Aidan Southall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585985 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aidan Southall |
| NOMBRES | Aidan |
| APELLIDO | Southall |
| FIRMA | SOUTHALL A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 362 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1951 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Forms of ethnic linkage between town and country
Ethnicity, though frequently given a false emphasis, remains the paramount problem of Africa. Since the African population of both cities is so predominantly Xhosa, ethnic differences are objectively slight and are not in fact manipulated for mobilizing support or expressing cleavages. The utility of the concept of ethnicity is, as Raymond Firth once remarked of such terms, to cover a rather wide and varied range of phenomena, with a great deal i…
Social Change in Modern Africa
History and the discourse of underdevelopment among the Alur of Uganda
City in Time and Space
Southall on Karp and Masolo
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2001
The City in Time and Space
This ambitious book treats urbanisation and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times to the present. Aidan Southall, a pioneer in the study of African cities, discusses the urban centres of ancient Sumeria, Greece and Rome, as well as medieval European cities, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indic cities, colonial cities, and the great metropolises of the twentieth century. Drawing on this historical and comparative perspective, he…
The anthropological dilemma of the small town
Jonathan Baker (ed.). 1997. Rural‐Urban Dynamics in Francophone Africa. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 201 pp.
Peter Rigby 1938-1997
Archeology and the longue durée
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On Perilous Ideas
Myth Teller Tells All
Miles Richardson. Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. + 177 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper
Postmodern Experimental Moment
Paul J. Benson. ed. Conversations in Anthropology: Anthropology and Literature. Introduction by Edward M. Bruner. Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, vol. 17 nos. 1–2,1987–88. Urbana, IL: Steward Anthropological Society, 1990. vi. 323 pp. $12.00 (paper
Urban Anthropology in China
This book is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference, which was opened in Beijing on December 28, 1989. It contains twenty-two papers and six introductory contributions, dealing with the following subjects: 'Comparative Urbanism: Socialist and Asian Cities'; 'Chinese Urbanization'; 'Chinese Urban Ethnicity'; 'Chinese Urban Culture and Life Cycle'. These papers are written by Chinese and non…
African Cities in Crisis
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Models and Interpretations
Models Of The Real Social World: 1. Genetrix: genitor: nature: culture? (1973g) 2. African models in the New Guinea highlands (1962a) 3. Agnatic taxonomies and stochastic variation (1971n) 4. Class and committees in a Norwegian island parish (1954a) 5. The righthand and lefthand kingdoms of God: a dilemma of Pietist politics (1971k) 6. Indigenous politics and colonial administration, with special reference to Australia (1960a) 7. The perception o…
Explorations in African Systems of Thought
On the African Waterfront
A Nilotic World
The African Port City
Patrons and Power
"The Rain Fell on Its Own" the Alur Theory of Development and Its Western Counterparts
When I went to live and learn among the Alur for the very first time in 1947, the great linguist Archie Tucker described them to me mysteriously as “very wild and woolly.” What anthropologist could resist? Indeed, although part of the colonial state, no one in Southern Uganda really knew who they were. The refined BaGanda referred to them in lilting labials as Balulu, uncouth northerners, who came to do the unskilled work, and grow cotton on the …
Small Urban Centers in Rural Development
In our original perspectives and hypotheses on Small Urban Centers in Rural Development in Africa, we stated that these small centers are “the most strategic key to problems of Rural Development...points of articulation between the national systems of marketing, distribution and policy development on the one hand and the interests and productivity of the rural poor on the other.” They are “points of articulation of incentives for greater producti…
The Segmentary State in Africa and Asia
Segmentary state was the concept coined to fit Alur society into the theory of political anthropology of the 1940s. Fortes and Evans-Pritchard made the first giant step in the comparative analysis of African political systems, but supposedly centralized states and stateless segmentary lineage systems were the only ones to receive full consideration. Nadel had already distilled the voluminous Eurocentric literature on the theory and philosophy of …
The Illusion of Nath Agnation
The Segmentary State in Africa and Asia
Segmentary state was the concept coined to fit Alur society into the theory of political anthropology of the 1940s. Fortes and Evans-Pritchard made the first giant step in the comparative analysis of African political systems, but supposedly centralized states and stateless segmentary lineage systems were the only ones to receive full consideration. Nadel had already distilled the voluminous Eurocentric literature on the theory and philosophy of …
The Illusion of Tribe1
Social Change in Modern Africa
Nuer and Dinka Are People
It is preferable to call the Nuer Naath and the Dinka Jieng, as they do themselves. Since both terms mean 'people', the distinction between them is in part a question of linguistic differentiation. Economical interpretation of the evidence suggests that the much smaller, though expansive, population of Naath must have emerged from a pre-existing population of proto-Jieng. The Naath identity probably emerged as a result of overpopulation in the je…
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…
Kinship, Descent, and Residence in Madagascar (Aidan Southall, Sub-Editor)
The changing interpretation of various Malagasy kinship systems is discussed in relation to the validity of the distinction between agnatic and cognatic in principle and practice, to the geographically and culturally intercalary position of Madagascar between Africa, Indonesia and the Middle East, and to the relation between variations in kinship ideologies and groupings on the one hand and ecological pressures on the other
General Amin and the Coup
I have come to the conclusion that General Haji Idi Amin Dada is not a bizarre or maverick intrusion upon the Uganda political scene,1 but deeply and significantly entwined in it. I wish to present what appear to me to be the most important interrelated factors in the conventional functional sense, but to do so diachronically, so that they become continuous themes or forces,2 in which successive events have causative effect on one another.3 This …
Issues in the Ethics of Research Method
