Jan Bender Shetler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 106956 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Bender Shetler |
| NOMBRES | Jan Bender |
| APELLIDO | Shetler |
| FIRMA | SHETLER J B |
| AFILIACIONES | Goshen College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it
Elizabeth A. Eldredge. Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa
The first academic historians of Africa in the 1960s dedicated themselves to using oral tradition as a way to tell early history from an African perspective. But few scholars continue this quest today given evidentiary skepticism, the challenges of multidisciplinary and multilingual work, and postcolonial relevance. Elizabeth Eldredge’s new book is thus a welcome addition to this neglected field, making the case for the utility and reliability of…
Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives
Do African men and think about and act out their ethnicity in different ways? Most studies of ethnicity in Africa consider men's experiences, but rarely have scholars examined whether have the same idea of what it means to be, for example, Igbo or Tswana or Kikuyu. Or, studies have invoked the adage women have no tribe to indicate a woman's loss of ethnicity as she marries into her husband's community. This volume engages directly the issue of wo…
Historical Memory and Expanding Social Networks of Mennonite Mission School Women, Mara Region, Tanzania, 1938 to the Present
Because of their structural position as boundary crossers in virilocal marriages, women in the Mara Region of Tanzania have used historical memory to construct social networks across ethnic boundaries for their own and their community's security. During the colonial era these networks were severely restricted, leading to increasingly difficult lives for women. One group of women who found creative ways to reconstruct these far-reaching networks w…
Historical memory as a foundation for peace
While ethnic identity formulated by historical memory is often understood as the cause of violent conflict in Africa, this qualitative historical study of interethnic relations between Luo and Bantu-speaking communities on the borderlands of Tanzania and western Kenya demonstrates just the opposite. In fact, migration and violent conflicts over land in the late 19th century were the basis for oral traditions that established new microethnic ident…
Imagining Serengeti
Imagining Serengeti
Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western Serengeti peoples imagine the environment not as a pristine wilderness, but as a differentiated social landscape that embodies their history and identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displ…
“Region” as Historical Production
Interpreting Rupture in Oral Memory
This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of wi…
Telling Our Own Stories
In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stor…
The Gendered Spaces of Historical Knowledge
Jan Bender Shetler, The Gendered Spaces of Historical Knowledge: Women's Knowledge and Extraordinary Women in the Serengeti District, Tanzania, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2003), pp. 283-307
The Politics of Publishing Oral Sources from the Mara Region, Tanzania
The intense scholarly debate concerning the shift from orality to literacy has not often directly concerned African historians in spite of the fact that many work closely with oral sources. In the process of publishing a series of locally-written histories, I discovered that transforming oral tradition into written form is ultimately political. It raised a number of important ethical dilemmas for me as a scholar and brought to my attention the po…
Has Religion Gone Global
African Novels in the Classroom
Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom
East African Expressions of Christianity
A Gift for Generations to Come
Les anciens des Kiroba de Tanzanie s'efforcerent de preserver et de transmettre l'identite de leur groupe. L'analyse du texte montre comment se construit cette identite et cette conscience dans le contexte postcolonial. Le processus de creation de ce texte, le contexte historique, la filiation patrilineaire dans la structuration des relations regionales, l'identite politique a travers les alliances, l'autorite et la loi, l'identite rituelle a tra…
East African Expressions of Christianity
Historical memory as a foundation for peace
While ethnic identity formulated by historical memory is often understood as the cause of violent conflict in Africa, this qualitative historical study of interethnic relations between Luo and Bantu-speaking communities on the borderlands of Tanzania and western Kenya demonstrates just the opposite. In fact, migration and violent conflicts over land in the late 19th century were the basis for oral traditions that established new microethnic ident…
Interpreting Rupture in Oral Memory
This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of wi…
The Politics of Publishing Oral Sources from the Mara Region, Tanzania
