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Class And Kinship In Sudanese Urban Communities, Richard Lobban
Class And Kinship In Sudanese Urban Communities, Richard Lobban
Richard A Lobban
This article represents some of the results of three field research studies of urbanization in the Sudan. The research has focussed on two urban communities in the Khartoum area, those known as Tuti Island' and Burri al Mahas.2 The first study was conducted as doctoral research in 1970-72; a brief re-study took place in 1975, and most recently research was conducted in 1979-80. This ten-year period was a time during which major economic and demographic change occurred in the urban Sudan.
America And Political Islam, Richard Lobban
America And Political Islam, Richard Lobban
Richard A Lobban
I received this book before 11 September 2001 and am reviewing it in the aftermath of that day. One could not imagine a more intense crucible in which to view a work on political Islam. Under the glare of the fiery collapse at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and with bombs falling on Taliban and al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, the work of an author and a reviewer requires even greater scrutiny.
Pigs And Their Prohibition, Richard Lobban
Pigs And Their Prohibition, Richard Lobban
Richard A Lobban
Little is more central to the study of the modern Middle East than religion. Amidst the differences between the Judaic and Islamic traditions, both are unified about the religious prohibition of swine as a source of food. This taboo is one of the more significant common markers of their ethnicity and religious code.
War Clouds On The Horn Of Africa, Richard Lobban
War Clouds On The Horn Of Africa, Richard Lobban
Richard A Lobban
To review a book published five years ago describing a region in great turbulence is a great challenge. As one of those who has also written on aspects of the Horn of Africa it is tragically clear that the region's hostilities have brought misery and death for thousands. Resting with their remains are countless prophecies and predictions which had sought to analyze the latest events. These remarks may sound like defensive apologies of the author of this book, but I will defend him by assessing the difficulty of interpreting a dynamic and volatile region in the paroxysms of radical change.
From Slave To Pharaoh, Richard Lobban
From Slave To Pharaoh, Richard Lobban
Richard A Lobban
Egyptologists often see Nubia as entirely dependent on its more powerful and better- known neighbor to the north. From Slave to Pharaoh instead gives the Nubians full credit for building a civilization that came to dominate Egypt, and contended with Assyria, the great superpower of the day, as an equal.
Preservation And Interpretive Plan For The Dill Tract Civil War Earthworks On James Island, South Carolina, Steven Smith
Preservation And Interpretive Plan For The Dill Tract Civil War Earthworks On James Island, South Carolina, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
Beginning in the late fall of 1862 the Confederate Army defending Charleston began work on a line of earthworks and batteries across James Island, South Carolina, from Secessionville to the Stono River. The lines were called the "New Lines" to distinguish them from other lines built in 1861. Today, approximately 3,000 feet of these lines still exist in very good condition on a 17.3 acre tract of land that represent a portion of the Dill Tract. The tract and earthworks (archaeological site 38CH 195) are part of a noncontiguous district listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are …
Defining The Williamson's Plantation: Huck's Defeat Battlefield, Michael Scoggins, Steven Smith, Tamara Wilson
Defining The Williamson's Plantation: Huck's Defeat Battlefield, Michael Scoggins, Steven Smith, Tamara Wilson
Steven D. Smith
This report presents the results of historical and archeological research to define the Revolutionary War battle of Williamson’s Plantation (Huck’s Defeat), located in York County, South Carolina. Analysis of historic documents, metal detector survey, and archeological excavations at Historic Brattonsville revealed the location of the battlefield (site 38YK564) although there appears to be very little archeological remains associated with the Williamson plantation house. Survey surrounding the site indicates that site 38YK564 is the only remaining remnant of the battlefield.
A Historic Context For The African American Military Experience, Steven Smith, James Zeidler
A Historic Context For The African American Military Experience, Steven Smith, James Zeidler
Steven D. Smith
The purpose of this report is to recognize and highlight the contributions of African Americans to the military history of the United States. This is accomplished by providing a historic context on the African American military experience for use by Department of Defense (DoD) cultural resource managers. Managers can use this historic context, to recognize significant sites, buildings, and objects on DoD property related to African American military history by nominating them for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. In this manner, civilian and military personnel currently serving in all major services will be made aware of the …
A History Of American Settlement At Camp Atterbury, Steven Smith
A History Of American Settlement At Camp Atterbury, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
No abstract provided.
