Francis P Conant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis P Conant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis P |
| FAMILY NAME | Conant |
| SIGNATURE | CONANT F P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Use of LANDSAT Data in Studies of Human Ecology
Frustration, Marriage Alternatives and Subsistence Risks among the Pokot of East Africa: Impressions of Co-Variance
The Pokot are a farming and herding people of East Africa who sanction kidnapping and elopement during their annual celebration of the summer solstice. Marriages otherwise are arranged, often with relative strangers and much older (and wealthier) partners, following successful negotiations for bridewealth. Intense psycho-sexual expectations and attachments between Pokot youngsters are thereby threatened, but kidnapping or elopement as alternative…
Economic Development and Economic Change: The Case of East African Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
Exploring anew the old question of why East African pastoral peoples tend to be conservative, this paper suggests that a de-Westernized cross-cultural application of economic theory, both statics and dynamics, coupled with transaction theory, (social exchange), reveals a distinction between economic development, the exponential growth of a specific economy, and economic change, a shift from one specific kind of economy to another. Economic develo…
Obituary: Dorothy Cross Jensen 1906-19721
The Barabaig: East African Cattle‐Herders . George J. KLIMA
Other: Mission au Tibesti: Carnets de Route, 1933-1934. CHARLES LeCouer
General and Ethnology: The Agiryama of Kenya. Arthur M. Champion
Korok: A Variable Unit of Physical and Social Space among the Pokot of East Africa
Kilapat: The 'Shaming Party' among the Pokot of East Africa
The Manipulation of Ritual among Plateau Nigerians
Opening ParagraphDespite great linguistic and cultural diversity, sustained political relations among the many different groups of the Jos-Bauchi Plateau are a notably regular feature of this area of Northern Nigeria. That these relations are often expressed in a ritual context is an observation frequently made in the literature on the Plateau Pagans. My intention here is to specify some of theregularways in which ritual paraphernalia may be mani…
Les Bassari du Nord Togo. Robert Cornevin
Government in Zazzau: A Study of Government in the Hausa Chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria from 1800 to 1950
General and Ethnology: A Handbook of the African Collections of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia . Harold D. Gunn
General: Collections Ethnographiques: Touareg Ahaggar. Planches, Album No. 1. Publiées sous la Direction de L. Balout
Korok: A Variable Unit of Physical and Social Space among the Pokot of East Africa
Kilapat: The 'Shaming Party' among the Pokot of East Africa
Economic Development and Economic Change: The Case of East African Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
Exploring anew the old question of why East African pastoral peoples tend to be conservative, this paper suggests that a de-Westernized cross-cultural application of economic theory, both statics and dynamics, coupled with transaction theory, (social exchange), reveals a distinction between economic development, the exponential growth of a specific economy, and economic change, a shift from one specific kind of economy to another. Economic develo…
The Manipulation of Ritual among Plateau Nigerians
Opening ParagraphDespite great linguistic and cultural diversity, sustained political relations among the many different groups of the Jos-Bauchi Plateau are a notably regular feature of this area of Northern Nigeria. That these relations are often expressed in a ritual context is an observation frequently made in the literature on the Plateau Pagans. My intention here is to specify some of theregularways in which ritual paraphernalia may be mani…
The Use of LANDSAT Data in Studies of Human Ecology
General: Collections Ethnographiques: Touareg Ahaggar. Planches, Album No. 1. Publiées sous la Direction de L. Balout
General and Ethnology: A Handbook of the African Collections of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia . Harold D. Gunn
Government in Zazzau: A Study of Government in the Hausa Chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria from 1800 to 1950
The Manipulation of Ritual among Plateau Nigerians
Opening ParagraphDespite great linguistic and cultural diversity, sustained political relations among the many different groups of the Jos-Bauchi Plateau are a notably regular feature of this area of Northern Nigeria. That these relations are often expressed in a ritual context is an observation frequently made in the literature on the Plateau Pagans. My intention here is to specify some of theregularways in which ritual paraphernalia may be mani…
Les Bassari du Nord Togo. Robert Cornevin
Kilapat: The 'Shaming Party' among the Pokot of East Africa
Korok: A Variable Unit of Physical and Social Space among the Pokot of East Africa
General and Ethnology: The Agiryama of Kenya. Arthur M. Champion
The Barabaig: East African Cattle‐Herders . George J. KLIMA
Other: Mission au Tibesti: Carnets de Route, 1933-1934. CHARLES LeCouer
Frustration, Marriage Alternatives and Subsistence Risks among the Pokot of East Africa: Impressions of Co-Variance
The Pokot are a farming and herding people of East Africa who sanction kidnapping and elopement during their annual celebration of the summer solstice. Marriages otherwise are arranged, often with relative strangers and much older (and wealthier) partners, following successful negotiations for bridewealth. Intense psycho-sexual expectations and attachments between Pokot youngsters are thereby threatened, but kidnapping or elopement as alternative…
Economic Development and Economic Change: The Case of East African Cattle [and Comments and Replies]
Exploring anew the old question of why East African pastoral peoples tend to be conservative, this paper suggests that a de-Westernized cross-cultural application of economic theory, both statics and dynamics, coupled with transaction theory, (social exchange), reveals a distinction between economic development, the exponential growth of a specific economy, and economic change, a shift from one specific kind of economy to another. Economic develo…
Obituary: Dorothy Cross Jensen 1906-19721
The Use of LANDSAT Data in Studies of Human Ecology
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