The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain

The Bush Burnt, the Stones Remain
Author: Thera Rasing
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825856113

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Interpretation of female initiation rites among Christian women in contemporary urban Zambia. These rites are examined in the context of socio-economic changes. The emphasis is on ethnographic data gathered in the field.

The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements

The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
Author: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 2869781989

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This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two considers: African and area studies in France, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden; anti-colonialism and Russian/soviet African studies; African studies in the Caribbean in historical perspective; the teaching of African history and the history of Africa in Brazil; African studies in India; African studies and historiography in China in the twenty-first century; and African studies and contemporary scholarship in Japan.

The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements

The Study of Africa Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
Author: Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2869784236

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This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two considers: African and area studies in France, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden; anti-colonialism and Russian/soviet African studies; African studies in the Caribbean in historical perspective; the teaching of African history and the history of Africa in Brazil; African studies in India; African studies and historiography in China in the twenty-first century; and African studies and contemporary scholarship in Japan.

Lands of the Future

Lands of the Future
Author: Echi Christina Gabbert
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789209919

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Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.

Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Author: Markus Virgil Hoehne
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2022-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800736762

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Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Swahili and Sabaki

Swahili and Sabaki
Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 813
Release: 1993
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0520097750

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The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to Sabaki and to other Bantu languages, and some data on contemporary Sabaki languages. Data sets, appendices, maps, and figures present essential information on phonology, lexical makeup, and tense/aspect morphology. The final chapter is a synthesis describing the linguistic and historical relationship of the Sabaki dialects to each other and to hypothetical proto-stages.