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Author : Edmund Hugh Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Basuto (African people)
ISBN : UVA:X000072709
Author : Edmund Hugh Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
ISBN : OCLC:1087125003
Author : Barrie Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Colin Murray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474471220
This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.
Author : Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000397536
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.
Author : Anne Digby
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 3039107151
This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the 'New' South Africa.
Author : Adam Ashforth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780226029740
Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
Author : Elizabeth Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299223731
Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. Displays of opposition by Africans, too indirect to counter or quash, percolated throughout the colonial era and kept alive a spirit of sovereignty that would find full expression only decades later. In Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960, Elizabeth A. Eldredge analyzes a panoply of archival and oral resources, visual signs and symbols, and public and private actions to show how power may be exercised not only by rulers but also by the ruled. The BaSotho—best known for their consolidation of a kingdom from the 1820s to 1850s through primarily peaceful means, and for bringing colonial forces to a standstill in the Gun War of 1880–1881—struggled to maintain sovereignty over their internal affairs during their years under the colonial rule of the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa) and Britain from 1868 to 1966. Eldredge explores instances of BaSotho resistance, resilience, and resourcefulness in forms of expression both verbal and non-verbal. Skillfully navigating episodes of conflict, the BaSotho matched wits with the British in diplomatic brinksmanship, negotiation, compromise, circumvention, and persuasion, revealing the capacity of a subordinate population to influence the course of events as it selectively absorbs, employs, and subverts elements of the colonial culture. “A refreshing, readable and lucid account of one in an array of compositions of power during colonialism in southern Africa.”—David Gordon, Journal of African History “Elegantly written.”—Sean Redding, Sub-Saharan Africa “Eldredge writes clearly and attractively, and her studies of the war between Lerotholi and Masupha and of the conflicts over the succession to the paramountcy are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand those crises.”—Peter Sanders, Journal of Southern African Studies
Author : V. G. J. Sheddick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315306490
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : John Beattie,John Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136527654
Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range of African societies, this volume allows similarities and differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.
Author : Irving I. Zaretsky,Cynthia Shambaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000517521
Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere. The sources on Western Afro-American communities were chosen to shed light on the African continent and the Americas. The bibliography, while not exhaustive, provides extensive research on the area of research in spiritualism in Africa and Afro-America. The bibliography also provides unique sources on spirit cults, ritual or ethnic groups and will be of especial interest to researchers. Although published in the late 70s, this book will still provide an incredibly useful research tool for academics in the area of religion, with a focus on spiritualism and non-western religions.
Author : S.B. Burman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349046393
Author : Knut Christian Myhre
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336669
A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk, beer, and blood on the ground, requesting rain for their continued existence. Returning Life explores how this event engages activities where life force is transferred and transformed to afford and affect beings of different kinds. Historical sources demonstrate how the phenomenon of life force encompasses coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, and features in cognate languages from throughout the area. As this vivid ethnography explores how life projects through beings of different kinds, it brings to life concepts and practices that extend through time and space, transcending established analytics.
Author : Scott Rosenberg,Richard F. Weisfelder
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879829
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Lesotho covers the full scope of Lesotho’s ancient, colonial, and independence eras. It gives greater emphasis to the more recent period and brings the book fully up-to-date. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on civil society, key events, leaders, governmental, international, religious, and other private organizations, policies, political movements and parties, economic elements, and many other areas that have shaped the country’s trajectory. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Lesotho.
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351043045
Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture, and reviews the developments and changes leading up to 1966 when Basutoland achieved independence as Lesotho. It describes in detail daily lives, the education and upbringing of children, initiation, marriage, economic activities and political developments within and outside the country. It includes a discussion of tribal and modern law and the workings of the courts and a study of the part played by magic and sorcery and an analysis of the motives leading to the out break of 'medicine' murders in the 1940s.