Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Seven Tribes of Central Africa
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Seven Tribes of Central Africa
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Seven Tribes of British Central Africa
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758153043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Seven Tribes of Central Africa
Author: Elizabeth ColsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This book represents a general discription of the various tribes of Central Africa in the areas of religion, anthropology, social organization and culture.
The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. FagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521207010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The period covered in this volume begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest.
Honour in African History
Author: John IliffePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521837859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
Models and Interpretations
Author: John Arundel BarnesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521366533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book of essays by John Barnes will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers of social science.
From Generation to Generation
Author: Shmuel Noah EisenstadtPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412824133
Category : Age groups
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
African Agrarian Systems
Author: Daniel BiebuyckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351037641
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.
Modern Understandings of Liberty and Property
Author: Richard A. EpsteinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135699372
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
First Published in 2000. The materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law. Stated in this general form, this topic is broad as law itself. The relationship of liberty and property to the law surfaces whenever and wherever people interact with each other under the command and control of the sovereign. This is Volume II of five and concerns the extent to which the state should enforce or override private contracts made by individuals to dispose of their labor or capital. These issues did not disappear by the onset of the twentieth century, where Volume II picks up. Generally speaking, however, the tools of analysis shifted as the advances in economic theory helped to flesh out the justifications offered for individual liberty and private property on the one hand, and their social control on the other. Although the nature of the discourse changed to some degree, the division of opinion on the proper role of liberty and property remained as sharply contested as it was in earlier times.