Wolf Bleek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 138713 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wolf Bleek |
| NOMBRES | Wolf |
| APELLIDO | Bleek |
| FIRMA | BLEEK W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
Did the Akan resort to abortion in pre-colonial Ghana? Some Conjectures
Opening ParagraphIn his survey of abortion in 400 pre-industrial societies, Devereux (1955: 161) concludes:...there is every indication that abortion is an absolutely universal phenomenon, and that it is impossible even to construct an imaginary social system in which no woman would ever feel at least impelled to abort.Where the universality of abortion is equated with the urge to abort, one can hardly disagree with such a statement. The question…
Lying Informants
For its conclusion alone, I would not have written this fieldwork note. That conclusion is merely a truism: survey research cannot handle delicate issues. My reason for writing this note is a coincidental event, something almost anecdotal that occurred during my research in a rural Ghanaian community. That event showed how valid the truism is. It is well known from countless anthropological field reports that not all informants are as enthusiasti…
Illegal Abortion in Southern Ghana
This paper provides information on various aspects of illegally induced abortion among the Akan in southern Ghana. Discussed are the frequency of abortion, the techniques, the social circumstances in which it takes place, its medical, juridical and educational consequences, and value judgements about it. The most important conclusion is that the restrictiveness of the Ghanaian legislation has not been able to prevent or limit the incidence of abo…
Economic models and having children
Opening Paragraph This paper is concerned with aspects of reproduction and fertility among the Kwahu of southern Ghana, an Akan sub-group, and more particularly among the members of a lineage in one rural town characterised by profound socio-economic change and differentiation. Fragments of the field data presented are taken from a larger corpus of materials focusing on family life, sexuality and birth control collected during the early 1970s. Th…
Avoiding Shame
Induced abortion is considered reprehensible by Akan people in Ghana when it causes medical accidents or becomes publicly known. A secret and successful abortion, on the other hand, is approved of. This paradoxical view proves logical if we see how it is related to shame. Both childbirth and abortion are potentially shameful, but the shame of the latter can be hidden and thus avoided. The shame of an unwanted childbirth, however, will always be v…
Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork
Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Wolf Bleek; Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork: An Example from Ghana. Human Organization 1 June 1979; 38 (2): 200–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.38.2.q5866080346741r4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib …
Induced Abortion in a Ghanaian Family
There is considerable evidence that induced abortions account for a great deal of decline in birth rate or slowing down of growth in birth rate in a number of countries such as Japan, USSR, Hungary, other East European countries, Korea, Taiwan, Chile, and Uruguay. Tietze and Lewit (1969: 21) wrote: Abortion is still most wide-spread, and most clandestine method of fertility control in modern world. In Ghana public opinion also suggests that induc…
Spacing of Children, Sexual Abstinence, and Breast-Feeding in Rural Ghana
Information collected from male and female respondents in a rural Ghanaian town suggests that, although people strongly favour the spacing of children, actual spacing is not the intentional result of birthcontrol or sexual abstinence but rather a coincidental result of a long period of postpartum amenorrhea caused by prolonged lactation
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft. A Case Study of a Rural Ghanaian Family
Spacing of children, sexual abstinence and breast-feeding in rural Ghana
Witchcraft, Gossip and Death
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft
Lying Informants
For its conclusion alone, I would not have written this fieldwork note. That conclusion is merely a truism: survey research cannot handle delicate issues. My reason for writing this note is a coincidental event, something almost anecdotal that occurred during my research in a rural Ghanaian community. That event showed how valid the truism is. It is well known from countless anthropological field reports that not all informants are as enthusiasti…
Avoiding Shame
Induced abortion is considered reprehensible by Akan people in Ghana when it causes medical accidents or becomes publicly known. A secret and successful abortion, on the other hand, is approved of. This paradoxical view proves logical if we see how it is related to shame. Both childbirth and abortion are potentially shameful, but the shame of the latter can be hidden and thus avoided. The shame of an unwanted childbirth, however, will always be v…
Witchcraft, Gossip and Death
Illegal Abortion in Southern Ghana
This paper provides information on various aspects of illegally induced abortion among the Akan in southern Ghana. Discussed are the frequency of abortion, the techniques, the social circumstances in which it takes place, its medical, juridical and educational consequences, and value judgements about it. The most important conclusion is that the restrictiveness of the Ghanaian legislation has not been able to prevent or limit the incidence of abo…
Induced Abortion in a Ghanaian Family
There is considerable evidence that induced abortions account for a great deal of decline in birth rate or slowing down of growth in birth rate in a number of countries such as Japan, USSR, Hungary, other East European countries, Korea, Taiwan, Chile, and Uruguay. Tietze and Lewit (1969: 21) wrote: Abortion is still most wide-spread, and most clandestine method of fertility control in modern world. In Ghana public opinion also suggests that induc…
