Elizabeth Colson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80457 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Colson |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Colson |
| ASSINATURA | COLSON E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 83 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 549 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1948 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The Practice of War
The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of conflict and can begin to generalize. [From the Introduct…
New economic relationships between the Gwembe Valley and the line of rail
This chapter deals with the difference in response of villages in the Gwembe Valley in the Southern Province of Zambia. It examines the reasons why the two villages have developed their particular modes of life. The chapter considers the adaptive responses of each village since resettlement, as well as the consequences for the villagers of their different modes of attachment to the modern economy. The major differences between Mazulu and Musulumb…
The Intensive Study of Small Sample Communities
This chapter suggests that population movements may be related to strains within the social structure, and have characterized the Plateau Tonga as highly mobile, i.e. as making frequent changes of residence from one village to another. It provides a certain amount of information on the number of moves made by the people found in certain villages, the quantitative material is not ex-pressed in a fashion which makes a direct comparison with other s…
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
Morality, Hope and Grief
Asian and Pacific cosmopolitans
Immigrant Ambassadors
Defining “the Manchester School of Anthropology” The Manchester School
Linkages Methodology
Journal Article Linkages Methodology: No Man is an Island Get access Elizabeth Colson Elizabeth Colson Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-3710 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 320-333, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fem014 Published: 01 June 2007 Article history Received: 01 Apr…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Male bias
Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response
Journal Article Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response Get access Elizabeth Colson Elizabeth Colson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/16.1.1 Published: 01 March 2003
Bill Shack, 1923-2000
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The Father as Witch
In the 1990s the feared witch among Tonga-speakers of Gwembe Valley, Zambia, is often the father, whose adult children accuse him of using witchcraft to gain power over the child's life force to use in his enterprises. Suspicions of the father arise from changing family dynamics associated with restricted economic opportunities and a changing agricultural system involving cash cropping where family labour is of vital importance. Witchcraft fears,…
After Tylor
After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888-1951. GEORGE W. STOCKING. JR. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xx. 570 pp., illustrations, notes, references, manuscript sources, oral sources, index
Dona L. Davis's Critical Look at Menopause
Sahel Visions
Ten Thousand Tonga
The Gwembe Study was launched in 1956 to monitor the responses of 57,000 Tonga-speakers from the Middle Zambezi Valley to involuntary relocation. Since then, periodic censuses and frequent field visits have generated a wide variety of information. This article examines the demography of four Gwembe Tonga villages from 1956 to 1991, a period characterized first by relocation, then prosperity, and finally by economic hardship. White nuptiality does…
Applied Anthropology
Anthropology and Politics
For Prayer and Profit
David G. Mandelbaum (1911–1987)
Introduction
Places of Power and Shrines of the Land
La distinction entre lieux de pouvoir associes a des esprits de la nature et temples terrestres dedies aux esprits ancestraux est un theme commun a la litterature sur l'Afrique centrale et l'Afrique australe. Faire des distinctions n'est pas si simple. Les lieux de pouvoir sont-ils aussi des temples ? Sont-ils des temples terrestres ? Comment font-ils reference aux cultes regionaux et territoriaux ? Et s'il existe une distinction entre temples na…
The Harvey Lecture Series. In Good Years and in Bad
Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response
Journal Article Forced Migration and the Anthropological Response Get access Elizabeth Colson Elizabeth Colson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2003, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/16.1.1 Published: 01 March 2003
Social Control and Vengeance in Plateau Tonga Society
Opening ParagraphI am here concerned with social control as it exists in Tonga society, where there are no obvious political institutions concerned in the maintenance of order. As in any society, control rests eventually on the sanction of force, here applied through a resort to vengeance on the part of an organized group if it feels that this is the only way to enforce its rights
The Father as Witch
In the 1990s the feared witch among Tonga-speakers of Gwembe Valley, Zambia, is often the father, whose adult children accuse him of using witchcraft to gain power over the child's life force to use in his enterprises. Suspicions of the father arise from changing family dynamics associated with restricted economic opportunities and a changing agricultural system involving cash cropping where family labour is of vital importance. Witchcraft fears,…
For Prayer and Profit
Long-Term Field Research in Social Anthropology
Method in Social Anthropology
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization
The Makah Indians
On Happiness
What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in trans…
