African Societies

Author : Julia Tischler,Ingo Haltermann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004410848

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Environmental Change and African Societies by Julia Tischler,Ingo Haltermann Pdf

The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.

Author : Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521455995

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A History of African Societies to 1870 by Elizabeth Isichei Pdf

This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge History of Africa. Reflecting several emphases in recent scholarship, it focusses on the changing modes of production, on gender relations and on ecology, laying particular stress on viewing 'history from below'. A distinctive theme is to be found in its analyses of cognitive history. The work falls into three sections. The first comprises a historiographic analysis, and covers the period from the dawn of prehistory to the end of the Early Iron Age. The second and third sections are, for the most part, organised on regional lines; the second section ends in the sixteenth century; the third carries the story on to 1870. A second volume, now in preparation, will cover the period from 1870 to 1995. This book attempts a more rounded view of African history than most of the other textbooks on the subject addressed to a (largely) undergraduate level student. Earlier histories have tended to ignore some of the current foci in the scholarly literature on Africa, generally not reflected in the textbooks: these include discussions of topical issues like ecology and gender. Isichei's book is also more radical.

Author : Irma Eloff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030153670

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Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies by Irma Eloff Pdf

This handbook reflects on quality-of-life in societies on the continent of Africa. It provides a widely interdisciplinary text with insights on quality-of-life from a variety of scientific perspectives. The handbook is structured into sections covering themes of social context, culture and community; the environment and technology; health; education; and family. It is aimed at scholars who are working towards sustainable development at the intersections of multiple scientific fields and it provides measures of both objective and subjective quality-of-life. The scholarly contributions in the text are based on original research and it spans fields of research such as cultures of positivity, wellbeing, literacy and multilinguism, digital and mobile technologies, economic growth, food and nutrition, health promotion, community development, teacher education and family life. Some chapters take a broad approach and report on research findings involving thousands, and in one case millions, of participants. Other chapters zoom in and illustrate the importance of specificity in quality-of-life studies. Collectively, the handbook illuminates the particularity of quality-of-life in Africa, the unique contextual challenges and the resourcefulness with which challenges are being mediated. This handbook provides empirically grounded conceptualizations about life in Africa that also encapsulate the dynamic, ingenious ways in which we, as Africans, enhance our quality-of-life.

Author : Christopher C. Mojekwu,Victor Chikezie Uchendu,Leo F. Van Hoey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004771229

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African Society, Culture, and Politics by Christopher C. Mojekwu,Victor Chikezie Uchendu,Leo F. Van Hoey Pdf

Author : Aylward Shorter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136534096

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East African Societies by Aylward Shorter Pdf

Focussing on the mechanics of social change and the interaction between ethnic groups, cultures, structures and value systems the background questions of ecology, demography and history are also examined and the process of urbanization and rural revolution described. Trends in marriage and family life, education and religious ideas are also discussed and case studies from each country included. First published in 1974.

Author : William A. Shack,Elliott P. Skinner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520038126

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Strangers in African Societies by William A. Shack,Elliott P. Skinner Pdf

Author : Betty Potash
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804712999

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Widows in African Societies by Betty Potash Pdf

Although widows constitute a quarter of the adult female population in many African societies, they have not been the focus of detailed, cross-cultural research. This is the first comparative anthropological study of widowhood in Africa, comprising ten case studies that cover a broad spectrum of societies in different parts of the continent. This volume shows clearly that widows are not passive objects of male transactions; they have interests and options, and make choices affecting their own lives. Ties to children, access to productive sources, and rights to housing are shown to have particular importance for widows' residential and marital decisions. This book provides a needed corrective both to the male perspective on kinship and to women's studies that deal almost exclusively with the adult married woman. In contrast to the traditional anthropological emphasis on widow remarriage and the functions such marriages have for the maintenance of marriage alliances, these papers deal with the women themselves and the quality of their lives. The introduction surveys the literature, examines the factors affecting the widows' strategies, and shows how accepted anthropological concepts of marriage, affinity, and community look different when considered from the perspective of widows. There is a foreword by Mariam K. Slater.