There is a pattern of elements within the Anglo-American structure of thinking and reasoning which affects methods of data collection, data analysis, and systems of information dispersion with respect to studies of non-Western cultures. An argument is built in this paper which maintains that: (1) These same elements hinder some Anglo-American anthropologists from studying their own cultures. They form a pattern which begins with the selection of …
Explorations in African Systems of Thought
Social Disorganisation in Uganda
The defeat of Amin and the liberation of Uganda by Nyerere's Tanzania is the most significant African event of the last decade. With it Africa came of age, able to criticise itself, no longer determined to support the honour of corrupt rulers against the world simply because they are black. Amin's buffoonery at last grew tiresome with surfeit. He was a clown who lived his life of power, self-indulgence, and tyranny to the utterance, making himsel…
State Formation in Africa
9539 Africa is tremendously important in the recent study of the state, not only because more new nation states were formed in Africa during the 1960s than had been formed in the rest of the world for many centuries, but also because immediately pre-colonial Africa, at the end ofthe nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, offered more examples of emergent states than any other region of the world. This was because in other continen…
An Operational Theory of Role
Small Urban Centers in Rural Development
In our original perspectives and hypotheses on Small Urban Centers in Rural Development in Africa, we stated that these small centers are “the most strategic key to problems of Rural Development...points of articulation between the national systems of marketing, distribution and policy development on the one hand and the interests and productivity of the rural poor on the other.” They are “points of articulation of incentives for greater producti…
The Illusion of Tribe
Urban Anthropology
The Contribution of Anthropology to African Studies
The African Studies Association (ASA) was born in a blaze of anthropological glory with Melville Herskovits, the celebrated anthropologist and universally recognized dean of American Africanists in the United States (Greenberg, 1963: 3) as its Founder President in 1957. In all, six ASA presidents have been anthropologists, a number exceeded only by political science. Of the forty-eight founding Fellows, ten were anthropologists, eight were politi…
For Men and Elders
Urban Anthropology in China
This book is based on the papers that were presented at the First International Urban Anthropology Conference, which was opened in Beijing on December 28, 1989. It contains twenty-two papers and six introductory contributions, dealing with the following subjects: 'Comparative Urbanism: Socialist and Asian Cities'; 'Chinese Urbanization'; 'Chinese Urban Ethnicity'; 'Chinese Urban Culture and Life Cycle'. These papers are written by Chinese and non…
The Illusion of Nath Agnation
Results and Implications of the Preliminary Enquiry
Opening paragraphIn choosing small urban centers for study and arguing that they were strategic for development, we did not suggest that small urban centers were at present generally playing a positive role in rural development, nor that it would necessarily be easy to get them to do so without major changes or even radical transformations of society. The argument was, that if effective rural development were achieved, small urban centers would c…
Ethnology
The City in Newly Developing Countries
Peter Rigby 1938-1997
On Perilous Ideas
"The Rain Fell on Its Own" the Alur Theory of Development and Its Western Counterparts
When I went to live and learn among the Alur for the very first time in 1947, the great linguist Archie Tucker described them to me mysteriously as “very wild and woolly.” What anthropologist could resist? Indeed, although part of the colonial state, no one in Southern Uganda really knew who they were. The refined BaGanda referred to them in lilting labials as Balulu, uncouth northerners, who came to do the unskilled work, and grow cotton on the …
Gusii Bridewealth Law and Custom
Journal Article Gusii Bridewealth Law and Custom Get access Gusii Bridewealth Law and Custom. Philip Mayer. London: O.U.P.: ( Rhodes-Livingstone Papers). 1951. Pp. vi + 68. 8 maps. 6/6. AIDAN SOUTHALL AIDAN SOUTHALL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 200, July 1951, Pages 256–257, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094006 Published: 01 July 1951
Bantu Bureaucracy
Ethnology and Ethnography
An Operational Theory of Role
A Note on Local Descent Groups
Luo Customary Law and Marriage Laws Customs. By Gordon Wilson. Nairobi
Panel Discussion
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Calendar of Meetings (1964–1965)
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Langa
Research in the Western Indian Ocean Region” Conference
The conference was sponsored by the African Research Committee and was held at the Minnowbrook Conference Center of Syracuse University from October 30 to November 2, 1965. The disciplines represented were social and cultural anthropology, musicology, sociology, social psychology, political science, and history. Participants included Philip Allen (Department of State); Frederick Burke (Syracuse University); Remi Clignet (Northwestern University);…
The Marginal Situation
Bekoropoka
Stratification
Orientations in Political Anthropology
Urban Anthropology
The Illusion of Tribe
Ethnology
The Illusion of Tribe1
The Illusion of Tribe
The City in Newly Developing Countries
Kinship, Descent, and Residence in Madagascar (Aidan Southall, Sub-Editor)
The changing interpretation of various Malagasy kinship systems is discussed in relation to the validity of the distinction between agnatic and cognatic in principle and practice, to the geographically and culturally intercalary position of Madagascar between Africa, Indonesia and the Middle East, and to the relation between variations in kinship ideologies and groupings on the one hand and ecological pressures on the other
Nigerian Modernization
State Formation in Africa
9539 Africa is tremendously important in the recent study of the state, not only because more new nation states were formed in Africa during the 1960s than had been formed in the rest of the world for many centuries, but also because immediately pre-colonial Africa, at the end ofthe nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, offered more examples of emergent states than any other region of the world. This was because in other continen…
General Amin and the Coup
I have come to the conclusion that General Haji Idi Amin Dada is not a bizarre or maverick intrusion upon the Uganda political scene,1 but deeply and significantly entwined in it. I wish to present what appear to me to be the most important interrelated factors in the conventional functional sense, but to do so diachronically, so that they become continuous themes or forces,2 in which successive events have causative effect on one another.3 This …
The Asians in East Africa, Jayhind and Uhuru
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