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  1. Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation
    Author: Fardon, Richard
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Langaa RPCIG, Oxford

    Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in... more

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    Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship between comparison and historical reconstruction, and questioning the fit between personal, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West African nations. In an Introduction written specially for this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long development of his preoccupation w

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789956791705
    Subjects: Ethnology; Ethnology; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (302 p)
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    Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Copyright acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - Sisters, wives, wards and daughters. A transformational analysis of the political organization of the Tiv and their neighbours; Part I The Tiv; The background; The segmentary lineage model of the Tiv; A theoretical digression; Marriage by exchange; Kinship and clanship; Witchcraft and cults; Kinship terminology; Conclusion; Part II The transformations; Exchange marriage systems; The Mambila; Intermediary systems: Kona and Wiya; Marriage lordship: Bamileke, Bangwa, Bamum

    ConclusionsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 2 - ALLIANCE AND ETHNICITY. Aspects of an Adamawan regional system; Adamawa as a region; The Chamba ethnicity and identity; Mapeo; Kinship terminology; Clanship; Marriage regulations in Mapeo; Motives for marriage and marriage patterns in Mapeo; Marriage as alliance?; The Chamba, their neighbours and a central Adamawan regional system; Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 3 - 'AFRICAN ETHNOGENESIS'. Limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena; Ethnicity and comparative anthropology; Why ethnicity is difficult to define

    How ethnicity just grew and grewThe nominal objection; The reificatory objection; The derogatory objection; The situational objection; Subjective and objective ethnicity; Nationalism and the autonomization of ethnicity; Chamba ethnogenesis; African ethnogenesis; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 4 - THE PERSON, ETHNICITY AND THE PROBLEM OF 'IDENTITY' IN WEST AFRICA; Argument; The 'traditional' West African model: a synthesis; Identity, ethnicity and the person; Modernity and identity; Bali-Nyonga identity: whence Chamba-ness?; Bali-Nyonga: narrating modernity; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Chapter 5 - 'CROSSED DESTINIES' - The entangled histories of West African ethnic and national identitiesComplex resemblances; Crossed destinies; Invention - narration - imagination: how sameness inhabits the world; Entanglement: the contrapuntal characteristics of ethnic narratives; Entangled identities and crossed destinies; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 6 - ETHNIC PERVASION. Covering ethnicity? Or, ethnicity as coverage?; The self-evidence of ethnic terms; A many-sided project; In and out of the whale; Chapter 7 - TIGER IN AN AFRICAN PALACE; Present problems

    Tiger in an African palaceTreasures and translations; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 8 - COSMOPOLITAN NATIONS, NATIONAL COSMOPOLITANS; Conviviality begins at home: a ceremony; Encapsulation and identity - history; Cosmopolitan sleights; Peripheral citizenship in practice; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Back cover
  2. Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation
    Author: Fardon, Richard
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Langaa RPCIG, Oxford

    Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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    Tiger in an African palace collects eight essays about kinship and belonging that Richard Fardon wrote to complement his monographs on West Africa. The essays extend those book-length descriptions by pursuing their wider implications for theory in social anthropology: exploring the relationship between comparison and historical reconstruction, and questioning the fit between personal, ethnic and cosmopolitan identities in contemporary West African nations. In an Introduction written specially for this Langaa collection, Richard Fardon retraces the career-long development of his preoccupation w

     
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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789956791705
    Subjects: Ethnology; Ethnology; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (302 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Copyright acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - Sisters, wives, wards and daughters. A transformational analysis of the political organization of the Tiv and their neighbours; Part I The Tiv; The background; The segmentary lineage model of the Tiv; A theoretical digression; Marriage by exchange; Kinship and clanship; Witchcraft and cults; Kinship terminology; Conclusion; Part II The transformations; Exchange marriage systems; The Mambila; Intermediary systems: Kona and Wiya; Marriage lordship: Bamileke, Bangwa, Bamum

    ConclusionsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 2 - ALLIANCE AND ETHNICITY. Aspects of an Adamawan regional system; Adamawa as a region; The Chamba ethnicity and identity; Mapeo; Kinship terminology; Clanship; Marriage regulations in Mapeo; Motives for marriage and marriage patterns in Mapeo; Marriage as alliance?; The Chamba, their neighbours and a central Adamawan regional system; Conclusions; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 3 - 'AFRICAN ETHNOGENESIS'. Limits to the comparability of ethnic phenomena; Ethnicity and comparative anthropology; Why ethnicity is difficult to define

    How ethnicity just grew and grewThe nominal objection; The reificatory objection; The derogatory objection; The situational objection; Subjective and objective ethnicity; Nationalism and the autonomization of ethnicity; Chamba ethnogenesis; African ethnogenesis; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 4 - THE PERSON, ETHNICITY AND THE PROBLEM OF 'IDENTITY' IN WEST AFRICA; Argument; The 'traditional' West African model: a synthesis; Identity, ethnicity and the person; Modernity and identity; Bali-Nyonga identity: whence Chamba-ness?; Bali-Nyonga: narrating modernity; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Chapter 5 - 'CROSSED DESTINIES' - The entangled histories of West African ethnic and national identitiesComplex resemblances; Crossed destinies; Invention - narration - imagination: how sameness inhabits the world; Entanglement: the contrapuntal characteristics of ethnic narratives; Entangled identities and crossed destinies; Conclusion; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 6 - ETHNIC PERVASION. Covering ethnicity? Or, ethnicity as coverage?; The self-evidence of ethnic terms; A many-sided project; In and out of the whale; Chapter 7 - TIGER IN AN AFRICAN PALACE; Present problems

    Tiger in an African palaceTreasures and translations; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 8 - COSMOPOLITAN NATIONS, NATIONAL COSMOPOLITANS; Conviviality begins at home: a ceremony; Encapsulation and identity - history; Cosmopolitan sleights; Peripheral citizenship in practice; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Back cover