Parker Shipton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105866 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Parker Shipton |
| PRENOMES | Parker |
| SOBRENOME | Shipton |
| ASSINATURA | SHIPTON P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 271 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intellige…
Land Tenure
Trusting and Transcending
This essay describes commonalities between religious and economic thought from an independent cultural perspective concentrating on sacrifice as practiced among Luo speakers and others in and around western Kenya. Several features appear in common, including concepts of flow, of giving to gain, and of surrogacy. As a response to crisis and to perennial uncertainties, animals have been offered to spirits and divinity for diverse motives and reason…
Topics and Tangents for Mutual Help in Uncertainty
Self-help groups of varied kinds emerge when kinship, territorial governance or other accustomed associations prove unreliable. Interactions that appear helpful and mutual to one party need not always seem so to another. Shaping their character are not just reason and economic or political necessity, but also feelings, some of which humans share with other animals. These feelings often depend, however, on distinctly human symbolic and linguistic …
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa
There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle …
Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth Jane Prince
Anthropos , Seite 660 - 661
Credit between cultures
Untying a Package Deal
Most internationally financed credit reaching Kenyan farmers came to them not as money but as a mix of wanted and unwanted materials, accompanied by wanted and unwanted advice. This chapter looks into the nature of that mix to understand a hinge between the financial and material worlds. It reveals that financiers, agronomists, and farmers all used trial and error in their different ways to assess the usefulness of new inputs for what they variou…
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Birthright and Its Borrowing
This chapter takes a look at human territoriality within Africa—who claims to belong where in equatorial Africa, for example, depends upon who can trace relationships to whom. It looks at Luo, for instance, wherein it seems that until recent generations, the people of Luo did not particularly value pieces of land, or ancestral traces of them. Instead they treated these in a rather matter-of-fact and utilitarian way. Today, some Luo are now convin…
Mortgaging the Ancestors
This interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, this book discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land, and to ancestral graves on the land. It goes on to explain why systems of property, finance, and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa's rural…
Burying SM
Luo entrustment
This article examines the cultural dimensions of financial credit and debt, placing these against a deeper and broader background of entrustments and obligations. A standard response of the largest international aid agencies to African rural poverty has been to set up programmes to lend money and other resources to rural people without understanding what the borrowers already owe to other creditors and claimants, or how strong these competing cla…
No Condition is Permanent
Land and Culture in Tropical Africa
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Debts and trespasses
Agricultural programme planners have commonly assumed that, to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need financial loans, and that private land titles help them to borrow by providing a form of collateral for mortgages. The experience of the over 2 million Luo people and others in Kenya shows how inappropriate this theory can be in a tropical African context.With a land-holding system based on patriliny, the hosting of in-laws, and oth…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Siaya
Bitter Money
African Famines and Food Security
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
Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya
Lineage and Locality as Antithetical Principles in East African Systems of Land Tenure
For more than a century anthropologists and other social scientists have drawn a broad distinction between agrarian societies in which political units are constitut? ed on basis of kinship or descent, and those in which they are constituted on basis of residence in a particular locality. Maine's (1861:172) distinction between status and contract as principles of social organization can be interpreted to mean much same thing; so, too, can Morgan's…
Bitter money
The Culture and Development Manifesto
"The Culture and Development Manifesto." The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Land and Culture in Tropical Africa
African Famines and Food Security
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
Strips and Patches
This article describes a correspondence between population pressures, political systems and modes of land tenure in societies of the lake region of east Africa as observed in the mid-twentieth century. In this area, agrarian systems organised on the basis of segmentary lineages were found mainly in areas of land shortage, whereas agrarian systems organised on the basis of territorially defined chiefdoms and communities with political hierarchy we…
Debts and trespasses
Agricultural programme planners have commonly assumed that, to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need financial loans, and that private land titles help them to borrow by providing a form of collateral for mortgages. The experience of the over 2 million Luo people and others in Kenya shows how inappropriate this theory can be in a tropical African context.With a land-holding system based on patriliny, the hosting of in-laws, and oth…
Lineage and Locality as Antithetical Principles in East African Systems of Land Tenure
For more than a century anthropologists and other social scientists have drawn a broad distinction between agrarian societies in which political units are constitut? ed on basis of kinship or descent, and those in which they are constituted on basis of residence in a particular locality. Maine's (1861:172) distinction between status and contract as principles of social organization can be interpreted to mean much same thing; so, too, can Morgan's…
Trusting and Transcending
This essay describes commonalities between religious and economic thought from an independent cultural perspective concentrating on sacrifice as practiced among Luo speakers and others in and around western Kenya. Several features appear in common, including concepts of flow, of giving to gain, and of surrogacy. As a response to crisis and to perennial uncertainties, animals have been offered to spirits and divinity for diverse motives and reason…
