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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon
| Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
| Collana | Cameroon studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | LELA IN BALI; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past; CHAPTER 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record; CHAPTER 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s; Chapter 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence; CHAPTER 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the 'Graffi' in Lela: Or, More is More; CHAPTER 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before theGrassfields; CHAPTER 7. Fast Forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494723003321 |
Fardon Richard
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| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon
| Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
| Collana | Cameroon studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
| ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | LELA IN BALI; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past; CHAPTER 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record; CHAPTER 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s; Chapter 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence; CHAPTER 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the 'Graffi' in Lela: Or, More is More; CHAPTER 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before theGrassfields; CHAPTER 7. Fast Forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798390003321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon
| Lela in Bali : history through ceremony in Cameroon / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.896/36 |
| Collana | Cameroon studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Bali (African people) - Social life and customs
Bali (African people) - Rites and ceremonies |
| ISBN |
1-84545-215-1
1-78238-877-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | LELA IN BALI; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Lela: Past Present, Present Past; CHAPTER 2. Lela in 1908: The Photographic Record; CHAPTER 3. Lela: The Texts, 1890s to 1960s; Chapter 4. Lela: Incorporation, Ascendancy and the Means of Violence; CHAPTER 5. Lela in the Grassfields and the 'Graffi' in Lela: Or, More is More; CHAPTER 6. Lela Precedents: Beyond and Before theGrassfields; CHAPTER 7. Fast Forward: From Adamawa to Late Post-Colonial Cameroon; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822384403321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon
| Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina |
305.8/0092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnologists - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-02022-7
0-203-15922-5 1-134-95309-7 1-280-33307-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920's and 1930's; 2 Oxford years: 1940's; 3 The Africanist: 1950's; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References
Appendix 1 Mary Douglas: a bibliography 1950...98 Appendix 2 Reviews of books written by Mary Douglas; Appendix 3 Concordance of the two editions of Natural Symbols; Name index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457332803321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon
| Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina |
305.8/0092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnologists - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-134-95308-9
0-203-02022-7 0-203-15922-5 1-134-95309-7 1-280-33307-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920's and 1930's; 2 Oxford years: 1940's; 3 The Africanist: 1950's; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References
Appendix 1 Mary Douglas: a bibliography 1950...98 Appendix 2 Reviews of books written by Mary Douglas; Appendix 3 Concordance of the two editions of Natural Symbols; Name index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784691203321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon
| Mary Douglas : an intellectual biography / / Richard Fardon |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina |
305.8/0092
B |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnologists - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-134-95308-9
0-203-02022-7 0-203-15922-5 1-134-95309-7 1-280-33307-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Mary Douglas's monographs and collected essays: A note on referencing; 1 Memories of a Catholic girlhood': 1920's and 1930's; 2 Oxford years: 1940's; 3 The Africanist: 1950's; 4 Purity and Danger revisited; 5 Natural Symbols defended; 6 Rituals of consumption; 7 Verbal weapons and environments at risk; 8 Returning to religion ... in the contemporary West; 9 Returning to religion ... in the Old Testament; 10 Do institutions think?; 11 The secret consciousness of individuals and the consecrated society; References
Appendix 1 Mary Douglas: a bibliography 1950...98 Appendix 2 Reviews of books written by Mary Douglas; Appendix 3 Concordance of the two editions of Natural Symbols; Name index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813691403321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation
| Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9956-792-25-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465036903321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation
| Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnology |
| ISBN | 9956-792-25-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786610703321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation
| Tiger in an African palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformation |
| Autore | Fardon Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico | Ethnology |
| ISBN | 9956-792-25-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814247303321 |
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Fardon Richard
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| Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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