    Traders without trade : responses to change in two Dyula communities (1982)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-24179-0
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 188 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 42
    Keywords: Elfenbeinküste Ethnie, Afrika ; Diula ; Malinke ; Senufo ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Handel ; Akkulturation ; Islam ; Verwandtschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The word dyula means 'trader' in the Manding language. It is also the name of certain Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in parts of northern Ivory Coast, who, for centuries before the advent of colonial rule, enjoyed a virtual trading monopoly over the local region. In the first part of this book Robert Launay describes two Dyula communities prior to the twentieth-century colonial period: he discusses the regional symbiosis between Dyula traders and Senufo farmers; the organization of Dyula activity; and the division of the communities into relatively small clan wards with high rates of in-marriage. The second part examines the ways in which both communities have adapted to the recent loss of their trading monopoly, and the strategies they have employed, such as emigration, the assimilation of Western education and the adoption of new occupations, to carve out a new economic niche for themselves. As an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' community into a modern town, the book will be of interest to anthropologists and others concerned with development and modernisation in Africa and the Third World.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures, maps and tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: the people and the problem -- Part I. The Legacy of the Past. 2. Dyula and Senufo. 3. Warriors, scholars and traders. 4. Clansmen and kinsmen. 5. The mechanics of marriage -- Part II. Responses to Change. 6. The seeds of change. 7. Occupation, migration and education. 8. Being Dyula in the twentieth century. 9. Dyula Islam: the new orthodoxy. 10. Kinship in a changing world -- 11. Conclusions: Heraclitus' paradox -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 178-181
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    Muslim society (1981)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22160-9 , 978-0-521-22160-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 267 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 32
    Keywords: Arabische Staaten Islam ; Soziologie ; Nordafrika ; Tunesien ; Algerien ; Marokko ; Maghreb ; Recht, islamisches ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Gesellschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of blending with extreme social radicalism. As an agent of political mobilisation, it seems to be overtaking Marxism, arid surpassing all other religions. The present book seeks the roots of this situation in the past. The traditional Muslim society of the arid zone has, in the past, displayed remarkable stability and homogeneity, despite great political fragmentation, and the absence of a centralised religious hierarchy. The book explores the mechanisms which have contributed to this result - a civilisation in which (in the main) weak states co-existed with a strong culture, which had a powerful hold over the populations under its sway. A literate Great Tradition, in the keeping of urban scholars, lived side by side with a more emotive, ecstatic folk tradition, ill tile keeping of holy lineages, religious brotherhoods and freelance saints. One tradition was sustained by the urban trading class and periodically swept the rest of the society in waves of revivalist enthusiasm; the other was based on the multiple functions it performed in rural tribal society and amongst the urban poor. The two traditions were intertwined, yet remained in latent tension which from time to time came to tile surface. The book traces the manner in which the impact of the modern world, acting through colonialism arid industrialisation upset the once stable balance, and helped the erstwhile urban Great Tradition to become the pervasive arid dominant one, culminating in the zealous arid radical Islam which is so prominent now. The argument is both formulated in the abstract and illustrated by a series of case studies and examinations of specific aspects, and critical examinations of rival interpretations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Flux and reflux in the faith of men -- 2. Cohesion and identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim -- 3. Post-traditional forms in Islam: the turf and trade, and votes and peanuts -- 4. Doctor and saint -- 5. Sanctity, puritanism, secularisation and nationalism in North Africa: a case study -- 6. The unknown Apollo of Biskra: the social base of Algerian puritanism -- 7. Trousers in Tunisia -- 8. The sociology of Robert Montagne (1893-1954) -- 9. Patterns of rural rebellion in Morocco during the early years of independence -- 10. Saints and their descendants -- 11. The marabouts in the market place -- 12. Rulers and tribesmen -- Notes -- Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's North African writings -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-251
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    Patrons and partisans : a study of politics in two southern Italian comuni (1980)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22872-7 , 978-0-521-22872-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii,195 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 31
    Keywords: Italien Politik und Gesellschaft ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Anthropologie, politische ; Grundeigentum ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: In this book, Caroline White presents a challenge to the orthodox approach to southern Italian politics. From her study of two neighbouring villages in the Abruzzi region, she argues that patron-clientism - a form of political relations by means of which resources are distributed in exchange for political support, and which has been seen as typical in southern Italy - is not universal, and that the particularities of local history may give rise to alternative forms that are open and democratic, and oppose the domination of political elites. By immersing herself in the two communities Dr White has developed a deep understanding of the interrelations between economic life, kinship ties, friendship networks, clubs, and religious beliefs in each: her explanation of the striking political differences between the villages in terms of the historical development of the social relations of production is rigorous and convincing.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory -- 2. Trasacco -- 3. Luco dei Marsi -- 4. Conclusion -- Glossary of characters -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-187
