ISBN:
1912808064
,
9781912808069
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
Uniform Title:
Essays Selections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Moore, Sally Falk, 1924- Comparing impossibilities
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Law and anthropology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
;
Anthropology
;
Law and anthropology
Abstract:
Chapter Eleven -- Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of StudyChapter Twelve -- Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973; Chapter Thirteen -- Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State; References; Index
Abstract:
Chapter Six -- Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running "Their Own" Native CourtsChapter Seven -- Individual Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as "Events of Articulation"; Chapter Eight -- Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography; Part III: Excursions into Mythology; Chapter Nine -- Descent and Symbolic Filiation; Chapter Ten -- The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism; Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics
Abstract:
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments and Sources; Foreword by John Borneman; An Oblique Introduction; Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology; Chapter One -- Part of the Story: A Memoir; Chapter Two -- Comparisons: Possible and Impossible; Chapter Three -- Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania; Part II: Perspectives on Africa; Chapter Four -- From Giving and Lending to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro; Chapter Five -- History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
