Author: Charles William Domville-Fife
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Savage Life in the Black Sudan
Author: Charles William Domville-Fife
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Motor Car & Its Story
Author: Charles Robert Gibson
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Record and Book-list
Author: Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, England)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Smärre Meddelanden
Author: Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Librarian and Book World
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
In the Shadow of History
Author: Andrew Davidson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351293028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The spread of modernity throughout the non-Western world has had transformative effects not only on governments and economies but on the lives of individuals as well. The constraints and opportunities of modernization inevitably lead to the breakdown and supplanting of older social relations and livelihoods. In this volume Andrew P. Davidson examines the Nuba Mountain region of western Sudan to show how individuals and families struggle to maintain or expand their well-being in the face of continuous uncertainty, when control of their destinies is increasingly slipping out of the comforting confines of the village.As in many third world regions, changes in agriculture and market activity have occurred in the Nuba mountains in a far more compressed tune frame than in Europe. Davidson charts the social effects of the rationalization process by concentrating on the household as a mediating structure between the individual and the larger society. In his analysis the livelihood strategies of households act as a microcosm for the unevenness of development that is characteristic of modernizing economies. Davidson offers a comparative and historical examination of economic life in three villages in order to better understand the capacities and limitations that ultimately condition what people can and cannot do. He shows how the older lineage system based on communalism, kinship, and age-based hierarchy is being displaced by new forces of social organization and individual orientation which have eroded village cohesion and left the Nuba vulnerable to the Islamic-dominated government in Khartoum and the ravages of the continuing Sudanese civil war.In its combination of empirical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and theoretical inquiry In the Shadow of History reconceptualizes development in such a way that the dynamics of historical transformation are made clear. This study hi the classic anthropological tradition will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, economists, historians, and Africa area specialists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351293028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The spread of modernity throughout the non-Western world has had transformative effects not only on governments and economies but on the lives of individuals as well. The constraints and opportunities of modernization inevitably lead to the breakdown and supplanting of older social relations and livelihoods. In this volume Andrew P. Davidson examines the Nuba Mountain region of western Sudan to show how individuals and families struggle to maintain or expand their well-being in the face of continuous uncertainty, when control of their destinies is increasingly slipping out of the comforting confines of the village.As in many third world regions, changes in agriculture and market activity have occurred in the Nuba mountains in a far more compressed tune frame than in Europe. Davidson charts the social effects of the rationalization process by concentrating on the household as a mediating structure between the individual and the larger society. In his analysis the livelihood strategies of households act as a microcosm for the unevenness of development that is characteristic of modernizing economies. Davidson offers a comparative and historical examination of economic life in three villages in order to better understand the capacities and limitations that ultimately condition what people can and cannot do. He shows how the older lineage system based on communalism, kinship, and age-based hierarchy is being displaced by new forces of social organization and individual orientation which have eroded village cohesion and left the Nuba vulnerable to the Islamic-dominated government in Khartoum and the ravages of the continuing Sudanese civil war.In its combination of empirical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and theoretical inquiry In the Shadow of History reconceptualizes development in such a way that the dynamics of historical transformation are made clear. This study hi the classic anthropological tradition will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, economists, historians, and Africa area specialists.