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Author : Isaac Schapera
Publisher : London ; New York : Academic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies in African Social Anthropology written by Isaac Schapera and published by London ; New York : Academic Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Studies in African Social Anthropology written by Meyer Fortes and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Wenzel Geissler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 085745093X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Evidence, Ethos and Experiment written by P. Wenzel Geissler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the "trial communities" produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Author : M. Angulu Onwuejeogwu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Social Anthropology of Africa written by M. Angulu Onwuejeogwu and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Banton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136540040
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Social Anthropology of Complex Societies written by Michael Banton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates how much the study of social anthropologists has encompassed other, non-primitive societies: rural Italy, urban Africa, village politics in India and the smaller ex-colonial territories of Fiji and Mauritius are just some of the areas covered by the book. The position and contribution of British community studies is also examined, illustrating how micro-sociology can be made relevant to macro-sociology. Originally published 1966.
Author : Nchoji Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956792926
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century written by Nchoji Nkwi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 (August 30 September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century, was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time a long term partner of the PAAA; she was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA is pleased to republish the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three chapters divided into eight parts, namely: i) teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; ii) Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; iii) NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; iv) Anthropological Focus on Environment; v) Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; vi) The African Family in Crisis; vii) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and viii) Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
Author : Dickson, Jessica L.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 995679239X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book South African Anthropology in Conversation written by Dickson, Jessica L. and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, the University of Cape Town's social anthropology department was predominantly oriented by an 'exposé' style of critical scholarship. The enemy was the apartheid state, the ethical imperative was clear and a combative metaphor for doing research motivated the department. Andrew David Spiegel, known affectionately as 'Mugsy' by his students and colleagues, has been a central, if understated, figure of this history and helped to frame the theoretical charge of a generation of students looking to counter apartheid from 'inside'. In a series of interviews between the senior professor and one of his students - Jessica Dickson - Spiegel offers a unique perspective from the centre of anthropology's recent history in South Africa.
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119251486
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
Author : Mwenda Ntarangwi
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842777633
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (776 download)
Download or read book African Anthropologies written by Mwenda Ntarangwi and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
Publisher : London : Tavistock Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies written by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth and published by London : Tavistock Publications. This book was released on 1966 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karigoudar Ishwaran
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology written by Karigoudar Ishwaran and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956762814
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Death of a Discipline? written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the diaspora are able to join efforts in articulating, debating and enhancing its relevance and vitality. The book provides critical overview and nuanced analyses of the role and continued relevance of the discipline in reading and interpreting the social unfolding of everyday life and dynamism. It is a vital text for understanding and contextualising histories and trends in the development of social anthropology in Zimbabwe and how anthropologists in the country navigate the tumultuous waters and struggles that have engrossed the discipline since colonial times. The book has the capacity to generate added insights and influence national, continental, and global debates and trends in the field.
Author : Helen Tilley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526118718
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Ordering Africa written by Helen Tilley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.
Author : Kwesi Kwaa Prah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anthropological Prisms written by Kwesi Kwaa Prah and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers presented in this volume date from the beginning of the 1990's, and almost span two decades. Although the papers may be old, the ideas are, I dare say, ageless. They are a sample of my thinking on a number of issues relating to Africa, Africans and African society
Author : Lyn Schumaker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326731
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Africanizing Anthropology written by Lyn Schumaker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context./div
Author : Andrew Bank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029384
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Inside African Anthropology written by Andrew Bank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.
Author : Ilana van Wyk
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956552437
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Nationalism, Politics and Anthropology written by Ilana van Wyk and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is rich in (neo) traditional dances; yet, not much exists in the form of written literature on the subject. Even worse, existing documents date back to the colonial period and are often disparaging. Dance to Africans is what martial arts are to Asians. Embedded in them are some of the solutions to many of the problems wracking the African diaspora: gang violence, drug addiction, and high school dropout rates, etc. When Guinea's Ballets Africains first bursts on the international scene in the late fifties and sixties, the black revolution in the US was in full swing. The troupe's emancipatory message enkindled in African Americans a new sense of cultural pride and a return to their African roots. For once, dance became something else other than the ballet. With that burst of enthusiasm came the need to introduce African dances in the academia. Most of the research, however, focused mainly on dances which use drums (djembe). Departing from that tradition, in this detailed and richly choreographed ethnography on the Buum Oku Dance Yaounde, Thomas Jing's investigation into a xylophone-based dance opens up new research avenues and exposes the challenges involved. An Afrocentric theoretical framework to the research counters imperialist notions of African dances, thus setting them up as a tool for emancipation.
