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Author : Godfrey Wilson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Analysis of Social Change Based on Observations in Central Africa written by Godfrey Wilson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1954 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Godfrey Wilson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Analysis of Social Change Based on Observations in Central Africa written by Godfrey Wilson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1954 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin M. Lemert
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410492
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Trouble With Evil written by Edwin M. Lemert and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigation of sorcery because sorcery involves selfish interest and intentions on the part of the sorcerer, who uses cryptic means to harm a victim that he/she dislikes. The author then examines comparatively the conditions that produce evil actions, and social reactions to them, in a variety of societies; and he reviews explanations that previous scholars have offered for the presence and consequences of evil. A tangential consequence of this method is that the work takes on a strong Melanesian flavor, because so many of the classic studies of sorcery were conducted in that culture area. Lemert argues that the fragmented nature of political organization, rapid shifts in political alliance, and the frequency of competitive rituals involving food combine in Melanesia to produce conditions that favor the development of whole cultures that celebrate forms of animosity and violence.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032971
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Rivière, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. First published in 1970.
Author : Magdalena Kamugisha Rwebangira
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064295
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Haraka, Haraka-- Look Before You Leap written by Magdalena Kamugisha Rwebangira and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of the Reproductive Health Study Group at the University of Dar es Salaam conducted their first set of studies, they focused on the plight of teenage girls. In undertaking this second set of studies they have widened their focus to include the social institutions that regulate reproduction, initiation into adulthood, marriage, and parental obligations. Differences in social and economic assets, in worldview and aspirations, in the perception of modernity and its offerings in the rate at which traditional life collapses and the demands of modernity assert themselves, result in social conflict and ambiguity. These are the main themes addressed by the authors of Haraka, Hakaka... Look before you leap.
Author : Robert Wauchope
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306684
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Anthropology is the sixth volume in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Manning Nash (1924–2001), Professor of Anthropology at the Center for Study of Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago. This volume provides a synthetic and comparative summary of native ethnography and ethnology of Mexico and Central America, written by authorities in a number of broad fields: the native population and its identification, agricultural systems and food patterns, economies, crafts, fine arts, kinship and family, compadrinazgo, local and territorial units, political and religious organizations, levels of communal relations, annual and fiesta cycles, sickness, folklore, religion, mythology, psychological orientations, ethnic relationships, and topics of especial modern significance such as acculturation, nationalization, directed change, urbanization and industrialization. The articles rely on the accumulated ethnography of the region, but instead of being essentially historical in treatment, they aim toward generalizations about the uniformities and varieties of culture, society, and personality found in Middle America. The collection is an invaluable reference work on Middle America and a provocative guide to scholars engaged in furthering understanding of humans and society. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
Author : Stephen C. Lubkemann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226496430
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Culture in Chaos written by Stephen C. Lubkemann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound effect this had on gender relations. Demonstrating how wartime migration and post-conflict return were shaped by social struggles and interests that had little to do with the larger political reasons for the war, Lubkemann contests the assumption that wartime migration is always involuntary. His critical reexamination of displacement and his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.
Author : Peter Kallaway
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928314910
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa written by Peter Kallaway and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa offers a detailed and nuanced perspective of colonial history, based on 15 years of research that throws fresh light on the complexities of African history and the colonial world of the first half of the twentieth century. It provides an analytical background to the history of education in the colonial context by balancing contributions by missionary agencies, colonial government, humanitarian agencies, scientific experts and African agents. It offers a foundation for the analysis of modern educational policy for the postcolonial state. It attempts to move beyond clichés about colonial education to an understanding of the complexities of how educational policy was developed in different places at different times while giving credence to arguments that see schooling as a form of social control in the colonial environment. It is essential reading for academics, researchers and policymakers looking to better understand colonial education and contextualize modern developments related to the decolonizing African education. It is intended to provide an essential background for policy-makers by demonstrating the significance of a historical perspective for an understanding of contemporary educational challenges in Africa and elsewhere.
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 : Wangari Muoria-Sal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047427505
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Writing for Kenya written by Wangari Muoria-Sal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught journalist and pamphleteer, helped to inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in Gikuyu and English, contrast his own originality with the conservatism of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The contributing editors introduce Muoria's political context, tell how three remarkable women sustained his families' life; and remember him as father. Courageous intellectual, political, and domestic life here intertwine.
