A F Robertson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112463 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A F Robertson |
| PRENOMES | A F |
| SOBRENOME | Robertson |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTSON A F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 282 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Beyond the Marketplace
Translating Mieres
Unlike journalists, anthropologists will tend to mostly anonymize the places they visit. However, as van der Geest has pointed out in these pages before, anonymity is not always what the people we research want from us. In this narrative, A.F. Robertson and Laura Cardús i Font show how our writing can become an asset to the communities we study, who, like us, are seeking to confirm their identities and improve their reputation in the overall sche…
How can Lukoho be his own grandfather? Being and becoming in the Cartesian gap
Anthropology, like most other branches of modern philosophy, dwells in the Cartesian gap. While a majority of anthropologists seem resigned to the fact that the separation of mind from body is intellectually inevitable, even analytically indispensable, others have been disturbed by the flow of ethnographic evidence from around the world which suggests that this distinction is not epistemologically universal. This speculative essay considers how s…
Misunderstanding corruption
The Anthropology of Grey Zones
The generous references attached to these essays indicate that it is no longer reasonable to say that corruption has been neglected either in social science generally, or in anthropology. Yet, in t
Africanizing Anthropology
Among the Neo-Functionalists
(2000). Among the Neo-Functionalists: A Review Article. Ethnos: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 275-281.
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge
1 The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge: An Introduction, Henrietta Moore 2 Interpreting Electron Micrographs, Emily Martin 3 Globalization and Localization: New Challenges to Rural Research 4 Anthropology, China, and the Modernities: The Geopolitics of Cultural Knowledge, Aihwa Ong 5 Traceling Theory, Anthropology, and the Discourse of Modernity in China, Mayfair Yang 6 Anthropology without Tears: How a 'Local' Sees the 'Local' and th…
Onions are my husband
The Development of Meaning
If bio-cultural studies are to progress, we must find means of inserting the agency of human lives between the rival temporal schemes of evolution and history. This article starts from the neglected biological notion of ontogeny, and extends it to fit the sociality which is so essential to our life as a species. A viable model of human development must account for the life course in its entirety, including the aging process. It should view the li…
Households
Popular Scientist
Journal Article POPULAR SCIENTIST: JAMES JACOB MACHOBANE AND MANTSA TLALA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. Robertson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara Previously he was Director of the African Studies Centre at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Darwin College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 370, January 1994,…
Beyond the Family
Evolving, aging, and making culture
In a recent polemic, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby offer new proposals to bridge the gulf between biological and cultural explanations of human behaviour. By focussing on the evolved architecture of the human mind, they seek specific psychological mechanisms by which genes may influence human social institutions. A major challenge for this approach is how to trace precisely which psychological endowments, formed by the Pleistocene age, have shaped…
Beyond the Family
Rural Households in Emerging Societies
The Desiccated African in Banyoles
Beyond the Marketplace
PART I. INTRODUCTION, PART II. INDIVIDUALS AND MARKETS PART III. SOCIETY AS MARKET, PART IV. MARKETS IN SOCIETY PART V. MARKETS AS SOCIETY, About the Authors
Beyond the Family
Beyond the Marketplace
Mating and Marriage. Vernon Reynolds , John Kellett
Beyond the Marketplace
Beyond the Marketplace
Linguistic Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
Beyond the Marketplace
People and the State
Journal Article People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development Get access People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development. By A. F. ROBERTSON. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 332. £27.50 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Raymond Apthorpe Raymond Apthorpe Institute of Social Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 379, 1 Sept…
Freedom in Fulani Social Life
Foreword Acknowledgements Note on Transcription Introduction Part One: The Tawaangal of the Jelgobe 1 Climate and Technology 2 The Social Organization of Jelgoji 3 Fulani Social Structure 4 Life in the Wuro: Categories of People and Tasks 5 Authority Relations in the Wuro 6 Religion 7 Pulaaku and Semteende: Fulani-ness and Shame Part Two: Life as Lived 8 Jelgobe Attitudes toward Life 9 Keeping Society Going 10 Relations between People 11 How to R…
The Development of Meaning
If bio-cultural studies are to progress, we must find means of inserting the agency of human lives between the rival temporal schemes of evolution and history. This article starts from the neglected biological notion of ontogeny, and extends it to fit the sociality which is so essential to our life as a species. A viable model of human development must account for the life course in its entirety, including the aging process. It should view the li…
Freedom in Fulani Social Life
On Sharecropping
Onions are my husband
Dependence and Opportunity
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft
Domestic Rights and Duties in Southern Ghana
Histories and Political Opposition in Ahafo, Ghana
Opening ParagraphTowards the end of my 1968-9 period of study in Ghana an audience was arranged for me with the late Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. He was ailing at the time and his readiness to see me was largely attributable to his acute interest in the political affairs of Ahafo, the district in which I was working. One of the first questions he asked me was whether I had been told in Ahafo about a certain 'Asibi Entwi'. I re…
How can Lukoho be his own grandfather? Being and becoming in the Cartesian gap
Anthropology, like most other branches of modern philosophy, dwells in the Cartesian gap. While a majority of anthropologists seem resigned to the fact that the separation of mind from body is intellectually inevitable, even analytically indispensable, others have been disturbed by the flow of ethnographic evidence from around the world which suggests that this distinction is not epistemologically universal. This speculative essay considers how s…
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships. African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective
Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia
Anthropology and Government in Ghana
