John W Burton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585789 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John W Burton |
| NOMBRES | John W |
| APELLIDO | Burton |
| FIRMA | BURTON J W |
| AFILIACIONES | Connecticut College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Dear Survivors
Some reflections on anthropology's missionary positions
Nanook and the Kirwinians
In a review of the history of anthropology it has long been common practice to point to the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski's 1922 monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a turning point, or more boldly, as a revolution in anthropological theory, methodology, and ethnographic representation. Less commonly, indeed, rarely, is it also remembered that a parallel 'revolution' in ethnographic representation occurred in 1922, with the release…
Conflict Resolution
From earliest times human societies, like those which proceeded them, have been subject to rule by the relatively strong. In contemporary legal terms there have been "those who have a right to rule, and others who have an obligation to obey." Feudal societies, then industrial societies, had structures that reflected these we-they relationships based on relative power
Nuer Dilemmas
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society
An Introduction to Evans-Pritchard
On "First Contact" and Mythical Aborigines
An Interview With Aidan Southall
Conflict
Preface - Acknowledgements - Contents - Introduction - PART 1: THE APPROACH - Introduction to Part 1 - The Problem Area - The Human Dimension - Human Needs Theory - The Environment of Conflict - The Influence of Tradition - Sources and Trends in Thought - PART 2: THE POLITICAL CONTEXT - Introduction to Part 2 - Navigation Points - The Legitimization of Authorities - Multi-ethnic Societies - The Individual and Society - Constructive Intervention -…
Development and Cultural Genocide in the Sudan
Genocide is easily defined: 'the deliberate extermination of a people'. It appears to occur in human history primarily in association with the emergence of the state, or in the effort of an established régime to maintain or expand its domination, and is virtually unrecorded for 'traditional' or pre-state societies. Although the concept of 'development' is by contrast exceedingly ambiguous (other than as an ideal process or social form in an evolu…
Wombs and Alien Spirits
A Nilotic World
Conflict
A Nilotic World
Preface A People Called Atuot Modes of Subsistence The Social Reproduction of Society A Moral Order of Society Individual and Social Experience Nilotic Peoples in a Changing World Appendices: Published Sources on the Atuot Bridewealth Cattle Atuot Relationship Terminology Bibliography Index
A Nilotic World
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Irrationality in International Confrontation
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When the North Winds Blow
This brief essay sketches an outline of the social history of small towns and their role in transforming the social and physical environment of the pastoral Nilotes of the southern Sudan. In broad terms, it is a review of historical and ethnographic facts which have a wider currency in pre-colonial Black Africa. I am less concerned, however with the detailed peculiarities of this centuries-long Nilotic experience, than with an understanding of ho…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Expanding the Debate on Generic Theory of Conflict Resolution
Expanding the debate on generic theory of conflict resolution
The Nuer Conquest
Global Conflict
Conflict and communication
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Resolution of Conflict
Journal Article Resolution of Conflict Get access John W. Burton John W. Burton University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 1972, Pages 5–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013469 Published: 01 March 1972
The Wave is my Mother's Husband
J. W. Burton - La vague est le mari de ma mère : un thème halieutique chez les éleveurs nilotiques. A partir d'une étude ethnographique et linguistique des Atuot, proches voisins des Nuer et autres peuples nilotiques classiquement réputés comme des pasteurs typiques, l'auteur montre que l'importance de l'élevage a été généralement surestimée par les études antérieures au détriment de l'agriculture et, surtout, de la pêche, qui constituent des act…
Age, Generation, and Time. Some Features of East African Age Organisations
Christians, Colonists, and Conversion
The majority opinion of those who have contributed to the literature on conversion in sub-Saharan Africa suggests that Islam has been more 'successful' than Christianity in attracting the faithful. The standard inventory of explanations for this state of affairs include the following: first, it has been commonly noted, Islam has proved to be more compatible than Christianity with indigenous customs, cosmology, and morality. A second point that ha…
Ghost Marriage and the Cattle Trade among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan
Opening ParagraphThis essay attempts to interpret the apparent association between participation in the cattle trade of the Southern Sudan and the decreasing frequency of ghost marriage among the Atuot. The commentary on social change is peripheral to the analysis since this phenomenon is a constant rather than extraordinary social process. Arens (1976: 2) has recently emphasized the same point, adding 'social change by its nature is a broad and …
