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Author : Henry Kam Kah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3643961421
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Polygame Lebensweisen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Afrika und Europa written by Henry Kam Kah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Kam Kah
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643911424
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Polygamous Ways of Life Past and Present in Africa and Europe. Polygame Lebensweisen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Afrika und Europa written by Henry Kam Kah and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polygamy is a very complex phenomenon with a long tradition in Africa, but also in Europe. The anthology will contribute to the objectification of the discussion by portraying the variety of polygamous lifestyles showing the interconnections of family structure, social and economic conditions, cultural representations (especially in fictive writing and oral tradition), spiritual meaning and religious legitimation of this way of life between traditional belief, Christianity and Islam. Case studies from different countries in Africa south of the Sahara will be added by historic examples since antiquity in Europe up to the discussion in present times.
Author : Gam Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551821
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Singing Our Unsung Heroes written by Gam Nkwi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collates thematic reflections on Cameroon music exalting Manu Dibango, one of the first-generation Cameroonian musicians, who bowed to Covid-19 on 24 March 2020. Granted his enormous contribution to Cameroon, African and world music, one would have expected that scholarly books and encyclopaedia of recognition would be written in his honour prior to his demise. However, that was not the case. Like many other musicians in Cameroon, seemingly nothing substantial has been written about Manu Dibango and his music, with the exception, paradoxically, of his autobiography, Three Kilos of Coffee. What exists on this towering and humble giant of Cameroonian and African superstardom is scanty and mostly in the form of grey literature. We must learn to immortalise our artists and popular intellectuals beyond their entertainment value and the photo opportunities that we have with them in their lifetime. The inspiration for this book was drawn from the conviction that one of the best ways of honouring and valorising Manu Dibango would be by taking the cue from his music and then collecting essays generally on music, its role and impact in Cameroon, Africa and beyond.
Author : Izabela Romańczuk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104013159X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women written by Izabela Romańczuk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition. Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral literature, or religious-philosophical poetry tradition developing since at least the 17th century, the novel is a relatively young phenomenon in the rich body of Swahili literary output, emerging only in the last hundred years. Since then, academia has focused primarily on male novelists, largely disregarding important female writers such as Ndyanao Balisidya, Zainab Burhani, Martha Mvungi Mlangala, Zainab Mwanga, Lucy Nyasulu, and Zainab Alwi Baharoon. This book traces the evolution of women’s writing in Tanzania, highlighting emancipatory and feminist discourses, as well as intersectional themes of class, education, and urbanisation. The author demonstrates how concepts such as utu 'the essence of humanity', aibu 'shame', 'disgrace' and heshima 'honor', 'social respectability' are used in the novels to articulate the value systems and social norms in Swahili communities, including the gendered perceptions of women that they create. Grounded throughout in the historical and socio-political contexts of the authors it discusses, this book will be an important read for researchers of African literature and women’s studies.
Author : Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100018997X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It outlines polygamy's place in anthropological theory and its rich sociocultural diversity in countries ranging from the USA and UK to Malaysia, India, regions of Africa and Tibet. Polygamy also addresses often difficult and controversial issues facing modern polygamists, such as prejudice, HIV/AIDS and women's emancipation. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis offers an anthropological overview of the fascinating yet often misunderstood institution of polygamy.
Author : Walter Matthew Gallichan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Women under Polygamy written by Walter Matthew Gallichan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women under Polygamy by Walter Matthew Gallichan is about women in polygamous marriages. Gallichan explores the role of polygamy in various cultures in history. Contents: "The Origin of the Harem, The Ancient Harem, Mohammed and Polygamy, Ancient Jewish Polygamy, The Women of India, The Cult of Women and Love..."
Author : Curtis Rogers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781479792863
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Polygyny written by Curtis Rogers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not an advocacy for the practice of polygany. What it is advocating is the correct historical perspective of polygany and the reason for its development in ancient African societies, a view that has been historically distorted because of cultural biases and ignorance. Going through school and learning about the subject of history is, to many, the memorization of events and dates without any real understanding of historical events. Although we may know history, we have no understanding about it. For the most part, we don't understand history because of fragmentations caused by distortion and straight-out lies passed on as truth fragmentation due to the evolution of an idea evolving from one thing to another until the original idea or meaning is lost, fragmentation caused from the destruction of civilizations along with the loss of the meanings of the languages and customs and therefore its history, and fragmentations or distortions intentionally or unintentionally caused by an outsider when one looks through their own cultural lens in interpreting a culture that is not their own. However fragmented a piece of history may be, once those fragmentations are put back together as in a jigsaw puzzle, only then will we be able to see the whole picture and have understanding.
