Susan Drucker-Brown

Biographic Data

ID2919434
NAMESusan Drucker-Brown
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMEDrucker-Brown
SIGNATUREDRUCKER-BROWN S
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS78
WORKS AS AUTHOR23
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX5

  • Territorial Mobility and the Mamprusi Kingship

    Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLESystèmes de pensée en Afrique noire2014References: 3

    In December of 1965 I had recently returned from two years of fieldwork in northern Ghana. My supervisor, Prof. Meyer Fortes, invited me to accompany him and his wife Doris to a conference in the village of Sonchamp, outside Paris. There we were welcomed with wonderful hospitality by Germaine Dieterlen at her home. The three-day Sonchamp meeting was my first introduction to French anthropologists and it was a truly momentous occasion. As I rememb…

  • The Grandchildren's Play at the Mamprusi King's Funeral

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1999Cited by: 2References: 6

    A l'annonce de la mort du roi Mamprusi, ses petits-enfants pillent la capitale. Ils bafouent les pretentions du roi decede, de la cour qui lui survit et des princes qui cherchent a lui succeder. Ils resident dans le palais aux frais de la maisonnee du roi ; leur comportement scandaleux divertit des foules d'invites. Max Gluckman eut recours au terme de rebellion rituelle pour referer precisement a de telles infractions aux regles. Il vit dans ces…

  • Bulsa Sunsuelima

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1996

  • Everyday Forms of State Formation

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996Cited by: 4

    Foreword vii Preface xiii State Formation xvii Popular Culture and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico / Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent 3 Weapons and Arches in the Mexican Revolutionary Landscape / Alan Knight 24 Reflections on the Ruins: Everyday Forms of State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Florencia E. Mallon 69 Force and the Search for Consent: The Role of the Jefaturas Politicas of Coahuila in National State Formation / Ro…

  • The Quest for the Other

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995Cited by: 2

  • The Court and the Kola Nut

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995Cited by: 4References: 1

    For the Mamprusi people of northern Ghana, the gift of kola nuts indicates respect and gratitude. Those who chew kola together should love and trust one another. The gift of kola is also used to initiate an on-going relationship in which the recipient may be expected to cede to a future request from the donor. Kola is thus associated with courtship. Mamprusi make explicit some of the ambiguities surrounding the English word 'court'. Mamprusi chie…

  • The Decline of Community in Zinacantan; Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research1994

  • The Savage Within

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1993Cited by: 9

  • Mamprusi witchcraft, subversion and changing gender relations

    Open AccessSusan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEAfrica1993Cited by: 18References: 6

    In the pre-colonial Mamprusi kingdom female witches were either executed after sentencing in the king's court, or segregated in a special section of a major market town where they received medicine to neutralise their witchcraft. This treatment of witches is a manifestation of the centralising process at work in the kingdom, and also exemplifies the division of ritual labour characteristic of the polity. Recent changes in the constitution of the …

  • The Python Killer

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1991

    Nzema of West Africa, who inhabit a land of forest and lagoons along the Atlantic, continue a heritage untapped by anthropologists and scarcely influenced by Western civilization. Vinigi L. Grottanelli first discovered the rich culture of this southern Ghanaian tribe in 1954. Over the next three decades, intermittent sojourns enabled Grottanelli to develop friendships with the Nzema and learn about their beliefs, traditions, and practices. In twe…

  • La Calabasse Sacree

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1991

  • Organisation sociale des Lobi

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1990Cited by: 1

    This article examines the social organization of the Lobi, a society inhabiting Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, arguing for its characterization as a bilinear system. Drucker-Brown and de Rouville challenge previous interpretations that emphasize a segmentary lineage structure, highlighting the importance of both matrilineal and patrilineal ties in Lobi social life. They explore the roles of kinship, marriage, residence, and land tenure in shapin…

  • Recherches Allemandes au Burkina Faso

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1989

  • Mamprusi Installation Ritual and Centralisation

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEMan1989Cited by: 6References: 8

    Rituals performed for the installation of a Mamprusi chief suggest a model of political centralisation analogous to the physical process of convention. Office (naam), like heat diffused by convection, originates from a single source and circulates through that source to the diverse courts which constitute the polity

  • Women of the Barrio; Class and Gender in a Colombian City

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1988Cited by: 1

  • Conflict, Violence and Morality in a Mexican Village

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1987Cited by: 1

  • Calendar and Ritual

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLESystèmes de pensée en Afrique noire1986References: 8

    Chaque lunaison chez les Mamprusi (nord du Ghana) est associée à une fête qui a lieu 19 jours après l’apparition de la nouvelle lune. Puisque 12 lunaisons ne correspondent pas à une année solaire, ces fêtes se déclinent par rapport aux activités de l’agriculture, de la chasse et de la pêche. Ce calendrier reflète les valeurs hiérarchiques de la société. Les 12 lunaisons de l’année solaire sont rangées en couples et hiérarchisées, l’ensemble étant…

  • Gens du pouvoir, gens de la terre; les institutions politiques de l'ancien royaume du Yatenga

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.ARTICLEMan1986Cited by: 5

  • Un totalitarisme sans etat

    Susan Drucker-Brown, Maurice DuvalARTICLEMan1986Cited by: 4

  • Marian Szwark, Proverbes et Traditions des Bassars du Nord Togo, Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, vo. 22. St Augustin

    Open AccessSusan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEAfrica1984

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  • Malinowski in Mexico

    Brande, Stanley Brande et al.ARTICLEMan1983Cited by: 11

  • The Meaning of Marriage Payments

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-Brown et al.REVIEWMan1982

  • Joking at Death

    Susan Drucker‐brown, Susan Drucker-BrownARTICLEMan1982Cited by: 10References: 8

    Etude des relations a plaisanterie entre grands-parents et petits-enfants chez les Mamprusi du nord-est du Ghana: durant leur vie commune et lors des rituels funeraires des grands-parents. Dans ce dernier cas, analyse de la signification des plaisanteries par rapport aux relations d'evitement qui marquent la distinction entre generations