Alex Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0713-5165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research
Drawing on the example of Multilingual Manchester, we show how a university research unit can support work toward a more inclusive society by raising awareness of language diversity and thereby helping to facilitate access to services, raise confidence among disadvantaged groups, sensitise young people to the challenges of diversity, and remove barriers. The setting (Manchester, UK) is one in which globalisation and increased mobility have create…
Using the school setting to map community languages: A pilot study in Manchester, England
Recording the home languages of schoolchildren has long been acknowledged as a useful way of mapping community multilingualism. However, the need to process large quantities of data on many different languages has meant that in order to assess the vitality of community languages, researchers have had to rely on schoolchildren's self-reported language preference and proficiency. Moreover, large scale data collection among minors poses ethical and …
Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: Policy and practice in Manchester
Manchester (England), one of the first industrial cities, is now home to over 150 languages. Ethnic minority and migrant communities take active steps to maintain heritage languages in commerce and through education. The paper introduces a model for a holistic approach to profiling urban multilingualism that relies on triangulating a variety of quantitative data sets, observations, and ethnographic interviews. We examine how responses to language…
Misunderstanding corruption
The Anthropology of Grey Zones
The generous references attached to these essays indicate that it is no longer reasonable to say that corruption has been neglected either in social science generally, or in anthropology. Yet, in t
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Among the Neo-Functionalists: A Review Article
(2000). Among the Neo-Functionalists: A Review Article. Ethnos: Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 275-281.
Quality in Postgraduate Education
Onions are my husband: Survival and accumulation by West African market women
Improving Work Satisfaction amongst Nursing Staff and Quality of Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia: Some Policy Implications
This paper discusses the policy implications for encouraging a high quality of service provision in hospital for elderly people with dementia. Contemporary policy is examined and the continuing need for long-stay beds is highlighted, particularly in Scotland. The measurement of the quality of care in nursing is reviewed and concern is expressed over whether the patients or only the audit score will benefit from any change in practice. Ways of imp…
James Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an Outsider
Vision and Pragmatism in Teacher Education and Training: Richard A. C. Oliver and the development of the McNair influence on teacher training, 1943‐50
Popular Scientist: James Jacob Machobane and Mantsa Tlala
Journal Article POPULAR SCIENTIST: JAMES JACOB MACHOBANE AND MANTSA TLALA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. Robertson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara Previously he was Director of the African Studies Centre at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Darwin College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 93, Issue 370, January 1994,…
Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction
Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction
The Desiccated African in Banyoles
Schools and universities in the training of teachers: The demonstration school experiment 1890 to 1926
Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction
Political Issues in Education
A Century of Change: The Study of Education in the University of Manchester
Between the devil and the deep sea’. Ambiguities in the development of professorships of education, 1899 to 1932
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea'. Ambiguities in the Development of Professorships of Education, 1899 to 1932
The Changing Secondary School
Secondary education since the Second World War, Roy Lowe the reorganization of secondary education in Leicestershire, 1947-1984, Donald K.Jones the politics of local reorganization, Edward Fearn the schools council and curriculum - developments in secondary education, Peter Gordon the impact of comprehensive reforms, John Gray and David Jesson the new right and English secondary education, Clive Griggs deep within their respective cultures - teac…
Linguistic Anthropology: Arabs and Nubians in New Haifa: A Study of Settlement and Irrigation. Muneera Salem-Murdock
Applied Anthropology: Development Policies: Sociological Perspectives . Anthony Hall and James Midgley , eds
Onions are my husband: Survival and accumulation by West African market women
Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo
Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: Policy and practice in Manchester
Manchester (England), one of the first industrial cities, is now home to over 150 languages. Ethnic minority and migrant communities take active steps to maintain heritage languages in commerce and through education. The paper introduces a model for a holistic approach to profiling urban multilingualism that relies on triangulating a variety of quantitative data sets, observations, and ethnographic interviews. We examine how responses to language…
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft: A Case Study of a Rural Ghanaian Family
Histories and Political Opposition in Ahafo, Ghana
Opening ParagraphTowards the end of my 1968-9 period of study in Ghana an audience was arranged for me with the late Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. He was ailing at the time and his readiness to see me was largely attributable to his acute interest in the political affairs of Ahafo, the district in which I was working. One of the first questions he asked me was whether I had been told in Ahafo about a certain 'Asibi Entwi'. I re…
Anthropology and Government in Ghana
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT IN GHANA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON The author carried out research in Ghana in 1968–69 while a research fellow of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge, Research was financed by the Social Sciences Research Council and a William Wise grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. A report based on This study of local politics, entitled Local government in Ahafo, Ghana, was submitted to the Ghan…
Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research
Drawing on the example of Multilingual Manchester, we show how a university research unit can support work toward a more inclusive society by raising awareness of language diversity and thereby helping to facilitate access to services, raise confidence among disadvantaged groups, sensitise young people to the challenges of diversity, and remove barriers. The setting (Manchester, UK) is one in which globalisation and increased mobility have create…
Using the school setting to map community languages: A pilot study in Manchester, England
