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    Power and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49404-5 , 9781108625166 /E-Book , 978-1-108-71383-2 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 306 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 146
    Keywords: Kenia Führer, politischer ; Biographie ; Kenyatta, Jomo (1891-1978) ; Jomo Kenyatta 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Jumu Kinyata 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Kinyata, Jumu 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Kamau Ngengi 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Ngengi, Kamau 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Kamau wa Ngengi 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Ngengi, Kamau wa 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo ; Ngengi, Johnstone Kamau 〉 Kenyatta, Jomo
    Abstract: In December 1963, Kenya formally declared its independence yet it would take a year of intense negotiations for it to transform into a presidential republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Archival records of the independence negotiations, however, reveal that neither the British colonial authorities nor the Kenyan political elite foresaw the formation of a presidential regime that granted one man almost limitless executive powers. Even fewer expected Jomo Kenyatta to remain president until his death in 1978. Power and the Presidency in Kenya reconstructs Kenyatta's political biography, exploring the links between his ability to emerge as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of the country. In describing Kenyatta's presidential style as discreet and distant, Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonisation, the increasing centralisation of executive powers and the repression of political oppositions shaped Kenyatta's politics. Telling the story of state building through political biography, Angelo reveals how historical contingency and structural developments shaped both a man and an institution - the president and the presidency. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination -- 2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961) -- 3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (1961-1963) -- 4. Independence and the making of a president (1963-1964) -- 5. Kenyatta, Meru politics and the last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965) -- 6. Taming oppositions: Kenyatta's 'secluded' politics (1964-1966) -- 7. Ruling over a divided political family (1965-1969) -- 8. 'Kenyatta simply will not contemplate his own death' (1970-1978) -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-303 , PhD theses, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Florence, 2016 unter dem Titel: Becoming president: a political biography of Jomo Kenyatta (1958-1969), online unter http://hdl.handle.net/1814/44166
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    East Africa after liberation : conflict, security and the state since the 1980s (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49427-4 , 978-1-108-66507-0 /E-Book, 978-1-108-71431-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 322 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 147
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Eritrea ; Äthiopien ; Ruanda (Staat) ; Uganda ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Politischer Wandel ; Sicherheit ; Geschichte, politische ; Regierung ; Macht ; Konflikt, politischer ; Revolte ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: Between 1986 and 1994, East Africa's postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary 'liberation' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements transformed from rebels to rulers, promising to deliver 'fundamental change'. This study exposes, examines and underlines the acute challenges each has faced in doing so. Drawing on over 130 interviews with the region's post-liberation elite, undertaken over the course of a decade, Jonathan Fisher takes a fresh and empirically-grounded approach to explaining the fast-moving politics of the region over the last three decades, focusing on the role and influence of its guerrilla governments. East Africa after Liberation sheds critical light on the competing pressures post-liberation governments contend with as they balance reformist aspirations with accommodation of counter-vailing interests, historical trajectories and their own violent organisational cultures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I - Insurgency -- 1 - East Africa`s Post-liberation Elite and the Legacy of Insurgency I: Movement State And Society -- 2 - East Africa`s Post-liberation Elite and the Legacy of Insurgency II: From Rebellion To Government -- Part II - Liberation -- 3 - From Rebels to Diplomats: Pragmatism Aspiration And Mistrust 1986 1995 -- 4 - Reinventing Liberation: Revolution And Regret In Congo And Sudan 1995 2000 -- Part III - Crisis -- 5 - The Disintegration of the Liberation Coalition, 1998-2007 -- 6 - From Regional Conflict to Domestic Crisis: Regime Consolidation And The Fragmentation Of The Old Guard Ca 2000 2007 -- Conclusion: East Africa's Second Liberation -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-311
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    Islam, ethnicity, and conflict in Ethiopia : the Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 (2020)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-83968-6 , 978-1-108-88483-9 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 363 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 151
    Keywords: Äthiopien Osthorn ; Oromo ; Amhara ; Islam und Politik ; Muslime ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Christentum ; Religion und Politik ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Elite, politische ; Elite, traditionelle ; Grundeigentum ; Landnutzung ; Geschichte, politische ; Waqo Gutu Usu [Leben und Werk] ; Bale 〈Stadt, Äthiopien〉
    Abstract: Focusing on the role of religion and ethnicity in times of conflict, Terje Østebø investigates the Muslim-dominated insurgency against the Ethiopian state in the 1960s, shedding new light on this understudied case in order to contribute to a deeper understanding of religion, inter-religious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism in the Horn of Africa. Islam, Ethnicity and Conflict in Ethiopia develops new theoretical perspectives on the interrelations between ethnic and religious identities, considering ethnic and religious groups as mutually exclusive categories by applying the term peoplehood as an analytical tool, one that allows for more flexible perspectives. Exploring the interplay of imagination and lived, affective reality, and inspired by the 'materiality turn' in cultural- and religious studies, Østebø argues for an integrated approach which recognizes and explores embodiment and emplacement as intrinsic to formations of ethnic and religious identities. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps, figures, tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Islaama Peoplehood and Landscapes of Bale -- 3 Conquest and Resistance -- 4 Bale at War -- 5 The Insurgency: Fighters and Fragmentation -- 6 Peasant Insurgency without Peasants -- 7 Land Tenure and the Land-Clan Connection -- 8 Christianity, Nation, and Amhara Peoplehood -- 9 Trans-local Dynamics: The Bale Insurgency in the Context of the Horn -- 10 Islaama vs Amhara and the Making of Local Antagonism -- 11 The Bale Insurgency, Islaama, and Oromo Ethno-nationalism -- 12 Conclusions -- Glossary -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 322-349
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    Emotional worlds : beyond an anthropology of emotion (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-02099-3 , 978-1-107-60537-4
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 305 Seiten
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    DDC: 152.4
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    Keywords: Emotion Gesellschaft, westliche ; Kulturvergleich ; Psychologie ; Kultureinfluss ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world, and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy, Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative' approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Groundings -- Emotions in the field: recognition and location -- Nias: emotions dramatized -- Java: emotions analysed -- Narrative -- The case for narrative -- Persons and particulars -- The narrative understanding of emotion -- Writing emotion -- Perspectives -- Affect: a wrong turn? -- Concepts, words, feelings -- The uses of empathy -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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    Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : the Hijra, c.1850-1900 (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49255-3 , 978-1-108-59220-8 / (ebook) , 978-1-108-65718-1 / (ebook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 305 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.7680954
    Keywords: Indien Hijra ; Transsexualität ; Transvestiten ; LGBT ; Politik ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlechterrolle ; Geschlechtsumwandlung ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Großbritannien ; Postkolonialismus ; Elite, traditionelle ; Wertvorstellung, kulturelle
    Abstract: In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Part I. Solving the 'Eunuch Problem': 1. The Hijra panic; 2. An ungovernable population; 3. Hijras and Indian middle class morality; 4. The 'gradual extirpation' of the Hijra; Part II. Multiple Narratives of Hijra-Hood: 5. The Hijra archive; 6. Hijra life histories; Part III. Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination: 7. Classifying illegible bodies, contesting colonial categories; 8. Policing, evading, surviving; 9. Saving children to eliminate Hijras; 10. Conclusion; 11. Postscript: Hijras and the state in postcolonial South Asia.
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/de/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/governing-gender-and-sexuality-colonial-india-ihijrai-c18501900?format=HB
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    Image-Makers : the social context of a hunter-gatherer ritual (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-10849821-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 204 Seiten
    Keywords: Afrika Südliches Afrika ; Kalahari ; San ; Südafrikanischer Jäger ; Jäger und Sammler ; Felsbild ; Prähistorie ; Prähistorie, Af ; Soziale Beziehung ; Soziales Netzwerk
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    Boundaries, communities and state-making in West Africa : The centrality of the margins (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-62250-0 , 9781139105828 /E-Book
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 610 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 144
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegambia ; Senegal ; Ghana ; Togo ; Gambia ; Goldküste ; Anlo ; Ashanti ; Ewe ; Malinke ; Diola, Senegambien ; Grenze ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland ; Frankreich ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Keteku III, Nene Nuer [Leben und Werk] ; Nkrumah, Kwame [Leben und Werk] ; Sylla, Fodé [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations 1 Centring the Margins -- Part I From Frontiers to Boundaries. 2 Configurations of Power in Comparative Perspective. 3 Port Cities, Frontiers and Boundaries -- Part II - States and Taxes, Land and Mobility. 4 Constructing the Compound, Keeping the Gate. 5 Being Seen Like a State: Frontier Logics Colonial Administration And Traditional Authority In The Borderlands. 6 Border Regulation and State-Making at the Margins: Taxation Migration And Contraband During The Interwar Years. 7 Land, Belief and Belonging in the Borderlands -- Part III Decolonization and Boundary Closure, c.1939-1969. 8 Bringing the Space Back In: Decolonization Development And Territoriality In West Africa. 9 The Vanishing Horizon of Senegambian Unity. 10 Forging the Nation, Contesting the Border: Identity Politics And Border Dynamics In The Trans Volta -- Part IV States, Social Contracts and Respacing from Below, c.1970-2010. 11 Barnacle States and Boundary Lines: States Trade And Urbanism In The Senegambia. 12 The Remaking of Ghana and Togo at Their Common Border: Alhaji Kalabule Meets Nana Benz. 13 Boundaries, Communities and "`Re-Membering": Festivals And The Negotiation Of Difference -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 545-581
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    The _politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-49693-3 , 9781108690485 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 366 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 143
    Keywords: Tansania Yao (Bantu) ; Landbevölkerung ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Landwirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Anthropologie, politische ; Armut ; Hunger ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknoledgements -- 1. The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru -- 2. Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism -- 3. The struggle to trade -- 4. Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility -- 5. Villagisation and the pursuit of market access -- 6. The politics of development in the era of liberalisation -- 7. Performing and pursuing development in Kineng'ene -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311-355
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    Strong NGOs and weak states : pursuing gender justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-41058-8 , 978-1-108-41937-6 , 978-1-108-29774-5 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 303 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Südafrika Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Frauenrecht ; Gewalt ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: Over the past decade, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and South Africa have attracted global attention for high rates of sexual and gender-based violence. Why is it that courts in eastern DR Congo prioritize gender crimes despite considerable logistical challenges, while courts in South Africa, home to a far stronger legal infrastructure and human rights record, have struggled to provide justice to victims of similar crimes? Lake shows that state fragility in DR Congo has created openings for human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to influence legal processes in ways that have proved impossible in countries like South Africa, where the state is stronger. Yet exploiting opportunities presented by state fragility to pursue narrow human rights goals invites a host of new challenges. Strong NGOs and Weak States documents the promises and pitfalls of human rights and rule of law advocacy undertaken by NGOs in strong and weak states alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I -- Law in Unforeseen Places -- Researching Violence, Law, and Human Rights in South Africa's Western Cape and DR Congo's Eastern Provinces -- Explaining State-Level Policy and Practice -- Local Justice Institutions and Opportunities Created by State Fragility -- Ordinary Women in Court : Socialization and Outreach from the Ground Up -- Part II -- Hard-Fought Victories : Assessing the Human Rights Benefits Felt by Victims of Violence in DR Congo -- Justice for Whom? : The Unintended Consequences of Hard-Fought Victories -- Conclusion : NGOs and State (Un)Making -- Appendix A. Decisions in the Field -- Appendix B. Interviews with Victims of Gender Violence -- Appendix C. DR Congo's Criminal Justice System -- Appendix D. South Africa's Criminal Justice System.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-299
