Author: Elisha P. RennePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089833
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory
Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
Author: Elisha P. RennePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472089833
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory
The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria
Author: Elisha P. RennePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253004616
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases of polio in the world and was the source of outbreaks in several West African countries. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the Northern Nigerian response to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has been met with extreme skepticism, subversion, and the refusal of some parents to immunize their children. Renne explains this resistance by situating the eradication effort within the social, political, cultural, and historical context of the experience of polio in Northern Nigeria. Questions of vaccine safety, the ability of the government to provide basic health care, and the role of the international community are factored into this sensitive and complex treatment of the ethics of global polio eradication efforts.
Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith
Author: Hansjörg DilgerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316514226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Examines how learning and teaching morality in Tanzania's faith-oriented schools is inextricably interwoven with the complex power relations of an interconnected world.
Water and Aid in Mozambique
Author: Emily Van HouwelingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009239740
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women's empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.
Islam, Youth and Modernity in the Gambia
Author: Marloes JansonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century, and its impact in the Gambia (West Africa) in the past decade. The Jama'at offers Gambian youth, and women in particular, new opportunities to express their religious identity in a way that is in line with a modern lifestyle. The book investigates how Gambian youth have incorporated the South Asian Tablighi ideology into their daily lives and adapted it to their local context.
Intimate Interventions in Global Health
Author: Rachel Sullivan RobinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090725
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book considers the response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by examining family planning programs and HIV prevention efforts.
Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic
Author: Akinwumi OgundiranPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition.
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
Author: Joel CabritaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139917129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers have patterned their lives upon the Christian Bible. They cast themselves as actors who enact scriptural drama upon African soil. But Nazaretha believers also believe the existing Christian Bible to be in need of updating and revision. For this reason, they have written further scriptures - a new 'Bible' - which testify to the miraculous work of their founding prophet, Shembe. Joel Cabrita's book charts the key role that these sacred texts play in making, breaking and contesting social power and authority, both within the church and more broadly in South African public life.
Inventing an African Alphabet
Author: Ramon SarróPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009199498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Combines biography, art, and religion to explore Kongo identity and culture, and the relationship between innovation and revelation.
Infected Kin
Author: Ellen BlockPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978804768
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. Supplementary instructor resources (https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/faculty/anthropology-teaching-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources)