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From Modern Myths to Global Encounters

Author : Anke van der Kwaak
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Modern Myths to Global Encounters written by Anke van der Kwaak and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In western imagery Africa is a continent of static, 'traditional', societies that are incompatible with, even antithetical to, western progress and modernity. This book looks into processes of change and transformation in Africa in the context of modernity and globalization, showing the resilience, rather than the expected demise, of local cultures in Africa. In this volume, the persistent western modern myth is deconstructed. Most contributions are from students of Peter Geschiere: young Africanists from Africa and Europe from different disciplinary backgrounds, including anthropology, history, political sciences and law. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted during the last two decennia they reflect on the three main themes that are central to Geschiere's work: African politics, the modernity of witchcraft, and the construction of communal identities in times of globalization. These themes cover some of the most topical subjects currently debated in African studies not only by Geschiere but also by his close colleagues, including Jean-François Bayart, Achille Mbembe and Jean and John Comaroff, all known for being critical and 'cutting edge'. This critical attitude has inspired all of the contributions, including that of the Latin Americanist Michiel Baud. The aforementioned scholars have instigated debates on African politics in terms of 'Africanizing the state' while occult forces - witchcraft often being taken to be the hallmark of a traditional world view - are understood as part and parcel of processes of modernization and nation-state building. Ethnic and religious identities, intersected with gender, class and generation, prove to be important anchors of 'authenticity' and 'autochthony' in an era of globalization. The personal reflections on the coming of age as Africanists as exemplified by the contributions of Geschiere's students in this volume have theoretical and methodological implications, but also throw light on the anthropology of Africa in late twentieth century academia in The Netherlands. From modern myths to global encounters is essential reading for students and scholars in African Studies, Development Studies, Political Science, International Law, Anthropology and History of Africa as well as for anyone interested in postcolonial African studies.

One Foot in Heaven

Author : Karin Willemse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004150110
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book One Foot in Heaven written by Karin Willemse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative anthropological study, based on biographic narratives recorded during extensive field-research in Darfur, Sudan (1990-95) provides a unique understanding of how, in daily life, working women of different classes negotiate their identities in the context of an Islamist regime.

Global Encounters

Author : Paoi Hwang 編
Publisher : 國立臺灣大學出版中心
ISBN 13 : 9860354138
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Global Encounters written by Paoi Hwang 編 and published by 國立臺灣大學出版中心. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan’s status as an island surrounded by powerful nation states has forced upon it a history of permeable borders and an ever fluctuating cultural subjectivity. Originally inhabited by Austronesian tribal peoples, the island has over the centuries fallen under the political, economic, and cultural influences of the Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese occupiers. Globalization has further transformed and complicated Taiwan’s vistas of political reforms, cultural productions, and ethnic re-composition. Such gradual but radical transformation has, in countless ways, encouraged the nation-state identity and identification to vacillate between insularism and globalization. This collection is an example of the multitude of voices that speak for Taiwan. These selected essays, contributed by scholars from different countries (Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, UK, and USA), engage with the debates on Taiwan’s identity and nationhood while also attempting to step beyond the nationalistic frame. Whereas the openness to new ideas may alter our perspectives, this collection reminds us to embrace external influences without forgetting to celebrate our unbroken, unique historical legacy.

Global Encounters

Author : Iris Guske
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830127
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Global Encounters written by Iris Guske and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars throughout the world have come together again in a second book to share their most successful teaching practices and concerns in the areas of cross-cultural studies and international education. Many disciplines are represented and diverse subjects are discussed: science literacy and worldview perspective; second-language acquisition, student mobility, and international universities; teacher professional development and government programs for disadvantaged children; zoos, industrial paintings, and dress designs as cultural artifacts. Presentations on these topics are the result of papers given at the annual meeting of the Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture, founded 10 years ago in Rome, Italy. The organization regularly attracts some 100 scholars and practitioners in the fields of education, literacy, language learning, communication and (inter-)cultural studies from all five continents to its annual congress in Rome. These conferences, as well as this up-to-date compilation of multi-disciplinary academic papers, are meant to highlight the growing need for culturally sensitive education that draws on the strengths of both traditional teaching methods and technology-rich forms of instruction, as well as a host of national and international programs designed to empower teachers and students alike. Engaged educators, whose research and/or critical discourse in classrooms all over the world has given rise to the present volume, thus hope to share with a wider audience how they impart knowledge, foster skills, and nurture qualities in the next generation of global citizens that will enable them to negotiate their personal and professional lives in our modern world. Even though communities may no longer be characterized by physical distances as barriers to communicative interchanges, perceived and real rifts between different cultures are nevertheless coming alarmingly close to preventing meaningful communication from bringing about true understanding at the individual and societal levels. The ontogenesis of the Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture is seen here clearly in the perspectives and presentations of diverse academics who are dedicated to teaching and learning toward the greater goal, as Matthew Arnold said in Literature and Science, of “knowing ourselves and the world.”

Development in Place

Author : José C. M. van Santen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9052602891
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Development in Place written by José C. M. van Santen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In humanitys struggle to find timely solutions to environmental problems, it is easily forgotten that access to our shared spaces has never been equal. This collection deals with the landscapes and places of rural, urban, and wilderness areas in relation development. Contributions examine the complex relationship that human beings maintain with their rural and urban environments and with other species in various places and spaces. Nothing is taken for granted: colonial history, globalization, localization, hybrid relationships, colonial or "shared"architecture, religious backgrounds, and claims to equal access all fuse with policy strategies. This volume discusses these issues within the framework of developmental discourse, while asserting the rights of access to the global commons for all world citizens as well as other species.