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    Radio soundings : South Africa and the black modern (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47064-3 , 978-1-108--5690-3 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 224 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: International African Library 59
    Keywords: Südafrika Zulu ; Radio ; Massenmedien ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kultur und Gesellschaft ; Apartheid ; Kulturwandel ; Modisane, Bloke ; Nkosi, Lewis ; Buthelezi, Alexius ; Masinga, K. E. ; Lamula, Petros ; SABC 〉 South African Broadcasting Corporation ; South African Broadcasting Corporation ; BBC 〉 British Broadcasting Corporation ; British Broadcasting Corporation
    Abstract: Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: voice, race, radio -- Part I. Sound and 'migration' -- 1. K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio and the politics of 'migrant' orality -- 2. Communities through the back door: the radio worlds of Alexius Buthelezi 1961-1978 -- Part II. Distance and intimacy -- 3. Exile: Bloke Modisane and the BBC, 1959-1987 -- 4. 'Africa on the rise': the early 1960s, and the radio voice of Lewis Nkosi -- Part III. Drama, language, and daily life -- 5. Untidy boundaries, restless identities: Zulu serial drama in the 1970s -- 6. Radio drama in the time of violence: Yiz' Uvalo (In Spite of Fear), December 1986 - May 1987 -- 7. 'Ikusasa lethu' (Our Tomorrow): the 'glorious decade'? Radio drama of the 1990s -- 8. Finding a centre -- Conclusion: dances of power -- Bibliography - Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-210
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    Colonizing consent : rape and governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 1-108-47280-X , 978-1-108-47280-7 , 978-1-108-65928-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 141
    DDC: 364.1532096875
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Südafrika Ethnie, Afrika ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Xhosa ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Sexualität ; Recht ; Strafrecht ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: writing the history of rape; 1. Custom and consent in Xhosaland; 2. Sex and spiritual power; 3. Liberalism and the colonial law of sexual violence; 4. Rape and racial boundaries; 5. Navigating the politics of consent; Conclusion: rape and the postcolony; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 311 - 337
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    The _Cambridge handbook of kinship (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-04118-9 , 978-1-107-69774-4 /Pbk. , 978-1-139-64493-8 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 740 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
    DDC: 306.83
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Anthropologie, medizinische Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Verwandtschaft ; Leihmutter ; Adoption ; Reproduktion, menschliche ; Identität ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Homosexualität ; LGBT ; Indien ; Japan ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Vietnam ; Nordamerika ; Anden ; Argentinien ; Hongkong ; Gefängnis ; Brasilien ; Botswana ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: Presenting twenty-nine original chapters - each written by an expert in the field - this Handbook examines the history of kinship theory and the directions in which it has moved over the past few years. Using examples from across the globe (Africa, India, South America, Malaysia, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and North America), this Handbook highlights the power of kinship theory to address questions of broad anthropological significance. How have recent advances in reproductive medicine fundamentally altered our understanding of biological properties? How has globalization brought in its wake new ways of imagining human relatedness? What might recent shifts in state welfare policies tell us about those relations of power that define the difference between 'functional' versus 'dysfunctional' families? Addressing these and many other timely concerns, this volume presents the results of cutting edge research and demonstrates that the study of kinship is likely to remain at the core of anthropological inquiry. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: conceiving kinship in the 21st century / S. Bamford -- Part I. Opening Frameworks -- The seeds of kinship theory / C. Delaney -- Descent in retrospect and prospect / G. Feeley-Harnik -- The alliance theory of kinship in South Indian ethnography / I. Clark-Decès -- The anthropology of biology: a lesson from the new kinship studies / S. Franklin -- The stuff of kinship / J. Carsten -- Part II. The (Non)Biological Basis of Relatedness -- Embodied relationality beyond "nature" vs "nurture": materializing absent kinships in Japanese child welfare / K. Goldfarb -- Kinship in the Andes / M. Weismantel & Mary Elena Wilhoit -- Kinship and place: the existential and moral process of landscape formation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea / J. Leach -- Adoption / C. Gailey -- Natural achievements: how lesbian and gay families in North America make claims to kinship / E. Lewin -- Part III. Reproducing Society; Gender, Birth, and Power -- Kinship, knowledge and the state: the case of Argentina's adult "living disappeared" / Noa Vaisman -- Kinship, affliction, proximity, and unfinished healing in India / Sarah Pinto -- Reproductive remix: law, kinship and origin stories / Valerie Hartouni -- Selecting for sons: kinship as a product of desire / T. Gammeltoft -- Part IV. Transnational Connections -- Maids, mistresses and wives: rethinking kinship and the domestic sphere in 21st century global Hong Kong / N. Constable -- Transnational adoption / J. Leinaweaver -- Kinship in transnational encounters: Filipino migrants as "ideal brides" in rural Japan / L. Faier -- Un/making family: relatedness, migration, and displacement in a global age / D. Boehm -- My folder is not a person: kinship, knowledge, biopolitics and the adoption file / E. Kim -- Part V. Technological Conceptions -- Surrogate motherhood and transforming families / J. Dolgin -- Kinship and assisted reproductive technologies: a Middle Eastern comparison / M. Inhorn, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Soraya Tremayne & Zeynep Gurtin -- A comparison of kinship understandings among Israeli and U.S. surrogates / Elly Teman & Zsuzsa Berend -- Self, personhood and belonging: the role of technology in childhood disability / G. Landsman -- Paid and unpaid gestational labor: pregnancy and surrogacy in anthropological studies of reproduction / Tsipy Ivry & Elly Teman -- Part VI. Kinship and the Nation-State -- Reading the contested forms of nation through the contested forms of kinship and marriage / S. McKinnon -- The prison as a technology of care in North-east Brazil / Hollis Moore -- The interface between kinship and politics in three different social settings / S. Howell -- A global family: kinship, nations, and transnational organizations in Botswana's time of AIDS / K. Reece -- Kinship, world religions and the nation state / F. Cannell.
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    From anthropology to social theory : Rethinking the social sciences (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-43838-4 , 978-1-108-42380-9
    Language: English
    Pages: v, 289 Seiten
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    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaft Anthropologie, soziale ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Presenting a ground-breaking revitalization of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology. Using concepts developed by a series of 'maverick' anthropologists who were systematically marginalised as their ideas fell outside the standard academic canon, such as Arnold van Gennep, Marcel Mauss, Paul Radin, Lucien Levy-Bruhl and Gregory Bateson, the authors argue that such concepts are necessary for understanding better the rise and dynamics of the modern world, including the development of the social sciences, in particular sociology and anthropology. Concepts discussed include liminality, imitation, schismogenesis and trickster, which provide an anthropological 'toolkit' for readers to develop innovative understandings of the underlying power mechanisms of globalized modernity. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, the book is clearly structured. Part I introduces the 'maverick' anthropologists, while Part II applies the maverick tool-kit to revisit the history of sociological thought and the question of modernity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: rethinking social theory with anthropology; Part I. Maverick Anthropologists: 1. Arnold van Gennep: liminal rites and the rhythms of life; 2. Gabriel Tarde and Rene Girard: imitation and the foundations of social life; 3. Marcel Mauss: from sacrifice to gift-giving or revisiting foundations; 4. Lucien Levy-Bruhl and Colin Turnbull: participation, experience, and home; 5. Paul Radin: the trickster; 6. Gregory Bateson and Johan Huizinga: Schismogenesis and play; 7. Victor Turner: liminal experiences as the grounding of social theory; Part II. Rethinking Modernity and Its Sociology: 8. A reflexive political anthropology of sociology; 9. A reflexive political anthropology of modernity.
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    The _value of disorder : autonomy, prosperity, and plunder in the Chadian Sahara (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42833-0 , 978-1-108-56631-5 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 348 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 142
    DDC: 305.89653096743
    Keywords: Afrika Sahara ; Kamerun ; Tschad ; Sudan ; Tubu ; Donza ; Tuareg ; Zaghawa ; Wadai ; Kanem ; Republik Niger ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Frankreich ; Kolonie, französisch ; Goukouni Oueddei ; Habré, Hissein ; Hissène Habré 〉 Habré, Hissein ; Qaddafi, Mu'ammar al- ; Gaddafi, Muammar al- 〉 Qaddafi, Mu'ammar al- ; Al-Gaddafi, Muammar 〉 Qaddafi, Mu'ammar al- ; Nachtigal, Gustav ; Tombalbaye, François-Ngarta
    Abstract: Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad from an internal point of view - a point of view that in turn participates in a dynamic process of regional interdependence. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation. Questions that inform current political developments in the Sahara more widely, and have the potential to challenge key concepts in Saharan studies and the social sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --1. A never-ending conquest: settlement and the making of a Saharan town -- 2. Fifty shades of Khaki: armed conflict and other entanglements -- 3. Trouble in the Palm-Grove: labour, status, ownership -- 4. Tricks of trade: production, protection and predation --5. Great ploys and small expectations: accumulation and dispersal in a half-world -- 6. The state encompassed: everyday disorder, the aesthetics of violence, and the political imagination -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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    The _anthropology of the future (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42185-0 , 978-1-108-43437-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 226 Seiten
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    DDC: 304.23
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    Keywords: Prognose Sozialer Aspekt ; Zeit ; Philosophie ; Alltag ; Soziales Leben ; Vorstellung ; Krise ; Verhalten, menschliches
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    Comparison in anthropology : the impossible method (2019)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-46504-5 , 978-1-108-47460-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 392 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
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    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Kulturanthropologie ; Differenzierung ; Methodologie ; Identität ; Selbstbild ; Fremdwahrnehmung
    Abstract: Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth century to the present day, comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented, praised and rejected, multiplied and unified. Anthropologists today use comparisons to describe and to explain, to generalise and to challenge generalisations, to critique and to create new concepts. In this multiplicity of often contradictory aims lie both the key challenge of anthropological comparison, and also its key strength. Matei Candea maps a path through that entangled conversation, providing a ground-up re-assessment of the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, whilst creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Impossibilities: 1. The impossible method. 2. The garden of forking paths. 3. Caesurism and heuristics .-- Part II. An Archetype: 4. Comparatio. 5. Two ends of lateral comparison: identity and alterity. 6. Another dimension of lateral comparison: identity and intensity. 7. Two ends of frontal comparison: identity, alterity, reflexivity. 8. The oscillations of frontal comparison: identity, intensity, reflexivity. 9. Rigour - Conclusion - Notes - References -- Index
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    Human rights in Africa (2018)
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-60239-7 , 978-1-107-01631-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 245 Seiten
    Series Statement: New Approaches to African History 12
    Keywords: Afrika Menschenrecht ; Rechtsgeschichte
    Abstract: Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the "civilizing mission"; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of abbreviation -- Visions and disputes -- Elders and sages -- Humanitarians and abolitionists -- Natives and colonists -- Nationalists and anti-colonists -- Dictators and dissidents -- Old struggles and new causes -- Index
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    Recovering the human subject : freedom, creativity and decision (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-42496-7
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 198 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Freiheit Kreativität ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Postmoderne ; Humanismus ; Philosophie ; Anthropologie, philosophische ; Individuum und Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Wert, ideeller
    Abstract: "This volume responds to the often proclaimed 'death of the subject' and common debate across the social sciences for post-humanist approaches in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling Individual Subjects' that provides a focus for the debate to bring together a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography."
