Berlebensstrategien In Afrika
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Berlebensstrategien In Afrika
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : de
Publisher: Heinrich-Barth-Institut
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Berlebensstrategien In Afrika written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Heinrich-Barth-Institut this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with categories.
Afrika Entwickeln Und Modernisieren
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Author : Beat Sottas
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Afrika Entwickeln Und Modernisieren written by Beat Sottas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Africa categories.
Pastoralism In Africa
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-07-01
Pastoralism In Africa written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Pastoralism has shaped livelihoods and landscapes on the African continent for millennia. Mobile livestock husbandry has generally been portrayed as an economic strategy that successfully met the challenges of low biomass productivity and environmental variability in arid and semi-arid environments. This volume focuses on the emergence, diversity, and inherent dynamics of pastoralism in Africa based on research during a twelve-year period on the southwest and northeast regions. Unraveling the complex prehistory, history, and contemporary political ecology of African pastoralism, results in insight into the ingenuity and flexibility of historical and contemporary herders.
African Landscapes
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-06-12
African Landscapes written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-12 with Social Science categories.
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes. Most previous studies of the landscape selectively focused on either the natural sciences or the social sciences, but the research presented in African Landscapes bridges that gap. This work is unique in its interdisciplinary scope. Over the past twelve years, the contributors to this volume have participated in the collaborative research center ACACIA (Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa), which deals with the relationship between cultural processes and ecological dynamics in Africa’s arid areas. The case studies presented here come from mainly Sahara/Sahel and southwestern Africa, and are all linked to broader discussions on the concept of landscape, and themes of cultural, anthropological, geographical, botanical, sociological, and archaeological interest. The contributions in this work are enhanced by full color photographs that put the discussion in context visually.
Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Africa categories.
Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".
The Politics Of Ethnic Consciousness
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Author : C. Govers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
The Politics Of Ethnic Consciousness written by C. Govers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Social Science categories.
The Politics of Ethnic Consciousness criticizes essentialist and unitary notions of ethnicity and shows the complex interaction between historical processes, recent political developments and competing views within and about ethnic groups. Welcoming the social constructionist turn, the editors disagree with its overemphasis on the arbitrary character of ethnic identification and the neglect of political economy. Contributions on such diverse regions as Brazil, Ghana, Macedonia and Sri Lanka, examine the multivocal process of the construction and reconstruction of ethnic identities through time.
Law As Refuge Of Anarchy
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Author : Hermann Amborn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Law As Refuge Of Anarchy written by Hermann Amborn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Political Science categories.
A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state. Over the course of history, people have developed many varieties of communal life; the state, with its hierarchical structure, is only one of the possibilities for society. In this book, leading anthropologist Hermann Amborn identifies a countermodel to the state, describing communities where reciprocity is a dominant social principle and where egalitarianism is a matter of course. He pays particular attention to such communities in the Horn of Africa, where nonhierarchical, nonstate societies exist within the borders of a hierarchical structured state. This form of community, Amborn shows, is not a historical forerunner to monarchy or the primitive state, nor is it obsolete as a social model. These communities offer a concrete counterexample to societies with strict hierarchical structures. Amborn investigates social forms of expression, ideas, practices, and institutions that oppose the hegemony of one group over another, exploring how conceptions of values and laws counteract tendencies toward the accumulation of power. He examines not only how the nonhegemonic ethos is reflected in law but also how anarchic social formations can exist. In the Horn of Africa, the autonomous jurisdiction of these societies protects against destructive outside influences, offers a counterweight to hegemonic violence, and contributes to the stabilization of communal life. In an era of widespread dissatisfaction with Western political systems, Amborn's study offers an opportunity to shift from traditional theories of anarchism and nonhegemony that project a stateless society to consider instead stateless societies already in operation.
Risk Management In A Hazardous Environment
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Author : Michael Bollig
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-05-10
Risk Management In A Hazardous Environment written by Michael Bollig and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-10 with Social Science categories.
A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to "risk" a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the understanding of individual strategies and numerous social institutions. It is not simply a peripheral and transient moment in a group’s history. Anthropologists interested in forager societies have emphasized risk management strategies as a major force shaping hunting and gathering routines and structuring institutions of food sharing and territorial behavior. This book builds on some of these developments but through the analysis of quite complex pastoral and farming peoples and in populations with substantial known histories. The method of analysis depends heavily on the controlled comparisons of different populations sharing some cultural characteristics but differing in exposure to certain risks or hazards. The central questions guiding this approach are: 1) How are hazards generated through environmental variation and degradation, through increasing internal stratification, violent conflicts and marginalization? 2) How do these hazards result in damages to single households or to individual actors and how do these costs vary within one society? 3) How are hazards perceived by the people affected? 4) How do actors of different wealth, social status, age and gender try to minimize risks by delimiting the effect of damages during an on-going crisis and what kind of institutionalized measures do they design to insure themselves against hazards, preventing their occurrence or limiting their effects? 5) How is risk minimization affected by cultural innovation and how can the importance of the quest for enhanced security as a driving force of cultural evolution be estimated?
Culturing The Body
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Author : Benjamin Collins
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Culturing The Body written by Benjamin Collins and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Social Science categories.
The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These practices have been variously interpreted to reflect differences such as gender, status, and ethnicity, to attract or intimidate others, and as indices of a symbolically mediated self and personal identity. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.
Afrika Spectrum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Afrika Spectrum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Africa categories.