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In this book, we pay particular attention to a son of Africa who opened up to reflection, research and'armed himself with science to the teeth', to restore to Africa--without complacency or false modesty--its true image: Engelbert Mveng. Our approach, which focuses solely on his theory of anthropological pauperization, can be in our humble opinion--and probably is--a path for philosophical reflection on the ntu. Anthropological pauperization is a reflection of the African man, of the ntu, on his being-there and on his becoming.

This book delves into a critical and comprehensive analysis of Mtukudzi's legacy, as an outstanding musician who anchored his music on cultural identity specifically through the artistic manipulation of language. As a cultural worker, his remit extended beyond performance. This raised his stature to the levels of such African music icons as Fela Kuti of Nigeria, Salif Keita of Mali and Miriam Makeba/Hugh Masekela of South Africa, all towering giants in African musical performance. This volume examines how Mtukudzi artistically manipulated language to convey a timeless message of cultural identity, fighting for the respect of rights for women, children and all. It unpacks how Mtukudzi subtly uses language to put across political views that speak truth to power, harnessing Zimbabwean language to articulate and promote the nation's cultural heritage and to advocate for societal development and the promotion of rights of vulnerable groups.The chapters in this volume are a mix ofinterdisciplinary Zimbabwean scholars of linguistics, performance studies, religion, history, communication and media studies, unravelling Mtukudzi as a fighter for human rights and justice who subtly critiqued political systems and practices. It concludes that Mtukudzi strove to be a cultural worker who used the power of language through music to contribute towards the rehabilitation of a battered African identity.​

Este libro comparte una serie de diálogos necesarios entre la antropología mexicana y las manifestaciones culturales de las poblaciones africanas. Los estudios etnográficos que aquí se ofrecen nacen desde las miradas de africanistas con raíces en México y abordan una amplia gama de temas y espacios geográficos africanos que cubren desde Marruecos hasta Sudáfrica, pasando por Tanzania, Benín, Malawi, Burkina Faso y Mali. Algunos de los enfoques se vinculan con zonas rurales y otros examinan contextos urbanos para darle al lector una visión completa de la miríada de trayectorias que han seguido las sociedades africanas, y que mantienen y desarrollan en el presente. Los análisis enfatizan una variedad de perspectivas metodológicas orientadas hacia lo cualitativo, con lo cual facilitan una entrada integral al diverso campo de los estudios etnográficos en ambientes africanos y a las experiencias y las emociones personales que éstos suscitan.

Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationship between culture and human rights across Africa and offers strategies for pedagogy and practice that social workers and educators may use. Drawing on Afrocentricity and emancipatory social work as antidotes to colonial power and dehumanization, this collection challenges cultural practices that violate human rights, and the dichotomous and taken-for-granted assumptions in the cultural representations between the West and the Rest of the world. Engaging critically with cultural traditions while affirming Indigenous knowledge and practices, it is unafraid to deal frankly with uncomfortable truths. Each chapter explores a specific aspect of African cultural norms and practices and their impacts on human rights and human dignity, paying special attention to the intersections of politics, economics, race, class, gender, and cultural expression. Going beyond analysis, this collection offers a range of practical approaches to understanding and intervention rooted in emancipatory social work. It offers a pathway to develop critical reflexivity and to reframe epistemologies for education and practice. This is essential reading not only for students and practitioners of social work, but for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of African cultures and practices.

Heike Behrend studiert Ethnologie in den politisch bewegten Sechzigerjah­ren; ihre erste Feldforschung führt sie Ende der Siebzigerjahre in die keniani­ schen Tugenberge; Mitte der Achtzigerjahre begibt sie sich auf die Spuren der Holy­Spirit­Bewegung im Norden Ugandas. Während der Aids­Epidemie arbeitet sie über die katholische Kirche in Westuganda, und schließlich erforscht sie an der kenianischen Küste die lokalen Praktiken von Straßen­fotografen und Fotostudios. Diese Autobiografie der ethnografischen For­schung erzählt keine heroische Erfolgsgeschichte, sondern berichtet von dem, was in den herkömmlichen Ethnografien meist ausgeschlossen wird – die unheroischen Verstrickungen und die kulturellen Missverständnisse, die Konflikte, Fehlleistungen sowie Situationen des Scheiterns in der Fremde. So lädt dieses Buch zu einem freimütigen Blick auf die Ethnologie als Poetik sozialer Beziehungen ein. In den wenig schmeichelhaften Namen –'Affe','Närrin'oder'Kannibale'–, die der Ethnologin in Afrika gegeben wurden, wird sie mit fremder Fremderfahrung konfrontiert und muss sich fragen, welche Wahrheit diese Bezeichnungen zum Ausdruck bringen, welche kolo­niale Geschichte sie erzählen und welche Kritik sie an ihrer Person und Arbeit üben. Mit dem Bericht über vier ethnografische Forschungen in Kenia und Uganda in einem Zeitraum von fast fünfzig Jahren reflektiert Heike Behrend auch die Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie und die Veränderungen des Machtgefüges zwischen den Forschenden und den Erforschten, die sie am eigenen Leib erfährt.