    Description / Table of Contents: Barbara Bodenhorn, Martin Holbraad, and James Laidlaw: Introduction: Freedom, creativity, and decision in recovering the human subject -- Caroline Humphrey: Reassembling individual subjects: events and decisions in troubled times -- Part I. Decision -- Veena Das: On singularity and the event: further reflections on the ordinary -- Lars Hojer: Apathy and revolution: temporal sensibilities in contemporary Mongolia -- Agnieszka Halemba: Apparitions of the virgin mary as decision-events -- Part II. Freedom -- Morten Axel Pedersen Incidental Connections: Freedom and urban life in Mongolia -- Katherine Swancutt & Jiarimuji : the return to slavery' nostalgia and a new generation of escape in Southwest China -- Creativity -- Matei Candea: Paradoxical pedagogies and humanist double binds -- Joel Robbins: Where in the world are values? Exemplarity, morality, and social process.
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    A _history of African popular culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-01689-7 , 978-1-107-62447-4
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: New Approaches to African History 11
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Popular Culture ; Musik ; Theater ; Literatur, afrikanische ; Lied ; Tanz ; Dichtung
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history
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    The _protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa : international, regional and national perspectives (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-62586-6 , 978-1-107-17365-1 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 583 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Südafrika ; Kenia ; Angola ; Mosambik ; Senegal ; Äthiopien ; Uganda ; Ghana ; Nigeria ; Kamerun ; Frau ; Frauenrecht ; Kind ; Alter ; Behinderung ; Menschenrecht ; Recht ; Recht, internationales ; Rechtsethnologie ; Gerichtsbarkeit ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Kate O'Regan -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. International Protection -- Part III. African Regional and Sub-Regional Protection -- Part IV. Domestic Constitutional Protection Models and Jurisprudence -- Index
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    Political protest in contemporary Africa (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-43825-4 , 978-1-108-42367-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 264 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Anthropologie, politische ; Mittelklasse ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Regierung ; Politische Bewegung
    Abstract: From spray-painted slogans in Senegal to student uprisings in South Africa, twenty-first century Africa has seen an explosion of protests and social movements. But why? Protests flourish amidst an emerging middle class whose members desire political influence and possess the money, education, and political autonomy to effectively launch movements for democratic renewal. In contrast with pro-democracy protest leaders, rank-and-file protesters live at a subsistence level and are motivated by material concerns over any grievance against a ruling regime. Through extensive field research, Lisa Mueller shows that middle-class political grievances help explain the timing of protests, while lower-class material grievances explain the participation. By adapting a class-based analysis to African cases where class is often assumed to be irrelevant, Lisa Mueller provides a rigorous yet accessible explanation for why sub-Saharan Africa erupted in unrest at a time of apparent economic prosperity.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures - List of tables - Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: the puzzle of Africa's third wave of protests -- 2. Defining Africa's protest waves -- 3. Paradoxes of prosperity -- 4. Comparative protest leadership: theories, trends, and strategies -- 5. Comparative individual participation in the third wave -- 6. Not-so-great expectations: pessimism and protest in Niger -- 7. Conclusion - Appendix - Bibliography - Index
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    Farm to fingers : the culture and politics of food in contemporary India (2018)
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-41629-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 280 Seiten , Diagramme
    Keywords: Indien Nahrungsmittel ; Nahrungszubereitung ; Soziokultureller Kontext ; Anthropologie, kulinarische
    Abstract: This book studies food practices in contemporary India by situating them in their political, economic and socio-cultural contexts.
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    Imagining Africa : whiteness and the Western gaze (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-47360-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.8200967
    Keywords: Europa Afrika-Bild ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Thuku, Harry ; Harris, John Hobbis ; Leys, Norman Maclean ; Oldham, Josef Houldsworth ; Oldham, J. H. 〉 Oldham, Josef Houldsworth ; Houldsworth Oldham, Josef 〉 Oldham, Josef Houldsworth ; Capricorn Africa Society ; CAS 〉 Capricorn Africa Society ; IRASR 〉 Inter-Racial Association of Southern Rhodesia ; New Kenya Party
    Abstract: There has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest iteration of which emerged around the time of the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Here, Clive Gabay takes a historical approach to questions concerning change and international order as these apply to Africa in Western imaginaries. Challenging traditional postcolonial accounts that see the West imagine itself as superior to Africa, he argues that the centrality of racial anxieties concerning white supremacy make Africa appear, at moments of Western crisis, as the saviour of Western ideals, specifically democracy, bureaucracy, and neoclassical economic order. Uncommonly, this book turns its lens as much inwards as outwards, interrogating how changing attitudes to Africa over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries correspond to shifting anxieties concerning whiteness, and the growing hope that Africa will be the place where the historical genius of whiteness might be saved and perpetuated. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figurs -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Whiteness, the Western gaze and Africa -- Finding anti-civilisation in Africa -- Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku -- "Exploding Africa": of post-war modernisers and travellers -- The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present -- Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa -- Africa rising, Whiteness falling -- Making Whiteness strange -- References -- Index
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    Religion and charity : the social life of goodness in Chinese societies (2018)
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-41867-6
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 238 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 306.60951
    Keywords: China Wohlfahrt ; Almosen ; Gabe ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Organisation ; Kulturvergleich ; Taiwan ; Malaysia
    Abstract: Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth anthropological study of charities in contemporary Chinese societies, this book focuses on the unique ways that religious groups have helped to solve the problems of social well-being. Using comparative case studies in China, Taiwan and Malaysia during the 1980s and onwards, it identifies new forms of religious philanthropy as well as new ideas of social 'good', including different forms of political merit-making, new forms of civic selfhood, and the rise of innovative social forms, including increased leadership by women. The book finally argues that the spread of these ideas is an incomplete process, with many alternative notions of goodness continuing to be influential.
    Description / Table of Contents: Engaged religions and the social life of goodness -- Legacies and discontinuities in China, Taiwan and Malaysia -- Political merit-making: religious philanthropy and the state -- A (Chinese) good person -- Gifts, groups, and goodness -- Innovating the good -- Alternative goodness.
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    Raising children : surprising insights from other cultures (2017)
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    ISBN: 978-1-108-40030-5 , 1-108-40030-2 , 978-1-108-41509-5 , 1-108-41509-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 209 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published
    Keywords: Kind Erziehung ; Bildung ; Pädagogik ; Elternschaft ; Kulturvergleich
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    The _struggle over state power in Zimbabwe : law and politics since 1950 (2017)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-19020-7/Printausgabe , 978-1-316-64033-3/Printausgabe , 978-1-107-19020-7 (Printausgabe) , 978-1-316-99689-8/ebook
    Language: German
    Pages: XIV, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 139
    Keywords: Simbabwe Politik ; Gesetzgebung ; Macht ; Staatsentstehung ; Menschenrecht ; Entwicklung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The establishment of legal institutions was a key part of the process of state construction in Africa, and these institutions have played a crucial role in the projection of state authority across space. This is especially the case in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe. George Karekwaivanane offers a unique long-term study of law and politics in Zimbabwe, which examines how the law was used in the constitution and contestation of state power across the late-colonial and postcolonial periods. Through this, he offers insight on recent debates about judicial independence, adherence to human rights, and the observation of the rule of law in contemporary Zimbabwean politics. The book sheds light on the prominent place that law has assumed in Zimbabwe's recent political struggles for those researching the history of the state and power in Southern Africa. It also carries forward important debates on the role of law in state-making, and will also appeal to those interested in African legal history.
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    Africans : the history of a continent (2017)
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-19832-6 , 978-1-316-64812-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 402 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Third edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 137
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The frontiersmen of mankind; 2. The emergence of food-producing communities; 3. The impact of metals; 4. Christianity and Islam; 5. Colonising society in western Africa; 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa; 7. The Atlantic slave trade; 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial invasion; 10. Colonial society and African nationalism; 11. Industrialisation and race in South Africa, 1886-1994; 12. Independent Africa, 1956-1995; 13. Recovery?
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    Religion and the morality of the market (2017)
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-18605-7 , 978-1-316-63696-1 , 978-1-316-88870-4 /PDF , 978-1-316-95295-5 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Wirtschaft Ethik ; Moral ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Christentum ; Islam ; Sufismus ; Hinduismus ; Almosen ; Wohlfahrt ; Kapitalismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Indien ; Sri Lanka ; Mali ; Indonesien ; China ; Malaysia
    Abstract: Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice, holding that market principles should be applied to human action at large. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the ascendance of market reason has been countered by calls for reforms of financial markets and for the consideration of moral values in economic practice. This book intervenes in these debates by showing how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions. It reveals how religious movements and organizations have reacted to the increasing prominence of market reason in unpredictable, and sometimes counterintuitive, ways. Using a range of examples from different countries and religious traditions, the book illustrates the myriad ways in which religious and market moralities are closely imbricated in diverse global contexts.
