... Masters and Johnson, or others who followed in their footsteps—seemed to place primary em-pha... more ... Masters and Johnson, or others who followed in their footsteps—seemed to place primary em-phasis less ... puritan ethic of shame and silence in the avoidance of open and frank discussion of sex ... Consider one of the most famous and tragic cases of sexual violence in the United ...
ETHODOLOCY AND HIST IN ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 1 MARCEL MAUSS A Centenary Tribute r»r Edited by Wendy... more ETHODOLOCY AND HIST IN ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 1 MARCEL MAUSS A Centenary Tribute r»r Edited by Wendy James and NJ Allen ... MARCEL MAUSS Xh±e One SKTK-9X2-CLAE ... Methodology and History in Anthropology General Editor: David ...
Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. Melissa L. Meyer. New York: Routle... more Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. Melissa L. Meyer. New York: Routledge, 2005. 264 pp.
... Philosophy John W. Burton 41 Divination in Madagascar The Antemoro Case and the Diffusion of ... more ... Philosophy John W. Burton 41 Divination in Madagascar The Antemoro Case and the Diffusion of Divination ... Toward a New Approach to Divination 191 African Divination Systems: Non-Normal Modes of Cognition Philip ... How does this sound?" can only be asked so many times. ...
Bangwa Kinship and Marriage. By ROBERT BRAIN. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+19... more Bangwa Kinship and Marriage. By ROBERT BRAIN. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+195, bibl., ill., map. £5-20. $i7-5°THIS is a lively account of the Bangwa of the former Southern Cameroons, based on fascinating and complex field data. The author shows that the complications of the Bangwa kinship and wardship systems can be clearly related to their pre-colonial economic patterns and to the past and present competition for political power within the nine chiefdoms making up this people. The Bangwa, comparatively recent immigrants to their area which lies astride the routeways linking the high plateau with the Mamfe lowlands, achieved wealth as middlemen in the trade that took slaves from the Grasslands to the Calabar and lower Cross River districts, a trade that continued until the colonial period. The Bangwa kept the women slaves as far as possible for themselves, selling most of the males. This initially enabled wealthy men to acquire many wives without keeping poorer men wifeless. More recently, through maintaining their claims over women, the wealthy have retained their position as polygynists, but at the cost of denying wives to the young and the poor. By a kind of legal fiction each Bangwa woman has been considered to be the matrilineal descendant of a slave, and the patrilineal successor of the original purchaser of that ancestress exerts claims over her living matrilineal descendants: that is over the property of males at death, and over the marriages and bridewealth of female descendants. The situation is complicated by the fact that a girl's father, her mother's father, and her mother's mother's father, or their patrilineal successors, are subsidiary marriage lords who can also exert rights over her; moreover claims over wards can be transferred, usually to chiefs, in payment of debts. In fact even in the 1960s the main form of wealth in this society consisted of rights over women that tended to accumulate in the hands of dominant men in what is a highly stratified society. Clearly matrilineal and patrilineal descent is very significant for individuals, but Dr. Brain shows with some subtlety that the political structure, the details of the inheritance system, and the main form of wealth (rights over women, not over land) have precluded the development of lineages or other clearly demarcated descent groups. There are clusterings of kin but these are very variable. Indeed one of the best sections of the book is that which shows how individuals in different status positions tend to concentrate on different areas of their potential kin links. Individual manipulation is all. This ethnography is excellent. The fact remains that the account is sometimes carelessly presented. A most obvious example is that the diagram on page 123 purporting to clarify the marriage-lord system shows the various lords to be the patrilineal descendants of the mother's mother's brother and mother's mother's mother's brother, not the mother's father and mother's mother's father as described in the text. It would be possible, by harping on other such defects, to write a highly critical review. In my opinion, however, the book's basic merits are much more significant. I regret that it was not more carefully written and that more attention was not paid to making comparisons with other societies. Nevertheless, because of its particular blend of fundamental merit and superficial defect I particularly look forward to setting it for students to read. There are few ethnographies so calculated both to excite and to stimulate critical ability. ROSEMARY HARRIS
The story of Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in both London and P... more The story of Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in both London and Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century, is part of the long narrative of scientific racism. In the years preceding and succeeding her return to South Africa from the museum in Paris where her brain and genitals were stored, her story has been told and retold countless times by anti-racist white (and predominantly male) scholars, Pan-African anti-apartheid activists, many of them feminists, African-American scholars, and scholars who claim a particular ethnic status within the Rainbow Nation. There has been much controversy concerning the right to tell Baartman's story and the images that may or may not accompany such narration. An attempt is made to explain why this is so.
Alphabetical List of Contents Chronological List of Contents Contributors Introduction. Fifty Key... more Alphabetical List of Contents Chronological List of Contents Contributors Introduction. Fifty Key Anthropologists Appendix 1: Some Key Anthropological Terms Appendix 2: A Timeline Index
NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology, 1990
This paper examines the current predicament of Canadian anthropology in terms of its potential an... more This paper examines the current predicament of Canadian anthropology in terms of its potential and the constraints that inhibit the realization of its possibilities. A general historical consideration of 'interpretive anthropology', as formulated in the American context, forms the basis for a call to 'moral nerve'.
Page 1. La nouvelle anthropologie de la sexualite Andrew E Lyons Universite Wilfrid Laurier Harri... more Page 1. La nouvelle anthropologie de la sexualite Andrew E Lyons Universite Wilfrid Laurier Harriet D. Lyons Universite de Waterloo Traduction de Lori-Anne Theroux-Benoni Les representationscommunes de notre discipline ...
