Charles D Piot
Biographic Data
| ID | 130911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles D Piot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles D |
| FAMILY NAME | Piot |
| SIGNATURE | PIOT C D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War
Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture
Secrecy, the intentional concealing of information, is very much a part of everyday life and discourse among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). This article proposes an interpretation of Kabre everyday secrecy that relies on indigenous understandings and attempts to move beyond the functionalist assumptions of many previous analyses of secrecy in Africa. It also raises more general questions about theories of culture that ignore the everyd…
Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system
This article analyzes the political economy of a regional system of rural communities among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). Noting that other models used to analyze West African regional systems fail to capture the cultural logic of the Kabre system, the article argues that only through a cultural-symbolic analysis which recognizes the holistic underpinnings of Kabre society may one comprehend the complex hierarchies that constitute thi…
Of Persons and Things: Some Reflections on African Spheres of Exchange
Reprise et developpement du concept de sphere d'echange elabore par P. Bohannan a partir d'une etude des Tiv du Nigeria. Application a l'analyse de la societe Kabre du Togo, ou les echanges se hierarchisent en trois spheres : produits alimentaires, richesses, femmes, et ont pour but, au-dela de l'echange concret, la creation de relations sociales
Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture
Secrecy, the intentional concealing of information, is very much a part of everyday life and discourse among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). This article proposes an interpretation of Kabre everyday secrecy that relies on indigenous understandings and attempts to move beyond the functionalist assumptions of many previous analyses of secrecy in Africa. It also raises more general questions about theories of culture that ignore the everyd…
Of Persons and Things: Some Reflections on African Spheres of Exchange
Reprise et developpement du concept de sphere d'echange elabore par P. Bohannan a partir d'une etude des Tiv du Nigeria. Application a l'analyse de la societe Kabre du Togo, ou les echanges se hierarchisent en trois spheres : produits alimentaires, richesses, femmes, et ont pour but, au-dela de l'echange concret, la creation de relations sociales
Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system
This article analyzes the political economy of a regional system of rural communities among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). Noting that other models used to analyze West African regional systems fail to capture the cultural logic of the Kabre system, the article argues that only through a cultural-symbolic analysis which recognizes the holistic underpinnings of Kabre society may one comprehend the complex hierarchies that constitute thi…
Of Persons and Things: Some Reflections on African Spheres of Exchange
Reprise et developpement du concept de sphere d'echange elabore par P. Bohannan a partir d'une etude des Tiv du Nigeria. Application a l'analyse de la societe Kabre du Togo, ou les echanges se hierarchisent en trois spheres : produits alimentaires, richesses, femmes, et ont pour but, au-dela de l'echange concret, la creation de relations sociales
Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system
This article analyzes the political economy of a regional system of rural communities among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). Noting that other models used to analyze West African regional systems fail to capture the cultural logic of the Kabre system, the article argues that only through a cultural-symbolic analysis which recognizes the holistic underpinnings of Kabre society may one comprehend the complex hierarchies that constitute thi…
Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture
Secrecy, the intentional concealing of information, is very much a part of everyday life and discourse among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). This article proposes an interpretation of Kabre everyday secrecy that relies on indigenous understandings and attempts to move beyond the functionalist assumptions of many previous analyses of secrecy in Africa. It also raises more general questions about theories of culture that ignore the everyd…
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War
African Studies and Ethnography (2 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1960 (1 works) · 20th century (1 works) · 21st century (1 works) · Africa (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)