Neil Kodesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 306035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Kodesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kodesh |
| SIGNATURE | KODESH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Networks of Knowledge
This article raises the question of how scholars might make sense of well-known components of social organization in Africa in the absence of the increasingly criticized evolutionary and lineage models that once gave them meaning. In an effort to understand why our earliest glimpses into the distant Ganda past appear in the form of clan histories, the article examines the relationship between clanship, public healing and transformations in agricu…
History from the Healer's Shrine
Recent interpretations of oral histories in Africa have been based increasingly on the premise that each teller creates a unique oral text. Oral sources, according to this new formulation, should not be 'flattened by transcription,' with individual voices operating interchangeably. Rather, these sources should be heard with all of the personal, subjective, ambiguous, and contradictory inflections with which they circulate in practice. This emphas…
Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda
Renovating Tradition
La periode formative du colonialisme britannique au Buganda represente un contexte particulierement riche pour examiner l'opposition entre invention coloniale et perennite culturelle de la tradition. L'analyse du changement culturel et religieux durant cette periode revele que malgre la transformation qui touche l'autorite et la representation du pouvoir royal, le processus qui fonde le retablissement des pratiques politiques ganda a la mort de c…
Networks of Knowledge
This article raises the question of how scholars might make sense of well-known components of social organization in Africa in the absence of the increasingly criticized evolutionary and lineage models that once gave them meaning. In an effort to understand why our earliest glimpses into the distant Ganda past appear in the form of clan histories, the article examines the relationship between clanship, public healing and transformations in agricu…
History from the Healer's Shrine
Recent interpretations of oral histories in Africa have been based increasingly on the premise that each teller creates a unique oral text. Oral sources, according to this new formulation, should not be 'flattened by transcription,' with individual voices operating interchangeably. Rather, these sources should be heard with all of the personal, subjective, ambiguous, and contradictory inflections with which they circulate in practice. This emphas…
Renovating Tradition
La periode formative du colonialisme britannique au Buganda represente un contexte particulierement riche pour examiner l'opposition entre invention coloniale et perennite culturelle de la tradition. L'analyse du changement culturel et religieux durant cette periode revele que malgre la transformation qui touche l'autorite et la representation du pouvoir royal, le processus qui fonde le retablissement des pratiques politiques ganda a la mort de c…
Renovating Tradition
La periode formative du colonialisme britannique au Buganda represente un contexte particulierement riche pour examiner l'opposition entre invention coloniale et perennite culturelle de la tradition. L'analyse du changement culturel et religieux durant cette periode revele que malgre la transformation qui touche l'autorite et la representation du pouvoir royal, le processus qui fonde le retablissement des pratiques politiques ganda a la mort de c…
Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda
History from the Healer's Shrine
Recent interpretations of oral histories in Africa have been based increasingly on the premise that each teller creates a unique oral text. Oral sources, according to this new formulation, should not be 'flattened by transcription,' with individual voices operating interchangeably. Rather, these sources should be heard with all of the personal, subjective, ambiguous, and contradictory inflections with which they circulate in practice. This emphas…
Networks of Knowledge
This article raises the question of how scholars might make sense of well-known components of social organization in Africa in the absence of the increasingly criticized evolutionary and lineage models that once gave them meaning. In an effort to understand why our earliest glimpses into the distant Ganda past appear in the form of clan histories, the article examines the relationship between clanship, public healing and transformations in agricu…
Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)