Cambridge University Press по журналам "Africa"
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)This article explores the making of gendered and religious identities among a group of Ghanaian Methodist women in London by bringing to the fore the complex and irreverent ways in which the women of Susanna Wesley Mission ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)It is often considered probable that the recent rise of vigilante groups in Nigeria means an erosion of the state monopoly of legitimate violence as well as a marked decline in state sovereignty over the national territory. ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)It was on the night of the 11th August 1914, when news of a great war in Europe reached us at Mbua (a town in the South Cameroons, about nine weeks or more from Duala, (or Kribbi) and that preparations were being made ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2002-08-01)This article examines the moral ambiguities of materialism that emerged with the coffee trade in north-west Tanganyika. The White Fathers, who played a prominent (often unintended) role in the growth of coffee markets, and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2000-02-01)The circumstances of a child’s birth define his or her starting point in life, and they will be inscribed in the child’s file, so to speak, by means of a set of rule-governed birth names. These ‘child names’ are perfectly ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2000-02-01)The circumstances of a child’s birth define his or her starting point in life, and they will be inscribed in the child’s file, so to speak, by means of a set of rule-governed birth names. These ‘child names’ are perfectly ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-08-01)The Nyakyusa were the subject of a classic series of ethnographies. This article suggests that these works took insufficient account of struggles over authority in the colonial period. Consequently they overstated the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-02-01)This article explores local understandings of and experience with democracy in an Iraqw community in northern Tanzania. At independence, President Julius Nyerere in his development of a one-party state, argued that democracy ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-02-01)This article explores local understandings of and experience with democracy in an Iraqw community in northern Tanzania. At independence, President Julius Nyerere in his development of a one-party state, argued that democracy ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)This article presents the case of the creation and expansion of Namaqua National Park in Namaqualand, South Africa, to highlight the contradictions between global interests in biodiversity conservation and local livelihoods. ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)This article examines funding for HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and the relationship between foreign donors and the South African government. The recognition of the AIDS pandemic as an epochal crisis has led to a proliferation ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)This article focuses on a number of Ga spirit mediums located in Teshi, a neighbourhood of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. These individuals host foreign spirits from areas north of Ga territory, such as the modern Ashanti, ...
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Beyond Expertise: Reflections on Specialist Agency and The Autonomy of the Divinatory Ritual Process(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)Recent anthropological studies of divination have been marked by renewed and appreciative concern for the epistemological and performative dimensions of divination. Pursuing these recent investigations, and especially their ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)This article examines the recent re-release of the Biafran pound currency, previously used by the breakaway Republic of Biafra between 1968 and 1970, by the separatist-revival group the Movement for the Actualization of a ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-05-01)It is not surprising that animals have played a significant role in KhoeSān cosmology but identifying exactly what that role is and how it relates to different contexts of belief and action is more challenging. This article ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-05-01)Focusing on the tri-juncture of Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso, this article examines the role of cross-border traders in the construction and redefinition of international boundaries. Through the study of the social and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-05-01)Focusing on the tri-juncture of Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso, this article examines the role of cross-border traders in the construction and redefinition of international boundaries. Through the study of the social and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-11-01)In the past two decades NGOs helping ‘street children’ in Addis Ababa have distinguished themselves by their adherence to highly controversial assumptions about the nature of childhood and the failure of the poor to raise ...
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