The intense scholarly debate concerning the shift from orality to literacy has not often directly concerned African historians in spite of the fact that many work closely with oral sources. In the process of publishing a series of locally-written histories, I discovered that transforming oral tradition into written form is ultimately political. It raised a number of important ethical dilemmas for me as a scholar and brought to my attention the po…
A Gift for Generations to Come
Les anciens des Kiroba de Tanzanie s'efforcerent de preserver et de transmettre l'identite de leur groupe. L'analyse du texte montre comment se construit cette identite et cette conscience dans le contexte postcolonial. Le processus de creation de ce texte, le contexte historique, la filiation patrilineaire dans la structuration des relations regionales, l'identite politique a travers les alliances, l'autorite et la loi, l'identite rituelle a tra…
A Gift for Generations to Come
Les anciens des Kiroba de Tanzanie s'efforcerent de preserver et de transmettre l'identite de leur groupe. L'analyse du texte montre comment se construit cette identite et cette conscience dans le contexte postcolonial. Le processus de creation de ce texte, le contexte historique, la filiation patrilineaire dans la structuration des relations regionales, l'identite politique a travers les alliances, l'autorite et la loi, l'identite rituelle a tra…
East African Expressions of Christianity
African Novels in the Classroom
Many teachers of African studies have found novels to be effective assignments in courses. In this guide, teachers describe their favourite African novels - drawn from all over the continent - and share their experiences of using them in the classroom
The Politics of Publishing Oral Sources from the Mara Region, Tanzania
The intense scholarly debate concerning the shift from orality to literacy has not often directly concerned African historians in spite of the fact that many work closely with oral sources. In the process of publishing a series of locally-written histories, I discovered that transforming oral tradition into written form is ultimately political. It raised a number of important ethical dilemmas for me as a scholar and brought to my attention the po…
Has Religion Gone Global
Interpreting Rupture in Oral Memory
This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of wi…
Telling Our Own Stories
In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stor…
The Gendered Spaces of Historical Knowledge
Jan Bender Shetler, The Gendered Spaces of Historical Knowledge: Women's Knowledge and Extraordinary Women in the Serengeti District, Tanzania, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2003), pp. 283-307
“Region” as Historical Production
Imagining Serengeti
Imagining Serengeti
Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western Serengeti peoples imagine the environment not as a pristine wilderness, but as a differentiated social landscape that embodies their history and identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displ…
Historical memory as a foundation for peace
While ethnic identity formulated by historical memory is often understood as the cause of violent conflict in Africa, this qualitative historical study of interethnic relations between Luo and Bantu-speaking communities on the borderlands of Tanzania and western Kenya demonstrates just the opposite. In fact, migration and violent conflicts over land in the late 19th century were the basis for oral traditions that established new microethnic ident…
Historical Memory and Expanding Social Networks of Mennonite Mission School Women, Mara Region, Tanzania, 1938 to the Present
Because of their structural position as boundary crossers in virilocal marriages, women in the Mara Region of Tanzania have used historical memory to construct social networks across ethnic boundaries for their own and their community's security. During the colonial era these networks were severely restricted, leading to increasingly difficult lives for women. One group of women who found creative ways to reconstruct these far-reaching networks w…
Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives
Do African men and think about and act out their ethnicity in different ways? Most studies of ethnicity in Africa consider men's experiences, but rarely have scholars examined whether have the same idea of what it means to be, for example, Igbo or Tswana or Kikuyu. Or, studies have invoked the adage women have no tribe to indicate a woman's loss of ethnicity as she marries into her husband's community. This volume engages directly the issue of wo…
Elizabeth A. Eldredge. Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa
The first academic historians of Africa in the 1960s dedicated themselves to using oral tradition as a way to tell early history from an African perspective. But few scholars continue this quest today given evidentiary skepticism, the challenges of multidisciplinary and multilingual work, and postcolonial relevance. Elizabeth Eldredge’s new book is thus a welcome addition to this neglected field, making the case for the utility and reliability of…
The Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it
History (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Ethnology (9 obras) · Tanzania (9 obras) · African history and culture studies (8 obras) · Anthropology (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras)