Richard Kuba
Biographic Data
| ID | 125740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Kuba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuba |
| SIGNATURE | KUBA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6522-0213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
L’Allemagne face aux spoliations et à l’heure des restitutions
Portraits of Distant Worlds: Frobenius' Pictorial Archive and its Legacy
Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermor…
La grammaire rituelle des hiérarchies: Migrations et chefs de terre dans une société segmentaire (Burkina Faso)
L’article se propose d’explorer la relation entre hiérarchie rituelle et droits fonciers dans un contexte régional qui a été peu influencé par les transformations du paysage politique de l’époque coloniale et est négligé par l’État national et les intervenants au développement. Face à une situation historique faite de forte mobilité, de fluidité et marquée par une logique inclusive, la société phuo faisait, et fait encore, usage d’une pluralité d…
Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso
Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz and Claude Nurukyor Somda (eds), Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala (€25, ISBN 2 84586 459 0). 2004, 290 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Arrows and Earth Shrines: Towards a History of Dagara Expansion in Southern Burkina Faso
The history of the Black Volta region in what is currently south-west Burkina Faso and north-west Ghana has been marked by the agricultural expansion of Dagara-speaking groups. This article explores how and why these groups were able to expand at the expense of neighbouring segmentary societies such as the Phuo and the Sisala. Violence certainly played a role in their territorial expansion, but so did specific strategies of ritual appropriation o…
Commerce Caravanier et Relations Sociales au Benin: Les Wangara du Borgou
Wasangari und Wangara. Borgu und Seine Nachbarn in Historischer Perspektive
Arrows and Earth Shrines: Towards a History of Dagara Expansion in Southern Burkina Faso
The history of the Black Volta region in what is currently south-west Burkina Faso and north-west Ghana has been marked by the agricultural expansion of Dagara-speaking groups. This article explores how and why these groups were able to expand at the expense of neighbouring segmentary societies such as the Phuo and the Sisala. Violence certainly played a role in their territorial expansion, but so did specific strategies of ritual appropriation o…
Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso
Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz and Claude Nurukyor Somda (eds), Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala (€25, ISBN 2 84586 459 0). 2004, 290 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
La grammaire rituelle des hiérarchies: Migrations et chefs de terre dans une société segmentaire (Burkina Faso)
L’article se propose d’explorer la relation entre hiérarchie rituelle et droits fonciers dans un contexte régional qui a été peu influencé par les transformations du paysage politique de l’époque coloniale et est négligé par l’État national et les intervenants au développement. Face à une situation historique faite de forte mobilité, de fluidité et marquée par une logique inclusive, la société phuo faisait, et fait encore, usage d’une pluralité d…
Wasangari und Wangara. Borgu und Seine Nachbarn in Historischer Perspektive
Commerce Caravanier et Relations Sociales au Benin: Les Wangara du Borgou
Arrows and Earth Shrines: Towards a History of Dagara Expansion in Southern Burkina Faso
The history of the Black Volta region in what is currently south-west Burkina Faso and north-west Ghana has been marked by the agricultural expansion of Dagara-speaking groups. This article explores how and why these groups were able to expand at the expense of neighbouring segmentary societies such as the Phuo and the Sisala. Violence certainly played a role in their territorial expansion, but so did specific strategies of ritual appropriation o…
La grammaire rituelle des hiérarchies: Migrations et chefs de terre dans une société segmentaire (Burkina Faso)
L’article se propose d’explorer la relation entre hiérarchie rituelle et droits fonciers dans un contexte régional qui a été peu influencé par les transformations du paysage politique de l’époque coloniale et est négligé par l’État national et les intervenants au développement. Face à une situation historique faite de forte mobilité, de fluidité et marquée par une logique inclusive, la société phuo faisait, et fait encore, usage d’une pluralité d…
Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso
Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz and Claude Nurukyor Somda (eds), Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala (€25, ISBN 2 84586 459 0). 2004, 290 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermor…
Portraits of Distant Worlds: Frobenius' Pictorial Archive and its Legacy
L’Allemagne face aux spoliations et à l’heure des restitutions
Political science (6 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works)