Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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16 biografier af belgiske, engelske, portugisiske, franske og tyske guvernører.

Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Committee on International Relations
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Russell Ciochon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468488546
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Douglas W. Leonard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786726130
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought. In this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction.

Author: Alan Walker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674016750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Detailing the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution, this book is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world.

Author: Bruce Vandervort
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134223749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Marcus Garvey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520247329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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Volume 10 in The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.

Author: Adeline Masquelier
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822380552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in the context of possession ceremonies. In Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Adeline Masquelier offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes—sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically—in human lives, providing a constantly renewed source of meaning for Mawri peasants confronted with cultural contradictions and socio-economic marginalization. To explore the role of bori possession in local definitions of history, power, and identity, Masquelier spent a total of two years in Niger, focusing on the diverse ways in which spirit mediums share, transform, and contest a rapidly changing reality, threatened by Muslim hegemony and financial hardship. She explains how the spread of Islam has provoked irreversible change in the area and how prayer—a conspicuous element of daily life that has become virtually synonymous with Islamic practice in this region of west Africa—has thus become equated with the loss of tradition. By focusing on some of the creative and complex ways that bori at once competes with and borrows from Islam, Masquelier reveals how possession nonetheless remains deeply embedded in Mawri culture, representing more than simple resistance to Islam, patriarchy, or the state. Despite a widening gap between former ways of life and the contradictions of the present, it maintains its place as a feature of daily life in which villagers participate with varying degrees of enthusiasm and approval. Specialists in African studies, in the anthropology of religion, and in the historical transformations of colonial and postcolonial societies will welcome this study.

Author: Richard L. Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009098047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Using the life of an African clerk who became a king under French colonial rule, this book illuminates conflicts over colonial policies and the application of competing rules of law.