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    Literature and violence in North Arabia (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-29399-5 , 978-0-521-29399-0 , 0-521-22074-2 , 978-0-521-22074-3
    ISSN: 1759-3816
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems 3
    Keywords: Arabische Halbinsel Mittlerer Osten ; Beduine ; Nomade ; Nomadismus ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Literatur, arabische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Rwala ; Cyrenaika ; Kriegsführung
    Abstract: Among the Bedouins of North Arabia, accounts of intertribal conflicts were the focus of ceremonial oral performances. In this study, Michael Meeker examines the relationship between these oral performances of the Bedouins and their way of life and poses questions about these performances which raise important issues in the fields of Orientalism and anthropology. This book, first published in 1979, challenges the tendency of historians to neglect the relationship between conditions in the literate urban centers and those in the hinterlands. As he discusses the intersection of art and life among the Bedouins, Meeker is able to show how the place of pastoral nomadism in Near-Eastern history has a bearing on many of the problems that have concerned Orientalists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Part I. The Epoch of Near-Eastern Pastoral Nomadism in Arabia: 1. The ethnography of Near-Eastern tribal societies; 2. The personal voice and the uncertainty of relationships; 3. The composition of the voice and the popular investment in political adventures; Part II. The Narratives of Raiding and Warfare: 4. Cautious and sensible chiefs and the strategic use of aggressive resources; 5. Political authority, the metaphor of scriptural signification and the metaphor of a domestic covering; 6. Rwala monotheism and the wish for authority; Part III. The Poems of Raiding and Warfare: 7. Heroic skills and beastly energies; 8. Poetic structure and the pressure of heroic interests; 9. Shadows and echoes of the priority of the concrete; Part IV. Segmentary Politics and the Cult of Saints in North Africa: 10. The forms of segmentary politics and their relative absence among the North Arabian Bedouins; 11. Political wildness and religious domesticity among the Cyrenaican Bedouins; 12. Narratives of the mystical power of saints in Morocco; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-264
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    Slaves, peasants and capitalists in southern Angola 1840-1926 (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22406-3 , 978-0-521-04743-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 132 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 27
    Keywords: Angola Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Landbevölkerung ; Historiographie
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Note on proper names -- Note on currency -- Abbreviation -- Introduction -- 1. Land and peoples -- 2. The colonial context -- 3. The economy of the colonial nucleus -- 4. Society and politics in the colonial nucleus -- 5. The peasant economy --6. Peasant societies --7. Epilogue -- Maps and graphs -- Sources and bibliography -- Index
    Note: "The present book is based on this thesis, but the two differ very substantially." (Preface)Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 118-127 , Doctoral thesis, University of London, 1975, entitled Mossamedes and its hinterland, 1975-1915
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    Casting out anger : religion among the Taita of Kenya (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21729-6 , 978-0-521-21729-3
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 193 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 21
    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Kenia ; Kenia-Hochland-Bantu ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Teita ; Religion, traditionelle ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: This account of an East African religion as it was during the 1950s discusses a variety of issues in the study of religion, within the context of case materials and other field data. The Taita people of southern Kenya called their religion Butasi after its central act which combined utterance with spraying-out of liquid from the mouth. Taking up the central theme of mystical anger, Dr Harris explores the social and cultural aspects of doctrines and rituals. She shows that the interpretation and shaping of the experience of misfortune occurred in religious interaction: between living humans having mystical attributes, and between them and person-like mystical agencies. Many of the concepts, practices, themes and elements discussed have been reported for other African religions, often with little comment or analysis. Here they are brought together, explored, and related to one another. The result is a many-sided, yet integrated picture of a single religion. Presented in clear and non-technical language, the study serves to illuminate many religions throughout the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates and figures -- Preface -- Note on orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The domain of Taita religion -- 3. Ritual and the moral career -- 4. The hearts of kin: anger-removal rites -- 5. Group welfare and the Great Medicines -- 6. Ritual elements and ritual efficacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literatuverzeichnis: Seite 186-188
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    People of the zongo : the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana (1978)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21483-1 , 978-0-521-21483-4
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 302 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 20
    Keywords: Ghana Migration ; Differenzierung ; Ethnizität ; Mossi ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Identität
    Abstract: Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures and maps -- Preface -- Glossary -- Part I. Ethnicity and Migration. 1. Introduction: conceptual approaches to the study of ethnicity. 2. The Mossi: ethnicity in Voltaic society. 3. Migration and settlement of Mossi in Ghana -- Part II. Kinship and Community. 4. The growth of the zongo community in Kumasi. 5. Ethnicity and the domestic context. 6. Ethnicity and the idiom of kinship. 7. Kinship and marriage in the second generation -- Part III. Politics and Change. 8. The political history of the zongo community: 1900-1970. 9. The social organization of the Mossi community. 10. Ethnicity, generational cleavages, and the political process. 11. Conclusion: ethnicity, cultural integration and social stratification -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: A revision of the author's thesis, Cambridge University, 1969 , Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 287-295 , Thesis Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1969