The Antiquities Act: A Century Of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, And Nature Conservation, Edited By David Harmon, Francis P. Mcmanamon, And Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
A review of The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation, edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley
Bailey's Dam, Steven Smith, George Castille
Bailey's Dam, Steven Smith, George Castille
Steven D. Smith
Anthropological Study No. 8
A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven Smith
A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
No abstract provided.
Imprint On The Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, By William S. Pugsley, Steven Smith
Imprint On The Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, By William S. Pugsley, Steven Smith
Steven D. Smith
This is a review of the title book, Imprint on the Land: Life Before Camp Hood, 1820-1942, by William S. Pugsley, as well as reviews of four supporting CRM reports in The Public Historian: Agriculture and Rural Development on Fort Hood Lands, 1849-1942: National Register Assessments of 710 Historic Archeological Properties, by Martha Doty Freeman, Amy E. Dase, and Marie E. Blake; Archaeological Investigations and Integrity Assessments of Historic Sites at Fort Hood, Texas by Marie E. Blake; Historical Research of 401 Sites at Fort Hood, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas by Russell B. Ward, Marie E. Blake, Amy E. …
Iniciação À Língua Yanomamł, Hapa Të Pë Rë Kuonowei: Mitologia Yanomamł, And Le Parler Yanomami Des Xamatauteri, Gale Goodwin Gomez
Iniciação À Língua Yanomamł, Hapa Të Pë Rë Kuonowei: Mitologia Yanomamł, And Le Parler Yanomami Des Xamatauteri, Gale Goodwin Gomez
Gale Goodwin Gomez
It is perhaps useful to call attention to the work of Henri Ramirez, one of the most active linguists in Amazonia, since his publications have remained somewhat obscure, especially for those living outside of South America. This rather unusual scholar essentially only publishes books (18 monographs to date, including practical works for the native population), not articles, and rarely attends conferences. His principal published works are being reviewed in UAL to make them more known to the linguistic community. He is currently a professor in Letters and Linguistics at the Federal University of Rond'nia in the town of Guajar-Mirim, on …
Language And Living Things, Terence Hays
Language And Living Things, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Ethnobiology is often regarded as a quaint and excessively particularistic specialty, as its modern practitioners trace the complexities and subtleties of specific systems of folk classification and nomenclature. Their finegrained descriptions and elegant analyses are at once too “thick” and too “thin” for most nonspecialists, who, in any event, await syntheses of what has been learned from such inquiries, preferably in the form of comparative studies in the tradition of anthropology’s concern with generalizations that illuminate the wider human condition. Rising to this challenge, Cecil Brown has long pursued, in numerous papers and now in this book, crosscultural “uniformities” as …
The Huli Response To Illness / Book Review, Terence Hays
The Huli Response To Illness / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
What diseases afRict the Huli people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea? How are these conceptualized by them as illness experiences? How do their behavioral responses, including the utilization of both traditional and Western health services, flow from and affect these conceptualizations? And how are these processes grounded in the broader ecological, historical, social, and cultural contexts within which individual Huli make their decisions regarding illness?
Sorcery And Social Change In Melanesia / Book Review, Terence Hays
Sorcery And Social Change In Melanesia / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
In some ways, this collection of papers is a typical symposium volume. Organizationally, it consists of a core ethnographic case studies (originally presented at the 1979 and 1980 annual meetings for the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania) bracketed with an introductory essay and concluding discussion by the editors, Marty Zelenietz and Shirley Lindenbaum, respectively. It is atypical, however, in that it largely succeeds in avoiding the most common shortcomings of such collections.
Ndumba Folk Biology And General Principles Of Ethnobotanical Classification And Nomenclature, Terence Hays
Ndumba Folk Biology And General Principles Of Ethnobotanical Classification And Nomenclature, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Brent Berlin's proposed "general principles of classification and nomenclature" are examined as they apply to folk biology in Ndumba, a Papua New Guinea hzghlands society. Focusing on Ndumba folk zoology, supplemented with a previous analysis of their folk botany, Berlin's analytical schema for ethnobiological classification is supported, but principles of nomenclature in ethnobiology appear to be in need of reconsideration.
