Author: Ivo A. StreckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Conversations in Dambaiti
Author: Ivo A. StreckerThe Hamar of Southern Ethiopia: Conversations in Dambaiti
Author: Jean LydallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamar (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Conversations in Dambaiti
Author: Ivo StreckerPublisher:
ISBN: 9783825878566
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia
Author: Jean LydallEthnographic Chiasmus
Author: Ivo StreckerPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954892
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The essays assembled in this volume are shaped by conditions—both enabling and constraining—that can perhaps best be described as an “ethnographic chiasmus.” This expression refers to the surprise and reversal of position that are characteristic of fieldwork, and it attends to the fact that transcultural understanding comes about as a meeting, touching, or “crossing.” Chiasmus also pertains to the relationship between culture and rhetoric in general. Culture structures rhetoric; rhetoric structures culture. Both are coemergent. In order to elucidate this process, ethnography has to focus on the manifold modes of rhetoric through which culture-specific patterns of thought and action are created.
The Social Practice of Symbolisation
Author: Ivo StreckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The author explores the cognitive basis of symbolization, and symbolization as a social practice. from the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, this book is intended for students of anthropology and development studies.
Ongota
Author: Harold C. FlemingPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447051248
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A international team re-discovered a tiny tribe of hunters, first discovered a century ago in extreme southern Ethiopia but never seen again. Now dying out, Ongotan culture and language are kept alive by 20 old men who resist the pressures of two outside societies. A short description of their language and ethnography (published elsewhere) are given more fully. The examination of Ongota reveals an Afrasian (Afro-Asiatic, Hamito-Semitic) language of marked dissimilarity to its sisters in grammar and a large lexicon with links to Afrasian languages spread over large sections of Africa. Ongota clearly is in a class by itself within Afrasian, even though loan words from nearby languages muddy up the analysis. Ongotan has serious implications for Afrasian prehistory as a whole and hence the prehistory of northern and eastern Africa. Traditionally, some scholars (especially geneticists) have assumed a constant flow of culture, language, and genes from the Near East to the west and south of Africa, especially the Sahara and the Horn. With the bulk. of its deepest or oldest branches located in the Horn Afrasian must surely have expanded into the Near East from the Horn. Recent archaeology confirms this conclusion, as do palaeobotanical studies.
Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship
Author: David ZeitlynPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739108017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship presents a set of studies of the way that Mambila speakers in Cameroon talk about themselves and their kin. Author David Zeitlyn employs conversational analytic methods to further the study of kinship terminologies. This book takes an important step toward a new synthesis between the practice of ethnography and the study of language while presenting African natural language data (still rare in mainstream linguistics) in an accessible format.
Visual Anthropology
Author: Fadwa El GuindiPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759103955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to the methods of visual anthropology and the use of film in cross-cultural research and ethnography. She shows how visual media -- photographic, filmic, interactive -- is now an accepted part of the anthropological process, a vital tool that reflects and produces knowledge about the range of cultures and about culture itself. It preserves the integrity of people, objects, and events in their cultural context, and expands our horizons beyond the reach of memory culture. El Guindi places visual anthropology within an empirically-based, analytic framework, built on systematic observation, identifying the research cycle that begins with data gathering and leads to visual ethnographic construction that is anthropological in method, process, and product. She explains how indigenous, professional, and amateur forms of pictorial/auditory materials are grounded in personal, social, cultural, and ideological contexts, and describes the non-Western critique of the Western traditions of visual anthropology. Her book is an excellent guide for ethnographic research, and for film and other media instruction concerned with cross-cultural representation.
Excursions in Realist Anthropology
Author: David ZeitlynPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Realism has become a dirty word in some social sciences, yet, despite fashionable new approaches involving multiple ontologies and the like, when anthropologists actually produce ethnographic accounts they are, still, indulging in realism in some form. Perhaps this is why ethnography, too, is unfashionable. Given the authors’ background as anthropologists committed to fieldwork, this book provides a theoretical grounding to justify and explain the sorts of accounts that anthropologists produce as the result of ethnographic research. The book’s approach starts from an acceptance that understanding is always incomplete, always improvable. This sort of partiality is viewed throughout the book as a strength. The challenge of anthropology is that it involves forms of translation: often across languages, but always between the unstated and the explicit. Accepting provisionality and incompleteness in the resulting translations provides ways of finding a middle ground between extreme versions of positivism and relativism. As such, this book argues for moderate realisms in a dappled world.