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    Women and property in Morocco : their changing relation to the process of social stratification in the Middle Atlas (1974)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-20548-4 , 978-0-521-20548-1
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii,238 Seite , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 10
    Keywords: Marokko Frau ; Geschichte ; Frau und Islam ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sexualität ; Grundeigentum ; Eigentum ; Sozialer Wandel ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco. Vanessa Maher suggests that three systems of social stratification modify one another: a system of classes based on relation to the means of production; a system of estates, differentiated by inherited status; and a system of segmentary tribal groups, based on territorial rights. Although all Moroccans use all these systems on different occasions it is the women who, faced with their own exclusion from wage-earning, along with the instability of marriage and the inadequacy of most family incomes, respond by perpetually reconstituting the groups on which they must depend, those based on territorial rights and putative kinship. By observing these social networks, Maher has been able to identify part of what inhibits the development of class consciousness, and what favours a clientistic political structure.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Note on orthography; Introduction; 1. The background; 2. Estates, tribal groups and the market today; 3. Patron-client relations; 4. How it looks on the ground; 5. The cultural corollary: education and social stratification; 6. Religion and social stratification; 7. Conjugal roles, kinship roles and the division of labour; 8. Relationships among women; 9. Fostering; 10. Marriage; 11. Marriage and the market; 12. The position of the bride after marriage; 13. Divorce and property; Conclusions; Glossary; Select bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-233
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    Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman : a study of urban monastic organization in central Thailand (1973)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-08591-8 , 978-0-521-08591-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 219 Seiten , Tabellen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 6
    Keywords: Thailand Mönchtum ; Buddhismus ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Thai social system -- 1. "The way of the monk" -- 2. The monk and the lay community - 3. The wat community -- 4. The wat and its social matrix -- 5. The role of the Buddhist layman -- 6. The loosely structured social system: red herring or rara avis? -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 210-212
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    Silver mining and society in colonial Mexico : Zacatecas, 1546-1700 (1971)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-08227-7 , 978-0-521-08227-3
    ISSN: 0068-6670
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 294 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American Studies 15
    Keywords: Mexiko Bergbau ; Silber ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: An examination of silver mining and society in Colonial Mexico in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating upon Zacatecas, the centre of the principal silver-mining region. In the first half of the book, the author describes the discovery of the mines, the establishment of the town, its role in the northward advance of the Spanish occupation of Mexico, its administration, and the sources of its supplies of essential food and materials. The remainder of the book is devoted to an analysis of the mining industry of the Zacatecas district. The author discusses techniques, labour and raw materials. He also provides statistics for silver production, suggesting reasons for their fluctuation, and explores sources of capital for the industry. Based on detailed study of archives in both Spain and Mexico, Dr Bakewell is able to provide an entirely new chronology for the development of Zacatecas and the Mexican maining industry up to 1700.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; The setting; 1. Discovery and settlement; 2. Consolidation and expansion; 3. The city; 4. Supplies and distribution; 5. Corregidor and cabildo; 6. The circumstances of mining; 7. Mercury; 8. The production of silver; 9. Conclusion: plus extra; Tables; Graphs; Plans; Appendix; Glossary; On primary sources; Select bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-285
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    City politics : a study of Le´opoldville, 1962-63 (1970)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-07627-7 , 978-0-521-07627-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 247 Seiten, 2 Faltblätter , Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 1
    Keywords: Demokratische Republik Kongo Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kinshasa 〈Stadt, Demokratische Republik Kongo〉
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 239-244
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    Culture and class in anthropology and history : a Newfoundland illustration
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-25403-5 , 978-0-521-25403-8 , 2-7351-0137-1 , 978-2-7351-0137-5
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 205 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 60
    Keywords: Neufundland Soziale Klasse ; Sozialer Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In this book Gerald Sider rebuilds theories of class and class struggle, at the same time rethinking and making significant the concept of culture. Rooted in the history of the last two centuries of daily life in the maritime villages of Newfoundland and Labrador, the book develops an historical anthropology that interweaves ordinary moments, spectacular customs, and social confrontations, as well as exploring the role of folk culture in daily life, state politics, and labour domination. It also presents an original analysis of merchant capital, the often unexamined context of a great many anthropological studies, and a key factor in the integration of the hinterlands with regional and global economic systems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Map of Newfoundland -- Part 1. Introductions -- Part 2. Domination, alliances, and descent -- Part 3. The politics of subsistence production: hegemony at work in a collapsing state -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-200
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