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Book Synopsis The Earth Shakers of Madagascar by : Oliver Woolley
Download or read book The Earth Shakers of Madagascar written by Oliver Woolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.
Book Synopsis The Earth Shakers of Madagascar by : Oliver Woolley
Download or read book The Earth Shakers of Madagascar written by Oliver Woolley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Lens of Conservation by : Eva Keller
Download or read book Beyond the Lens of Conservation written by Eva Keller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation also trigger a connection between ordinary people in these two far-flung places? The study investigates how the Malagasy farmers living at the edge of the park perceive the conservation enterprise and what people in Switzerland see when looking towards Madagascar through the lens of the zoo exhibit. It crystallizes that the stories told in either place have almost nothing in common: one focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Thus, instead of building a bridge, Nature conservation widens the gap between people in the North and the South.
Download or read book Experiencing Rhythm written by Jenny Fuhr and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is “rhythm” experienced? What role does “rhythm” play in musicians’ search for a collective musical identity? These questions are answered in this book on the fascinating blend of musical styles and influences within contemporary Malagasy music. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, “the footprint between Africa and Asia,” with a history marked by many waves of migration. Over the centuries, a wide range of styles of music, of instruments and of dance have become a part of the island’s musical palette. Despite this and the resulting diversity of regional musical particularities, musicians claim there is one element they all share: a common rhythmical base. To explore this claim and the meaning of “rhythm” in the Malagasy context, Jenny Fuhr makes use of her dual role as musician and researcher. Self-reflexive field research combined with learning to play and perform Malagasy music enables a profound intercultural dialogue. This book shows how her intense involvement in music-making and a constant dialogue between musical experiences and discourses opens up new paths of understanding. In doing so, it challenges prevalent Western analytical perspectives on music and demonstrates the need for a more performance-based approach to ethnomusicology.
Book Synopsis Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability by : Merle Sowman
Download or read book Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability written by Merle Sowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce inequality and benefit the most marginalised sectors of society. This book is concerned with enhancing the understanding of governance in relation to social justice and environmental sustainability across a range of natural resource sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. By examining governance across various sectors, it reveals the main drivers that influence the nature of governance, the principles and norms that shape it, as well as the factors that constrain or enable achievement of justice and sustainability outcomes. The book also illuminates the complex relationships that exist between various governance actors at different scales, and the reality and challenge of plural legal systems in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. The book comprises 16 chapters, 12 of them case studies recounting experiences in the forest, wildlife, fisheries, conservation, mining and water sectors of diverse countries: Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Cameroon.Through insights from these studies, the book seeks to draw lessons from the praxis of natural resource governance in Sub-Saharan Africa and to contribute to debates on how governance can be strengthened and best configured to meet the needs of the poor, in a way that is both socially just and ecologically sustainable.
Book Synopsis Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria by : M. M. Green
Download or read book Land Tenure in Ibo Village in South-Eastern Nigeria written by M. M. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This material on land tenure forms part of the date. collected during two tours in Nigeria, between 1934 and 1937, while the author was the holder of a Leverbulme Research Fellowship for anthropological work among the Ibo people.
Book Synopsis Questions of Anthropology by : Rita Astuti
Download or read book Questions of Anthropology written by Rita Astuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.
Book Synopsis Time and Social Structure and Other Essays by : Meyere Fortes
Download or read book Time and Social Structure and Other Essays written by Meyere Fortes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers reprinted in this volume have been selected with two considerations in mind: they record ethnographical observations from my field work among the Tallensi and in Ashanti that are not easily accessible elsewhere but continue to be useful for comparative studies and as background to current research in Ghana; and they represent applications of methods of analysis and schemes of interpretation that were emerging in British structural anthropology at the time of their publication. The Monographs on Social Anthropology were established in 1940 and aim to publish results of modem anthropological research of primary interest to specialists.
Book Synopsis The Individualization of Chinese Society by : Yunxiang Yan
Download or read book The Individualization of Chinese Society written by Yunxiang Yan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese society has seen phenomenal change in the last 30 years. Two of the most profound changes have been the rise of the individual in both public and private spheres and the consequent individualization of Chinese society itself. Yet, despite China's recent dramatic entrance into global politics and economics, neither of these significant shifts has been fully analysed. China may indeed present an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalisation - so its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world.The Individualization of Chinese Society reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has impacted on everyday life and Chinese society more broadly. The book presents a wide range of detailed case studies - on the impact of economic policy, patterns of kinship, changes in marriage relations and the socio-economic position of women, the development of youth culture, the politics of consumerism, and shifting power relations in everyday life.
