Author: George FoucartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Introductory Questions on African Ethnology
Author: George FoucartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955
Author: Katherine LuongoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.
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Author: The Great Social Laboratory
Author: Omnia El ShakryPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804781923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad range of texts and cultural artifacts, ranging from the ethnographic museum to architectural designs to that pinnacle of social scientific research—"the article." Omnia El Shakry explores the interface between European and Egyptian social scientific discourses and interrogates the boundaries of knowledge production in a colonial and post-colonial setting. She examines the complex imperatives of race, class, and gender in the Egyptian colonial context, uncovering the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a distinctive era of nationalist politics in the inter- and post-war periods. Finally, she examines the discursive field mapped out by colonial and nationalist discourses on the racial identity of the modern Egyptians.
The New Negro
Author: Alain LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Before Social Anthropology
Author: James UrryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136644245
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and a broadly based general anthropology was well established before the rise of social anthropology. The essays in this volume explore the development of British anthropology in the period from 1880 to 1920 and deal with such diverse issues as the establishment of new research methodologies, the development of ethnographic reporting, institutional change and the professionalization of the subject, and the connection between anthropology and imperialism. These essays reveal how the establishment of social anthropology involved a narrowing field which at first involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology and philology. The emergence of the new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s, and the triumph of social anthropology as an academic, intellectual and professional discipline in post-war Britain also led to the subsequent loss of a more holistic vision of anthropology.
The New Negro
Author: Alain LockePublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504066073
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more. The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far beyond the confines of uptown New York City, as it incorporated voices from the Great Migration, in which African Americans moved north in vast numbers; and elevated artists and thinkers who would become iconic figures in not only Black history, but also American history. Now considered the definitive work of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro features fiction, poetry, and essays that shaped the era. “A book of unusual interest and value.” —The New York Times “[Locke was] the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance.” —Publishers Weekly “Alain Locke is a critical—and complex—figure in any discussion of African-American intellectual history.” —Kirkus Reviews
Introductory Questions on African Ethnology
Author: George FoucartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Ethnography
Author: Alan BrymanPublisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This set covers all the current issues and thinking in the burgeoning field of ethnography. It makes available in one major reference work the seminal articles and sections of books that define the subjects today and draws together a comprehensive range of topics, both anthropological and sociological selections, classic and less well known selections.