Dinka Cosmology
Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Francis M. Deng
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815723691
The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified in racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious terms. The identity question related to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country. War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict. The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two-thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups. This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions, and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab- Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant. Francis Deng presents three alternative approaches to the identity crisis. First, he argues that by bringing to the surface the realities of the African elements of identity in the North-- thereby revealing characteristics shared by all Sudanese--a new basis for the creation of a common identity could be established that fosters equitable
Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : New York : Africana Publishing Company
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0823297632
This book—part memoir, part political statement—examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal.
Author : William Twining
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521113210
This anthology contains a variety of Southern perspectives on human rights and contemporary issues relating to Islam, African custom, constitution making and abuses of the language of human rights.
Author : Shelley A. Kaehr
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738771848
Your Complete Guide to Hundreds of Goddesses Around the World Meet the many incarnations of the divine feminine, past and present, with this comprehensive reference guide by bestselling author Shelley A. Kaehr, PhD. Featuring more than five hundred goddesses, over forty exercises and journal prompts, and guided journeys for understanding yourself at the soul level, this book connects you with ancestral energy and can bring peace and balance to your life. Shelley first introduces you to goddesses of the ancient world, exploring Egyptian, Celtic, Greek, Norse, and Mesoamerican pantheons. She then shares the living goddesses of modern world religions—African, East Asian, Hindu, and Indigenous peoples. Each goddess entry features her keywords, categories, history, and lore. In discovering these deities, you can enliven goddess energy within you and even uncover past lives.
Author : Francis Deng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136220917
First published in 2006. The innovative work by Francis Deng, the noted scholar, diplomat, legal expert and author, moves the study of negotiation out of the limited traditional context of industrial relations and resituates it in the broader arena of negotiating human relations, drawing on his childhood experiences, inter-racial and cross-cultural encounters at home and abroad, and incidents from his diplomatic career.
Author : Donald Martin Carter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1452915067
Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The pervasiveness of invisibility is not limited to symbolic actions, Carter shows, but may have dramatic and at times catastrophic consequences for people subjected to its force. The geographic span of his analysis is global, encompassing Senegalese Muslims in Italy and the United States and concluding with practical questions about the future of European societies. Carter also considers both contemporary and historical constellations of displacement, from Darfurian refugees to French West African colonial soldiers. Whether focusing on historical photographs, television, print media, and graffiti scrawled across urban walls or identifying the critique of colonialism implicit in African films and literature, Carter reveals a protean and peopled world in motion.
Author : M. Charles Jȩdrej
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004103610
This study analyses the nature and persistence of the indigenous religious institutions of a society in the cultural and political margins of the Sudan.
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253343093
"This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.