Friendship Descent And Alliance In Africa
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Author | : Martine Guichard |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782382879 |
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Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.
Author | : Bertram Turner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785334190 |
Download On Retaliation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation to violent escalations. This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices. On Retaliation presents a synthesized approach to both the violence-generating and violence-avoiding potentials of retaliation. Contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment and the factors of socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations and economic processes.
Author | : Pierre Charbonnier |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2016-12-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 178348859X |
Download Comparative Metaphysics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An advanced introduction to the new philosophical anthropology and an understanding of the most contemporary developments in it.
Author | : Olaf Zenker |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857459147 |
Download Irish/ness Is All Around Us Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.
Author | : Jacqueline Knörr |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782382690 |
Download Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.
Author | : Michaela Pelican |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782387293 |
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The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups – Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa – provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital contribution to the study of ethnicity, conflict, and social change in the anthropology of Africa.
Author | : Peter Finke |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782382399 |
Download Variations on Uzbek Identity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Throughout its history the concept of “Uzbekness,” or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is comparatively easy, as Uzbekness is grounded in a cultural model of territoriality, rather than genealogy, as the basis for social attachments. It acknowledges regional variation and the possibility of membership by voluntary decision. Therefore, the boundaries of being Uzbek vary almost by definition, incorporating elements of local languages, cultural patterns and social organization. This book combines an historical analysis with thorough ethnographic field research, looking at differences in the conceptualization of group boundaries and the social practices they entail. It does so by analysing decision-making processes by Uzbeks on the individual as well as cognitive level and the political configurations that surround them.
Author | : Florian Köhler |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789206375 |
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Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.
Author | : Marilyn Strathern |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2020-04-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478009349 |
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The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern shows how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons (“relatives”) was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making. She draws on philosophical debates about relation—such as Leibniz's reaction to Locke—and what became its definitive place in anthropological exposition, elucidating the underlying assumptions and conventions of its use. She also calls for scholars in anthropology and beyond to take up the limitations of Western relational thinking, especially against the background of present ecological crises and interest in multispecies relations. In weaving together analyses of kin-making and knowledge-making, Strathern opens up new ways of thinking about the contours of epistemic and relational possibilities while questioning the limits and potential of ethnographic methods.
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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