    Note: Enthält eine Introduction und 12 Beiträge; "The conception for this volume began in June 2013 with a two-day workshop at King's College, London" (Acknowledgements)
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    The _economic history of China : from antiquity to the nineteenth century (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-03056-5 , 978-1-107-61570-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 461 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Keywords: China Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 400-447
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    The _School of Oriental and African Studies : Imperial training and the expansion of learning (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-316-61596-6 , 978-1-107-16442-0
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Großbritannien Universität ; Schule ; Kolonialbeamter ; Ausbildung ; Kolonialismus ; Sprache ; Asien ; Afrika ; Imperialismus ; Administration ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would come to transcend this function to become a world centre of scholarship and learning, in many important ways challenging that imperial origin. Drawing on the School's own extensive administrative records, on interviews with current and past staff, and on the records of government departments, Ian Brown explores the work of the School over its first century. He considers the expansion in the School's configuration of studies from the initial focus on languages, its changing relationships with government, and the major contributions that have been made by the School to scholarly and public understandings of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; 1. 'Long contemplated and too long delayed': the founding of the School; 2. 'Partly a research institution and partly a vocational training centre': 1917-38; 3. The war years, 1939-45; 4. The great post-war expansion; 5. Expansion into the social sciences; 6. The great contraction; 7. The 1990s: renewed expansion but unresolved issues; 8. The past in the present; Bibliography; Index
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    The _politics of Shari'a law : Islamist activists and the state in democratizing Indonesia (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-13022-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 270 Seiten
    Keywords: Indonesien Scharia ; Islam ; Islam und Politik ; Recht, islamisches ; Demokratisierung ; Islamisierung ; Politik ; Aktivismus ; Bewegung, islamische
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    Pioneers of the field : South Africa's women anthropologists (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-15049-2 , 1-107-15049-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 319 Seiten
    Series Statement: International African Library 51
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    Keywords: Südafrika Republik Südafrika ; Ethnologin ; Biographie ; Hoernlé, Winifred ; Wilson, Monica ; Hellmann, Ellen ; Kuper, Hilda ; Krige, Eileen Jensen ; Richards, Audrey I.
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    The _material Atlantic : clothing, commerce, and colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 (2016)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-10591-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii,351 Seiten; 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 391.009709033
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Atlantischer Raum Amerika ; Handel ; Textilie ; Bekleidung ; Mode ; Konsum ; Kultureinfluss ; Kolonialismus ; Sklaverei ; Materielle Kultur ; Sozialer Status ; Geschichte
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    The _politics of heritage in Africa : Economies, histories, and infrastructures (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-09485-7 , 1-107-09485-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 291 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Series Statement: International African Library 48
    Keywords: Afrika Ghana ; Republik Südafrika ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Museum ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disparate fields of study - history, archaeology, linguistics, the performing arts and cinema - to show how the lifeways of the past were made into capital, a store of authentic knowledge that political and cultural entrepreneurs could draw from. This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation, a means by which the relics of the past are shored up, reconstructed and revalued as commodities, as tradition, as morality or as patrimony.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa D. R. Peterson; 2. Heritage and legacy in the South African state and university D. Herwitz; 3. Seeing beyond the official and the vernacular: the Duncan Village Massacre Memorial and the politics of heritage in South Africa G. Minkley and P. Mnyaka; 4. Fences, signs and property: heritage, development and the making of location in Lwandle L. Witz and N. Murray; 5. Monuments and negotiations of power in Ghana K. Gavua; 6. Of chiefs, tourists and culture: heritage production in contemporary Ghana R. Silverman; 7. Human remains, the disciplines of the dead and the South African memorial complex C. Rassool; 8. Heritage versus heritage: reaching for pre-Zulu identities in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa M. Buthelezi; 9. 9/11 and the painful death of an Asante king: national tragedies in comparative perspective K. Yankah; 10. Visions of ethnicity in nineteenth-century African linguistics J. Irvine; 11. The role of language in forging new identities: countering a heritage of servitude M. E. Dakubu; 12. Folk opera and the cultural politics of post-independence Ghana: Saka Acquaye's 'The Lost Fishermen' M. Nii-Dortey; 13. Flashes of modernity: heritage according to cinema L. Modisane; 14. Conclusion C. Hamilton.
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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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    Caricaturing culture in India : cartoons and history in the modern world (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-04332-9 , 978-1-107-61857-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 355 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Indien Karikatur ; Witz und Humor ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Soziales Leben ; Kolonialismus ; Nationalismus ; Globalisierung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 276-347
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    From slavery to aid : Politics, labour, and ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800 - 2000 (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-11905-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 364 S.
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) [135]
    DDC: 960
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Republik Niger Sahel ; Politik ; Arbeit ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Ökologie ; Sklaverei ; Selbstbestimmung ; Geschichte ; Ader 〈Regionon, Nigeria〉
    Description / Table of Contents: At the desert's edge. Between Sokoto and Agadez : inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899-1917. Governing labour--slave, forced, and migrant, 1918-1945. The development of "development", 1946-1983. Fighting against the desert, 1984-2000. Between development and dependence.
    Note: Im Band irrtümlich als Band 132 bezeichnet.
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    Race : an introduction (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-03411-2 , 978-1-107-65228-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 261 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Anthropologie, soziale Rasse ; Rassismus ; Biologie ; Genetik ; Geschichte ; Griechenland, klassisch ; Europa ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Russland ; Kanada ; USA ; Lateinamerika ; Kuba ; Ecuador ; Guatemala ; Südamerika ; Brasilien ; Mittelamerika ; Südafrika ; China ; Indien ; Globalisierung, kulturelle ; Multikulturalität ; Einführung
    Abstract: Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further support for student learning.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Knowing 'race' -- Part I. Race in Time: 2. Early approaches to understanding human variation. 3. From Enlightenment to eugenics. 4. Biology, culture and genomics. 5. Race in the era of cultural racism: politics and the everyday -- Part II. Race in Practice: 6. Latin America: mixture and racism. 7. The United States and South Africa: segregation and desegregation. 8. Race in Europe: immigration and nation. 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225 - 248
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    The _subject of virtue : an anthropology of ethics and freedom (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-02846-3 , 978-1-107-69731-7 , 978-1-107-45407-1/ (eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 258 Seiten
    Edition: first published
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    Keywords: Ethik Freiheit ; Wert, ideeller ; Wertvorstellung ; Ethnologie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which social theory has so far failed adequately to address. An ideal introduction for students and researchers in anthropology and related human sciences. * Shows how ethical concepts such as virtue, character, freedom and responsibility may be incorporated into anthropological analysis * Surveys the history of anthropology's engagement with morality * Examines the relevance for anthropology of two major philosophical approaches to moral life.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Beyond the science of unfreedom -- 2. Virtue ethics : philosophy with an ethnographic stance? -- 3. Foucault's genealogy and the undefined work of freedom -- 4. The 'question of freedom' in anthropology -- 5. Taking responsibility seriously -- 6. The reluctant cannibal.
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 225 - 253
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    Democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria : the rise and fall of the second republic (2014)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-63353-7 , 978-0-521-34136-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 237 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 56
    Keywords: Nigeria Demokratie ; Politik ; Patronage ; Gesellschaft ; Soziale Beziehung ; Militärregierung ; Militär ; Ethnizität ; Gewalt ; Persönlichkeit
    Abstract: Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the state treasury and to control over remunerative licenses and contracts. In addition, the abiding desire for a democratic political system is frustrated by the deepening of ethnic, linguistic and regional identities. By exploring the ways in which individuals at all social levels contribute to the maintenance of these practices, the book provides an analysis of the impediments to constitutional democracy that is also relevant to the study of other nations. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The problem of democracy -- 2 A democracy that works -- Part II Nigeria's social dynamics and military rule -- 4 . Politics in a multi-ethnic society -- 5 Clientelism and prebendal politics -- 6 Military rule and economic statism -- Part III The return to tripartism in the Second Republic -- 7 Personality and alignment in Igbo politics -- 8 Ethnicity, faction and class in Western Nigeria -- 9 Northern primacy and prebendal politics: the making of the NPN -- Part IV The crisis of Nigerian democracy -- 10 The challenge of the 1983 elections: a republic in peril -- 11 Electoral fraud and violence: the Republic's demise -- 12 Conclusion: democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 224-232
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    The _future of African customary law (2013)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-11853-8 , 978-1-107-62504-4 , 978-1-139-09798-7/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 544 Seiten
    Edition: first paperback edition
    Keywords: Afrika Afrika, Subsahara ; Recht, traditionelles ; Recht ; Strafrecht ; Landnahme ; Eigentum ; Institution ; Tradition ; Soziales Leben
    Abstract: "Customary laws and traditional institutions in Africa constitute comprehensive legal systems that regulate the entire spectrum of activities from birth to death. Once the sole source of law, customary rules now exist in the context of pluralist legal systems with competing bodies of domestic constitutional law, statutory law, common law, and international human rights treaties. The Future of African Customary Law is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa. This volume considers the characteristics of customary law and efforts to ascertain and codify customary law, and how this body of law differs in content, form, and status from legislation and common law. It also addresses a number of substantive areas of customary law including the role and power of traditional authorities; customary criminal law; customary land tenure, property rights, and intestate succession; and the relationship between customary law, human rights, and gender equality"--Provided by publisher.
    Description / Table of Contents: A survey of customary laws in Africa in search of lessons for the future / Gordon R. Woodman -- The living customary law in African legal systems : where to now? / Chuma Himonga -- The future of customary law in Africa / Abdulmumini Oba -- The quest for customary law / Janine Ubink -- The withering province of customary law in Kenya : a case of design or indifference / George O. Otieno Ochich -- The "Code of Lerotholi" : using custom as an instrument of social and political control in Lesotho / Laurence Juma -- Traditional authorities : custodians of customary law development? / Manfred O. Hinz -- Engaging legal dualism : paralegal organizations and customary law in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Chi Mgbako and Kristina Scurry Baehr -- The future of customary law in Ghana / Joseph B. Akamba and Isidore Tufuor -- Traditional courts in the 21st century / Digby Sqhelo Koyana -- Demise or resilience : customary law and chieftainship in Botswana in the 21st century / Wazha G. Morapedi -- Traditional leadership and governance in modern Ghana : challenges, problems & opportunities / Ernest Kofi Abotsi and Paolo Galizzi -- Entrapment or freedom : enforcing customary property rights regimes in common law Africa / Sandra F. Joireman -- Romancing customary land tenure : the neo-liberal suitor wooing the shadow / Janet Chikaya-Banda -- Reform of customary law of inheritance and succession : the final nail in the customary law of inheritance and succession coffin? / Willemien du Plessis and Christa Rautenbach -- State systems of criminal justice and customary law crimes / Thomas Bennett -- Gacaca in Rwanda : customary law in case of genocide / Roelof H. Haveman -- Customary law, gender equality, and the family : the promise and limits of a choice paradigm / Tracy E. Higgins and Jeanmarie Fenrich -- African customary law and women's human rights in Uganda / Ben Kiromba Twinomugisha -- Women's rights, customary law and the promise of the protocol on the rights of women in Africa / Johanna Bond -- From contemporary african customary laws to indigenous African law : identifying ancient African human rights and good governance sensitive principles as a tool to promote culturally meaningful socio-legal reforms / Fatou Kine´ Camara.