Ojibwa Religion and the Midewiwin
The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Class Differences and Sex Roles in American Kinship and Family Structure
Ten Thousand Tonga
The Gwembe Study was launched in 1956 to monitor the responses of 57,000 Tonga-speakers from the Middle Zambezi Valley to involuntary relocation. Since then, periodic censuses and frequent field visits have generated a wide variety of information. This article examines the demography of four Gwembe Tonga villages from 1956 to 1991, a period characterized first by relocation, then prosperity, and finally by economic hardship. White nuptiality does…
Culture and Progress. Distinguished Lecture-1975
This paper is the text of the sixth Distinguished Lecture, delivered in San Francisco at the 74th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1975. The Lectureship was established in 1969 to honor outstanding scholars in the profession. Colson, a social anthropologist and ethnographer of wide experience, has worked in both the New and the Old Worlds, with American Indian and central African cultures. She is currently Fair…
The Klamath Tribe
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Overview
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Indians of British Columbia
Seven Tribes in Central Africa
In her review of Seven Tribes of British Centra Africa in Africa, xxii. 1 Mrs. Douglas praises the individual essays but criticizes their appearance in a single volume. We do not consider it appropriate for writers to reply to criticism which is levied on the basis of general knowledge and of the internal evidence of a book-indeed, we would ourselves accept the criticism which Mrs. Douglas, with others, has made that the editors should not have s…
Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Opening ParagraphThis is a preliminary report on the social and political significance of the rainshrines as an integrating force in Tonga society. In a sense it is a misnomer to refer to them as rain-shrines, for they are also appealed to on any occasion of general community disaster, such as epidemics or cattle plagues, but to the Tonga themselves the dominant aspect of the shrines is their efficacy in ensuring the proper rainfall
Using Anthropology in a World on the Move
THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHRO~O=OGY does me great honor in its gift of the Malinowski Award for 1985. It is humbling to find myself associated with the previous recipients of the award who have done so much to demonstrate that anthropology is more than an academic discipline or a literary conceit. It is some indication of how close-knit the company of anthropologists has been that I have known, at least slightly, all save two of the previous rec…
The Interpretation of Cultures
Part I * Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Part II * The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man * The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind Part III * Religion As a Cultural System * Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols * Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example * Internal Conversion in Contemporary Bali Part IV * Ideology As a Cultural System * After the Revolution: The Fate of…
Linkages Methodology
Journal Article Linkages Methodology: No Man is an Island Get access Elizabeth Colson Elizabeth Colson Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-3710 [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 320-333, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fem014 Published: 01 June 2007 Article history Received: 01 Apr…
Modern political organization of the Plateau Tonga
1948). Modern political organization of the Plateau Tonga. African Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2-3, pp. 85-98
Rain-Shrines of the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
Opening ParagraphThis is a preliminary report on the social and political significance of the rainshrines as an integrating force in Tonga society. In a sense it is a misnomer to refer to them as rain-shrines, for they are also appealed to on any occasion of general community disaster, such as epidemics or cattle plagues, but to the Tonga themselves the dominant aspect of the shrines is their efficacy in ensuring the proper rainfall
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization
Seven Tribes in Central Africa
In her review of Seven Tribes of British Centra Africa in Africa, xxii. 1 Mrs. Douglas praises the individual essays but criticizes their appearance in a single volume. We do not consider it appropriate for writers to reply to criticism which is levied on the basis of general knowledge and of the internal evidence of a book-indeed, we would ourselves accept the criticism which Mrs. Douglas, with others, has made that the editors should not have s…
Social Control and Vengeance in Plateau Tonga Society
Opening ParagraphI am here concerned with social control as it exists in Tonga society, where there are no obvious political institutions concerned in the maintenance of order. As in any society, control rests eventually on the sanction of force, here applied through a resort to vengeance on the part of an organized group if it feels that this is the only way to enforce its rights
The Makah Indians
The Bantu Tribes of South Africa
The Disappearing Bushmen of Lake Chrissie
Culture and Human Fertility
Ethnology and Ethnography
Chisungu, a Girls' Initiation Ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia. By Audrey I. Richards. London
The Indians of British Columbia
Method in Social Anthropology
Ethnology
Ethnology
The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia
General and Ethnology
Conference on Religious Movements in Africa
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Languages, Territories, and Names of California Indian Tribes
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