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Author : Meyer Fortes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi written by Meyer Fortes and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meyer Fortes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042995428X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi written by Meyer Fortes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices of social relations. Although not a comparative study, it is clear that many features of Tale social organization are typical of patrilineal societies in West Africa and some Tale institutions have parallels in South, East, and Central Africa. Field work showed that every significant social activity among the Tallensi is tied up with the lineage system and the book therefore investigates the function of lineage in Tale social organization.
Author : Meyer Fortes
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Download or read book The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi written by Meyer Fortes and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Fortes
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Download or read book The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi written by M. Fortes and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meyer Fortes
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ISBN 13 : 9789062340132
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The dynamics of clanship among the Tallensi written by Meyer Fortes and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415009034
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Primitive Society written by Adam Kuper and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.
Author : Charles Mwalimu
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433107825
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Seeking Viable Grassroots Representation Mechanisms in African Constitutions written by Charles Mwalimu and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Charles Mwalimu explores viable grassroots representation mechanisms in African constitutions in order to positively integrate indigenous and modern systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative study method is used to examine the constitutional principles of chieftaincy and local government and their impact on human rights. To establish and prove lack of positive integration Mwalimu connects this failure to poor constitutionalism, development and stultified growth and human rights violations. This book proposes remedial actions to build nondiscriminatory constitutional regimes eradicating violations of human rights.
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 : George Peter Murdock
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976307
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Theories of Illness written by George Peter Murdock and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
Author : E. Castelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137048301
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Women, Gender, Religion written by E. Castelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. Designed for the classroom, the Reader simultaneously assesses the state of the field and raises questions for further inquiry and investigation.
Author : John Parker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193150
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book In My Time of Dying written by John Parker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life changed over the centuries? In My Time of Dying considers these questions from the perspective of African history. In what is the first history of death in Africa, John Parker examines mortuary culture and the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred year period. Focusing anecdotally on West Africa but with a comparative awareness of comparable practices throughout the continent, Parker highlights how Africans developed the world's most vibrant and recognizable cultures of death"--
Author : Carlos Nunes Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351271822
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa written by Carlos Nunes Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century, in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems, challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions, looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses, but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries, offering ample evidence of common features, and divergent features as well, on a number of facets, from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives, to the assimilation policy, as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies. Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa, urban planning in Africa and African Development.
Author : Anquandah, James
Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9988860234
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Current Perspectives in the Archaeology of Ghana written by Anquandah, James and published by Sub-Saharan Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on archaeology and heritage studies is authored by local and expatriate scholars who are either past or current practitioners in archaeological work in Ghana. They are from Ghana, UK, US and Canada. The subject matter covered includes the history and evolution of the discipline in Ghana; the method and theory or 'how to do it' in archaeology, field research reports, and syntheses on findings from past and recent investigations. The eclectic or multidisciplinary strategy has been the research vogue in Ghanaian archaeology recently, and this is reflected in the various chapters. The essays engage with current theoretical trends in global archaeology and also focus on the role and status of archaeology as a discipline in Ghanaian society today. Archaeology is a relatively 'novel' subject to many in Ghana. This Reader will, therefore, be a huge asset to local students and experts alike. Foreign scholars will also find it very useful.
Author : Stephanie Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317506839
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory written by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory explores the place of Africa in archaeological theory, and the place of theory in African archaeology. The centrality of Africa to global archaeological thinking is highlighted, with a particular focus on materiality and agency in contemporary interpretation. As a means to explore the nature of theory itself, the volume also addresses differences between how African models are used in western theoretical discourse and the use of that theory within Africa. Providing a key contribution to theoretical discourse through a focus on the context of theory-building, this volume explores how African modes of thought have shaped our approaches to a meaningful past outside of Africa. A timely intervention into archaeological thought, Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory deconstructs the conventional ways we approach the past, positioning the continent within a global theoretical discourse and blending Western and African scholarship. This volume will be a valuable resource for those interested in the archaeology of Africa, as well as providing fresh perspectives to those interested in archaeological theory more generally.
Author : Meyere Fortes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323706
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
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.
Author : John H.M. Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113494909X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Other Cultures written by John H.M. Beattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Cultures provides a lucid introduction to social anthropology. The author devotes the first part of the book to a consideration of what social anthropology is and seeks to do, what areas it covers, and the methods of investigation employed by social anthropologists. The second part discusses the major categories of research through which social anthropologies have advanced our knowledge of other cultures. These include marriage, kinship, political organization, law, economic and property relations, magic, religion, and social change. The final chapter surveys some of the contributions social anthropology has made to the understanding of other cultures. A short reading list follows each chapter.
Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317608356
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and Anthropologists written by Adam Kuper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.