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region. The contributors demonstrate ways in which African-centered knowledge refutes stereotypes depicted by Euro-centric scholars and, overall, examine indigenous African contributions in global knowledge production and development. The project provides historical and contemporary evidences that challenge the dominance of Euro-centric knowledge, particularly, about Africa, across various disciplines. Each chapter engages with existing scholarship and extends it by emphasizing on Indigenous knowledge systems in addition to future indicators of African knowledge production.

La perception de la gémellité en Afrique noire résulte de la conception profondément religieuse de ce continent qui accorde une place importante aux forces de la nature et au monde des mystères. Par rapport à l'évolution du monde contemporain, quelle est l'explication scientifique de la conception et de la naissance des jumeaux? Quelle est l'approche des religions modernes sur le phénomène des jumeaux? Pour cette gémellité, quelles sont les représentations et caractéristiques communes entre les communautés traditionnelles mbéré et les autres entités africaines? Cet ouvrage apporte des réponses précises et documentées à ces conceptions de la gémellité en Afrique.

This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rachel King uses excavated material, rock art, archival texts, and object collections to explore different facets of how disorderly figures were shaped through impressions of places and material culture as much as actual transgression. Addressing themes from mobility to wilderness, historiography to violence, resistance to development, King details the world that raiders made over the last two centuries in southern Africa while also critiquing scholars'tools for describing this world. Offering inter-disciplinary perspectives on the past in Africa's southernmost mountains, this book grapples with conceptsrelevant to those interested in rule-breakers and rule-makers, both in Africa and the wider world.

Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this book revitalises and changes the way to think about civilisations in the humanities, the historical and the social sciences.

An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline's future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age. It seeks a new definition of contemporary African bourgeois in terms of its global reach, imitation of foreign forms and collaboration with the owners of the primary agencies. Additionally, it makes a case that African global lords or new bourgeoisie who are largely products of the new global capital and multinational corporations'socio-political and cultural influences fashion their tastes after western cultures as portrayed in the digital realm.

Originally published in 1934, and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published this book nevertheless remains an important volume in African sociology and psychology. Topics such as race, economics, family and kinship, tribal organization, ritual and the supernatural, language and education are discussed in a balanced way, especially given the era of publication.

Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories brings together intellectuals from a variety of fields, backgrounds, generations, and continents to deepen and reinvigo-rate the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies. Building on recent debate within African studies that has revolved around the role of Africanists in the United States as “gatekeepers” of knowledge about Africa and Africans, this volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the contested character of the production of knowledge itself. In every chapter, case studies and ethnographic materials, drawn from such regions as South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, the Malagasy Republic, Angola, Ghana, and Senegal, demonstrate the application of theory to concrete situations.

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. In this oral setting, folktales appear much more dynamic than usually assumed, depending on genre, performance and the memory characteristics of the tales themselves. In northeastern Nigeria the author collected these tales twice with a time gap of two generations, in order to assess the dynamics of this oral transmission. The comparison between the two corpuses shows that folktales are a much more dynamic cultural system than is usually thought. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than others, reflect social change and intergroup contact, but also depend on characteristics of the tales themselves. Cognitive approaches of memory shed light on these varieties of transmission, as do performance aspects in tale telling, in particular ideophones.

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the study. By bringing together diverse strands of a complex daily mobilities picture-from journeys for education, work, play/leisure and health, to associated experiences of different transport modes, road safety, and the virtual mobility now afforded by mobile phones-the book helps fill a knowledge gap with crucial significance for development policy and practice.

The peoples of Africa are neither ethnically, culturally, nor religiously homogeneous. European colonial powers took little note of this reality in carving up the continent, a fact reflected in the periodic outbreak of civil war since decolonialization. Likewise, Western European models of development, whether in their liberal or Marxist manifestations, have so far failed to meet African development needs. The path to stability in Africa is through its people's character and goals. Almanac of African Peoples and Nations provides an essential guide to the major ethnic groups of the African continent, highlighting the major contributions and basic features of each.The Almanac reviews Africa's language families and their respective national and geographic concentrations, explaining ethnic classification based on linguistic difference and including language groups that are not indigenous to Africa. The major African peoples are then listed by country with a statistical breakdown on their respective shares in the total population of each country and maps indicating their concentration. The major section of the volume includes a comprehensive listing and descriptive profile of each ethnic, national, and tribal group detailing their history, customs, economic systems, and political and social organizations. The Almanac points out as well which groups support revisionist political aspirations and shows the internal and external pressures they are subject to. Yakan notes that African societies are not highly integrated and must support multitudes of influential sub-cultures with conflicting agendas and loyalties. Arguing that tribalism reflects Africa's historical experience and cultural heritage, he sees the resolution of the continent's problems in consociational democracy, proportional representation, federalism, or some form of autonomous rule.

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail's Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa's cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.

A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers'constrained capabilities and their'criticised'behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.

Histoire et coutumes sexuelles africaines.L'Afrique a une multitude d'ethnies et conséquemment une pluralité de coutumes. Les rites d'initiation sexuelle ont une place de choix dans ce vaste champ de variétés culturelles.Hier sujet tabou, la sexualité est aujourd'hui vulgarisée surtout avec l'apparition de nouveaux médias et d'Internet. Cependant, force est de constater qu'en Afrique, la sexualité garde encore une certaine spécificité faite de secrets, de croyances et d'interdits.Souvent insolites, barbares, choquants, affreux voire cruels, les pratiques et les rites sexuels en Afrique jalonnent chaque stade de développement de la vie : de la procréation à l'accouchement et de la puberté au mariage. Même les deuils sont ponctués de pratiques ayant rapport à la sexualité.La spécificité de la sexualité en Afrique a également trait aux méthodes sexuelles. Certaines sont tellement originales qu'elles ne sont trouvables ni en Occident ni en Orient, régions qui ont pourtant presque tout exploré en la matière.Cet ouvrage, fruit des recherches d'un écrivain, décortique les pratiques parfois étonnates de la sexualité sur le continent africain.EXTRAITEn âge de se marier, la jeune fille est récluse loin de ses parents pendant une période pouvant aller jusqu'à un mois. Elle est entourée des vieilles femmes, des matrones du village, souvent constituées de tantes maternelles ou paternelles. Elles lui donnent des cours de sexologie, le but étant que la jeune fille prenne conscience des zones érogènes de son corps en vue de sa future vie conjugale. Outre l'art sexuel, les cours portent également sur l'initiation érotique en général, la toilette intime, l'anatomie du sexe de l'homme, etc.Avant des séances proprement dites, les formatrices vérifient que la fille est vierge. Si le test de virginité n'est pas concluant, la jeune fille est soumise à un interrogatoire et doit dénoncer l'homme qui l'a défloré. Les deux fautifs reçoivent une sanction : au cours d'une cérémonie publique avec battements de tam-tam, leurs têtes sont rasées et lavées à l'huile de palme. Le couple est soumis aux moqueries durant une journée entière. Après cette expiation, la fille réintègre le kikumbi. Quant au garçon, il devra non seulement épouser la fille, mais également il s'acquittait d'une amende prévue par la coutume.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURRwandais résidant en Belgique, Gaspard Musabyimana a une formation universitaire pluridisciplinaire. Il est écrivain, éditeur et web journaliste.

This book explores how spirituality and resiliency defines the character of African women and inspires them to serve the communities and organizations around them. Through portraits of twelve Malawian women national leaders, it celebrates the lives of indigenous women and describes how their unique backgrounds and experiences have contributed to their leadership development. It provides an understanding of the strategies these women employ to move beyond historical barriers to exercise leadership. The author introduces a new leadership model called transformative engaging leadership, which demonstrates how African women leaders use their inner strength to thrive and succeed in the midst of challenges. It contributes to African female leadership studies and will be helpful to leaders and organizations that have a passion for advancing female leaders in the developing world.

This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power.

This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct relationships, and act as a source for imagining the future.

Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather than the environment. By focusing on'sustainable'development in Kenya, this study shows the importance of integrating ecological concerns in socio-economic and cultural development processes.

African Art invites you to explore the dynamic origins of the vast artistic expressions arising from the exotic and mystifying African continent. Since the discovery of African art at the end of the nineteenth century during the colonial expositions it has been a limitless source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually recreated these artworks. The power of Sub-Saharan African art lies within its visual diversity, demonstrating the creativity of the artists who are continuing to conceptualize new stylistic forms. From Mauritania to South Africa and from the Ivory Coast to Somalia, statues, masks, jewelry, pottery and tapestries compose a variety of daily and ritual objects springing from these richly varied societies.

Ces histoires qui campent le vécu d'un anthropologue africaniste en matière de pluie et de puits, de barrages et de lacs, ne doivent pas être lues comme une contribution de plus à la dimension culturelle de l'eau - une dimension qui parfois favorise mais souvent freine une saine gestion des ressources hydriques. Elles suggèrent plutôt que l'eau est essentiellement, entièrement et exclusivement un phénomène culturel.

