Conflict, age & power in North East Africa : age systems in transition
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Conflict, age & power in North East Africa : age systems in transition
(Eastern African studies)
James Currey , Ohio University Press , E.A.E.P , Fountain Publishers, 1998
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Note
Bibliography: p. 249-263
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk : uk ISBN 9780852552513
Description
Age-systems as political instruments.
Designed to counter-balance the conventional emphasis on religious and ritual functions, this collection of papers re-evaluates the political aspect of age systems in the context of national politics, civil and regional wars.
North America: Ohio U Press
Table of Contents
- Conflict, age and power in North East African age systems, Simon Simonse and Eisei Kurimoto
- resonance of age systems in southeastern Sudan, Eisei Kurimoto
- age, conflict and power in the monyomiji age systems, Simon Simonse
- "brothers in arms" - military aspects of East African age-class systems in historical perspective, John Lamphear
- generational systems on the threshold of the third millennium - an anthropological perspective, Serge Tornay
- Gaga systems on the meta-ethical level - Gabbra/Boran/Garre interactions in the Kenyan-Ethiopian borderland, Gunther Schlee
- women's age categories in a male-dominated society - the case of the Chamus of Kenya, Kaori Kawai
- age systems and modes of predatory expansion, Paul Spencer
- peacemakers, prophets, chiefs and warriors - age-set antagonism as a factor of political change among the Kipsigis of Kenya, Toru Komma
- Rendille age system as an instrument of clan coherence and subsistence security, Shun Sato
- two extinct age systems among the Iteso, Nobuhiro Nagashima.
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: hbk ISBN 9780852552520
Description
Designed to counter-balance the conventional emphasis on religious and ritual functions, this collection of papers re-evaluates the political aspect of age systems in the context of national politics, civil and regional wars.
Table of Contents
- Conflict, age and power in North East African age systems, Simon Simonse and Eisei Kurimoto
- resonance of age systems in southeastern Sudan, Eisei Kurimoto
- age, conflict and power in the monyomiji age systems, Simon Simonse
- "brothers in arms" - military aspects of East African age-class systems in historical perspective, John Lamphear
- generational systems on the threshold of the third millennium - an anthropological perspective, Serge Tornay
- Gaga systems on the meta-ethical level - Gabbra/Boran/Garre interactions in the Kenyan-Ethiopian borderland, Gunther Schlee
- women's age categories in a male-dominated society - the case of the Chamus of Kenya, Kaori Kawai
- age systems and modes of predatory expansion, Paul Spencer
- peacemakers, prophets, chiefs and warriors - age-set antagonism as a factor of political change among the Kipsigis of Kenya, Toru Komma
- Rendille age system as an instrument of clan coherence and subsistence security, Shun Sato
- two extinct age systems among the Iteso, Nobuhiro Nagashima.
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