Barbara Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Presence messen in laborbasierter Forschung mit Mikrowelten
Gendered Ritual Dualism in a Patrilineal Society
Although a favourable position for women is usually anticipated where they occupy important economic roles in the context of matrilineal descent, such a position may well exist in a patrilineal society, especially if women organise as in West Africa. Here there exist well-organised women's cult associations which are well known from Liberia and Sierra Leone and occur also in western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. The present article demonstr…
Permitted and Prohibited Wealth
A widespread West African belief holds that individual wealth is gained through a criminal pact with spirits to whom human beings must be given as compensation.(2) It appears that this belief has become more frequent since a modern cash economy has created substantial differences in income and wealth. For Cameroon, the links between religious beliefs and types of economy and economic morals, and the changes in belief systems with economic, social…
From village autonomy to modern village administration among the Kulere of central Nigeria
Opening ParagraphIn studies of change in indigenous political organisations under the impact of colonial administration, the precolonial situation in Africa is often depicted as essentially static. Anthropologists tend to project a relatively 'uninfluenced' state of affairs from the early colonial period into the past. Change seems to occur under European influence. This picture is the result less of the conviction of the authors that conditions …
African Art from the Rita and John Grunwald Collection
Not Guilty
Permitted and Prohibited Wealth
A widespread West African belief holds that individual wealth is gained through a criminal pact with spirits to whom human beings must be given as compensation.(2) It appears that this belief has become more frequent since a modern cash economy has created substantial differences in income and wealth. For Cameroon, the links between religious beliefs and types of economy and economic morals, and the changes in belief systems with economic, social…
Gendered Ritual Dualism in a Patrilineal Society
Although a favourable position for women is usually anticipated where they occupy important economic roles in the context of matrilineal descent, such a position may well exist in a patrilineal society, especially if women organise as in West Africa. Here there exist well-organised women's cult associations which are well known from Liberia and Sierra Leone and occur also in western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. The present article demonstr…
From village autonomy to modern village administration among the Kulere of central Nigeria
Opening ParagraphIn studies of change in indigenous political organisations under the impact of colonial administration, the precolonial situation in Africa is often depicted as essentially static. Anthropologists tend to project a relatively 'uninfluenced' state of affairs from the early colonial period into the past. Change seems to occur under European influence. This picture is the result less of the conviction of the authors that conditions …
Not Guilty
African Art from the Rita and John Grunwald Collection
From village autonomy to modern village administration among the Kulere of central Nigeria
Opening ParagraphIn studies of change in indigenous political organisations under the impact of colonial administration, the precolonial situation in Africa is often depicted as essentially static. Anthropologists tend to project a relatively 'uninfluenced' state of affairs from the early colonial period into the past. Change seems to occur under European influence. This picture is the result less of the conviction of the authors that conditions …
Permitted and Prohibited Wealth
A widespread West African belief holds that individual wealth is gained through a criminal pact with spirits to whom human beings must be given as compensation.(2) It appears that this belief has become more frequent since a modern cash economy has created substantial differences in income and wealth. For Cameroon, the links between religious beliefs and types of economy and economic morals, and the changes in belief systems with economic, social…
Gendered Ritual Dualism in a Patrilineal Society
Although a favourable position for women is usually anticipated where they occupy important economic roles in the context of matrilineal descent, such a position may well exist in a patrilineal society, especially if women organise as in West Africa. Here there exist well-organised women's cult associations which are well known from Liberia and Sierra Leone and occur also in western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. The present article demonstr…
Presence messen in laborbasierter Forschung mit Mikrowelten
Political science (5 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Administration (probate law (1 work) · African history and culture analysis (1 work)