Inside African Anthropology
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Inside African Anthropology
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Author : Andrew Bank
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-08
Inside African Anthropology written by Andrew Bank and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-08 with History categories.
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.
Pioneers Of The Field
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Author : Andrew Bank
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Pioneers Of The Field written by Andrew Bank and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women anthropologists, using a rich cocktail of archival sources.
Studies In African Social Anthropology
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Author : Isaac Schapera
language : en
Publisher: London ; New York : Academic Press
Release Date : 1975
Studies In African Social Anthropology written by Isaac Schapera and has been published by London ; New York : Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Social Science categories.
Studies In African Social Anthropology
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Author : Meyer Fortes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Studies In African Social Anthropology written by Meyer Fortes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
City Life In Africa
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Author : Katja Werthmann
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-27
City Life In Africa written by Katja Werthmann and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-27 with Social Science categories.
This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers’ own notions, practices, and reflections. Social anthropologists have studied city life in Africa since the early 20th century. Their works have addressed a number of questions that are relevant until today: What happens to rural people who move to the city? What kinds of livelihoods do they pursue? How does city life affect moralities and practices connected with gender roles, marriage, parenthood, and intergenerational relations? In which social situations are ethnic and other collective identifications relevant? How do people make a home in the city? What forms of authority and leadership become relevant in urban governance? How do people talk about city life? This book asks what anthropologists have come to learn about Africans’ views on city life. It provides a critical acclaim of ethnographies in English, French, and German and elucidates anthropology’s contribution to understanding city life in Africa. It highlights the significance of female, African and Diaspora scholars for an emerging urban anthropology of Africa. The chapters are organized according to everyday activities of city dwellers: moving, connecting, governing, working, dwelling, and wayfinding. The book will be an essential read for students and researchers of social anthropology, African and urban studies, but also for professionals in research and development organizations, thinktanks, and other institutions concerned with urban Africa.
Slavery In Africa
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Author : Suzanne Miers
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1977
Slavery In Africa written by Suzanne Miers and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
Making And Unmaking Public Health In Africa
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Author : Ruth J. Prince
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Making And Unmaking Public Health In Africa written by Ruth J. Prince and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with History categories.
Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies. These are framed increasingly in terms of international concerns about security, human rights, and humanitarian crisis. This presents a stark contrast to the 1960s and ‘70s, when many newly independent African governments pursued the vision of public health “for all,” of comprehensive health care services directed by the state with support from foreign donors. These initiatives often failed, undermined by international politics, structural adjustment, and neoliberal policies, and by African states themselves. Yet their traces remain in contemporary expectations of and yearnings for a more robust public health. This volume explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization. Its contributors analyze the relations between the public and the private providers of public health, from the state to new global biopolitical formations of political institutions, markets, human populations, and health. Tensions and ambiguities animate these complex relationships, suggesting that the question of what public health actually is in Africa cannot be taken for granted. Offering historical and ethnographic analyses, the volume develops an anthropology of public health in Africa. Contributors:Hannah Brown, P. Wenzel Geissler, Murray Last, Rebecca Marsland, Lotte Meinert, Benson A. Mulemi, Ruth J. Prince, Noémi Tousignant, and Susan Reynolds Whyte
Methods Of Study Of Culture Contact In Africa
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-07-07
Methods Of Study Of Culture Contact In Africa written by Bronislaw Malinowski and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-07 with History categories.
This antique text contains a detailed treatise on the contacting of indigenous tribes and communities on the continent of Africa. This brochure is a reprint of a series of papers that appeared during 1934, 1935 and 1936 in the journal of the African Institute, the sponsor of the field-work out of which these discussions arose. Since all the contributors write from their first-hand experience, the essays have that peculiarly attractive freshness that can only come when those faced with problems of method describe and evaluate the devices they employ with the difficulties that face them in the course of their research. This text has been elected for modern republication due to its educational and historical value, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introductory biography of the author. Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (1884–1942) was a Polish anthropologist,who is commonly hailed as one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th-century.
Ethnographies Of Uncertainty In Africa
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Author : E. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Ethnographies Of Uncertainty In Africa written by E. Cooper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Social Science categories.
This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future.
The Nature Of Entrustment
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Author : Parker MacDonald Shipton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Nature Of Entrustment written by Parker MacDonald Shipton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides an insightful general ethnography. In particular, he focuses closely on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity. He proposes a new view of the social and symbolic dimensions of economy over the full life course, including transfers between generations. He shows why the enduring cultural values and aspirations of East African people--and others around the world--complicate issues of credit, debt, and compensation. The book examines how the Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. Borrowing, lending, and serial passing along have ritual, religious, and emotional dimensions no less than economic ones, Shipton shows, and insight into these connections demands a broad rethinking of all international aid plans and programs.