... Masters and Johnson, or others who followed in their footsteps—seemed to place primary em-pha... more ... Masters and Johnson, or others who followed in their footsteps—seemed to place primary em-phasis less ... puritan ethic of shame and silence in the avoidance of open and frank discussion of sex ... Consider one of the most famous and tragic cases of sexual violence in the United ...
ETHODOLOCY AND HIST IN ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 1 MARCEL MAUSS A Centenary Tribute r»r Edited by Wendy... more ETHODOLOCY AND HIST IN ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 1 MARCEL MAUSS A Centenary Tribute r»r Edited by Wendy James and NJ Allen ... MARCEL MAUSS Xh±e One SKTK-9X2-CLAE ... Methodology and History in Anthropology General Editor: David ...
Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. Melissa L. Meyer. New York: Routle... more Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. Melissa L. Meyer. New York: Routledge, 2005. 264 pp.
... Philosophy John W. Burton 41 Divination in Madagascar The Antemoro Case and the Diffusion of ... more ... Philosophy John W. Burton 41 Divination in Madagascar The Antemoro Case and the Diffusion of Divination ... Toward a New Approach to Divination 191 African Divination Systems: Non-Normal Modes of Cognition Philip ... How does this sound?" can only be asked so many times. ...
Bangwa Kinship and Marriage. By ROBERT BRAIN. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+19... more Bangwa Kinship and Marriage. By ROBERT BRAIN. London: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. ix+195, bibl., ill., map. £5-20. $i7-5°THIS is a lively account of the Bangwa of the former Southern Cameroons, based on fascinating and complex field data. The author shows that the complications of the Bangwa kinship and wardship systems can be clearly related to their pre-colonial economic patterns and to the past and present competition for political power within the nine chiefdoms making up this people. The Bangwa, comparatively recent immigrants to their area which lies astride the routeways linking the high plateau with the Mamfe lowlands, achieved wealth as middlemen in the trade that took slaves from the Grasslands to the Calabar and lower Cross River districts, a trade that continued until the colonial period. The Bangwa kept the women slaves as far as possible for themselves, selling most of the males. This initially enabled wealthy men to acquire many wives without keeping poorer men wifeless. More recently, through maintaining their claims over women, the wealthy have retained their position as polygynists, but at the cost of denying wives to the young and the poor. By a kind of legal fiction each Bangwa woman has been considered to be the matrilineal descendant of a slave, and the patrilineal successor of the original purchaser of that ancestress exerts claims over her living matrilineal descendants: that is over the property of males at death, and over the marriages and bridewealth of female descendants. The situation is complicated by the fact that a girl's father, her mother's father, and her mother's mother's father, or their patrilineal successors, are subsidiary marriage lords who can also exert rights over her; moreover claims over wards can be transferred, usually to chiefs, in payment of debts. In fact even in the 1960s the main form of wealth in this society consisted of rights over women that tended to accumulate in the hands of dominant men in what is a highly stratified society. Clearly matrilineal and patrilineal descent is very significant for individuals, but Dr. Brain shows with some subtlety that the political structure, the details of the inheritance system, and the main form of wealth (rights over women, not over land) have precluded the development of lineages or other clearly demarcated descent groups. There are clusterings of kin but these are very variable. Indeed one of the best sections of the book is that which shows how individuals in different status positions tend to concentrate on different areas of their potential kin links. Individual manipulation is all. This ethnography is excellent. The fact remains that the account is sometimes carelessly presented. A most obvious example is that the diagram on page 123 purporting to clarify the marriage-lord system shows the various lords to be the patrilineal descendants of the mother's mother's brother and mother's mother's mother's brother, not the mother's father and mother's mother's father as described in the text. It would be possible, by harping on other such defects, to write a highly critical review. In my opinion, however, the book's basic merits are much more significant. I regret that it was not more carefully written and that more attention was not paid to making comparisons with other societies. Nevertheless, because of its particular blend of fundamental merit and superficial defect I particularly look forward to setting it for students to read. There are few ethnographies so calculated both to excite and to stimulate critical ability. ROSEMARY HARRIS
The story of Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in both London and P... more The story of Sara Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus, who was exhibited in both London and Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century, is part of the long narrative of scientific racism. In the years preceding and succeeding her return to South Africa from the museum in Paris where her brain and genitals were stored, her story has been told and retold countless times by anti-racist white (and predominantly male) scholars, Pan-African anti-apartheid activists, many of them feminists, African-American scholars, and scholars who claim a particular ethnic status within the Rainbow Nation. There has been much controversy concerning the right to tell Baartman's story and the images that may or may not accompany such narration. An attempt is made to explain why this is so.
Alphabetical List of Contents Chronological List of Contents Contributors Introduction. Fifty Key... more Alphabetical List of Contents Chronological List of Contents Contributors Introduction. Fifty Key Anthropologists Appendix 1: Some Key Anthropological Terms Appendix 2: A Timeline Index
NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology, 1990
This paper examines the current predicament of Canadian anthropology in terms of its potential an... more This paper examines the current predicament of Canadian anthropology in terms of its potential and the constraints that inhibit the realization of its possibilities. A general historical consideration of 'interpretive anthropology', as formulated in the American context, forms the basis for a call to 'moral nerve'.
Page 1. La nouvelle anthropologie de la sexualite Andrew E Lyons Universite Wilfrid Laurier Harri... more Page 1. La nouvelle anthropologie de la sexualite Andrew E Lyons Universite Wilfrid Laurier Harriet D. Lyons Universite de Waterloo Traduction de Lori-Anne Theroux-Benoni Les representationscommunes de notre discipline ...
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