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    Metals, culture and capitalism : an essay on the origins of the modern world (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-61447-5 , 1-107-61447-3 , 978-1-107-02962-0 , 1-107-02962-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 349 Seiten, 12 Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 669.09
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    Keywords: Geschichte Weltgeschichte ; Zivilisation ; Metallurgie ; Metall ; Eisen ; Bronze ; Kapitalismus ; Welthandel ; Handel ; Handelsroute ; Industrialisierung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of History (2007) and Renaissances (2009), Jack Goody takes the Bronze Age as a starting point for a balanced account of the East and the West, seeking commonalities that recent histories overlook. Considering the role of metals in relation to early cultures, the European Renaissance and 'modernity' in general, Goody explores how the search for metals entailed other forms of knowledge, as well as the arts, leading to changes that have defined Europe and the contemporary world. This landmark text, spanning centuries, cultures and continents, promises to inspire scholars and students across the social sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: The age of metals in the ancient Near East -- A Bronze Age without bronze -- Metals and society -- Trade and religion in the Mediterranean -- The coming of the Iron Age and Classical civilisation -- After the Romans -- Merchants -- "Capitalism," exchange, and the Near East -- China and the Eurasian corridor -- Renewal in the west -- Venice and the north -- Accumulators -- Iron and the Industrial Revolution -- Metals, "Capitalism," and the Renaissances -- Appendix 1: The Metallurgy of Iron / by Dr. J.A. Charles -- Appendix 2: Damascene Steel and Blades.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 312 - 329
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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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    Guns, race, and power in colonial South Africa (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-40396-3 , 978-0-521-88509-6 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 378 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 109
    Keywords: Südafrika Imperialismus ; Geschichte ; Technologietransfer ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Waffe ; Rasse ; Macht ; Kolonialismus ; Politik
    Abstract: In this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa. Relying mainly on materials held in archives and libraries in Britain and South Africa, Storey explains the workings of the gun trade and the technological development of the firearms. He relates the history of firearms to ecological, political, and social changes, showing that there is a close relationship between technology and politics in South Africa.Review: Review of the hardback: '... without doubt the most stimulating and significant discussion concerning South Africa's colonial 'gun society' to have appeared since the publication in 1971 of the influential series of articles on guns in colonial Africa in the Journal of African History. Storey's study is consequently absolutely essential reading, not only for military historians of South Africa in the colonial period, but for all those with an interest in related technology, hunting, ecology, culture and society.' Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Guns in colonial South African history -- 2. Early colonialism and guns at the Cape up to 1795 -- 3. Guns, conflict, and political culture along the eastern frontier, 1795-1840 -- 4. Hunting, warfare, and guns along the northern frontier, 1795-1868 -- 5. Capitalism, race, and breechloaders, 1840-80 -- 6.Guns and the Langalibalele affair, 1873-5 -- 7. Guns and confederation, 1875-6 -- 8. Risk, skill, and citizenship in the eastern Cape, 1876-9 -- 9. Guns, empire, and political culture in Basutoland, 1867-78 -- 10. The origins of the Cape Sotho Gun War, 1879-80 -- 11. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 340-365
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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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    Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization (2010)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-13090-5 , 978-0-521-11382-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 250 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 111
    Keywords: Kenia Geschichte ; Mau-Mau ; Kikuyu ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Bürgerkrieg ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Dekolonisation ; Politik ; Widerstand ; Kolonie, britisch
    Abstract: This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. There were as many Kikuyu who fought with the colonial government as there were loyalists who joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion. Moreover, the book moves toward a more nuanced understanding of the realities and effects of counterinsurgency warfare. Based on archieval research in Kenya and the United Kingdom and insights from literature from across the social sciences, the book recontructs the dilemmas facing members of a society at war with itself and its colonial ruler. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: understanding loyalism in Kenya's civil war -- 1. Vomiting the oath: the origins of loyalism in the growth of Mau Mau -- 2. Terror and counter-terror: March 1953-April 1954 -- 3. From Mau Mau to home guard: the defeat of the insurgency -- 4. Loyalism, land, and labour: the path to self-mastery -- 5. Loyalism in the age of decolonisation -- 6. Eating the fruits of Uhuru loyalists, Mau Mau, and the post-colonial state -- Conclusion: loyalism, decolonisation, and civil war -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-241
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    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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    An _economic history of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 : the rise and fall of an island empire (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-10391-6 , 978-0-521-83935-8 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 413 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: This digitally printed version, paperback re-issue
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 106
    Keywords: Madagaskar Geschichte ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Merina ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Kolonisierung ; Afrika
    Abstract: The first comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar, this study examines the island's role from 1750 to 1895 in the context of a burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. Challenging conventional portrayals of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a unified and progressive kingdom, this study reveals that the Merina of the central highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation of its human and natural resources build the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, the Merina failed due to imperial forced labour policies and natural disasters, the nefarious consequences of which (disease, depopulation, ethnic enmity) have in traditional histories been imputed to external capitalist and French colonial policies. Although by 1890, Madagascar was firmly integrated into a regional trade network stretching from South Africa to India, dominated by British Indians, Britain acknowledged French claims to Madagascar. France took 13 years to conquer Madagascar, finally succeeding only due to the internal collapse of Merina power. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables, figures, and maps -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Traditional Economy, 1750-1820: Industry and Agriculture -- 2. The Traditional Economy, 1750-1820: Commerce -- 3. Empire and the Adoption of Autarky, 1810-1826 -- 4. Industry and Agriculture, 1820-1895 -- 5. Labour, 1820-1895 -- 6. Population, 1820-1895 -- 7. The Trading Structure, 1820-1895 -- 8. Foreign Trade, 1820-1895 -- 9. The Slave Trade, 1820-1895 -- 10. Transport and Communications, 1820-1895 -- 11. Currency and Finance, 1820-1895 -- 12. Madagascar in the Scramble for Indian Ocean Africa -- Epilogue: The Rise and Fall of Imperial Madagascar -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
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    Africans : the history of a continent (2009)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-68297-8 , 978-0-521-86438-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 365 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Second edtion first published 2007, reprinted (twice)
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 108
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Kolonisierung ; Gesellschaft ; Unabhängigkeit ; Industrialisierung ; HIV ; Rasse
    Abstract: In a vast and all-embracing 2007 study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface to the second edition -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- 10. Colonial change, 1918-50 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- 13. In the time of AIDS -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 329-343
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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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    Kingship and political practice in colonial India (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-55247-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published 1996, this digitally printed version 2008
    Series Statement: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 51
    Keywords: Indien Süd-Indien ; Tamil Nadu ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialismus ; König ; Königtum ; Politik ; Institution ; Sozialer Wandel ; Führer, politischer ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Ramanathapuram 〈Stadt, Indien〉 ; Sivaganga 〈Stadt, Indien〉
    Abstract: In this 1996 cultural history which considers the transformation of south Indian institutions under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the two former 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivaganga which came under colonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates how rivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, and the disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributed to the development of nationalism and identity amongst the people of southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religious symbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century were reformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonial context. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduism to politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continue to inform popular expectation of political leadership today.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Honour, status and state formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maravar country; 2. Cosmological fragmentation in the public sphere; 3. Domain formation in mid-nineteenth-century Ramnad; 4. Human and divine palaces in the fragmentation of monarchical cosmology; 5. Ritual performances, the ruling person and the public; 6. Raja Baskara Setupati and the emergence of a new political style; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203 - 215
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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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    Transforming Mozambique : the politics of privatization, 1975 - 2000 (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-05268-8 , 978-0-521-05268-9 , 978-0-521-82011-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: This difgitally printed version, paperback re-issue
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 104
    Keywords: Mosambik Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Politik ; Unabhängigkeit ; Staat ; Modernisierung ; Privatisierung
    Abstract: Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature on transitions has overlooked African countries. This 2002 study of Mozambique's shift from a command to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters and corporate advertisements, to reveal that the state is a central actor in the reform process, despite the claims of neo-liberals and their critics. Alongside the state, social forces - from World Bank officials to rural smallholders - have also accelerated, thwarted or shaped change in Mozambique. M. Anne Pitcher offers an intriguing analysis of the dynamic interaction between previous and emerging agents, ideas and institutions, to explain the erosion of socialism and the politics of privatization in a developing country. She demonstrates that Mozambique's political economy is a heterogenous blend of ideological and institutional continuities and ruptures. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- Glossary -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 - The reconfiguration of the interventionist state after independence -- 2 - Demiurge ascending: high modernism and the making of Mozambique -- 3 - State sector erosion and the turn to the market -- 4 - A privatizing state or a statist privatization? -- 5 - Continuities and discontinuities in manufacturing -- 6 - Capital and countryside after structural adjustment -- 7 - The end of Marx and the beginning of the market? Rhetorical efforts to legitimate transformative preservation -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 265-286
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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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    Anthropology, politics, and the state : democracy and violence in South Asia (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-77177-1 , 978-0-521-77746-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 203 Seiten
    Edition: first published
    Series Statement: New Departures in Anthropology
    Keywords: Indien Sri Lanka ; Süd-Asien ; Kultur und Politik ; Politik ; Demokratie ; Gewalt ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Anthropologie, politische ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Nationalismus ; Staat ; Säkularisierung ; Differenzierung ; Frieden ; Feminismus ; Konflikt, politischer ; Konflikt, ethnischer
    Abstract: In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11
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    Communalism, caste and Hindu nationalism : the violence in Gujarat (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-68369-6 , 978-0-521-68369-2 , 0-521-86513-1 , 978-0-521-86513-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 215 Seiten , Karten
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    Keywords: Indien Gujarat ; Kommunalismus ; Gewalt ; Unruhen ; Konflikt, politischer ; Kaste ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen Hinduismus-Islam ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Hinduismus ; Nationalismus ; Religion und Politik ; Ahmadabad 〈Stadt, Indien〉
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    Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISSN: 978-0-521-11466-0 , 978-0-521-83950-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 376 Seiten , Tabellen
    Edition: Digitally printed version 2009
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kirgisien ; Tadschikistan ; Usbekistan ; Russland ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Geschichte ; Postkommunismus ; Kolonialismus ; Klan ; Kommunismus ; Demokratisierung ; Institution, politische ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Selbstverwaltung ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Islam und Politik ; Elite ; Nationalismus ; Akaev, Askar [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to political development and transition in Central Asia -- Clan politics and regime transition in Central Asia : a framework for understanding politics in clan-based societies -- Colonialism to Stalinism: the dynamic between clans and the state -- The informal politics of Central Asia: from Brezhnev through Gorbachev -- Transition from above or below? (1990-1991) -- Central Asia's transition (1991-1995) -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part I -- Central Asia's regime transformation (1995-2004): part II -- Positive and negative political trajectories in clan-based societies -- Conclusions.