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT IN GHANA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON The author carried out research in Ghana in 1968–69 while a research fellow of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge, Research was financed by the Social Sciences Research Council and a William Wise grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. A report based on This study of local politics, entitled Local government in Ahafo, Ghana, was submitted to the Ghan…
Misunderstanding corruption
The Anthropology of Grey Zones
The generous references attached to these essays indicate that it is no longer reasonable to say that corruption has been neglected either in social science generally, or in anthropology. Yet, in t
The Family Farm in Buganda
The Early History of the Akan States of Ghana
Ousting the Chief
The Future of Anthropological Knowledge
1 The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge: An Introduction, Henrietta Moore 2 Interpreting Electron Micrographs, Emily Martin 3 Globalization and Localization: New Challenges to Rural Research 4 Anthropology, China, and the Modernities: The Geopolitics of Cultural Knowledge, Aihwa Ong 5 Traceling Theory, Anthropology, and the Discourse of Modernity in China, Mayfair Yang 6 Anthropology without Tears: How a 'Local' Sees the 'Local' and th…
Evolving, aging, and making culture
In a recent polemic, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby offer new proposals to bridge the gulf between biological and cultural explanations of human behaviour. By focussing on the evolved architecture of the human mind, they seek specific psychological mechanisms by which genes may influence human social institutions. A major challenge for this approach is how to trace precisely which psychological endowments, formed by the Pleistocene age, have shaped…
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships
In recent years empirical enquiry has indicated that share contracts in agriculture often take the form of complex but relatively efficient and equitable working relationships among small farmers, allowing them to assemble the resources to secure subsistence and to develop and expand agricultural production when the vagaries of weather, market and policy are favourable. This book examines four African cases - Ghana, Sudan, Lesotho and Senegambia …
The Dal Lake
African and European Social Clubs in Rural Ghana
African Businessmen
Journal Article Marris (P.) and Somerset (A.). African Businessmen Get access African Businessmen. By P. Marris and A. Somerset. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. Pp. x + 288. £3.00.) A. F. Robertson A. F. Robertson Darwin College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 81, Issue 324, 1 December 1971, Pages 1017–1019, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230369 Published: 01 Dece…
Party Politics and a Rural Immigrant Community
It is now nearly five years since Buganda rebelled against the Government of Uganda, and the Kabaka, Sir Edward Mutesa, fled to Britain. Relatively little has been written about these events, perhaps because they happened so rapidly and were dealt with so determinedly that not much precise information is available. In rural Buganda, in such places as Bugerere where I was engaged in fieldwork, party political activity reached a crescendo in the mo…
Histories and Political Opposition in Ahafo, Ghana
Opening ParagraphTowards the end of my 1968-9 period of study in Ghana an audience was arranged for me with the late Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. He was ailing at the time and his readiness to see me was largely attributable to his acute interest in the political affairs of Ahafo, the district in which I was working. One of the first questions he asked me was whether I had been told in Ahafo about a certain 'Asibi Entwi'. I re…
Dependence and Opportunity
Anthropology and Government in Ghana
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT IN GHANA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON The author carried out research in Ghana in 1968–69 while a research fellow of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge, Research was financed by the Social Sciences Research Council and a William Wise grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. A report based on This study of local politics, entitled Local government in Ahafo, Ghana, was submitted to the Ghan…
Anthropology and the Nomad
Dependence and Opportunity
1. Introduction 2. Changing communal identities 3. Economic development of Ahafo 4. The colonial transformation of Ahafo 5. Chiefship and the community 6. The politics of the Ahafo state 7. The growth of local government in Ahafo 8. Party politics in Ahafo 9. Conclusion Notes on documentary sources Notes to the text Index
Domestic Rights and Duties in Southern Ghana
The Administration of Ghana's Foreign Relations, 1957-1965
The Early History of the Akan States of Ghana
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft
Ousting the Chief
Paper lion
Sub-National Perspectives on West African Political Change
The Family Farm in Buganda
Community of Strangers
Reply to Owusu
Community of Strangers
On Sharecropping
Freedom in Fulani Social Life
Foreword Acknowledgements Note on Transcription Introduction Part One: The Tawaangal of the Jelgobe 1 Climate and Technology 2 The Social Organization of Jelgoji 3 Fulani Social Structure 4 Life in the Wuro: Categories of People and Tasks 5 Authority Relations in the Wuro 6 Religion 7 Pulaaku and Semteende: Fulani-ness and Shame Part Two: Life as Lived 8 Jelgobe Attitudes toward Life 9 Keeping Society Going 10 Relations between People 11 How to R…
Abusa
This speculative essay seeks an interpretation of abusa, a share‐cropping arrangement which has been of fundamental importance in the development of the Ghanaian cocoa industry. According to theoretical expectations, such an arrangement is both inefficient and inequitable, a ‘pre‐modern or ‘pre‐capitalist’ productive relationship which will inevitably yield to a pattern of fixed rents and wage labour. Here, the role of abusa in the spectacular gr…
The Nyamwexi Today
Journal Article The Nyamwexi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s Get access The Nyamwexi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s, by R. G. Abrahams. Changing Culture Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xiv+l45pp. (£4.95 paperback). A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON Darwin CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 322, January 1982, Pages 143–144, ht…
People and the state
People and the State
Journal Article People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development Get access People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development. By A. F. ROBERTSON. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 332. £27.50 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Raymond Apthorpe Raymond Apthorpe Institute of Social Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 379, 1 Sept…
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