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Author : Max Gluckman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Rituals of Rebellion in South-east Africa written by Max Gluckman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Gluckman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351498150
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society written by Max Gluckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to their large-scale social context. At the outset Gluckman explains to the reader that custom is the focus of interest of all types of anthropology. Yet his approach manifests a strong interest in economy, politics, and social relationships.In the volume, Max Gluckman offers a succinct version of a lifetime of opinionated analysis. This material is organized by theme and the ethnographic examples appear as brief illustrations of theoretical questions. Discussed here also is the relation between disputes and struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social control and stability.In addition, Gluckman presents a step-by-step survey of the cumulative development of the anthropological analysis of tribal institutions, from the nineteenth century to the present, and supports the argument that anthropology is a science rather than an art. The new masterful introduction by Sally Falk Moore, along with a new postscript of Gluckman's professional activities and publications, provides newcomers to the work of Gluckman with deep insights into the contents as well as contexts within which the great anthropologist worked.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032254
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Religion in South Africa written by David Chidester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-08-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611757X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Empire of Religion written by David Chidester and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.
Author : Paul A. Erickson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442606568
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory written by Paul A. Erickson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive anthology offers over 40 readings that are critical to the understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The fourth edition maintains a strong focus on the "four-field" roots of the discipline in North America but has been reorganized with a new section on twenty-first-century theory, including coverage of postcolonial and public anthropology. New key terms and introductions accompany each reading and a revamped glossary makes the book more student-friendly. Used on its own, or together with the overview text A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition, this anthology offers a flexible and unrivaled introduction to anthropological theory that reflects not only the history but also the changing nature of the discipline today. For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273079
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Wild Religion written by David Chidester and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines South Africa's political journey of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century in the context of religious diversity and the recent revitalization of indigenous religion and rituals.
Author : Max Gluckman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136528490
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa written by Max Gluckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. Originally published in 1963.
Author : Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785332368
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Violent Becomings written by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
Author : Scot Brown
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798772
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Fighting for Us written by Scot Brown and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the influential Black nationalist organization and its leader, the man who invented Kwanza.
Author : Amy Niang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786606542
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Postcolonial African State in Transition written by Amy Niang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postcolonial African State in Transition offers a new perspective on a set of fundamental, albeit old questions with salient contemporary resonance: what is the nature of the postcolonial state? How did it come about? And more crucially, the book poses an often neglected question: what was the postcolonial African state internally built against? Through a detailed historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the African state, rendering centralization processes as always transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavours. In Africa and elsewhere in the colonial and postcolonial world, the centralized sovereign state has become something of a meta-model that bears the imprint of necessity and determinism. This book argues that there is nothing natural, linear, conventional or intrinsically consensual about the centralized state form. In fact, the African state emerged, and was erected against, and at the expense of a variety of authority structures and forms of self-governance. The state has sustained itself through destructive practices, internal colonization, and in fact the production and alienation of a range of internal others.
Author : D. M. Goodfellow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040274676
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Principles of Economic Sociology written by D. M. Goodfellow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939, Principles of Economic Sociology has a two-fold object: first, to develop an economic theory of primitive life, secondly, to show the social principles behind the making of economic decisions, whether among primitive or advanced peoples. Economic theory was first developed with regard to Western exchange economics. Since then, it has been explored among the activities of totalitarian states. Here the process is carried a step further, by tracing economic theory in the lives of primitive peoples. It shows how the Bantu of Africa make economic choices, dispose of their resources, and apply capital to the meeting of future needs, always in a manner dictated by their own culture, yet fundamentally on principles similar to those of advanced peoples. The importance of groups in the making of economic decisions is stressed. Economics is enriched by a study of the structure of groups, since this plays a fundamental part in the forming of decisions. The author hopes that his work will encourage economists to use a knowledge of primitive peoples to test their theories and help to coordinate the two major branches of social science, economics and sociology. This is an important historical reference work for scholars of African economics, economic sociology, and economic history.
Author : University of Oxford. Committee for Advanced Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ... written by University of Oxford. Committee for Advanced Studies and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Opland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521241137
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Xhosa Oral Poetry written by Jeff Opland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-12-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
Author : Paul A. Erickson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442636904
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition written by Paul A. Erickson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this bestselling reader builds a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory, with a sharpened focus on gender and anthropology, and the anthropology of new media and technology. Short introductions and key terms accompany every reading, and light annotations have been added to aid students in reading original articles. Used on its own or together with A History of Anthropological Theory, Fifth Edition, this anthology offers a flexible and unrivalled introduction to anthropological theory that reflects not only the history but also the changing nature of the discipline today.
Author : Paul A. Erickson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487535961
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A History of Anthropological Theory, Sixth Edition written by Paul A. Erickson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty years, A History of Anthropological Theory has provided a strong foundation for understanding anthropological thinking, tracing how the discipline has evolved from its origins to the present day. The sixth edition of this important text offers substantial updates throughout, including more balanced coverage of the four fields of anthropology, an entirely new section on the Anthropocene, and significantly revised discussions of public anthropology, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity. Written in accessible prose and enhanced with illustrations, key terms, and study questions in each section, this text remains essential reading for those interested in studying the history of anthropology. On its own or used with the companion volume, Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, sixth edition, this text provides comprehensive coverage in a flexible and easy-to-use format for teaching in the anthropology classroom.
Author : Jason Hickel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520284224
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Democracy as Death written by Jason Hickel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution that brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power in South Africa was fractured by internal conflict.Ê Migrant workers from rural Zululand rejected many of the egalitarian values and policies fundamental to the ANCÕs liberal democratic platform and organized themselves in an attempt to sabotage the movement. This anti-democracy stance, which persists today as a direct critique of ÒfreedomÓ in neoliberal South Africa, hinges on an idealized vision of the rural home and a hierarchical social order crafted in part by the technologies of colonial governance over the past century.Ê In analyzing this conflict, Jason Hickel contributes to broad theoretical debates about liberalism and democratization in the postcolonial world. Democracy as Death interrogates the Western ideals of individual freedom and agency from the perspective of those who oppose such ideals, and questions the assumptions underpinning theories of anti-liberal movements. The book argues that both democracy and the political science that attempts to explain resistance to it presuppose a model of personhood native to Western capitalism, which may not operate cross-culturally.
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444335227
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Africa written by Roy Richard Grinker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