Author : Norman T. Uphoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520322908
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Development written by Norman T. Uphoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew D. Spiegel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412840231
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Transition in Southern Africa written by Andrew D. Spiegel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together many of the most interesting anthropologists writing on the current situation in South Africa. Initially conceived as a tribute to the work of Philip Mayer, the author of Townsmen and Tribesmen, the volume continues a tradition of digging into the interstices of South African society at the folk, tribal, and national levels. Each chapter examines the myriad ways in which tradition is a critical factor for those who must cope with the trauma of social and economic transition. This theme, central to the work of Philip and Iona Mayer, allows the reader to probe the core issues of South Africa and provide a theoretical structure for the study of other societies in similar states of transition to modernity.
Author : Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209867
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Living the End of Empire written by Jan-Bart Gewald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.
Author : Kate Nash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351964305
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book New Critical Writings in Political Sociology written by Kate Nash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the series covers the key themes of political sociology as these have emerged in the course of the (sub-)discipline's development: state formation; legitimation; power; regulation, and inequality. The widening of the focus of political sociology from the nation-state and from models of power based on agents' wills and explicit agendas is reflected in the selection. The volume includes both 'standard' and highly-influential contributions - such as Elias on violence, Habermas on legitimation crisis or Lukes on power - and works that are perhaps less well known, but which represent a representative cross-section of themes and debates in the area. The historical formation of the state and its shifting spatial reach are covered in the first and final sections respectively. In between, both substantial issues - e.g. the changing nature of social policy and welfare regimes - and a wide range of theoretical and conceptual issues - are discussed by leading representative of the vying positions within the field.
Author : Robert Wauchope
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306919
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16 written by Robert Wauchope and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of Volume 16 of this distinguished series brings to a close one of the largest research and documentation projects ever undertaken on the Middle American Indians. Since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964, the Handbook of Middle American Indians has provided the most complete information on every aspect of indigenous culture, including natural environment, archaeology, linguistics, social anthropology, physical anthropology, ethnology, and ethnohistory. Culminating this massive project is Volume 16, divided into two parts. Part I, Sources Cited, by Margaret A. L. Harrison, is a listing in alphabetical order of all the bibliographical entries cited in Volumes 1-11. (Volumes 12-15, comprising the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, have not been included, because they stand apart in subject matter and contain or constitute independent bibliographical material.) Part II, Location of Artifacts Illustrated, by Marjorie S. Zengel, details the location (at the time of original publication) of the owner of each pre-Columbian American artifact illustrated in Volumes 1-11 of the Handbook, as well as the size and the catalog, accession, and/or inventory number that the owner assigns to the object. The two parts of Volume 16 provide a convenient and useful reference to material found in the earlier volumes. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
Author : Sigurd Erixon
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483148084
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Possibilities of Charting Modern Life written by Sigurd Erixon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wenner–Gren Center International Symposium Series, Volume 13: The Possibilities of Charting Modern Life presents the proceedings of the symposium on Anthropological Research on the Present, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 7–11, 1967. This book discusses the greater dependence of culture on central control and influences from outside. Organized into 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the possibilities of applying the same methods for the study of the present as have been applied in the ethnology concentrated upon history. This text then clarifies the value of certain functional concepts in the light of the field material from the Tuareg culture. Other chapters consider the concept of applied ethnology, which is not historically oriented. This book discusses as well the gradual shifting of the concept of sex-role from its proper import of expression for the individual's biological statuses. This book is a valuable resource for social anthropologists.
Author : Emmanuel Mogaji
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529679184
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Qualitative Research for a Digital World written by Emmanuel Mogaji and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-11-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to understand and apply qualitative research methods in a digital context? This book will help you navigate the complexities of digital access and fluency, ensuring a broad lens on research methodologies. From step-by-step guides to innovative frameworks, each chapter is crafted to give you the confidence to carry out cutting-edge qualitative research. This book will provide you with · The knowledge you need to advance your qualitative research understanding across all disciplines. · A practical reflection of the application of relevant research methodologies. · An overview of research ideas, cases, and examples. With a wealth of exercises and examples, this book will become a reference point for qualitative research in the digital context by adopting a case-in-point approach for students across all social science disciplines.