Ethnicity on the Hoof
Kwanim pa
Ghosts, Ancestors and Individuals Among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan
This article is concerned with Atuot concepts and expressions of individuality and personal identity. By focusing on the situation of death it is further demonstrated how the categories of ghosthood and ancestorship are distinguished in reference to human memory. Ghosts, ancestors and individuals are seen as participants in a single moral and spiritual world. The essential characteristics of these states of being are defined by reference to the f…
An Introduction to Evans-Pritchard
An Interview With Aidan Southall
Atuot ethnicity
Opening ParagraphEvans-Pritchard's assessment of what contemporary social anthropologists might call 'contextual ethnicity' has offered many with no first-hand research experience in this region of Africa a prerogative in which some apparently revel: to opine on the bizarre and the obvious. Examples of the former persuasion are typified by articles which, with a passion for 'theoretical purity', openly declare an indifference to ethnographic fact…
Development and Cultural Genocide in the Sudan
Genocide is easily defined: 'the deliberate extermination of a people'. It appears to occur in human history primarily in association with the emergence of the state, or in the effort of an established régime to maintain or expand its domination, and is virtually unrecorded for 'traditional' or pre-state societies. Although the concept of 'development' is by contrast exceedingly ambiguous (other than as an ideal process or social form in an evolu…
Some reflections on anthropology's missionary positions
On "First Contact" and Mythical Aborigines
When the North Winds Blow
This brief essay sketches an outline of the social history of small towns and their role in transforming the social and physical environment of the pastoral Nilotes of the southern Sudan. In broad terms, it is a review of historical and ethnographic facts which have a wider currency in pre-colonial Black Africa. I am less concerned, however with the detailed peculiarities of this centuries-long Nilotic experience, than with an understanding of ho…
Atuot age categories and marriage
Opening ParagraphAn obvious technique to employ in assessing the age of a non-literate individual among the Atuot is to pose the question, 'how many years do you have' (teke yin ruon na di) which invariably results in the simple response, 'I've really no idea at all' (cf. also Evans-Pritchard 1939). Age classification in Atuot society as in most others is a matter of social prescription and is evidenced in the course of daily life by divergent ec…
About winning
The history of international conflict resolution
Same Time, Same Space
Nilotic Women
The pastoral Nilotic-speaking peoples of the Southern Sudan have been observed by missionaries, merchants, and casual travellers for more than a century. Significant advances in social theory have been formulated on the basis of Nilotic ethnography. In the light of the voluminous literature recorded by these and other authorities, it may now be of value to draw into clearer relief the nature of the status and authority of the women in these 'trad…
Sacrifice
the realization of the confusions brought in social anthropology by stock classificatory terms may serve to prepare our understanding in coming to terms with alien concepts which, in a fashion that is similarly unrecognized by those whose modes of thought we want to comprehend, are also polythetic.' This essay is inspired largely by Needham's recent assertion that if an appreciation of polythetic modes of classification2 can advance the comparati…
Some Further Comments-In Reply to Criticism
Journal Article Some Further Comments–In Reply to Criticism Get access John W. Burton John W. Burton University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 1972, Pages 41–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013471 Published: 01 March 1972
Nanook and the Kirwinians
In a review of the history of anthropology it has long been common practice to point to the publication of Bronislaw Malinowski's 1922 monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a turning point, or more boldly, as a revolution in anthropological theory, methodology, and ethnographic representation. Less commonly, indeed, rarely, is it also remembered that a parallel 'revolution' in ethnographic representation occurred in 1922, with the release…
Peace Theory
Conflict and communication
The person for the period
Sir Robert Menzies, The Measure of the Years, Cassell Australia Ltd., 1970, pp. 300, $6.95. Kylie Tennant, Evatt: Politics and Justice, Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney, 1970, pp. 418, $8.95
World Society
This analytical interdisciplinary approach to the study of behaviour in world society attempts to make relatively advanced material intelligible to those without the background of political science which has hitherto been necessary. Dr Burton, viewing world society as a total environment in which the behaviour of individuals, groups, nations and states occurs, describes ethnic, political, economic and ideological systems and discusses all aspects…
