Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: Age Systems in Transition (Eastern African Studies) - Softcover

Simonse, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852552513 ISBN 13: 9780852552513

Verlag: James Currey, 1998

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Críticas:

The volume contributes to our understanding of the formal genius of age systems ... - John G. Galaty in JRAI
...East Africa is the single most important area of the world in which age-systems survive, ...This welcome volume is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of age-systems. - P.T.W. Baxter in SOAS BULLETIN
If previously anthropologists had focused on a particular society and had suggested that age-systems were autonomous structures of control and sociability this volume considers age-systems as political means for competitions, violence and trans-national association transcending the isolation of social ritual, though using ritual as a political model of competition. ...an interesting and highly significant volume, particularly within the ongoing discussions of ethnicity, identity and globalisation. It provides a new theoretical framework for East African ethnography and a challenge for anthropologists of politics, religion and nationalism. - Mario I. Aguilar in CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGY

Reseña del editor:

Designed to counter-balance the conventional emphasis on religious and ritual functions, this collection of papers re-evaluates the political aspect of age systems in the context of national politics, civil and regional wars.

North America: Ohio U Press

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• Verlag: James Currey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0852552513
• ISBN 13: 9780852552513
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Kurimoto Eisei, Simonse Simon