"The New Guinea Highlands" Region, Culture Area, Or Fuzzy Set?, Terence Hays
"The New Guinea Highlands" Region, Culture Area, Or Fuzzy Set?, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
The criteria for delineating "the New Guinea Highlands," a fundamental category in Melanesian anthropology, are variable, vague, and inconsistently applied, with the result that there is little clarity or agreement with regard to its characteristics and its membership. So far as the literature is concerned, "the New Guinea Highlands" is a fuzzy set. The common resort to notions of "cores," "margins," or "fringes" is an attempt to preserve an essentialist approach but inevitably leads to the same confusion. The continued use of "the Highlands" as an analytic or theoretical construct carries the costs of misleadingly implied homogeneity, with marginalization of …
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays
Cognitive Foundations Of Natural History, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Since the 1960s, ethnobiology has gone beyond the documentation of plants and animals deemed “useful” in specific societies’ economies, or those that are “good to think” in their cosmological systems, to a nomothetic investigation of folk conceptualizations of the natural world as organizations of cultural knowledge. “General principles” and “universals” in the classification and naming of living things have been proposed that now play a major role in our growing understanding of human cognition.
Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays
Failure Of Treatment / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
This is an extraordinary book, and one that I believe is unique in the literature of medical anthropology. Inspired by Victor Turner's "social drama, the extended case method" (p. 3), Gilbert Lewis presents "the ethnography of an illness" (p. 1), a detailed—sometimes day-by-day—account of a protracted illness suffered by Dauwaras, a Gnau-speaking man of the upper Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays
The Sweet Potato And Oceania, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Debates about the introduction and diffusion of Ipomoea batatas in the Pacific have gone on for a century although largely without the benefit of a thorough botanical understanding of the plant. That is now provided in Yen’s monograph, which synthesizes the results and implications of his own two decades of research with the now massive literature on the subject.
Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays
Language And Cultural Description, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Beginning in the late 1950s, Charles Frake was among those (including Harold Conklin and Ward Goodenough) who founded the blend of cognitive psychology, descriptive linguistics, and cultural anthropology which came to be known as “the New Ethnography” or “cognitive anthropology.”
Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays
Exchanging The Past, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
In 1980-1982, Bruce Knauft and Eileen Cantrell conducted fieldwork among the Gebusi people of the remote Nomad region of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Then, "indigenous customs seemed robust as well as profound" (p.13), including one of the highest homocide rates in the world, rooted sorcery accusations derived from spirit medium seances.
Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays
Tzeltal Folk Zoology, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
In some respects, this volume might be viewed as a companion piece to Berlin et al.’s Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification. It deals with the same people of highland Chiapas, Mexico, and an earlier version was Hunn’s doctoral thesis, supervised by Berlin. Nevertheless, it can also clearly stand on its own as a significant contribution to ethnology, with additional relevance to biosystematists, ecologists, linguists, and psychologists.
Auyana, Terence Hays
Auyana, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Sterling Robbins was one of four ethnographers who conducted fieldwork in the early 1960s as part of James B. Watson’s New Guinea Micro-evolution Project. As such he was unavoidably caught in the turmoil over how to deal with the “loose structure” of New Guinea highland societies.
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays
Classifications In Their Social Context / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Since Durkheim and Mauss, the study of folk classification has developed along two main lines: the predominantly British and French "soocial constructionist" tradition, and the largely American "ethnoscience" approach, to use Roy Ellen's designations (p. 4). Ellen is referring to the continuing contrast in the anthropological literature between analyses of folk classification systems which view them as primarily reflecting structural, sociological, cosmological, or symbolic concerns, and those which concentrate on the more mundane orderings of nature which employ perceptual (usually morphological) criteria.
Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays
Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
New Guinea Pidgin (NGP) is the language of politics and the most widely used lingua franca in Papua New Guinea. It may also provide a crucial test case for theories of pidgin and creole languages and, more broadly, "for statements about the relationship between the internal and external history of language and that between linguistic variation and social stratification."
Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays
Grand Valley Dani, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
The Dani must by now be the most familiar of all New Guinea Highlands peoples to anthropologists and students alike. Through Robert Gardner_s evocative film, Dead Birds, Peter Matthiessen_s novelistic, Under the Mountain Wall, and Karl Heider_s numerous scholarly papers, books, and films, they have been portrayed in various ways, always fascinating and ever eluding our complete understanding.
Vampire Island, Anastasia Tsaliki
Vampire Island, Anastasia Tsaliki
Anastasia Tsaliki
Participation in this documentary directed by Julian Thomas and produced by Electric Sky for History Channel International.
"The legend of blood sucking vampires has captured peoples’ imagination for generations. Mysterious tales of the undead rising from their coffins to terrorise the living and drain their blood are the stuff of horror movies and novels. But a crack team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have uncovered hard evidence for the existence of the legend – a legend that continues to haunt communities in the present day…"