Author: Melville Jean HerskovitsPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Man and His Works
Author: Melville Jean HerskovitsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Man and His Works
Author: Melville J. HerskovitsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Dahomean Narrative
Author: Melville Jean HerskovitsPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin. This volume, had two goals: in its collection of 155 narratives, to provide basic texts of the analytical side, to provide a general theory of mythology using new oral narratives and looking at their tradition culminating in a survey of different prevailing Theories of myth. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.
Man and His Works, the Science of Cultural Anthropology. Melville J. Herskovits
Author: Melville Jean HerskovitsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Life in a Haitian valley
Author: Melville J. HerskovitsPublisher:
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Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The Fox and the Flies
Author: Charles van OnselenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718922
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A chance encounter with Silver's career in South Africa set Charles van Onselen on a twenty five-year obsession: a journey to reconstruct the shadowy life and times of-in some ways to match wits with-a devious master criminal. From Russian Poland in the 1860s, where Silver was born Joseph Lis, to London in the 1880s, turn-of-the-century New York, Argentina, and Africa, van Onselen recaptures the dangerous demimonde of the Atlantic world. Silver's notoriety was found among the most confidential correspondence of a dozen countries; what those in law enforcement kept to themselves, however, was how their officers had attempted to use Silver as an informer to infiltrate syndicates built on vice, only to have him outwit them as he moved in the risky space between police and prostitutes. Such is the meticulousness of van Onselen's research that The Fox and the Flies is as rich in history as it is in the detail and drama of Silver's career, as layer after layer of his life and times are revealed. And it has an extraordinary pay-off, for van Onselen contends that Joseph Silver's darkest secret of all lay in London in the autumn of 1888 when, before he embarked on his legendary life of crime, he was, indeed, Jack the Ripper.
Continuity and Change in African Cultures
Author: William Russell BascomPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Cultural Dynamics
Author: Melville J. HerskovitsPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Herskovits, the Man and His Works
Author: African Studies Association. Annual MeetingPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages :
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Culture in Chaos
Author: Stephen C. LubkemannPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226496430
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound effect this had on gender relations. Demonstrating how wartime migration and post-conflict return were shaped by social struggles and interests that had little to do with the larger political reasons for the war, Lubkemann contests the assumption that wartime migration is always involuntary. His critical reexamination of displacement and his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.