Economic models and having children
Opening Paragraph This paper is concerned with aspects of reproduction and fertility among the Kwahu of southern Ghana, an Akan sub-group, and more particularly among the members of a lineage in one rural town characterised by profound socio-economic change and differentiation. Fragments of the field data presented are taken from a larger corpus of materials focusing on family life, sexuality and birth control collected during the early 1970s. Th…
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft
Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Wolf Bleek; Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork: An Example from Ghana. Human Organization 1 June 1979; 38 (2): 200–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.38.2.q5866080346741r4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib …
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft. A Case Study of a Rural Ghanaian Family
Spacing of children, sexual abstinence and breast-feeding in rural Ghana
Did the Akan resort to abortion in pre-colonial Ghana? Some Conjectures
Opening ParagraphIn his survey of abortion in 400 pre-industrial societies, Devereux (1955: 161) concludes:...there is every indication that abortion is an absolutely universal phenomenon, and that it is impossible even to construct an imaginary social system in which no woman would ever feel at least impelled to abort.Where the universality of abortion is equated with the urge to abort, one can hardly disagree with such a statement. The question…
Spacing of children, sexual abstinence and breast-feeding in rural Ghana
Witchcraft, Gossip and Death
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft
Spacing of Children, Sexual Abstinence, and Breast-Feeding in Rural Ghana
Information collected from male and female respondents in a rural Ghanaian town suggests that, although people strongly favour the spacing of children, actual spacing is not the intentional result of birthcontrol or sexual abstinence but rather a coincidental result of a long period of postpartum amenorrhea caused by prolonged lactation
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft. A Case Study of a Rural Ghanaian Family
Induced Abortion in a Ghanaian Family
There is considerable evidence that induced abortions account for a great deal of decline in birth rate or slowing down of growth in birth rate in a number of countries such as Japan, USSR, Hungary, other East European countries, Korea, Taiwan, Chile, and Uruguay. Tietze and Lewit (1969: 21) wrote: Abortion is still most wide-spread, and most clandestine method of fertility control in modern world. In Ghana public opinion also suggests that induc…
Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Wolf Bleek; Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork: An Example from Ghana. Human Organization 1 June 1979; 38 (2): 200–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.38.2.q5866080346741r4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib …
Envy and Inequality in Fieldwork
Avoiding Shame
Induced abortion is considered reprehensible by Akan people in Ghana when it causes medical accidents or becomes publicly known. A secret and successful abortion, on the other hand, is approved of. This paradoxical view proves logical if we see how it is related to shame. Both childbirth and abortion are potentially shameful, but the shame of the latter can be hidden and thus avoided. The shame of an unwanted childbirth, however, will always be v…
Economic models and having children
Opening Paragraph This paper is concerned with aspects of reproduction and fertility among the Kwahu of southern Ghana, an Akan sub-group, and more particularly among the members of a lineage in one rural town characterised by profound socio-economic change and differentiation. Fragments of the field data presented are taken from a larger corpus of materials focusing on family life, sexuality and birth control collected during the early 1970s. Th…
Illegal Abortion in Southern Ghana
This paper provides information on various aspects of illegally induced abortion among the Akan in southern Ghana. Discussed are the frequency of abortion, the techniques, the social circumstances in which it takes place, its medical, juridical and educational consequences, and value judgements about it. The most important conclusion is that the restrictiveness of the Ghanaian legislation has not been able to prevent or limit the incidence of abo…
Lying Informants
For its conclusion alone, I would not have written this fieldwork note. That conclusion is merely a truism: survey research cannot handle delicate issues. My reason for writing this note is a coincidental event, something almost anecdotal that occurred during my research in a rural Ghanaian community. That event showed how valid the truism is. It is well known from countless anthropological field reports that not all informants are as enthusiasti…
Did the Akan resort to abortion in pre-colonial Ghana? Some Conjectures
Opening ParagraphIn his survey of abortion in 400 pre-industrial societies, Devereux (1955: 161) concludes:...there is every indication that abortion is an absolutely universal phenomenon, and that it is impossible even to construct an imaginary social system in which no woman would ever feel at least impelled to abort.Where the universality of abortion is equated with the urge to abort, one can hardly disagree with such a statement. The question…
Berdamai dengan Keterbatasan Epistemologis
Following the proliferation of digital media usage, the world has seen an increasing amount of digitally-mediated lives in everyday contexts. While anthropological scholarship has started to address this ever-growing subject, anthropologists are mainly preoccupied with human engagements in virtual worlds that have their own tangible and embodied sense of spatiality (e.g., online role-playing and gaming communities). In so doing, anthropologists h…
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