Eugene L Mendonsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 174213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene L Mendonsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendonsa |
| SIGNATURE | MENDONSA E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The African Songbird
Blood on the Tractor
The Politics of Divination: A Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Tourism and income strategies in Nazaré, Portugal
Benefits of Migration as a Personal Strategy in Nazaré, Portugal
This article analyzes the causes, patterns and results of involvement in international wage labor migration for Nazaré, a Portuguese fishing village and tourist resort. Some migrate permanently, others return to invest locally, and yet others only work abroad part of each year. Data indicate that international migration is a successful strategy for coping with a restrictive local opportunity structure. International migrants have more income, sav…
Benefits of Migration as a Personal Strategy in Nazare, Portugal
The status of women in sisala society
The Failure of Modern Farming in Sisala-Land, Northern Ghana, 1967-1977
Economic, Residential and Ritual Fission of Sisala Domestic Groups, Ghana
IntroductionAfter an initial discussion about the nature of Sisala society and the segmentary lineage system of shrine types, I will show that fission of domestic groups in Sisala-land takes place in three successive stages: economic, residential and, much later, ritual. This paper deals with two related problems, (a) Given a collective value of kinship amity and unity (Fortes 1969: 219ff), how are groups able to break the ritual bonds which serv…
Etiology and Divination Among the Sisala of Northern Ghana 1
Etiology and Divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
The Soul and Sacrifice Amongst the Sisala
The Sisala are a patrilineal group of horticulturalists living in the savanna-zone of Northern Ghana. 1 Their villages are widely scattered throughout the scrub brush, which is cleared on a rotating basis, for subsistence farming. There are two climatic seasons: rainy and dry. The Sisala cultivate crops of millet, sorghum, guinea-corn, maize, yams, rice and a variety of lesser crops. Cattle are kept for purposes of bridewealth payments and sacrif…
Elders, office-holders and ancestors among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
IntroductionThere are two ways of approaching the data on African ancestor worship. They can be dealt with as a system of beliefs viz., as a body of thought, or they may be handled as a reflection of social relations. African ancestor worship has most commonly been dealt with in the latter fashion, e.g. Fortes (1959: 30) says:the ancestor cult is the transportation to the religious plane of the relationships of parents and children; and that is w…
The Journey of the Soul in Sisala Cosmology
The Myth of the Bagre
The Politics of Divination: A Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Elders, office-holders and ancestors among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
IntroductionThere are two ways of approaching the data on African ancestor worship. They can be dealt with as a system of beliefs viz., as a body of thought, or they may be handled as a reflection of social relations. African ancestor worship has most commonly been dealt with in the latter fashion, e.g. Fortes (1959: 30) says:the ancestor cult is the transportation to the religious plane of the relationships of parents and children; and that is w…
Economic, Residential and Ritual Fission of Sisala Domestic Groups, Ghana
IntroductionAfter an initial discussion about the nature of Sisala society and the segmentary lineage system of shrine types, I will show that fission of domestic groups in Sisala-land takes place in three successive stages: economic, residential and, much later, ritual. This paper deals with two related problems, (a) Given a collective value of kinship amity and unity (Fortes 1969: 219ff), how are groups able to break the ritual bonds which serv…
Tourism and income strategies in Nazaré, Portugal
Benefits of Migration as a Personal Strategy in Nazare, Portugal
The Journey of the Soul in Sisala Cosmology
The Soul and Sacrifice Amongst the Sisala
The Sisala are a patrilineal group of horticulturalists living in the savanna-zone of Northern Ghana. 1 Their villages are widely scattered throughout the scrub brush, which is cleared on a rotating basis, for subsistence farming. There are two climatic seasons: rainy and dry. The Sisala cultivate crops of millet, sorghum, guinea-corn, maize, yams, rice and a variety of lesser crops. Cattle are kept for purposes of bridewealth payments and sacrif…
The Myth of the Bagre
The Journey of the Soul in Sisala Cosmology
The Soul and Sacrifice Amongst the Sisala
The Sisala are a patrilineal group of horticulturalists living in the savanna-zone of Northern Ghana. 1 Their villages are widely scattered throughout the scrub brush, which is cleared on a rotating basis, for subsistence farming. There are two climatic seasons: rainy and dry. The Sisala cultivate crops of millet, sorghum, guinea-corn, maize, yams, rice and a variety of lesser crops. Cattle are kept for purposes of bridewealth payments and sacrif…
Elders, office-holders and ancestors among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
IntroductionThere are two ways of approaching the data on African ancestor worship. They can be dealt with as a system of beliefs viz., as a body of thought, or they may be handled as a reflection of social relations. African ancestor worship has most commonly been dealt with in the latter fashion, e.g. Fortes (1959: 30) says:the ancestor cult is the transportation to the religious plane of the relationships of parents and children; and that is w…
Etiology and Divination Among the Sisala of Northern Ghana 1
Etiology and Divination among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Economic, Residential and Ritual Fission of Sisala Domestic Groups, Ghana
IntroductionAfter an initial discussion about the nature of Sisala society and the segmentary lineage system of shrine types, I will show that fission of domestic groups in Sisala-land takes place in three successive stages: economic, residential and, much later, ritual. This paper deals with two related problems, (a) Given a collective value of kinship amity and unity (Fortes 1969: 219ff), how are groups able to break the ritual bonds which serv…
The Failure of Modern Farming in Sisala-Land, Northern Ghana, 1967-1977
The status of women in sisala society
Benefits of Migration as a Personal Strategy in Nazaré, Portugal
This article analyzes the causes, patterns and results of involvement in international wage labor migration for Nazaré, a Portuguese fishing village and tourist resort. Some migrate permanently, others return to invest locally, and yet others only work abroad part of each year. Data indicate that international migration is a successful strategy for coping with a restrictive local opportunity structure. International migrants have more income, sav…
Benefits of Migration as a Personal Strategy in Nazare, Portugal
Tourism and income strategies in Nazaré, Portugal
The Politics of Divination: A Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala of Northern Ghana
Blood on the Tractor
The African Songbird
Sociology (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · History of religions (4 works)