Sangalan Oral Traditions
Sangalan Oral Traditions

Author: Mohamed Saidou N'Daou

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Sangalan Oral Traditions examines the relationship in the African French Guinea between the social relations and the struggle of the people of Sangalan, the Sangalankas, over memories and the history of their identities. The book is based on the politics of memory of different corporate groups (elites and subordinates, men and women), their shared philosophy of history and the individual, and the sociology of pre-colonial (1850-1920) and colonial (1920-1958) Sangalan (northeast of Guinea). It focuses on the accounts of past events, which Sangalan corporate groups used not only to define themselves, but also to shape or reshape their relations with other corporate groups and outside forces."--BOOK JACKET.

A Ritual Geology
A Ritual Geology

Author: Robyn d'Avignon

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-07-11

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1478023074

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Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.

Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities 2011
Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities 2011

Author: Peterson's

Publisher: Peterson's

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 1887

ISBN-13: 0768934613

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Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities contains a wealth of information on colleges and universities that offer graduate work in History, Humanities, Language & Literature, Linguistic Studies, Philosophy & Ethics, Religious Studies, and Writing. Institutions listed include those in the United States, Canada, and abroad that are accredited by U.S. accrediting agencies. Up-to-date data, collected through Peterson's Annual Survey of Graduate and Professional Institutions, provides valuable information on degree offerings, professional accreditation, jointly offered degrees, part-time and evening/weekend programs, postbaccalaureate distance degrees, faculty, students, degree requirements, entrance requirements, expenses, financial support, faculty research, and unit head and application contact information. Readers will find helpful links to in-depth descriptions that offer additional detailed information about a specific program or department, faculty members and their research, and much more. In addition, there are valuable articles on financial assistance, the graduate admissions process, advice for international and minority students, and facts about accreditation, with a current list of accrediting agencies.

Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2014 (Grad 2)
Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2014 (Grad 2)

Author: Peterson's

Publisher: Peterson's

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 7128

ISBN-13: 0768938589

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Peterson's Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences 2014 contains comprehensive profiles of more than 11,000 graduate programs in disciplines such as, applied arts & design, area & cultural studies, art & art history, conflict resolution & mediation/peace studies, criminology & forensics, language & literature, psychology & counseling, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, archaeology and more. Up-to-date data, collected through Peterson's Annual Survey of Graduate and Professional Institutions, provides valuable information on degree offerings, professional accreditation, jointly offered degrees, part-time and evening/weekend programs, postbaccalaureate distance degrees, faculty, students, requirements, expenses, financial support, faculty research, and unit head and application contact information. There are helpful links to in-depth descriptions about a specific graduate program or department, faculty members and their research, and more. There are also valuable articles on financial assistance, the graduate admissions process, advice for international and minority students, and facts about accreditation, with a current list of accrediting agencies.

Philosophy in an African Place
Philosophy in an African Place

Author: Bruce B. Janz

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780739136683

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Over the past few decades, there has been much effort put forth by philosophers to answer the question, "Is there an African philosophy?" Bruce B. Janz boldly changes this central question to "What is it to do philosophy in this (African) place?" in Philosophy in an African Place. Janz argues that African philosophy has spent a lot of time trying to define what African philosophy is, and in doing so has ironically been unable to properly conceptualize African lived experience. He goes on to claim that such conceptualization can only occur when the central question is changed from the spatial to a new, platial one. Philosophy in an African Place both opens up new questions within the field, and also establishes "philosophy-in-place", a mode of philosophy which begins from the places in which concepts have currency and shows how a truly creative philosophy can emerge from focusing on questioning, listening, and attending to difference. This innovative new approach to African philosophy will be useful not only to African and African-American philosophers, but also to scholars interested in any cultural, intercultural, or national philosophical projects.

Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie
Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie

Author:

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002-12

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780415284004

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IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.