Ambiguous Pleasures

Author : Rachel Spronk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454781
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Pleasures written by Rachel Spronk and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a 'modern' identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an 'African' identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.

Global Encounters

Author : G. Harrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502814
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Global Encounters written by G. Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has globalization impacted on development? For Harrison, the answer lies in the international political economy, and the ways in which states have managed economic globalization - from positions of strength or weakness. Key themes emerge, such as new geographies of development and the constant need for state economic action.

Traditions on the Move. Essays in Honour of Jarich Oosten

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Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9036101573
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Traditions on the Move. Essays in Honour of Jarich Oosten written by and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New World Encounters

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913108
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book New World Encounters written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and innovative approach to the momentous encounter. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importanc

Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa

Author : Ebenezer Obadare
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566868
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa written by Ebenezer Obadare and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The book promotes an understanding of leadership and its paradoxes and illuminates the conditions under which political leadership has been produced, and how those conditions have shaped leaders.

Global Encounters

Author : Gitte Stald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860205873
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Global Encounters written by Gitte Stald and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between globalization, culture, and the transformative role of the media is examined in this book. Case studies assess questions of media use, cultural boundaries, and identities emanating from these theoretical reflections. The international scope of this book includes examinations of youth cultures in Denmark and South Africa, Asian cultures in India and London, the Iranian migration to London, and the Gauchos in Southern Brazil.

Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004271562
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe focuses on the West African migrants’ presence in Europe and the way they negotiate religion and ethnicity in a new context. Special attention is given to the diversity of religious background of the migrants and to exploration of interreligious (especially Christian-Muslim) relations. These dimensions of transnational migration have not been widely researched, yet. After introducing the new African religious diaspora, the situation of the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants – both Christian and Muslim – in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland is analysed. The impact the migrants make on their communities of origin in Africa is also taken into account. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Tilmann Heil, Monika Salzbrunn, José C.M. van Santen, Miriam Schader, Etienne Smith and Gina Gertrud Smith.

The Speed of Change

Author : Jan Bart Gewald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004177353
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Speed of Change written by Jan Bart Gewald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially the plaything and symbol of colonial domination, the motor-vehicle transformed the economic and social life of the continent. Indeed, the motor-vehicle is arguably the single most important factor for change in Africa in the twentieth century. A factor for change that thus far has been neglected in research and literature. Yet its impact extends across the totality of human existence; from ecological devastation to economic advancement, from cultural transformation to political change, through to a myriad of other themes. This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists and social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415144346
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World written by Merry E. Wiesner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global survey of Christianity and sexuality in the early modern period, Merry Wiesner-Hanks assesses the role of personal faith and the Church itself in the control and expression of all aspects of sexuality.

The Myth of Continents

Author : Martin W. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520207431
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Continents written by Martin W. Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-08-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Karen Wigen re-examine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted. Their up-to-the-minute study reflects both on the global scale and its relation to the specific continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa actually part of one contiguous landmass. Photos. maps.

Encounters Old and New in World History

Author : Alan Karras
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824866126
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Encounters Old and New in World History written by Alan Karras and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their own academic areas of interest, are experienced scholars and classroom teachers. Uniting them together in this volume is their professional relationship with Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012). This shared connection served as a catalyst to showcase Bentley’s enduring legacy: a commitment to investigating large-scale questions with detailed empirical evidence that explains the human condition—documenting both patterns of similarity and difference in ways that account for regional and temporal variations. The volume continues Bentley’s meticulous attention to world historical methods: focus on scale, cross-cultural encounter, comparison, periodization, critical geography, and interdisciplinarity. Encounters Old and New in World History responds to provocations that Jerry Bentley tendered in his scholarship and through his professional activities. Contributors interrogate the institutional settings, disciplinary proclivities, methodological choices, and diverse source bases of world history research and teaching. Several essays address the ways in which present-day concerns influence research on local and global scales. Other essays pay particular attention to the production and circulation of knowledge across regional, temporal, and class boundaries, as well as between the academy and the wider public. Claiming the centrality of globally informed and focused approaches to historical inquiry, researchers continue the conversations that Bentley carried on through his own scholarship, teaching, editing of the Journal of World History, participating in public forums, and contributing to public discussions about the place of history in understanding today’s global integration. The stakes involved in asking questions about the shared history of humankind continue to increase in the current era of intensified globalization. It is incumbent upon scholars with the skills to work across linguistic, geographic, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries to show the ways that cross-cultural encounters happened historically, and to point out how such interactions play out in the institutions, classrooms, and public debates where historical interpretations are created and shared.

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

Author : Ricardo Duchesne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004194614
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Uniqueness of Western Civilization written by Ricardo Duchesne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The roots of the West's superior intellectual and artistic creativity should be traced back to the aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are: the ascendancy of multicultural historians and the degradation of European history; China's ecological endowments and imperial windfalls; military revolutions in Europe 1300-1800; the science and chivalry of Henry the Navigator; Judaism and its contribution to Western rationalism; the cultural richness of Max Weber versus the intellectual poverty of Pomeranz, Wong, Goldstone, Goody, and A.G. Frank; change without progress in the East; Hegel's Phenomenology of the [Western] Spirit; Nietzsche and the education of the Homeric Greeks; Kojeve's master-slave dialectic and the Western state of nature; Christian virtues and German aristocratic expansionism.