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Author : Judith Anne Sterner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112588624
2 Anhänge: Quellen über Mandara Mountains, Informationen über ethnische Gruppen
Author : W. E. A. van Beek
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199858163
Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of extensive fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi, who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the core of traditional religion, van Beek shows how Kapsiki/Higi practices have endured through the long and turbulent history of the region. Kapsiki rituals reveal a focus on two fundamental concepts: dwelling and belonging. Van Beek examines their sacrificial practices, through which the Kapsiki show a complex and pervasive connection with the Mandara Mountains, as well as the character of their relationships among themselves and with outsiders. Van Beek also explores their rituals of belonging, rites of passage which take place from birth through initiation and marriage - and even death, with the tradition of the ''dancing dead,'' when a fully decorated corpse on the shoulders of a smith ''dances'' with his mourning kinsmen. The Dancing Dead is the result of the author's lifelong study of the Kapsiki/Higi. It gives a unique description of the rituals in an African traditional religion based not upon ancestors, but on a completely relational thought system, where in the end all rituals are integrated into one major cycle.
Author : Nicholas David
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Blacksmiths
ISBN : 1592218903
Metals, especially iron, are critical factors of production and destruction, and they are deeply embedded in social relations and cultural life. In the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria, anthropological research over a period of six decades has generated a rich body of data that stimulates exploration of the multifaceted and complex relationship between technology, society and culture. Metals in Mandara Mountains' Society and Culture is the collaborative product of researchers from six nations, all with ongoing experience of the mountains and their inhabitants.
Author : GERHARD. MULLER-KOSACK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1906168148
Author : Gerhard Müller-Kosack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : UOM:39015077600495
Author : Francois G Richard,Kevin C MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315428994
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging, and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how these intersect with other salient domains of social experience: states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning from prehistory to the colonial period.
Author : Scott MacEachern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190492540
For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book to examine the insurgency within the context of centuries, millennia even, of cultural change in the region. The book surveys the deep history of the lands south of Lake Chad, richly documented in archaeology and texts, to show how ancient natural and cultural events can aid in our understanding of Boko Haram's present agenda. The land's historical narrative stretches back five centuries, with cultural origins that plunge even deeper into the past. One important feature of this past is the phenomenon of frontiers and borderlands. In striking ways, Boko Haram resembles the frontier slave raiders and warlords who figure in precolonial and colonial writings on the southern Lake Chad Basin. Presently, these accounts are paralleled by the activity of smugglers, bandits (coupeurs de route--"road cutters"), and tax evaders. The borderlands of these countries are today places where the state often refuses to exercise its full authority because of the profits and opportunities illicit relationships afford state officials and bureaucrats. For the local community, Boko Haram's actions are readily understandable in terms of slave raids and borderlands. They are not mysterious and unprecedented eruptions of violence and savagery, but--as the book argues--recognizable phenomena within the contexts of local politics and history. Written from the perspective of an author who has worked in this part of Africa for more than thirty years, Searching for Boko Haram provides vital historical context to the recent rise of this terroristic force, and counters misperceptions of their activities and of the region as a whole.
Author : Peter R. Schmidt,Innocent Pikirayi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317220756
This volume provides new insights into the distinctive contributions that community archaeology and heritage make to the decolonization of archaeological practice. Using innovative approaches, the contributors explore important initiatives which have protected and revitalized local heritage, initiatives that involved archaeologists as co-producers rather than leaders. These case studies underline the need completely reshape archaeological practice, engaging local and indigenous communities in regular dialogue and recognizing their distinctive needs, in order to break away from the top-down power relationships that have previously characterized archaeology in Africa. Community Archaeology and Heritage in Africa reflects a determined effort to change how archaeology is taught to future generations. Through community-based participatory approaches, archaeologists and heritage professionals can benefit from shared resources and local knowledge; and by sharing decision-making with members of local communities, archaeological inquiry can enhance their way of life, ameliorate their human rights concerns, and meet their daily needs to build better futures. Exchanging traditional power structures for research design and implementation, the examples outlined in this volume demonstrate the discipline’s exciting capacity to move forward to achieve its potential as a broader, more accessible, and more inclusive field.
Author : Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814209130
Author : Annette van Andel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114733012
Author : Bruno David,Julian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427720
Over the past three decades, 'landscape' has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. Here, archaeologists attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas & practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical & the practical, the research & conservation, encasing the term in a global framework.
Author : Allison Scott MacEachern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:554044631
Author : Heather Rosser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1787197522
In the 1970s, Heather Rosser and her husband lived in Mubi, a remote border town on the foothills of Nigeria's Mandara Mountains where small hill tribes lived in harmony with their neighbours from the plains. Inspired by her own experiences of childbirth, Heather embarked on a quest to document pregnancy and childbirth customs in the area. Travelling with her baby on her back, she met traditional chiefs, witchdoctors and local midwives, blacksmiths, farmers and traders. This is a valuable record of many of the customs and rituals that had begun to disappear even before the religious extremism and violence that blights the region today. It is also an insightful and moving memoir about the challenges faced by a British family making a life for themselves in Nigeria's Mandara Mountains.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe,Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107009394
"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Allan Charles Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080753539
In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies. Shrines are physical manifestations of a group's claim to a particular piece of land and are thus markers of identity--they represent, both figuratively and literally, a community's 'roots' in the land it works and lives on. The shrine is representative of a connection with the land at the cosmological and supernatural level and, in terms of a community's or ethnic group's claim to cultivable territory, serves as a reminder to outsiders of ownership. Shrines in Africa explores how African shrines, in all their variable and diverse forms, are more than just spiritual vessels or points of worship--they are powerful symbols of ethnic solidarity, group cohesion, and knowledge about the landscape. Moreover, in ways subtle and nuanced, shrines represent ideas about legitimacy and authenticity in the context of the post-colonial African state.