Recording the home languages of schoolchildren has long been acknowledged as a useful way of mapping community multilingualism. However, the need to process large quantities of data on many different languages has meant that in order to assess the vitality of community languages, researchers have had to rely on schoolchildren's self-reported language preference and proficiency. Moreover, large scale data collection among minors poses ethical and …
Misunderstanding corruption
The Anthropology of Grey Zones
The generous references attached to these essays indicate that it is no longer reasonable to say that corruption has been neglected either in social science generally, or in anthropology. Yet, in t
Welfare State and Welfare Society
Improving Work Satisfaction amongst Nursing Staff and Quality of Care for Elderly Patients with Dementia: Some Policy Implications
This paper discusses the policy implications for encouraging a high quality of service provision in hospital for elderly people with dementia. Contemporary policy is examined and the continuing need for long-stay beds is highlighted, particularly in Scotland. The measurement of the quality of care in nursing is reviewed and concern is expressed over whether the patients or only the audit score will benefit from any change in practice. Ways of imp…
The Dal Lake: Reflections on an Anthropological Consultancy in Kashmir
People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development
Attempted Suicide and Cultural Change: An Empirical Investigation
Monitoring ofpatient records has shown that, over the last decade in Edinburgh, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of attempted suicide among men aged under 25; whereas among men aged over 40, the rates have remained stable. This trend is paralleled in other parts of the U.K. The research described in this paper was based on the assumption that a change has occurred in the world-view of young people, and that this has been respon…
Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar
Social Change, Emotional Distress, and the World View of Students: An Empirical Study of the Existentialist Ethic and the Spirit of Suffering
Dvorak's songs
DVORAK'S SONGS Get access ALEC ROBERTSON ALEC ROBERTSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1943, Pages 82–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/24.2.82 Published: 01 April 1943
Penal Policy and Social Change
Sociology and the Study of Psychiatric Disorder
Party Politics and a Rural Immigrant Community
It is now nearly five years since Buganda rebelled against the Government of Uganda, and the Kabaka, Sir Edward Mutesa, fled to Britain. Relatively little has been written about these events, perhaps because they happened so rapidly and were dealt with so determinedly that not much precise information is available. In rural Buganda, in such places as Bugerere where I was engaged in fieldwork, party political activity reached a crescendo in the mo…
Children, Teachers and Society: The Over-Pressure Controversy, 1880-1886
Children, teachers and society: The over‐pressure controversy, 1880–1886
(1972). Children, teachers and society: The over‐pressure controversy, 1880–1886. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 315-323
Social Change, Emotional Distress, and the World View of Students: An Empirical Study of the Existentialist Ethic and the Spirit of Suffering
Histories and Political Opposition in Ahafo, Ghana
Opening ParagraphTowards the end of my 1968-9 period of study in Ghana an audience was arranged for me with the late Asantehene, Otumfuo Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. He was ailing at the time and his readiness to see me was largely attributable to his acute interest in the political affairs of Ahafo, the district in which I was working. One of the first questions he asked me was whether I had been told in Ahafo about a certain 'Asibi Entwi'. I re…
Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo
Anthropology and Government in Ghana
Journal Article ANTHROPOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT IN GHANA Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON The author carried out research in Ghana in 1968–69 while a research fellow of the African Studies Centre, Cambridge, Research was financed by the Social Sciences Research Council and a William Wise grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. A report based on This study of local politics, entitled Local government in Ahafo, Ghana, was submitted to the Ghan…
Anthropology and the Nomad: Another View of the Afar
Deviance and Cultural Change
Attempted Suicide and Cultural Change: An Empirical Investigation
Monitoring ofpatient records has shown that, over the last decade in Edinburgh, there has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of attempted suicide among men aged under 25; whereas among men aged over 40, the rates have remained stable. This trend is paralleled in other parts of the U.K. The research described in this paper was based on the assumption that a change has occurred in the world-view of young people, and that this has been respon…
Marriage, Inheritance and Witchcraft: A Case Study of a Rural Ghanaian Family
Sub-National Perspectives on West African Political Change
Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography
Foreword Acknowledgements Note on Transcription Introduction Part One: The Tawaangal of the Jelgobe 1 Climate and Technology 2 The Social Organization of Jelgoji 3 Fulani Social Structure 4 Life in the Wuro: Categories of People and Tasks 5 Authority Relations in the Wuro 6 Religion 7 Pulaaku and Semteende: Fulani-ness and Shame Part Two: Life as Lived 8 Jelgobe Attitudes toward Life 9 Keeping Society Going 10 Relations between People 11 How to R…
Suicides
The Nyamwexi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s
Journal Article The Nyamwexi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s Get access The Nyamwexi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s, by R. G. Abrahams. Changing Culture Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xiv+l45pp. (£4.95 paperback). A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON Darwin CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 322, January 1982, Pages 143–144, ht…
People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development
Journal Article People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development Get access People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development. By A. F. ROBERTSON. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 332. £27.50 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Raymond Apthorpe Raymond Apthorpe Institute of Social Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 379, 1 Sept…
Audrey Richards, 1899–1984: An Appreciation
Journal Article AUDREY RICHARDS, 1899–1984: AN APPRECIATION Get access A. F. ROBERTSON A. F. ROBERTSON This appreciation was delivered at the ASAUK Conference at the University of York on 19 September 1984, immediately before Dr Robertson's Presidential Address. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 334, January 1985, Pages 136–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a…
People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development
Applied Anthropology: The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development. Peter Worsley
The Dal Lake: Reflections on an Anthropological Consultancy in Kashmir
Welfare State and Welfare Society
Applied Anthropology: Development Policies: Sociological Perspectives . Anthony Hall and James Midgley , eds
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