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Author : Gustaf De Vylder
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0958411247
Author : Ione Rudner,Jalmar Rudner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 0958411247
Author : H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0472089269
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped by contexts as various as romantic voyages in the South Pacific, the Herero wars in Southwest Africa, open-air presentations of exotic peoples in Berlin, and prison camps during World War I. It also shows that Germans' unique intellectual traditions, their emphasis on concepts of culture, and the late arrival of both the German nation-state and the German colonial empire affected their interest in and relationships with non-Europeans. Worldly Provincialism confirms that there is no justification for presupposing that Europeans shared a common cultural code while abroad or for assuming that they would have behaved similarly during their interactions with non-Europeans. Thus, we must rethink the relationships among anthropology, colonialism, and race. It also forces a rethinking of our understanding of race in the nineteenth century, when race science emerged and eclipsed many alternative racial theories. H. Glenn Penny is Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Matti Bunzl is Aaron and Robin Fischer Assistant Professor of Jewish Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Author : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226086163
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Author : Kevin J. McKenna
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 143310489X
With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial «Pied Piper» honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world.
Author : Sophie Aymes-Stokes,Laurent Mellet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443839457
The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English “character”. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideological constructs; the structural need for variation and divergence within accepted social norms; the paradoxical status of the eccentric as outsider – when eccentricity is transgressive and alienating – and as insider – eccentricity as socially acceptable deviation. Fundamentally eccentricity is a normative notion: being ex-centred enables eccentrics to delineate and negotiate boundaries between the margins and the centre, the canon and the norm. The contributors question the links between eccentricity, diversity and originality; the value of individual experience and character; and as a corollary, the struggle to retain individuality against increasing standardization, commoditisation and channelling within the normative discourse of normality. Eccentricity as display and performance is also tackled in several chapters, which focus on reception, image and (self)-representation, exhibition and voyeurism.
Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488488
A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004434998
The Tenebrionoidea of the Palaearctic region are listed. All available names of taxa are given, data relevant to nomenclature are cross-checked, the distribution of species and subspecies is given per country or smaller regions. New, unpublished information is also provided.
Author : Ben Maclennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113453836
"An off-beat anthology spanning four hundred years of travel in and around the southern tip of Africa. From early European seafarers ... to the era of railways, hotels and pass laws, 'The wind makes dust' takes [the reader] on an eccentric odyssey through the past"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Christianity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021209692
Author : South-West Africa. Administrator's Office,Jeremy Silvester,Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher : Sources for African History
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060033795
This annotated source publication detailing the first genocide of the twentieth century, provides interested readers with African voices and perspectives on German colonial rule in Namibia.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCLA:L0082352592
Author : Ione Rudner,Jalmar Rudner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123135514
Author : Eberhard Rosenblad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028504764
Author : Michael Bollig,Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cattle herders
ISBN : UOM:39015055202397