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    Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-02761-6978-0-521-02761-8 , 0-521-81823-0 /Hb. , 978-0-521-81823-0 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 293 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: This digitally printed first paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 105
    Keywords: Zimbabwe-Reich Politik ; Gewalt ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Symbolik
    Abstract: Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology (1889-1980) -- List of abbreviations -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The peace settlement -- 3. The assembly phase -- 4. Military integration -- 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- Appendix: the ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997 -- Notes -- References -- List of pseudonyms used in the text -- Index
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    Honour in African history (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    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
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    Kinship, law and the unexpected : relatives are always a surprise (2005)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-0-521-61509-9 , 0-521-61509-7 , 978-0-521-84992-0 , 0-521-84992-6 , 978-0-511-34316-2 /eBook , 978-0-511-61451-4 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 229 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Kulturanthropologie Verwandtschaft ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Verwandtschaftssystem ; Recht ; Familienrecht ; Eigentum ; Familie ; Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen ; Biotechnologie ; Genetik ; Erbrecht ; Amazonas-Gebiet ; Australien ; Europa ; Amerika ; Indonesien ; Papua-Neuguinea
    Abstract: How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at once contingent (on certain ways of knowing) and ubiquitous (to social life). The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society. The argument takes the reader through current issues in biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, and intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere. If we are often surprised by what our relatives do, we may also be surprised by what relations tells us about the world we live in.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Part I. Divided Origins. Introduction: divided origins. 1. Relatives are always a surprise: biotechnology in an age of individualism. 2. Embedded science. 3. Emergent properties -- Part II. The Arithmetic of Ownership. Introduction: the arithmetic of ownership. 4. The patent and the Malanggan. 5. Losing (out on) intellectual resources. 6. Divided origins and the arithmetic of ownership -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201 - 215; Einzelne Kapitel wurden bereits in anderen Veröffentlichungen abgedruckt.
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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
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    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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    Re-imagining Rwanda : conflict, survival and disinformation in the late twentieth century (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-52873-9 , 978-0-521-52873-3 , 0-521-53308-2 /African edition , 978-0-521-53308-9 /African edition , 0-521-81366-2 /Hb. , 978-0-521-81366-2 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 251 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 102
    Keywords: Zentralafrika Ruanda (Staat) ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Konflikt ; Bürgerkrieg ; Hutu ; Tutsi ; Geschichte, politische ; Humanitäre Hilfe ; Konfliktmanagement ; Völkermord ; Presse ; Historiographie
    Abstract: The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to make sense of the bloodshed. Johan Pottier's troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda was able to impose a simple yet persuasive account of Central Africa's crises upon international commentators new to the region, and he explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. He also provides a sobering analysis of the way in which this simple, persuasive, but fatally misleading analysis of the situation on the ground led to policy errors that exacerbated the original crisis. Professor Pottier has extensive field experience in the region, from before and after the genocide, and he has also worked among refugees in eastern Zaire. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: information and disinformation in times of conflict -- 1 Build-up to war and genocide: society and economy in Rwanda and eastern Zaire -- 2 Mind the gap: how the international press reported on society, politics and history -- 3 For beginners, by beginners: knowledge construction under the Rwandese Patriotic Front -- 4 Labelling refugees: international aid and the discourse of genocide -- 5 Masterclass in surreal diplomacy: understanding the culture of 'political correctness' -- 6 Land and social development: challenges, proposals and their imagery -- Conclusion: representation and destiny -- Appendix: Summary of key dates and events -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Leisure and society in colonial Brazzaville (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-52446-6 , 978-0-521-52446-9 , 0-521-49551-2 /Hb. , 978-0-521-49551-6 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 278 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 87
    Keywords: Kongo, Brazzaville Kolonialgeschichte ; Geschichte ; Alltag ; Fußball ; Lebensstil ; Brazzaville
    Abstract: In this book, Phyllis Martin, a well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research: the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in colonial Brazzaville and based on a wide variety of written sources and interviews, investigates recreational activities from football and fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the ways in which these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions and values with new cultural forms. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 - An African crossroads, a frontier post and a colonial town, c. 1880-1915 -- 2 - Taking hold of the town, c. 1915-1960 -- 3 - The emergence of leisure -- 4 - Football is king -- 5 - About the town -- 6 - Dressing well -- 7 - High society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 248-272
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    The _politics of evil : magic, state power, and the political imagination in South Africa (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-81721-8 , 978-0-521-81721-9 , 0-521-53393-7 /African edition , 978-0-521-53393-5 /African edition
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 297 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 103
    Keywords: Südafrika Politik ; Politischer Wandel ; Anthropologie, politische ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Widerstand ; Staatsentstehung ; Autorität ; Rassismus ; Macht ; Geschichte ; Apartheid
    Abstract: In The Politics of Evil, Clifton Crais provides a new interpretation of South African history, and a fresh approach to the study of power culture, and resistance in the modern world. Encompassing all of South Africa's history in his analysis, Crais examines the formation of an authoritarian political order and the complex ways people understood and resisted the colonial state. He explores state formation as a cultural and political process as well as a moral problem, and he looks at indigenous concepts of power, authority, and evil, analyzing how they shaped cross-cultural encounters and the making of a colonial order. Apartheid represented one of the great evils of the twentieth century. This book reveals how the victims of apartheid understood the triumph of this evil in their lives as they elaborated rich and at time violent visions of a world free of colonial oppression and white supremacy. Professor Crais concludes by looking at the contemporary political transition, the challenges to creating a durable democracy, and the persistence of evil in South Africa. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultures of conquest -- 1. The death of Hope -- 2. Ethnographies of state -- 3. Rationalities and rule -- Part 2: States of emergency -- 4. Prophecies of nation -- 6. Conflict in Qumbu -- 7. The men of the mountain -- 8. Flights of the lightning bird -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 280-293
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    Institutional change and political continuity in post-Soviet Central Asia : power, perceptions, and pacts (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-80109-5 , 978-0-521-80109-6 , 978-0-521-06685-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 320 Seiten , Tabellen , Karten
    Edition: Digitally printed version 2008
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Kasachstan ; Kirgisien ; Usbekistan ; Regierung ; Institution, politische ; Wahl ; Demokratisierung ; Politisches System ; Politischer Wandel
    Abstract: The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The continuity of change: old formulas and new institutions; 2. Explaining institutional design in transitional states: beyond structure versus agency; 3. Sources of continuity: the Soviet legacy in Central Asia; 4. Sources of change: the transitional context in Central Asia; 5. The electoral system in Kyrgyzstan: rise of the regions; 6. The electoral system in Uzbekistan: revenge of the center; 7. The electoral system in Kazakhstan: the center's rise and the regions' revenge; 8. Institutional change through continuity: shifting power and prospects for democracy.
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    The _peasant cotton revolution in West Africa : Côte d'Ivoire, 1880 - 1995 (2001)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-78313-5 , 978-0-521-78313-2 , 0-521-78883-8 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-78883-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 243 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 101
    Keywords: Westafrika Elfenbeinküste ; Baumwolle ; Landwirtschaft ; Handel ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Geschichte ; Bauer ; Frau und sozio-ökonomische Rolle
    Abstract: The literatur on Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis, doom and gloom, but this book presents one or the few long-running success stories. Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unsusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa, where change was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasants farmers. While the introduction of new strains of cotton in francophone West Africa was in part the result of agronomic research by French scientists, supported by an unusually efficient marketing structure, this is not a case of triumphant top-down "plantification". Employing the case of Côte d'Ivoire, Professor Bassett shows agricultural intensification to result from the cumulative effect of decades of incremental changes in farming techniques and social organization. A significant contribution of the literature, the book demonstrated the need to consider the local and temporal dimension of agricultural innovations. It brings into question many key assumptions that have influenced develpoment policies during the twentieth century. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction. Cotton and the discourse of development. Defining and explaining agricultural revolutions. The interplay of induced and directed innovations. Agricultural development and agrarian politics. Research site. Research methods. The general argument and organization of the book -- 2 The collision of empires, 1880-1911. European accounts of pre-colonial northern Cote d'lvoire. African cotton. The Korhogo region on the eve of colonization. Redrawing the map -- 3 The uncaptured corvee, 1912-1946. The "disguised corvee". The parallel cotton market. The push for cotton exports. The decline of cotton -- 4 Repackaging cotton, 1947-1963. The discipline of the market. Institutional and organizational reforms . Migrant labor and the "climate of freedom". The CFDT system -- 5 Making cotton work, 1964-1984. The data behind the cotton revolution. Labor bottlenecks and agricultural change. Population and labor constraints. Labor bottleneck periods . Farmer adjustments to labor bottlenecks -- 6 "To sow or not to sow": the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-1995. The erosion of farmer incomes. The extensification of cotton . Contested cropping. Managing debt. The cooperative movement. Striking cotton markets. The end of modernization. Crop diversification. Cooperative turns -- 7 Conclusion. Closing the price gap: parallel markets and the origins of the CFDT system. Making cotton work: locally induced innovations. The landscape of change. Made of peasant cotton -- Appendix 1: Cote d'lvoire seed cotton production, 1912-1998 -- Notes -- Bibliography
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-233
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    Transformations in slavery : A history of slavery in Africa (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-78430-1 , 978-0-521-78430-6 , 0-521-78012-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-78012-4 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 367 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 100
    Keywords: Afrika Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 318-354
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    Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600 - c. 1960 (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56664-9 , 978-0-521-56664-3 , 0-521-56228-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-56228-7 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 252 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 96
    Keywords: Zentralafrika Kamerun ; Duala ; Handel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Kolonie, französisch ; Dekolonisation
    Abstract: The Duala people entered the international scene as merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm products. Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from earlier riverain trade to develop cocoa plantations and provide their children with exceptional levels of European education. At the same time they came into early conflict with both German and French regimes and played a leading - if ultimately unsuccessful - role in anti-colonial politics. In tracing these changing economic and political roles, this book also examines the growing consciousness of the Duala as an ethnic group and uses their history to shed light on the history of 'middleman' communities in surrounding regions of West and Central Africa. The authors draw upon a wide range of written and oral sources, including indigenous accounts of the past conflicting with their own findings but illuminate local conceptions of social hierarchy and their relationship to spiritual beliefs. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables -- Preface -- Map -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on the coast in the formative period, c. 1600-1830 -- 3. Hegemony without control: the Duala, Europeans and the Littoral hinterland in the era of legitimate/free trade, c. 1830-1884 -- 4. Mythic transformation and historical continuity: Duala middlemen and German colonial rule, 1884-1914 -- 5. Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under French mandate rule, 1914-1941 -- 5. Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of decolonization, c. 1941-c. 1960 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-249
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    Status and respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870 : a tragedy of manners (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-62122-4 , 978-0-521-62122-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 203 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) [98]
    Keywords: Südafrika Kap-Provinz ; Kolonie, holländisch ; Kapkolonie, britisch ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Status ; Statussymbol ; Christentum ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Under the VOC -- 3 English and Dutch -- 4 The content of respectability -- 5 Christianity, status and respectability -- 6 Outsiders -- 7 Acceptance and rejection -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 177-195
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    Ritual and religion in the making of humanity (1999)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22873-5 , 978-0-521-22873-2 , 0-521-29690-0 /Hb. , 978-0-521-29690-8 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 535 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 110
    DDC: 203.8
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Evolution Religion ; Ritual
    Abstract: Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.
