Author: Jean LydallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Baldambe Explains
Author: Jean LydallThe Hamar of Southern Ethiopia: Baldambe explains
Author: Jean LydallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Baldambe Explains
Author: Jean LydallPublisher:
ISBN: 9783825878559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Writing in the Field
Author: Ivo StreckerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364390424X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This festschrift is situated within the contexts of the 'Writing Culture' debate, the 'Rhetoric Culture' project, and the legacy of anthropologist Stephen Tyler's work on language and representation. While Writing Culture (1986) alerted readers to the power of ethnographers over their field, Writing in the Field alerts readers to the power of the field over its ethnographers. Rather than reprise familiar debates about writing and representation, the book's individual chapters elucidate how anthropological fieldwork is a highly fraught, provisional, and incomplete practice enmeshed in the gaps between self and the other. The book's emphasis on the concepts of pathos, epiphany, and dissociation is developed through essays that are personal, yet not merely subjective, for they draw on and contribute to deep traditions of thinking about culture and rhetoric. (Series: Ethnologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 24) *** "This fine collection of essays is a fitting tribute to the positive influence of Stephen Tyler, an original and influential anthropologist of protean gifts." - E. Douglas Lewis, School of Social and Political Sciences, U. of MelbourneÃ?Â?
The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia
Author: Ivo A. StreckerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 364390343X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In the aftermath of the Ethiopian conquest, Berimba (ca. 1875-1952) was chosen by the Hamar tribal people to act as their spokesman. In this book, his son relates how Berimba dealt and negotiated with the intruders, and how he resisted their often high-handed rule until eventually he was murdered.
Ethnographic 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 Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages
Author: Ronny MeyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191044245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.
Property and Equality
Author: Thomas WidlokPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting research results in two complementary volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups. These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of prominent members of the original group of researchers in hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee, and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other egalitarian systems.
Cambridge Anthropology
Author: 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.