How Societies Are Born
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How Societies Are Born
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Author : Jan Vansina
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-10-05
How Societies Are Born written by Jan Vansina and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-05 with History categories.
Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study Paths in the Rainforests, Vansina employs a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics to turn his scholarly focus to governance, studying the creation of relatively large societies extending beyond the foraging groups that characterized west central Africa from the beginning of human habitation to around 500 BCE, and the institutions that bridged their constituent local communities and made large-scale cooperation possible. The increasing reliance on cereal crops, iron tools, large herds of cattle, and overarching institutions such as corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans lead up to the developments treated in the second part of the book. From about 900 BCE until European contact, different societies chose different developmental paths. Interestingly, these proceeded well beyond environmental constraints and were characterized by "major differences in the subjects which enthralled people," whether these were cattle, initiations and social position, or "the splendors of sacralized leaders and the possibilities of participating in them."
How Societies Are Born
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Author : Jan Vansina
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2004
How Societies Are Born written by Jan Vansina and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such births. It reconstructs the history of African societies before European contact, employing a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics. The author uncovers what drove each society's developmental path, revealing the motivations behind how societies are born.
Poisoned Relations
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Author : Chelsea Berry
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2024-09-17
Poisoned Relations written by Chelsea Berry and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-17 with History categories.
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events. In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns of life: to the well-being in this world for oneself and one’s relatives; to the morality and use of power; and to the fraught relationships that bound people together. The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases, while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery, were not solely between enslavers and the enslaved—they also involved social conflict within enslaved communities. Poisoned Relations examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts—British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas—bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Illuminating competing understandings of poison and power in this way, Berry opens new avenues of evidence through which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.
Sexual Violence In Conflict And Post Conflict Societies
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Author : Doris Buss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-17
Sexual Violence In Conflict And Post Conflict Societies written by Doris Buss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Social Science categories.
This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments. The chapters are organized around three main themes: the continuities between conflict sexual violence and post-conflict insecurity; the troubling category of "victim" and its representation in post-conflict settings; and the international contexts – such as international programming, aid and justice interventions – that shape how conflict sexual violence is addressed. The authors come to the topic from various academic disciplines - anthropology, gender studies, law, and psychology - and from different non-academic contexts, including civil society organizations in affected regions, and policy and activist organizations in the Global North. Collectively the chapters in this volume offer complex and detailed analysis of some of the debates and dynamics shaping contemporary understandings of conflict sexual violence, highlighting, in turn, new insights and emerging topics on which further research and advocacy is needed.
The Integration Of Immigrants In European Societies
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Author : Friedrich Heckmann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-09-12
The Integration Of Immigrants In European Societies written by Friedrich Heckmann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Political Science categories.
Triad Societies
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Author : Kingsley Bolton
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
Triad Societies written by Kingsley Bolton and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
Friendly Societies Accounts
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Author : George Colwell Oke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
Friendly Societies Accounts written by George Colwell Oke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with categories.
A Study Of Abortion In Primitive Societies
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Author : George Devereux
language : en
Publisher: New York : International Universities Press
Release Date : 1976
A Study Of Abortion In Primitive Societies written by George Devereux and has been published by New York : International Universities Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Social Science categories.
The Friendly Societies And Licensed Victuallers Journal Freehold Land Building And General Advertiser Afterw The Friendly Societies Journal With Which Is Incorporated The Friendly Societies Gazette
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Friendly Societies And Licensed Victuallers Journal Freehold Land Building And General Advertiser Afterw The Friendly Societies Journal With Which Is Incorporated The Friendly Societies Gazette written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.