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Author : George Way Harley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCSC:32106005843336
Author : George W. Harley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art, Primitive
ISBN : OCLC:988680031
Author : George Way Harley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 028256487X
Excerpt from Masks as Agents of Social Control in Northeast Liberia It 15 with a feeling of high privilege, there fore, that I find myself, after twenty-three years of residence in the midst of these people, the possessor of an accumulated knowledge of their most sacred objects which begins to fit together into a more or less comprehensive picture of the socio-religious forces which underlie their reactions to the more important crises of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : GEORGE WAY. HARLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033453455
Author : G.W. Harley
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 9785881937522
Author : George Harley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0979329035
Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0814722199
An essential explanation to the 1990 civil upheaval in Liberia that rippled through West Africa For the last decade Liberia has been one of Africa's most violent trouble spots. In 1990, when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid siege to the capital, the world took notice. Since then Liberia has been through devastating civil upheaval and the most feared warlord, Charles Taylor, is now president. What began as a civil conflict, has spread to other West African nations. Western correspondents saw in the Liberian war a primeval, savage Africa-a "heart of darkness." They focused on sensational "primitive" aspects of the conflict, such as the prevalence of traditional healers and soothsayers, and shocked the international community with tales of cannibalism, especially the eating of the body parts of defeated opponents, which was widespread.Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Stephen Ellis traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its political, ethnic and cultural roots. He focuses on the role religion and ritual have played in shaping and intensifying this brutal war.
Author : Joan Mark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803282508
Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the “dude ranches” of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam’s mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives—and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.
Author : Stephen Ellis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814722381
Liberia has been one of Africa’s most violent trouble spots. In 1990, when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women’s clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid siege to the capital, the world took notice. Since then Liberia has been through devastating civil upheaval. What began as a civil conflict, has spread to other West African nations. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Stephen Ellis traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its political, ethnic and cultural roots. He focuses on the role religion and ritual have played in shaping and intensifying this brutal war. In this edition, with a new preface by the author, Ellis provides a current picture of Liberia and details how much of the same problems still exist.
Author : Sam Vangheluwe
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Masks, Dan
ISBN : 9038202865
Author : Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351507516
How do specific activities and institutions in which people are involved fit into the overall adaptive strategy of their society? What are the particular pressures leading to change in each of these spheres when the group's strategy of adaptation changes? What are the human demands made by a hunting-gathering strategy that lead to the development of particular family systems, modes of social control, religious beliefs and practices, values and ideologies, and personality structures? What are the new human demands that lead to the reorganization of these aspects of life as the group moves from one level of development to another? Man in Adaptation: The Institutional Framework introduces the institutional, psychological, and ideological dimensions of the strategies of adaptation that have characterized human societies from the earliest known forms of social life to the present. Cohen includes topics that are of principal anthropological concern—notably marriage, law and social control, religion and magic, value systems, personality, and art. There are no studies that deal with cultural change as such in this book. Where possible, Cohen includes articles that deal with changes in particular spheres of activity, such as family organization, law, religion, and value systems. He argues that change is not a special situation. Instead, culture is change and change is culture, and it is unrealistic to study change outside the specific social and technological organization of a given society. This volume unifies the subject matter of anthropology within a single and powerful explanatory framework and incorporates the work of the most renowned anthropological experts on man.
Author : Jim Mattis,Kori N. Schake
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817919368
A diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of our military and the broader society amounts to a "gap"—and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyze extensive polling information to identify those gaps between civilian and military attitudes on issues central to the military profession and the professionalism of our military, determine which if any of these gaps are problematic for sustaining the traditionally strong bonds between the American military and its broader public, analyze whether any problematic gaps are amenable to remediation by policy means, and assess potential solutions. The contributors also explore public disengagement and the effect of high levels of public support for the military combined with very low levels of trust in elected political leaders—both recurring themes in their research. And they reflect on whether American society is becoming so divorced from the requirements for success on the battlefield that not only will we fail to comprehend our military, but we also will be unwilling to endure a military so constituted to protect us. Contributors: Rosa Brooks, Matthew Colford,Thomas Donnelly, Peter Feaver, Jim Golby, Jim Hake, Tod Lindberg, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Cody Poplin, Nadia Schadlow, A. J. Sugarman, Lindsay Cohn Warrior, Benjamin Wittes
Author : Elwood D. Dunn,Amos J. Beyan,Carl Patrick Burrowes
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461659310
Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. Today's Liberia is glimpsed in this second edition. Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for destruction and the hope of stability. Along with these people, various social and ethnic groups, political parties and labor movements, economic entities and natural resources are profiled in this updated work. A new chronology of Liberia is included, and a selected bibliography suggests further readings for the scholar.
Author : Mary H. Moran
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812202847
Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for "Free People of Color" from the United States. Many analysts have attributed the violent upheaval and state collapse Liberia experienced in the 1980s and 1990s to a lack of democratic institutions and long-standing patterns of autocracy, secrecy, and lack of transparency. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy is a response, from an anthropological perspective, to the literature on neopatrimonialism in Africa. Mary H. Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous African traditions of legitimacy and political process. In the case of Liberia, these democratic traditions include institutionalized checks and balances operating at the local level that allow for the voices of structural subordinates (women and younger men) to be heard and be effective in making claims. Moran maintains that the violence and state collapse that have beset Liberia and the surrounding region in the past two decades cannot be attributed to ancient tribal hatreds or neopatrimonial leaders who are simply a modern version of traditional chiefs. Rather, democracy and violence are intersecting themes in Liberian history that have manifested themselves in numerous contexts over the years. Moran challenges many assumptions about Africa as a continent and speaks in an impassioned voice about the meanings of democracy and violence within Liberia.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UCR:31210024730085