Some Further Comments-In Reply to Criticism
Journal Article Some Further Comments–In Reply to Criticism Get access John W. Burton John W. Burton University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 1972, Pages 41–52, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013471 Published: 01 March 1972
Resolution of Conflict
Journal Article Resolution of Conflict Get access John W. Burton John W. Burton University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 1972, Pages 5–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013469 Published: 01 March 1972
Theory and Reality
Ghosts, Ancestors and Individuals Among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan
This article is concerned with Atuot concepts and expressions of individuality and personal identity. By focusing on the situation of death it is further demonstrated how the categories of ghosthood and ancestorship are distinguished in reference to human memory. Ghosts, ancestors and individuals are seen as participants in a single moral and spiritual world. The essential characteristics of these states of being are defined by reference to the f…
Ghost Marriage and the Cattle Trade among the Atuot of the Southern Sudan
Opening ParagraphThis essay attempts to interpret the apparent association between participation in the cattle trade of the Southern Sudan and the decreasing frequency of ghost marriage among the Atuot. The commentary on social change is peripheral to the analysis since this phenomenon is a constant rather than extraordinary social process. Arens (1976: 2) has recently emphasized the same point, adding 'social change by its nature is a broad and …
The Role of Authorities in World Society
Atuot Totemism
When I asked what I myself should invoke as my clan-divinity, it was half-jokingly suggested that I should invoke Typewriter, Paper, and Lorry, for were these not the things which had always helped my people and which were passed on to Europeans by their ancestors? 1
Ethnology
Age, Generation, and Time. Some Features of East African Age Organisations
Social Change
Burton John W. Social Change.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 20, n°77-78, 1980. pp. 181-183
Sacrifice
the realization of the confusions brought in social anthropology by stock classificatory terms may serve to prepare our understanding in coming to terms with alien concepts which, in a fashion that is similarly unrecognized by those whose modes of thought we want to comprehend, are also polythetic.' This essay is inspired largely by Needham's recent assertion that if an appreciation of polythetic modes of classification2 can advance the comparati…
Kwanim pa
Atuot age categories and marriage
Opening ParagraphAn obvious technique to employ in assessing the age of a non-literate individual among the Atuot is to pose the question, 'how many years do you have' (teke yin ruon na di) which invariably results in the simple response, 'I've really no idea at all' (cf. also Evans-Pritchard 1939). Age classification in Atuot society as in most others is a matter of social prescription and is evidenced in the course of daily life by divergent ec…
The Proverb
(1981). The Proverb: An Aspect of Atuot Collective Thought. Folklore: Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 84-90
Ethnology
The Wave is my Mother's Husband
J. W. Burton - La vague est le mari de ma mère : un thème halieutique chez les éleveurs nilotiques. A partir d'une étude ethnographique et linguistique des Atuot, proches voisins des Nuer et autres peuples nilotiques classiquement réputés comme des pasteurs typiques, l'auteur montre que l'importance de l'élevage a été généralement surestimée par les études antérieures au détriment de l'agriculture et, surtout, de la pêche, qui constituent des act…
Pastoral Nilotes and British Colonialism
The pastoral Nilotic-speaking Atuot of the Southern Sudan, as well as their neighbors, the Nuer and Dinka, responded to the two phases of British colonial rule in the Southern Sudan in two rather different ways. This essay examines the nature of these responses, first to a general lack of administrative policy and then to a policy which could be characterized as one of benign neglect. They look upon these white men with awe as well as affection, …
Ethnicity on the Hoof
The Moon is a Sheep' A Feminine Principle in Atuot Cosmology
Atuot ethnicity
Opening ParagraphEvans-Pritchard's assessment of what contemporary social anthropologists might call 'contextual ethnicity' has offered many with no first-hand research experience in this region of Africa a prerogative in which some apparently revel: to opine on the bizarre and the obvious. Examples of the former persuasion are typified by articles which, with a passion for 'theoretical purity', openly declare an indifference to ethnographic fact…
The Divination of Atuot Philosophy
In their image of a mythical world, the pastoral Nilotic-speaking Atuot' of the southern Sudan convey the impression that there were at one time none of the radical dichotomies which now figure as common features of experience. The sky and earth were conjoined; life in its present sense did not exist because there was no death. The general order of existence was an order of unity and completeness. This primordial world was violently transformed w…
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