Author: Meyer Fortes
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: Meyer Fortes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: Meyer Fortes
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: M. Fortes
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Category : Tallensi (African people)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Tallensi (African people)
Languages : en
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The dynamics of clanship among the Tallensi
Author: Meyer Fortes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789062340132
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9789062340132
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Invention of Primitive Society
Author: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415009034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415009034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Both a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.
Alur Society
Author: Aidan Southall
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825861193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Author Aidan Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by political anthropologists throughout the subject and also by political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. The book was able to arrive at such long-lasting and imaginative conclusions through the use of ethnographic material of a quality rarely surpassed. It is moreover arguably the best book in social anthropology of a Nilotic-speaking people. Southall's own command of their language and his overall scholarly knowledge of Nilotes is also unsurpassed.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825861193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Author Aidan Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by political anthropologists throughout the subject and also by political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. The book was able to arrive at such long-lasting and imaginative conclusions through the use of ethnographic material of a quality rarely surpassed. It is moreover arguably the best book in social anthropology of a Nilotic-speaking people. Southall's own command of their language and his overall scholarly knowledge of Nilotes is also unsurpassed.
Other Cultures
Author: John H.M. Beattie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113494909X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Other Cultures provides a lucid introduction to social anthropology. The author devotes the first part of the book to a consideration of what social anthropology is and seeks to do, what areas it covers, and the methods of investigation employed by social anthropologists. The second part discusses the major categories of research through which social anthropologies have advanced our knowledge of other cultures. These include marriage, kinship, political organization, law, economic and property relations, magic, religion, and social change. The final chapter surveys some of the contributions social anthropology has made to the understanding of other cultures. A short reading list follows each chapter.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113494909X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Other Cultures provides a lucid introduction to social anthropology. The author devotes the first part of the book to a consideration of what social anthropology is and seeks to do, what areas it covers, and the methods of investigation employed by social anthropologists. The second part discusses the major categories of research through which social anthropologies have advanced our knowledge of other cultures. These include marriage, kinship, political organization, law, economic and property relations, magic, religion, and social change. The final chapter surveys some of the contributions social anthropology has made to the understanding of other cultures. A short reading list follows each chapter.
Tongnaab
Author: Jean Allman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253111838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movement and mutation of the powerful Talensi god and ancestor shrine, Tongnaab, from the savanna of northern Ghana through the forests and coastal plains of the south. Using a wide range of written, oral, and iconographic sources, Allman and Parker uncover the historical dynamics of cross-cultural religious belief and practice. They reveal how Tongnaab has been intertwined with many themes and events in West African history -- the slave trade, colonial conquest and rule, capitalist agriculture and mining, labor migration, shifting ethnicities, the production of ethnographic knowledge, and the political projects that brought about the modern nation state. This rich and original book shows that indigenous religion has been at the center of dramatic social and economic changes stretching from the slave trade to the tourist trade.
Anthropology and Anthropologists
Author: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317608356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317608356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Anthropology and Anthropologists provides an entertaining and provocative account of British social anthropology from the foundations of the discipline, through the glory years of the mid-twentieth century and on to the transformation in recent decades. The book shocked the anthropological establishment on first publication in 1973 but soon established itself as one of the introductions for students of anthropology. Forty years later, this now classic work has been radically revised. Adam Kuper situates the leading actors in their historical and institutional context, probes their rivalries, revisits their debates, and reviews their key ethnographies. Drawing on recent scholarship he shows how the discipline was shaped by the colonial setting and by developments in the social sciences.
Universals of Human Thought
Author: Barbara Bloom Lloyd
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521229531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book, focusing on Africa, attempts to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity across cultures.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521229531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book, focusing on Africa, attempts to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity across cultures.