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Mongameli Mabona

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702551
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Mongameli Mabona written by Ernst Wolff and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of a remarkably versatile and pioneering South African thinker Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly forgotten figure today. British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born and, to a large extent, these powers carved out his destiny for him. Nevertheless, a curious set of coincidences enabled him to obtain a tertiary education as a priest, to pursue his doctoral studies in Italy and to befriend Alioune Diop. He is one of the first published philosophers of Anglophone Africa and holds doctorates in theology and anthropology. His opposition to institutionalized racism – an opposition which included his co-authoring the 1970 “Black Priests’ Manifesto” – eventually led to his exile. This book is the first study of any kind devoted to Mabona. It documents his life and offers a synoptic reading of his scholarly and poetic work.

UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VII, Abridged Edition

Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067028
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VII, Abridged Edition written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and shows the historical relationships between the various parts of the continent. Historical connections with other continents demonstrate Africa's contribution to the development of human civilization.

General History of Africa

Author : International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231017136
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1985-12-31 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.

Senses

Author : Regina Bendix
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825891084
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Senses written by Regina Bendix and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume present deeply contextualized cases of sensory experience.They link senses to each other and to event, sentiment, emplacement, identity, and the ongoing shaping of social life. In doing so, they make a strong Joint case for the importance of taking the senses seriously, not in isolation but as integral elements of culture and interaction.

Consensus, Conflict, and Change

Author : Margaret Peil
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966467478
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Consensus, Conflict, and Change written by Margaret Peil and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two very distinguished sociologists here undertake an extensive and comparative examination of African societies from a sociological perspective, addressing the various aspects and agents of transformation. The study is against the background of the transformation of African societies triggered by such factors as dysfunctions within values, beliefs and norms, general economic and political factors, and adjustments due to external forces, particularly new culture and technologies. The issues are examined from the perspective that democratisation, modernisation and globalisation are forces influencing African societies, whilst traditional values and cultures produce a conflict of interest. The chapters cover social organisation, interaction, differentiation, families, education, religion, economic activities, cities, social problems and social change.

Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110725142
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest written by Ernst Wolff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the deployment of capabilities and means is permeated by ethical aspirations and hesitancies. Third, all domains of action are affected by these ethical dilemmas. Fourth, the dimensions of the technicity of action are typical of human life in general, and not just a regional or culturally specific phenomenon. In this study, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted to encompass the broad anthropological scope of this study and combine this bigger picture with detailed attention to the socio-historical particularities of action as it plays out in different contexts. Hermeneutics (the philosophical inquiry into the human phenomena of meaning, understanding and interpretation) and social science (as the study of all human affairs) are the two main disciplinary orientations of this book. This study clarifies the technical dimension of the entire spectrum of human action ranging from daily routine to the extreme of violent protest.

South African Coasts

Author :
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775842134
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book South African Coasts written by and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the very best of the photography as judged in the Sustainable Seas Trust 2013/14 competition. The extraordinary, prize-winning photographs are accompanied by illuminating essays from leading scientists, sports people and others whose lives are intimately connected with the seas. It also serves as a call to create a South African network of Hope Spots, which are special, people-orientated marine conservation areas. The hope is that, with the close involvement of the communities that live near and depend on the seas, we can safeguard our natural resources.

Working with Spirit

Author : Jo Thobeka Wreford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450158
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Working with Spirit written by Jo Thobeka Wreford and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author's personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a "language of spirit" by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa.

Martin Versfeld

Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702977
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Martin Versfeld written by Ernst Wolff and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor of the violent trends of modernity, a critic of apartheid from the first hour, he was among the first philosophers of ecology. At the same time he celebrated the generosity of the world and advocated an ethics of simplicity, drawing on mediaeval theology and Eastern wisdom. His philosophy offered food for thought in dark times of the 20th century, as it still does for us in the 21st century. This first book-length study on Versfeld is an invitation to think with him on justice and exploitation, cultural difference and human nature, religion and the environment, time and connectedness.

Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats

Author : Max du Preez
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1770201378
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats written by Max du Preez and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the bestselling Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, this is a collection of more fascinating, colourful - and mostly unknown - historical tales, all meticulously researched and written in a lively and engaging style. There are stories of Khoikhoi who tried - with mixed fortunes - to integrate into early Cape colonial society, and eccentric Europeans who ventured to the turbulent interior. Readers will meet the Xhosa mystic and war-doctor Makhanda, who nearly succeeded in taking Grahamstown from the British in 1819; and the chieftainess Mantatisi, who led her people to military victories during the upheavals of the nineteenth century. Also featured are the Johannesburg-based Foster Gang, who were indirectly responsible for the killing of Boer hero Koos de la Rey; and the men who pulled off the biggest jewellery heist of the time, stealing Bridget Oppenheimer’s jewels in 1956. Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats spans more than three hundred years of history, concluding with an account of the man who exposed South Africa’s controversial arms deal. Once again, Max du Preez brings the past to life, proving that history can be more interesting - and more fun - than fiction.

A Living Man from Africa

Author : Roger S. Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168594
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Living Man from Africa written by Roger S. Levine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.

Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America

Author : David M. Gordon
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444115
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America written by David M. Gordon and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as “indigenous” resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a “middle ground” of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated with European colonialism. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making. Contributors: David Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen Flint, David M. Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua Reid, Parker Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A. Webb, Jr., Marsha Weisiger

The Westminster Collection of Christian Meditations

Author : Hannah Ward
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664222703
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Westminster Collection of Christian Meditations written by Hannah Ward and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 500 meditations from more than 250 authors, classic and contemporary, are arranged by themes that address individual needs and concerns, in this extensive anthology of Christian meditations.

Explaining Evil

Author : J. Harold Ellens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387168
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Explaining Evil written by J. Harold Ellens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this three-volume set, international scholars from across a broad spectrum of scholarly fields examine the concept of evil throughout history and world cultures from religious, scientific, psychological, and political perspectives. The manifestation of evil has provided a convenient theme for popular culture entertainment, ranging from the classic film The Exorcist, to almost all of Stephen King's horror novels, to video games such as Resident Evil. Unfortunately, dealing with—and attempting to overcome—the forces of evil is a pervasive problem in the real world as well. Explaining Evil addresses incidents of evil from ancient times to modern day around the globe. Concepts of evil within the big three religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—are examined, as well as in Chinese philosophy and Native American beliefs. The political or national expressions of evil are explored, such as the "axis of evil" that culminated in World War II. These volumes identify the causes and effects of evil, and suggest possible remedies to humanity's inescapable flaw.

Registratur AA. 3

Author : Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783905141627
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Registratur AA. 3 written by Basler Afrika Bibliographien and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed listing, arranged by year, of archival and library material relating to SWAPO from 1968 to 1992 in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). Periodicals issues receive a detailed contents statement. The chronological arrangement makes it very convenient to follow historical developments. An index of personal allows the tracing of persons throughout. Despite obvious gaps because of the incompleteness of the Basel collection, this is an extremely useful compilation. (wh).

Diviners and Prophets Among the Xhosa (1593-1856)

Author : Mongameli Mabona
Publisher : Lit Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Diviners and Prophets Among the Xhosa (1593-1856) written by Mongameli Mabona and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The South African anthropologist, Dr M. Mabona, uses the main title of this book as a convenient platform to launch an investigation into the roots of Xhosa culture and history. Many of the findings break new ground in Southern African anthropology and history such as: the original stock of the Bantu peoples arose from a cradle-land between the Orange and Vaal rivers in South Africa; the word `Guinea' is identical with the Xhosa `ebu Nguni' (Nguniland); Xhosa as well as Bantu history stretches back 50'000 years ago into the Middle Stone Ages (MSA) and into the Acheulian Age - the age of hominisation; the basic paradigmatic structure of Bantu speech; Xhosa thought structures; the fundamental relationship between the Xhosa language and mythology. "

Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs

Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825876012
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Tusona - Luchazi Ideographs written by Gerhard Kubik and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various graphic systems designed to express and transmit ideas or to convey messages were known in sub-Saharan Africa in pre-colonial times, ideographic and pictographic systems. One of the most intriguing of these traditions, known across eastern Angola into northwestern Zambia, among speakers of Luchazi, Chokwe, Lwena and related languages is the tusona ideographs. This work is a fascinating excursion into symbolism, the remote history of eastern Angola, Luchazi oral literature, mathematics, graphic art and communication.