Making Ethnic Tradition in a Pre-colonial Society
Author : Pier Martin Larson
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 1992
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Lost People
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Betafo (Madagascar)
ISBN : 0253219159
Book Description
An epic account of the power of memory in Madagascar.
The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors
Author : Frederick Klaits
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319542443
Book Description
This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the epitome of moral action but are liable to view those people’s requests for charity as merely utilitarian. Yet in many religious discourses, prayers and requests for alms are highly valued as moral acts, obligatory for establishing relationships with the divine. Framing the moral qualities of asking and giving in conjunction with each other, the contributors explore the generation of trust and mistrust, the politics of charity and accountability, and tensions between universalism and particularism in religious philanthropy.
Ancestors, Power, and History in Madagascar
Author : Karen Middleton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004112896
Book Description
This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar.
The Performance of Tradition
Author : Ingela Edkvist
Publisher : Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Uppsala Univ
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Deals with the popular theatre performance of Hira Gasy, and its actors and audiences in the central highland regions of Madagascar.
Author :
Publisher : Soffer Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
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Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
Author : Zoë Crossland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107036097
Book Description
This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.
Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design
Author : Solomon A. Dersso
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004205357
Book Description
Using a legal and multidisciplinary approach towards empirical and prescriptive analysis of contemporary minority rights standards, this book defends and elaborates a robust minority rights framework for articulating a constitutional design responsive to the claims of ethno-cultural groups in Africa.
Perspectives on Africa
Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444335227
Book Description
The second edition of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation is both an introduction to the cultures of Africa and a history of the interpretations of those cultures. Key essays explore the major issues and debates through a combination of classic articles and the newest research in the field. Explores the dynamic processes by and through which scholars have described and understood African history and culture Includes selections from anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and critics who collectively reveal the interpenetration of ideas and concepts within and across disciplines, regions, and historical periods Offers a combined focus on ethnography and theory, giving students the means to link theory with data and perspective with practice Newly revised and updated edition of this popular text with 14 brand new chapters and two new sections: Conflict and Violent Transformations; and Development, Governance and Globalization
Language from Below
Author : Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783039101719
Book Description
This book critically investigates the relationship between the Irish language and politics through a survey of individuals and movements associated with the language. This approach takes into account competing socialist and nationalist perspectives on language and society to demonstrate the different motivations for and class interest in Irish. The increasing power of the global market has the negative effect of reducing the well-being and autonomy of national populations. The study examines the decline of the Irish language as part of a global neo-liberal system that homogenises markets by reducing national and linguistic boundaries. It is argued that the struggle for rights is transformational and that the struggle for language rights by individuals and communities is an essential part of this transformation.