Book Synopsis Legal Institutions in Manchu China by : Sybille Sprenkel
Download or read book Legal Institutions in Manchu China written by Sybille Sprenkel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs van der Sprenkel was led to undertake this journey by her experiences while living in China. lt is a detailed sociological analysis of the whole complex of legal and quasi-legal institutions during the Manchu period. Using a wide range of source material, Mrs van der Sprenkel discusses both the concepts underlying and the actual working of government and administration in Manchu China, the nature of the law, judicial procedure, and, finally, the effectiveness of the law in supporting social order.
Book Synopsis A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) by : A. M. Ammar
Download or read book A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) written by A. M. Ammar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially published in 1943. In A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) Dr Ammar, an Egyptian anthropologist, raises a number of questions around the relevance of and need for accurate population statistics in field economic studies. His tables and sociological analysis will be of particular interest to those working in other Muslim areas and the economic conclusions he draws, have familiarity to all who are studying 'the problem of primary poverty'.
Book Synopsis Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria by : Darryl Forde
Download or read book Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria written by Darryl Forde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1951 this book analyses the social values and institutions involved in the establishment and maintenance of marital relationships. Most of the data is derived from Umor, the largest of the five Yakö villages. As well as considering the conventions through which mariatal values are expressed, the relation of marital status to the general structure of Yakö society is also discussed. The book also determines the extent to which the values posited by the Yakö themselves are actually operative and discusses the changing conditions which have modified traditional standars of marital behaviour.
Book Synopsis Ordinary Ethics in China by : Charles Stafford
Download or read book Ordinary Ethics in China written by Charles Stafford and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' student be dealt with? What exactly do children owe their parents, and how should this debt be repaid? Is it morally acceptable to be jealous if one's neighbours suddenly become rich? Should the wrongs of the past be forgotten, e.g. in the interests of communal harmony, or should they be dealt with now? In the case of China, such questions have obviously been shaped by the historical contexts against which they have been posed, and by the weight of various Chinese traditions. But this book approaches them on a human scale. More specifically, it approaches them from an anthropological perspective, based on participation in the flow of everyday life during ethnographic fieldwork in Chinese communities.
Book Synopsis Between China and Europe by : João de Pina-Cabral
Download or read book Between China and Europe written by João de Pina-Cabral and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. Yet this surprising capacity for survival has resulted, ironically, form the very weakness of the Portuguese presence. In particular, since the foundation of Hong Kong (in 1840), Macao had depended on a creative use of its marginality - as a centre for gambling, for the coolie trade, the opium trade, the semi-clandestine gold trade and so on. As a rear window on China, Macao provides us with fascinating examples of marginality that allow us to study the limits of the systems that characterize the Chinese world.
Book Synopsis Living with Ageing and Dying by : Merryn Gott
Download or read book Living with Ageing and Dying written by Merryn Gott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing populations mean that palliative and end of life care for older people must assume greater priority. Indeed, there is an urgent need to improve the experiences of older people at the end of life, given that they have been identified as the 'disadvantaged dying'. To date, models of care are underpinned by the ideals of specialist palliative care which were developed to meet the needs of predominantly middle-aged and 'young old' people, and evidence suggests these may not be adequate for the older population group. This book identifies ways forward for improving the end of life experiences of older people by taking an interdisciplinary and international approach. Providing a synergy between the currently disparate literature of gerontology and palliative care, a wide range of leading international experts contribute to discussions regarding priority areas in relation to ageing and end of life care. Some authors take a theoretical focus, others a very practical approach rooted in their clinical and research experience. The issues covered are diverse, as are the countries in which discussions are contextualised. Those working in both palliative care and gerontology will find the issues and advice discussed in this book hugely topical and of real practical value.
Book Synopsis G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies by : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Download or read book G.K. Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Madagascar, Land of the Man-eating Tree by : Chase Salmon Osborn
Download or read book Madagascar, Land of the Man-eating Tree written by Chase Salmon Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