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 per.

Ainsi parla l'Oncle, premier manifeste de la négritude, paru en 1928, est le grand livre sur la condition noire, sur la relation à l'Afrique et à sa culture. Lire aujourd'hui Ainsi parla l'Oncle pour découvrir un geste essentiel. Revisiter l'Oncle Vingt-quatre auteurs relisent Ainsi parla l'Oncle et Price-Mars: Maryse Condé, Dany Laferrière, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Raphaël Confiant, André Corten, Laënnec Hurbon, Jean Bernabé, Léon-François Hoffmann, Maximilien Laroche, Jean Morisset, Romuald Fonkoua, Alain Anselin, Carlo A. Célius, Asselin Charles, J.Michael Dash, Lilian Pestre de Almeida, Milagros Ricourt, Joëlle Vitiello, Eloise A. Brière, Kunio Tsunekawa, Joël Des Rosiers, Françoise Naudillon, Hérold Toussaint, Christiane Ndiaye.

Effective communication with the African society in the field of missions, church planting, and social development work has been and continues to be a great challenge, particularly to people from western cultural and language orientation. Africans are a'we'rather than'I'and a'depended on'rather than'independent of'society. The worldview of a traditional African in terms of society, relationships, and communication is communal. Certainly, the African perception of communalism affects how they communicate with the people of different cultural orientation. Africa has several cultures and people differ in their communication depending on their cultural orientation. However, there are universal African cultures that act as a framework for understanding key aspects of communication with Africans for successful missions, church planting, and social development work. This book, therefore, provides a strategy of understanding communication with the African society. The discussions in this book provide readers with different cultural orientations unique perception of the African society as s/he may be planning to communicate with the African society for missions, church planting, and social development work, even doing humanitarian ministry in African society. Although literacy levels have improved tremendously in most African countries, most of Africa is not a reading society. It is imperative to understand that most Africans still communicate orally and are not time conscious. Hence, effective communication in African societies ought to be based on storytelling rather than literature distribution, although this is in transition. In fact, Africans are oratory and good listeners. Thus, this book provides an understanding to people of different cultural orientations when they plan to communicate with the people in Africa.

Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Fächerspektrum: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie historische, theologische und philosophische, und die Millennium-Studien bieten gleichermaßen Raum für Arbeiten zu den lateinischen und griechischen wie zu den orientalischen Kulturen. In die Studien finden einschlägige Monographien und Sammelwerke aus dem gesamten Themenspektrum Aufnahme, zudem Kommentare und Editionen. Publikationssprachen sind vornehmlich Deutsch und Englisch; die Aufnahme französischer, italienischer und spanischer Arbeiten ist möglich. Falls Sie ein Manuskript für die Studien einreichen möchten, bitte wir Sie, sich an den fachnächsten Herausgeber zu wenden: Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt (Byzantinistik und Frühes Mittelalter): brandes@rg.mpg.de Peter von Möllendorff, Gießen (Gräzistik): peter.v.moellendorff@klassphil.uni-giessen.de Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latinistik): dennis.pausch@tu-dresden.de Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg (Alte Geschichte): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de Karla Pollmann, Bristol (Frühes Christentum und Patristik): K.F.L.Pollmann@bristol.ac.uk Alle Manuskripte werden von dem jeweiligen Herausgeber und von einem externen Gutachter beurteilt. Dabei gilt das Single-blind peer review-Verfahren.

Do modern Western ideas about the nature of conflict and its resolution apply to Africa? To answer this question, Adda Bozeman examines conflict in Africa south of the Sahara in its many social, political, and cultural aspects, past and present.The author shows how African perspectives on war and diplomacy have evolved under the influence of nonliteracy, tribalism, and a concept of undifferentiated time. In addition, she confirms that indigenous cultural traditions are resurgent everywhere, making it unlikely that African political values will become more closely aligned with those of the West. The two civilizations view conflict differently and have different ways of resolving it. The Africans are more at ease with conflict than their Western counterparts, and they do not see war and peace as the mutually exclusive phenomena that Occidental societies hold them to be. The author concludes that modern Western concepts of conflict not only do not, but cannot, allow for African realities.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

First Published in 1968. This book looks at the'Bori'of the natives in West and North Africa The Bori (like spirits) are believed to be responsible for the various illnesses suffered by mankind are propitiated accordingly by offerings and sacrifices, with designated temple rooms, and being honoured with dances or rather rites during which worshippers (the sect of the Masu-Bori) become temporarily possess or ridden by the spirits.