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    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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    Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59678-5 , 978-0-521-59678-7 , 0-521-59324-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59324-3 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 354 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 94
    Keywords: Westafrika Westafrika, A.O.F. ; Kolonie, französisch ; Senegal ; Guinea ; Mali ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Abolition ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior, while in areas near the coast, hesitant actions were taken against slave-raiding, trading and use. After 1900, the French withdrew state support of slavery, and as many as a million slaves left their masters. A second exodus occurred after World War I, when soldiers of slave origin returned home. The renegotiation of relationships between those who remained and their masters carries the story into the contemporary world. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Slavery in the Western Sudan -- 2 Abolition and retreat. Senegal 1848-1876 -- 3 Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution -- 4 Senegal after Brière -- 5 Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard -- 6 Senegal in the 1890s -- 7 The end of the conquest -- 8 The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery -- 9 With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea -- 10 The Banamba Exodus -- 11 French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy -- 12 Looking for the tracks. How they did it -- 13 After the War: renegotiating social relations -- 14 A question of honor -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade (1998)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59760-9 , 978-0-521-59760-9 , 0-521-59226-7 /Hb. , 978-0-521-59226-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 358 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 92
    Uniform Title: La _Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegambien ; Senegal ; Guinea Bissau ; Mauretanien ; Mali ; Guinea ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Handel ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: Boubacar Barry is one of the leading figures in West African historiography. His authoritative study of 400 years of Senegambian history is unrivalled in its detailed grasp of published and unpublished materials. Taking as its subject the vast area covering the Senegal and Gambia river basins, this book explores the changing dynamics of regional and Atlantic trade, clashes between traditional African and emergent Muslim authorities, the colonial system and the slave trade, and current obstacles to the integration of the region's modern states. Professor Barry argues cogently for the integrity of the Senegambian region as a historical subject, and he forges a coherent narrative from the dismemberment and unification which characterised Senegambia's development from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This newly-translated study is a vital tool in our understanding of West African history. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- I - Senegambia from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century: a haven for incoming populations, a station for migrants on the move -- 1 - Senegambia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: dependence on the Sudan and the Sahara -- 2 - Social dynamics in Senegambia -- 3 - The Atlantic trading system and the reformation of Senegambian states from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- 4 - The partition of the Senegambian coast in the seventeenth century -- II - Senegambia in the eighteenth century: the slave trade, ceddo regimes and Muslim revolutions -- 5 - The slave trade in the eighteenth century -- 6 - The strengthening of ceddo regimes in the eighteenth century -- 7 - Muslim revolutions in the eighteenth century -- 8 - The impact of the slave trade: economic regression and social strife -- III - Senegambia in the first half of the nineteenth century: legitimate trade and sovereignty disputes -- 9 - The crisis of the trans-Atlantic trading system and the triumph of legitimate trade in the first half of the nineteenth century -- 10 - Popular rebellions and political and social crises in Futa Jallon -- 11 - Futa Jallon expansion into the Southern Rivers region -- 12 - The colony of Senegal and political and social crises in northern Senegambia -- 13 - Defeat of the holy warriors in northern Senegambia -- IV - Senegambia in the second half of the nineteenth century: colonial conquest and resistance movements -- 14 - Colonial imperialism and European rivalries in Senegambia -- 15 - Last-ditch resistance movements of legitimist rulers in northern Senegambia -- 16 - The conquest of the Southern Rivers region -- 17 - The balancing act of the Almamis of Timbo in their attempts to cope with centrifugal forces -- 18 - Bokar Biro and the conquest of Futa Jallon -- 19 - Mass resistance movements among the Joola and the Konyagi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Commerce and economic change in West Africa : the palm oil trade in the nineteenth century (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59074-4 , 978-0-521-59074-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 270 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 93
    Keywords: Westafrika Ölpalme ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche ; Handel ; Beziehungen Afrika-Europa ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at the core of relations between Britain and West Africa, and of immense importance to the economies of large parts of West Africa. Martin Lynn's authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade covers the whole of this critical period for all of West Africa. It explains how the palm oil trade grew organically out of the organisation of the slave trade. The situation changed sharply with the development of steam communication between Britain and West Africa from the 1850s, leading to severe problems for the commerce in the second half of the century, the erosion of African brokers' powers, and the restructuring of the trade thereafter. The result was a crisis within the trade towards the end of the century and, eventually, with the arrival of colonial rule, the ending of the long established structures of the commerce. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Development of the Palm Oil Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 1. The West African trade in transition -- 2. African producers and palm oil production -- 3. African brokers and the growth of the palm oil trade -- 4. British traders, British ports, and the expansion of the palm oil trade -- Part II. Restructuring of the Palm Products Trade in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 5. Technological change, the British market, and African producers -- 6. British traders and the restructuring of the palm products trade -- 7. African brokers and the struggle for the palm products trade -- 8. The coming of colonial rule and the ending of legitimate trade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
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    Mangrove man : dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56435-2 , 978-0-521-56435-9 , 0-521-56434-4 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 335 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 106
    Keywords: Papua-Neuguinea Sepik ; Murik ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Weiblichkeit ; Männlichkeit ; Soziale Rolle
    Abstract: This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential problem, and their claim to sustain and reproduce society requires them to appropriate the nurturant qualities of women. So they must, in some sense, model certain aspects of themselves after women. A 'maternal schema' or 'poetics of the female body', therefore underlines the sociocultural patterns of these societies. This schema expresses itself in a range of societal domains: in kinship relations, life-cycle rituals, the men's cults, and in disputes and processes of conflict resolution. The issues discussed tie in with some of the major contemporary debates in the social sciences: the relationship between ideas of male and female power. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of table -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- PART I - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA AND THE UTERINE BODY -- 2 - A predicament in space -- 3 - The maternal schema and the uterine body -- 4 - The heraldic body -- 5 - Who succeeded Ginau? -- PART II - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA AND THE COSMIC BODY OF MAN -- 6 - A body more carnal -- 7 - The sexuality and aggression of the cosmic body of man -- PART III - DIALOGICS OF THE MATERNAL SCHEMA IN SOCIAL CONTROL -- 8 - Conflict and the reproduction of society -- 9 - Social control and law -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (1997)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-59731-5 , 0-521-59246-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 423 Seiten , Tabellen
    Series Statement: Democratization and Authoritarianism in Postcommunist Societies 4
    DDC: 320.95809049
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Sowjet-Union, ehemalige ; Kaukasus ; Armenien ; Aserbaidschan ; Georgien ; Kasachstan ; Kirgisien ; Tadschikistan ; Turkmenistan ; Usbekistan ; Nationalismus ; Demokratisierung ; Politischer Wandel ; Postkommunismus ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Elite, politische ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
    Abstract: Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the former Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Chapters on Kazakhstan, Kyrkyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, provide a systematic analysis of elite politics, factionalism, party and interest group formation, and social and ethnic groupings. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott provide theoretical and comparative chapters on post communist political development across the region. This book will provide students and scholars with detailed analysis by leading authorities, plus the latest research data on recent political and economic developments in each country.
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    Kingship and state : the Buganda dynasty (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47370-5 , 978-0-521-47370-5
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 293 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 88
    Keywords: Uganda Buganda ; Ganda ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Orale Tradition ; König
    Abstract: The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on language -- List of abbreviations -- 1 - Preamble -- 2 - The story and its making -- 3 - Introduction to myth -- 4 - Introduction to Buganda -- 5 - The remoter past -- 6 - Genesis -- 7 - The cycle of the kings -- 8 - Fragments of history -- 9 - Foreign affairs -- 10 - The making of the state -- 11 - Reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-56251-1 , 978-0-521-56251-5 , 0-521-56600-2 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-56600-1 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 677 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 89
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kolonie, französisch ; Kolonie, britisch ; Geschichte ; Lohnarbeit ; Gewerkschaft ; Dekolonisation ; Kolonialpolitik ; Sozialgeschichte ; Recht
    Abstract: This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of tables and figure -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Map of French and British colonial Africa -- 1 - Introduction -- Part I - The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform -- 2 - The labor question unposed -- 3 - Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940 -- 4 - Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: posing the labor question -- Part II - Imperial fantasies and colonial crises -- 5 - Imperial plans -- 6 - Crises -- Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state -- Part III - The imagining of a working class -- 7 - The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail -- 8 - Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa -- 9 - Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question -- Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state -- Part IV - Devolving power and abdicating responsibility -- 10 - The burden of declining empire -- 11 - Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s -- 12 - Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s -- Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization -- Conclusion -- 13. The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Mass culture and modernism in Egypt (1996)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48147-3 , 978-0-521-48147-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 102
    DDC: 962.03
    Keywords: Ägypten Massenmedien ; Film ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Kultur, moderne
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    Spirit possession and personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47007-2 , 978-0-521-47007-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 178 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 94
    DDC: 299.33
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    Keywords: Republik Niger Aïr ; Tuareg ; Kel Ewey ; Frau ; Besessenheit ; Kult ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Weltanschauung
    Abstract: Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult, Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies of possessed women, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Illnesses of the heart and soul: the case of Asalama -- Part I. Images of Possession -- 2. Inversion and other tropes in spirit possession rituals -- 3. "Like a tree branch swaying in the wind": the head dance -- 4. Illnesses of God: personhood, knowledge, and healing -- Part II. Art, Agency, and Power in the Ritual Sessions -- 5. Sound, solitude, and music -- 6. The tande n goumaten songs -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Africans : the history of a continent (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48235-6 , 978-0-521-48235-6 , 0-521-48422-7 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-48422-0 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 323 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 85
    Keywords: Afrika Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Zeitgeschichte ; Christentum ; Islam ; Metall
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1. The frontiersmen of mankind -- 2. The emergence of food-producing communities -- 3. The impact of metals -- 4. Christianity and Islam -- 5. Colonising society in western Africa -- 6. Colonising society in eastern and southern Africa -- 7. The Atlantic slave trade -- 8. Regional diversity in the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12. Industrialisation and race in South Africa -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index
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    People of the sea : identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-43350-9 , 978-0-521-43350-1
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 188 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 95
    Keywords: Madagaskar Ethnie, Madagaskar ; Identität ; Verwandtschaft ; Tod ; Begräbnissitte ; Weltanschauung
    Abstract: The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acting Vezo in the present -- 3. People without wisdom -- 4. Avoiding ties and bonds -- 5. Intermezzo -- 6. Kinship in the present and in the future -- 7. Separating life from death -- 8. Working for the dead -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
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    Palaeopathology of aboriginal Australians : health and disease across a hunter-gatherer continent (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46044-1 , 978-0-521-46044-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 324 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Australien Paläoanthropologie ; Ureinwohner, Australien ; Gesundheit ; Hygiene ; Paläopathologie ; Pleistozän ; Holozän ; Hominiden
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 295-320
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    Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47179-6 , 978-0-521-47179-4 , 0-521-10347-9 , 978-0-521-10347-3
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 229 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 83
    Keywords: Sierra Leone Korruption ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Hegemonie ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Politik und Gesellschaft
    Abstract: William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Informal markets and the shadow state: some theoretical issues -- 2. Colonial rule and the foundations of the shadow state -- 3. Elite hegemony and the threat of political and economic reform -- 4. Reining in the informal market: the early Stevens' years, 1968-1973 -- 5. An exchange of services: state power and the diamond business -- 6. The shadow state and international commerce -- 7. Foreign firms, economic 'reform' and shadow state power -- 8. The changing character of African sovereignty -- Notes -- Bibliography --Index
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    The _culture of politics in Kenya (1995)
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    ISBN: 0-521-47059-5 , 978-0-521-47059-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 84
    Keywords: Kenia Politik und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte, politische ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people in one rural locale during the past century. This sliding scale of analysis allows the author to experiment theoretically with a number of themes informed by contemporary analytical tensions among post-modernist 'chaos', historical contingency, and structural regularities. The result is a study which combines many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.
