Author: Godfrey WilsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Analysis of Social Change Based on Observations in Central Africa
Author: Godfrey WilsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Analysis of Social Change
Author: Godfrey & Monica WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Analysis of Social Change Based on Observations in Central Africa
Author: The Analysis of Social Change
Author: Godfrey WilsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521068208
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Monica Wilson and the late Godfrey Wilson wrote this book as a result of field work in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, where they were able to observe the impact of European civilization upon traditional African societies and the structural changes that accompanied it. These effects are described here and studied in order to see what fundamental relations may be discovered between the various changes observed. General theories of the movement of civilization can thus be tested against the particular instance of this part of Africa since 1944, the study is still of importance as a pioneering study of social change.
The Analysis Od Social Change
Author: Godfrey WilsonThe Analusis of Social Change
Author: Godfred & Monica WilsonSociological Analysis of Social Change in Contemporary Africa
Author: Alamveabee Efihraim IdyoroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social change
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Author: Roy Richard GrinkerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119251486
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
The Trouble With Evil
Author: Edwin M. LemertPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438410492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigation of sorcery because sorcery involves selfish interest and intentions on the part of the sorcerer, who uses cryptic means to harm a victim that he/she dislikes. The author then examines comparatively the conditions that produce evil actions, and social reactions to them, in a variety of societies; and he reviews explanations that previous scholars have offered for the presence and consequences of evil. A tangential consequence of this method is that the work takes on a strong Melanesian flavor, because so many of the classic studies of sorcery were conducted in that culture area. Lemert argues that the fragmented nature of political organization, rapid shifts in political alliance, and the frequency of competitive rituals involving food combine in Melanesia to produce conditions that favor the development of whole cultures that celebrate forms of animosity and violence.
Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations
Author: Mary DouglasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135032971
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Historians as well as anthropologists have contributed to this volume of studies on aspects of witchcraft in a variety of cultures and periods from Tudor England to twentieth-century Africa and New Guinea. Contributors include: Mary Douglas, Norman Cohn, Peter Brown, Keith Thomas, Alan Macfarlane, Alison Redmayne, R.G. Willis, Edwin Ardener, Robert Brain, Julian Pitt-Rivers, Esther Goody, Peter Rivière, Anthony Forge, Godfrey Lienhardt, I.M. Lewis, Brian Spooner, G.I. Jones, Malcolm Ruel and T.O. Beidelman. First published in 1970.