Deborah Kaspin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 167516 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Deborah Kaspin |
| NOMBRES | Deborah |
| APELLIDO | Kaspin |
| FIRMA | KASPIN D |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Images and EmpiresVisuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big: Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois …
Images of Savages
Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture. Gustav Jahoda. New York: Routledge, 1999. 298 pp
On Ethnographic Authority and the Tourist Trade
While critics have equated anthropology with tourism and/or fiction-writing, others have argued that anthropology's enduring legitimacy comes from its unique ability to represent the voices of disempowered peoples. But while ethnographies are not reducible to mere fictions, they nevertheless assume a fundamental dissociation of their writers from their subjects, reflected in the former's propensity to deconstruct the latter's realities as represe…
Reinventing Africa
A Chewa cosmology of the body
For the Chewa peasantry of Malawi, conceptions of the body are based on agricultural metaphors, drawn from the routines of farm life and formalized as cosmology and physiology by rainmakers and midwives. In this article I describe Chewa body symbolism, focusing first on the agrarian lifestyle and then on the cross-referencing symbolisms of body and terrain in rainmaking ritual and in domestic practice. Menstruation and pregnancy are especially su…
Hausaland Divided
The Politics of Ethnicity in Malawi's Democratic Transition
While the western media were directing their gaze towards South Africa's political restructuring, another democratic transition was taking place to the north that was no less remarkable and no more imaginable a few years ago. Since Malawi obtained independence in 1964, it had been governed by Dr Hastings Banda (as he was then known) and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) under a system of absolute rule which the country's élites refused to reform or…
The Politics of Ethnicity in Malawi's Democratic Transition
While the western media were directing their gaze towards South Africa's political restructuring, another democratic transition was taking place to the north that was no less remarkable and no more imaginable a few years ago. Since Malawi obtained independence in 1964, it had been governed by Dr Hastings Banda (as he was then known) and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) under a system of absolute rule which the country's élites refused to reform or…
Images and EmpiresVisuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big: Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois …
A Chewa cosmology of the body
For the Chewa peasantry of Malawi, conceptions of the body are based on agricultural metaphors, drawn from the routines of farm life and formalized as cosmology and physiology by rainmakers and midwives. In this article I describe Chewa body symbolism, focusing first on the agrarian lifestyle and then on the cross-referencing symbolisms of body and terrain in rainmaking ritual and in domestic practice. Menstruation and pregnancy are especially su…
Images of Savages
Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture. Gustav Jahoda. New York: Routledge, 1999. 298 pp
On Ethnographic Authority and the Tourist Trade
While critics have equated anthropology with tourism and/or fiction-writing, others have argued that anthropology's enduring legitimacy comes from its unique ability to represent the voices of disempowered peoples. But while ethnographies are not reducible to mere fictions, they nevertheless assume a fundamental dissociation of their writers from their subjects, reflected in the former's propensity to deconstruct the latter's realities as represe…
Hausaland Divided
The Politics of Ethnicity in Malawi's Democratic Transition
While the western media were directing their gaze towards South Africa's political restructuring, another democratic transition was taking place to the north that was no less remarkable and no more imaginable a few years ago. Since Malawi obtained independence in 1964, it had been governed by Dr Hastings Banda (as he was then known) and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) under a system of absolute rule which the country's élites refused to reform or…
Reinventing Africa
A Chewa cosmology of the body
For the Chewa peasantry of Malawi, conceptions of the body are based on agricultural metaphors, drawn from the routines of farm life and formalized as cosmology and physiology by rainmakers and midwives. In this article I describe Chewa body symbolism, focusing first on the agrarian lifestyle and then on the cross-referencing symbolisms of body and terrain in rainmaking ritual and in domestic practice. Menstruation and pregnancy are especially su…
On Ethnographic Authority and the Tourist Trade
While critics have equated anthropology with tourism and/or fiction-writing, others have argued that anthropology's enduring legitimacy comes from its unique ability to represent the voices of disempowered peoples. But while ethnographies are not reducible to mere fictions, they nevertheless assume a fundamental dissociation of their writers from their subjects, reflected in the former's propensity to deconstruct the latter's realities as represe…
Images of Savages
Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture. Gustav Jahoda. New York: Routledge, 1999. 298 pp
Images and EmpiresVisuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big: Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois …
Sociology (6 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Citation (2 obras) · Colonialism (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · Independence (probability theory (2 obras)