Luo entrustment
This article examines the cultural dimensions of financial credit and debt, placing these against a deeper and broader background of entrustments and obligations. A standard response of the largest international aid agencies to African rural poverty has been to set up programmes to lend money and other resources to rural people without understanding what the borrowers already owe to other creditors and claimants, or how strong these competing cla…
Siaya
Topics and Tangents for Mutual Help in Uncertainty
Self-help groups of varied kinds emerge when kinship, territorial governance or other accustomed associations prove unreliable. Interactions that appear helpful and mutual to one party need not always seem so to another. Shaping their character are not just reason and economic or political necessity, but also feelings, some of which humans share with other animals. These feelings often depend, however, on distinctly human symbolic and linguistic …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Bitter Money
Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya
Development' Weekend
Lineage and Locality as Antithetical Principles in East African Systems of Land Tenure
For more than a century anthropologists and other social scientists have drawn a broad distinction between agrarian societies in which political units are constitut? ed on basis of kinship or descent, and those in which they are constituted on basis of residence in a particular locality. Maine's (1861:172) distinction between status and contract as principles of social organization can be interpreted to mean much same thing; so, too, can Morgan's…
Strips and Patches
This article describes a correspondence between population pressures, political systems and modes of land tenure in societies of the lake region of east Africa as observed in the mid-twentieth century. In this area, agrarian systems organised on the basis of segmentary lineages were found mainly in areas of land shortage, whereas agrarian systems organised on the basis of territorially defined chiefdoms and communities with political hierarchy we…
Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya
Siaya
Bitter Money
African Famines and Food Security
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
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Introduction. Understanding African Land-Holding
Africa is the region with the sparsest overall population, but to infer that Africa has no problems of rural land shortage would be quite wrong. The continent has the highest and fastest-rising rate of population growth—lately over 3 per cent annually—and the distribution of people across the continent is quite uneven. At least as far as rain-fed lands are concerned, some of its local densities already count among the world's highest. Several of …
Debts and trespasses
Agricultural programme planners have commonly assumed that, to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need financial loans, and that private land titles help them to borrow by providing a form of collateral for mortgages. The experience of the over 2 million Luo people and others in Kenya shows how inappropriate this theory can be in a tropical African context.With a land-holding system based on patriliny, the hosting of in-laws, and oth…
Land and Culture in Tropical Africa
Burying SM
Luo entrustment
This article examines the cultural dimensions of financial credit and debt, placing these against a deeper and broader background of entrustments and obligations. A standard response of the largest international aid agencies to African rural poverty has been to set up programmes to lend money and other resources to rural people without understanding what the borrowers already owe to other creditors and claimants, or how strong these competing cla…
No Condition is Permanent
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Birthright and Its Borrowing
This chapter takes a look at human territoriality within Africa—who claims to belong where in equatorial Africa, for example, depends upon who can trace relationships to whom. It looks at Luo, for instance, wherein it seems that until recent generations, the people of Luo did not particularly value pieces of land, or ancestral traces of them. Instead they treated these in a rather matter-of-fact and utilitarian way. Today, some Luo are now convin…
Mortgaging the Ancestors
This interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, this book discusses how people in Africa's interior feel about their attachment to family, to clan land, and to ancestral graves on the land. It goes on to explain why systems of property, finance, and mortgaging imposed by outsiders threaten Africa's rural…
Credit between cultures
Untying a Package Deal
Most internationally financed credit reaching Kenyan farmers came to them not as money but as a mix of wanted and unwanted materials, accompanied by wanted and unwanted advice. This chapter looks into the nature of that mix to understand a hinge between the financial and material worlds. It reveals that financiers, agronomists, and farmers all used trial and error in their different ways to assess the usefulness of new inputs for what they variou…
Geissler, Paul Wenzel, and Ruth Jane Prince
Anthropos , Seite 660 - 661
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa
There is growing consensus in the development economics literature that ethnic diversity is a very significant factor in explaining Africa's poor economic performance. Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing on the insights of historians, anthropologists and political scientists as well as development economists, this book questions whether ethnicity is the most useful organising principle …
Trusting and Transcending
This essay describes commonalities between religious and economic thought from an independent cultural perspective concentrating on sacrifice as practiced among Luo speakers and others in and around western Kenya. Several features appear in common, including concepts of flow, of giving to gain, and of surrogacy. As a response to crisis and to perennial uncertainties, animals have been offered to spirits and divinity for diverse motives and reason…
Topics and Tangents for Mutual Help in Uncertainty
Self-help groups of varied kinds emerge when kinship, territorial governance or other accustomed associations prove unreliable. Interactions that appear helpful and mutual to one party need not always seem so to another. Shaping their character are not just reason and economic or political necessity, but also feelings, some of which humans share with other animals. These feelings often depend, however, on distinctly human symbolic and linguistic …
Land Tenure
Confidence Men and Painted Women
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intellige…
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