Author : Walter Matthew Gallichan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230253855
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Women Under Polygamy written by Walter Matthew Gallichan and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... pre-occupied with women, but this pre-occupation does not spell only one kind of interest. The great feminists among men are the great lovers of women, the admirers of womanly beauty, grace and wit. We have noted that the haremlik has reached a stage of something like unpopularity. Polygamy is not likely to give place rapidly to universal monogamy in Turkey. We might as well expect to banish polygyny suddenly from Western societies. But the stricter rule of the seraglio is relaxing. Even doctors are allowed to enter the harems. Culture is invading the sacred precincts of "the Abode of Bliss," and culture brings a longing for a freer life. The West of Europe is setting Turkey an example, for good or ill, and Turkey is at least heedful and interested. The ground is being sown. What will the future yield? Is East eternally East? Turkey, at all events, is the most sensitive of all Eastern nations to the influence of outside social movements. In certain respects she admires England, and is willing to imitate English customs. Not even the influence of Mohammedism can withstand the irresistible force of human thought and social progress. Probably much that is admirable in Turkish custom will decline with the incoming of Western industrial and commercial ideals. Possibly there will be social gain also. Who can foretell? That which we laud as progress in the West is not always a boon to the East. Are we happier in our pseudo-monogamic, jostling, commercial, spiritually-deadening civilisation? The answer is doubtful to all but the unreflective. Pierre Loti, who feels, like a true artist, the strange enchantment of the Orient, has interested himself very closely in the affairs of Turkey. He has many friends in the country, and his...
Author : Musa Mseleku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490916798
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Life and Polygamy written by Musa Mseleku and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is another interesting book written by Musa Mseleku! This time around he has written such a controversial book concerning polygamy. He has researched deeply about polygamy from both a cultural and religious perspective. In this book he will slake your thirst about this topic!By the time you finish reading the book, you will be able to make up your own mind about polygamy. The author presents reasons for men wanting to enter a polygamous relationship. Such reasons include greediness, not wanting to lose their partners, avoiding loneliness, and following their culture or even religion. There are those women who find themselves in polygamous relationships because their men were not initially honest, and changed their minds when they had already committed themselves but were afraid of backsliding. What would you do? Some women accept it, while others say over their dead bodies, pack their bags and go back to where they came from!Musa is not owned by anyone. He speaks his mind on this very controversial and thought-provoking subject that promotes much debate today. Read it for yourself and perhaps you will rethink your beliefs on the matter!
Author : Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gender and Human Rights written by Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrich Pallua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book (Re)Figuring Human Enslavement written by Ulrich Pallua and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform "World Order - Religion - Violence" seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level."
Author : Wolfgang Zach
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631590454
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Racism, Slavery, and Literature written by Wolfgang Zach and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers presented here offer a major challenge to previously conceived ideas about issues like slavery, racism, ethnic relations, nationalism, and cultural identity generating responses, critiques, revisions, counterarguments, and new perspectives. This volume is not only meant to address important matters of the past but also of the present and future as racism, ethnic relations, and cultural identity - with the attendant issues of human rights, freedom, and emancipation - will assume an ever-increasing significance in our globalised but ethically, socially, and culturally divided world. The volume is subdivided into three sections: «Racism and Nationalism» containing papers dealing with issues of racism and nationalism in a broader context, «Slavery: From Past to Present» exploring the concept of slavery in different literary genres and historical periods, «Cultural Identity and Ethnic Relations» dealing with cultural memory, nationalism, and relations between cultural and ethnic groups.
Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853592119
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture written by Michael Byram and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers some theoretical innovations in teaching foreign languages and reports how they have been applied to curriculum development and experimental courses at the upper secondary and college levels. Approaches language learning as comprising several dimensions, including grammatical competence, change in attitudes, learning about another culture, and reflecting on one's own. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bea Lundt
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783515115728
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972 written by Bea Lundt and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country in Africa to achieve independence. The key African figure in this process was Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of the new state. Having studied in the USA and in London he was influenced by socialist and pan-African ideals. His ambitious projects in the fields of education and scientific as well as technological development provided an example for other former colonies. But in 1966 he was overthrown by a military coup supported by the USA and died in exile in 1972. Fifty years later, his memory is omnipresent in Ghanaian society and in other African countries. Still, his achievements are a subject of controversy. Was he a hero of the anti-colonial struggle or an authoritarian dictator? This volume presents chapters by researchers from Ghana, Austria, Germany, and the USA. They analyse the visionary politics of Nkrumah, investigate the reasons for the growing protest against his rule and shed new light on the background of the coup. The last part is dedicated to questions of evaluation and memory. Fifty years after his fall from power, new research and distance from the events allow for a more balanced judgment of Nkrumah.
Author : Michael Byram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Sociocultural and Intercultural Dimension of Language Learning and Teaching written by Michael Byram and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110434466
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Global Histories of Work written by Andreas Eckert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.
Author : Srikant Sarangi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877063
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Social Life written by Srikant Sarangi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together for the first time in a single volume many of the major figures in contemporary discourse studies. Each chapter is an original contribution which has been specifically commissioned for this book, and together they document the wide range of concerns and techniques which characterise the discipline at the turn of the century. Discourse and Social Life is concerned with a variety of different types of data - talk, text and interaction - and covers research sites which range from the home setting through the health care setting and the courtroom to the public sphere. The book not only provides a critical, historical overview of different traditions of discourse analysis, but also projects to some extent the possible developments of this field of study, as other allied disciplines (Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Rhetoric and Communication Studies) are taking a discursive turn. Readers are invited to draw parallels between these different approaches to studying discourse in its social context. The contributors are- Sally Candlin, Malcolm Coulthard, Justine Coupland, Nikolas Coupland, Norman Fairclough, Ruqaiya Hasan, Robert Kaplan, Geoff Leech, Yon Maley, Greg Myers, Celia Roberts, Srikant Sarangi, Ron Scollon, Theo van Leeuwen, Henry Widdowson and Ruth Wodak.