    Description / Table of Contents: IList of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction; 1. Staging politics in Kenya -- 2. Shattered silences: political culture and "democracy" in the early 1990s -- 3. Open secrets: everyday forms of domination before 1990 -- 4. Moral economy and the quest for wealth in central Kenya since the late nineteenth century -- 5. The dove and the castor nut: Embu household economy in the 1980s -- 6. Conclusions: the showpiece of an hour -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48127-9 , 0-521-48127-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 278 Seiten , 1 Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 86
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Westafrika ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Handel ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Sklavenhandel ; Historiographie ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa. (Umschlagtext)
    Note: "A conference organized by the Centre of Commenwealth Studies of the University of Stirling in April 1993 [..] Revised versions of the papers from that conference are presented in the present volume" (Seite 5-6)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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    State and society in pre-colonial Asante (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41009-6 , 978-0-521-41009-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 492 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 79
    Keywords: Ghana Historischer Staat Afrika ; Königreich ; Ashanti ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, vorkoloniale ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Fest ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Historiographie
    Abstract: Scholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. In this book, T.C. MaCaskie gives a detailed and richly nuanced historical portrait of pre-colonial Asante. His delineation of state and society in Asante in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is centred on an extended analysis of the crucial ritual of the annual Kumase odwira festival. Is is at once a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on key Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Varieties of the Asante past -- 2. State and society in Asante history -- 3. Society and state in Asante history -- 4. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed -- 5. The Asante past considered -- Appendix I: Bowdich's The First Day of the Yam Custom -- Appendix II: A glossary of some Asante Twi terms -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- Guide to sources and materials consulted -- Index
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    Ethnic pride and racial prejudice in Victorian Cape Town : group identity and social practice, 1875-1902 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-47203-2 , 978-0-521-47203-6
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIII, 281 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 81
    Keywords: Südafrika Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Identität ; Ethnizität ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Geschichte, politische ; Kapstadt 〈Stadt, Südafrika〉
    Abstract: Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster the development of a sophisticated and colour-blind English merchant class. Vivian Bickford-Smith skilfully interweaves political, economic and social analysis to show that the English merchant class, far from being liberal, were generally as racist as Afrikaner farmers. Theirs was, however, a peculiarly English discourse of race, mobilised around a "Clean Party" obsessed with sanitation and the dangers posed by "un-English" Captonians in a period of rapid urbanisation brought about by the discovery of diamonds and gold in the interior.This original contribution to South African urban history draws on comparative material from other colonial port towns and on relevant studies of the Victorian city.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Note on terminology -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The world that commerce made -- 3. Problems of prosperity -- 4. White ethnicity, rasism and social practice -- 5. The dangers of depression -- 6. Problems of prosperity revisited -- 7. Ethnicity and organisation among Cape Towns's workers -- 8. A darker shade than pale? -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The _roads of Chinese childhood : learning and identification in Angang (1995)
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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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    Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-48030-2 , 978-0-521-48030-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 288 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 96
    DDC: 995.3
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    Keywords: Neu-Irland Papua-Neuguinea ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Totenfest ; Ritual ; Begräbnissitte ; Tausch, zeremonieller ; Soziale Beziehung ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving through which the living publicly define their social relations with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased. In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies brought about by colonialism and capitalism. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrationes, tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- 1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology -- I Mortuary rites as kastam -- 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam -- 3. Kastam, bisnis and matriliny -- II. Mortuary rites as "finishing" and "replacing" the dead -- 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges -- 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession -- 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation -- 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites -- III Toward comparative historical ethnography -- 8. Social reproduction and kastam in comparative perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 272-283
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    In the society of nature : a native ecology in Amazonia (1994)
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    ISBN: 0-521-41103-3 , 978-0-521-41103-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 372 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 93
    Uniform Title: La _nature domestique
    Keywords: Ecuador Peru ; Achuar ; Weltanschauung ; Kulturökologie ; Subsistenzwirtschaft
    Abstract: The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations, part title illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to the Englisch edition -- A note on spelling -- General introduction -- Part I. The Sphere of Nature -- Introduction I -- 1. The territorial space -- 2. Landscape and cosmos -- 3. Nature's beings -- Part II. On the Proper Use of Nature -- Introduction II -- 4. The world of the house -- 5. The world of gardens -- 6. The world of the forest -- 7. The world of the river -- 8. Categories of practice -- 9. The good life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Index of plants and animals
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-354
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    United States foreign policy toward Africa : incrementalism, crisis and change (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46677-6 , 978-0-521-46677-6 , 0-521-44439-X , 978-0-521-44439-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 347 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in International Relations 31
    Keywords: Afrika USA ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopen ; Somalia ; Südafrika ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power which each have the ability to pull policy in different directions. The book describes the evolution of policy at three levels: Presidents and their close advisors; the bureaucracies of the executive branch; and Congress and African affairs interest groups. Most importantly, the evidence presented demonstrates that the nature of events in Africa has itself affected the operation of the US policymaking process, and the substance of US policy. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy towards Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa; 2. Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa; 3. US foreign policy toward Zaire; 4. US foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia; 5. US foreign policy toward South Africa; 6. US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era.
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    West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River valley, 1700-1860 (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44083-1 , 978-0-521-44083-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 77
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegal ; Senegambien ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal river valley in the eighteenth century. He shows that the growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Slaves worked as seamen in the river and coasting trades, produced surplus grain to feed slaves in transit, and sometimes came to hold pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1 - Cosaan: "the origins" -- 2 - Slavery and the slave trade in the Lower Senegal -- 3 - The Atlantic kingdom: maritime commerce and social change -- 4 - Merchants and slaves: slavery on Saint Louis and Gorée -- 5 - Famine, civil war, and secession, 1750-1800 -- 6 - From river empire to colony: Saint Louis and Senegal, 1800-1860 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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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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    South coast New Guinea cultures : History, comparison, dialectic (1993)
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    ISBN: 0-521-42931-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 294 S.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 89
    Keywords: Neuguinea Melanesier ; Soziales Leben ; Ethnographie ; Sexualität ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Homosexualität
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    Lumbee Indian histories : Race, ethnicity, and Indian identity in the southern United States (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-42045-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI, 309 S.
    Keywords: North Carolina Lumbee ; Tuscarora ; Ethnohistorie ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Indianerpolitik ; Identität ; Ethnizität
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-306"This is the second of three volumes on a theory of culture in history. [...]" (page v)
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    Slow death for slavery : The course of abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-37469-3 , 978-0-521-37469-9 , 0-521-44702-X /Pbk. , 978-0-521-44702-7 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 391 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 76
    Keywords: Nord-Nigeria Sokoto ; Sklaverei ; Abolition ; Kolonialpolitik ; Nigeria ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: This book examines the gradual decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. The authors have written a thoughtful and provocative book which raises doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state. They chart the development of British colonial policy towards resolving the dilemma of slavery and how to end it. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 - Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria -- 2 - Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy -- 3 - The debate on legal-status abolition -- 4 - Emancipation and the law -- 5 - Upholding proprietary rights to land -- 6 - The role of taxation in the reform of slavery -- 7 - The colonial economy and the slaves -- 8 - The persistence of concubinage -- 9- Legal-status abolition: the final phase -- Appendix : Court records of slaves issued certificates of freedom -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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    A _South African kingdom : the pursuit of security in nineteenth-century Lesotho (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44067-X , 978-0-521-44067-7
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    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 78
    Keywords: Südafrika Lesotho ; Sotho ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Politik
    Abstract: The BaSotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. Elizabeth Eldridge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the BaSotho to the challenge of drought and famine, and explaining the dynamics of the competition for land. During the colonial period, regional economic integration increasingly influenced local production, land use and internal politics, and drew the BaSotho into the regional migrant labor system. Throughout these turbulent years, the overriding interest of the BaSotho was the pursuit of security. Dr. Eldredge analyzes the epic struggle which bound together rich and poor, chiefs and commoners, and men and women in a largely successful effort to sustain this fragile and innovative society in the face of political threats and environmental challenges. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviation -- Note on orthography and terminology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830 -- 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s -- 4. The land of the BaSotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824-1864 -- 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834-1868 -- 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines -- 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization -- 8. The allocation of labor, 1830-1910 -- 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1830-1910 -- 10. Women, reproduction, and production -- 11. The BaSotho and the rise of the regional European market, 1830-1910 -- 12. The colonial imposition and the failure of the local economy, 1871-1910 -- 13. Economy, politics, migrant labor, and gender -- 14. In pursuit of security -- Appendix: Note on oral sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    The _cultural relations of classification : An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-43114-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 315 S.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 91
    DDC: 591/.09598
    Keywords: Ceram Ethnie Indonesien ; Ethnozoologie
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    The _Kanyok of Zaire : an institutional and ideolgical history to 1895 (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41298-6 , 978-0-521-41298-8
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 213 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 74
    Keywords: Luba Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Kaniok ; Yaka ; Ethnohistorie ; Geschichte ; Mythos und Legende
    Abstract: In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 - Wood and wine, gardens and game -- 2 - Stratification, symbols, and spirits -- 3 - New legends for new leaders -- 4 - Serpents and lightning -- 5 - Dances, moats, and myths -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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