Author : Herschelle Challenor,Joint Committee on African Studies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520034589

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Strangers in African Societies by Herschelle Challenor,Joint Committee on African Studies Pdf

Conference report, comparison of the attitudes and reactions of African host countries to migrants, foreigners and migrant workers - discusses social theories, historical and current background, economic policy relating to aliens; covers multinational enterprises, legal status, indigenization, nationalization, conflicts between aliens and citizens (social structure, race relations, ideologies, economic and political aspects, etc.); includes case studies of Ghana and Uganda. Bibliography. Conference held in Belmont 1974 Oct 16 to 19.

Author : Aylward Shorter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136534164

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East African Societies by Aylward Shorter Pdf

Focussing on the mechanics of social change and the interaction between ethnic groups, cultures, structures and value systems the background questions of ecology, demography and history are also examined and the process of urbanization and rural revolution described. Trends in marriage and family life, education and religious ideas are also discussed and case studies from each country included. First published in 1974.

Author : Duncan Money,Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000032543

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Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa by Duncan Money,Danelle van Zyl-Hermann Pdf

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa. Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era of white minority rule. Arguing against prevalent understandings of white society as uniformly wealthy or culturally homogeneous during this period, it demonstrates that social class remained a salient element throughout the twentieth century, how Southern Africa’s white societies were often divided and riven with tension and how the resulting social, political and economic complexities animated white minority regimes in the region. Addressing themes such as the class-based disruption of racial norms and practices, state surveillance and interventions – and their failures – towards nonhegemonic whites, and the opportunities and limitations of physical and social mobility, the book mounts a forceful argument for the regional consideration of white societies in this historical context. Centrally, it extends the path-breaking insights emanating from scholarship on racialized class identities from North America to the African context to argue that race and class cannot be considered independently in Southern Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of southern African studies, African history, and the history of race.

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521566002

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Decolonization and African Society by Frederick Cooper Pdf

This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813934181

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How Societies Are Born by Jan Vansina Pdf

Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study Paths in the Rainforests, Vansina employs a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics to turn his scholarly focus to governance, studying the creation of relatively large societies extending beyond the foraging groups that characterized west central Africa from the beginning of human habitation to around 500 BCE, and the institutions that bridged their constituent local communities and made large-scale cooperation possible. The increasing reliance on cereal crops, iron tools, large herds of cattle, and overarching institutions such as corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans lead up to the developments treated in the second part of the book. From about 900 BCE until European contact, different societies chose different developmental paths. Interestingly, these proceeded well beyond environmental constraints and were characterized by "major differences in the subjects which enthralled people," whether these were cattle, initiations and social position, or "the splendors of sacralized leaders and the possibilities of participating in them."

Author : Karin Pallaver
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030834616

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Monetary Transitions by Karin Pallaver Pdf

This book uses money as a lens through which to analyze the social and economic impact of colonialism on African societies and institutions. It is the first book to address the monetary history of the colonial period in a comprehensive way, covering several areas of the continent and different periods, with the ultimate aim of understanding the long-term impact of colonial monetary policies on African societies. While grounding an understanding of money in terms of its circulation, acceptance and impact, this book shows first and foremost how the monetary systems that resulted from the imposition of colonial rule on African societies were not a replacement of the old currency systems with entirely new ones, but were rather the result of the convergence of different orders of value and monetary practices. By putting histories of people using money at the heart of the story, and connecting them to larger imperial policies, the volume provides a new and fresh perspective on the history of the establishment of colonial rule in Africa. This book is the result of a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project that has received funding by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The contributors are both junior and senior scholars, based at universities in Europe, Africa, Asia and the US, who are all specialists on the history of money in Africa. It will appeal to an international audience of scholars and educators interested in African Studies and History, Economic History, Imperial and Colonial History, Development Studies, Monetary Studies.

Author : Assa Okoth
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9966253572

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A History of Africa: African societies and the establishment of colonial rule, 1800-1915 by Assa Okoth Pdf

Author : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.