Robert W Wyllie
Biographic Data
| ID | 77187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Wyllie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyllie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLLIE R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hana revisited: Development and controversy in a Hawaiian tourism community
Not in our Backyard: Opposition to Tourism Development in A Hawaiian Community
The rapid growth of tourism in Maui. Hawaii has heightened anxieties about its possible spread outside the tourist areas along the island's west and south coasts. In an interior community an attempt was made by some residents to forestall future golf tourism development. To this end a campaign was mounted lo effect zoning changes on a possible site for a golfing resort This met with strong opposition, not only from the site owners, but also from …
Do the Effutu Really Believe That the Spirits Cause Illness? a Ghanaian Case Study
diagnostic and therapeutic actions are ultimately guided by various spirit-entities, to whom they stand in a special relationship as medium or earthly representative; and that while western medicine may suffice in the treatment of illnesses caused by natural agencies (nkratodobz), only their spiritually-informed expertise can offer cures for spiritually caused illnesses (sunsumtodobt). Interviews with 40 such healers revealed that while they clas…
Gods, Locals, and Strangers: The Effutu Aboakyer as Visitor Attraction
Domestic tourism revisited
Perceptions of the Spiritist Churches: A Survey of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Winneba, Ghana
Books/Livres
Girding up the Loins: Missions and Missionaries in Colonial Africa
Ghanaian Spiritual and Traditional Healers' Explanations of Illness: A Preliminary Survey
Resultats d'une enquete sur l'etiologie des maladies selon les guerisseurs de Winneba, Ghana. Quarante guerisseurs spirituels, prophetes ou traditionnels furent interroges
Effutu Curing: Preliminary Survey of Traditional and Spiritist Healers
On the Rationality of the Devout Opposition
Horton's argument is best understood in the context of the intellectualist approach to religion which he has developed in a number of highly stimulating articles.2 This approach, which owes its inspiration to such classical anthropologists as Tylor and Frazer, focusses upon belief rather than ritual practice, and is particularly concerned with the conscious religious thought-the intellectual efforts-of religious leaders and systematizers in tradi…
Some contradictions in missionizing
Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Beidelman (1974: 235-249) has argued cogently for a more systematic study of missions on the part of students of colonial societies and has indicated, in a preliminary fashion, several analytical themes which might provide a general theoretical framework for such a study. The present paper is not offered as a comment on Beidelman's overall scheme but has a somewhat narrower focus, addressing itself to two aspect…
Pioneers of Ghanaian Pentecostalism: Peter Anim and James Mckeown
Introspective Witchcraft Among the Effutu of Southern Ghana
Divination and Face-Work
Migrant Aŋlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A Comparative Study
Opening ParagraphThe Aŋlo are an Ewe-speaking people who occupy the low-lying coastal area between the Volta river in Ghana and Lome, the capital of Togo. They are among the most mobile of West African peoples, Aŋlo beach seine fishing companies having for many years operated from beaches as far afield as Sierra Leone and Angola. In recent years, however, the governments of certain West African countries have ordered their removal in attempts to …
Ritual and Social Change: A Ghanaian Example1
A communal ritual of tribal origin is discussed in order to show that its persistence in an urban area is attributable to its ability to remain congruent with the urban sociocultural system. It is argued that congruity/incongruity operates at three distinct levels: the cognitive-affective, the structural, and the functional. The ritual, organized on a mass basis, generates a nonritual superstructure that affords political, commercial, recreationa…
The Aboakyer of the Effutu: A Critique of Meyerowitz's Account
Opening Paragraph In her book, The Akan of Ghana (1958), Eva L. Meyerowitz examines some of the religious beliefs and practices of the Akan in an attempt to show that they are of Libyo-Phoenician origin and that Akan civilization is essentially pre-Arab North African in character. As an example of an Akan New Year festival she describes the annual Aboakyer (lit. ‘the catching of an animal’) ritual of the Effutu people of southern Ghana and interp…
Ghanaian University Students: A Research Note
Introspective Witchcraft Among the Effutu of Southern Ghana
Migrant Aŋlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A Comparative Study
Opening ParagraphThe Aŋlo are an Ewe-speaking people who occupy the low-lying coastal area between the Volta river in Ghana and Lome, the capital of Togo. They are among the most mobile of West African peoples, Aŋlo beach seine fishing companies having for many years operated from beaches as far afield as Sierra Leone and Angola. In recent years, however, the governments of certain West African countries have ordered their removal in attempts to …
Hana revisited: Development and controversy in a Hawaiian tourism community
Ghanaian Spiritual and Traditional Healers' Explanations of Illness: A Preliminary Survey
Resultats d'une enquete sur l'etiologie des maladies selon les guerisseurs de Winneba, Ghana. Quarante guerisseurs spirituels, prophetes ou traditionnels furent interroges
Pioneers of Ghanaian Pentecostalism: Peter Anim and James Mckeown
Ritual and Social Change: A Ghanaian Example1
A communal ritual of tribal origin is discussed in order to show that its persistence in an urban area is attributable to its ability to remain congruent with the urban sociocultural system. It is argued that congruity/incongruity operates at three distinct levels: the cognitive-affective, the structural, and the functional. The ritual, organized on a mass basis, generates a nonritual superstructure that affords political, commercial, recreationa…
Some contradictions in missionizing
Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Beidelman (1974: 235-249) has argued cogently for a more systematic study of missions on the part of students of colonial societies and has indicated, in a preliminary fashion, several analytical themes which might provide a general theoretical framework for such a study. The present paper is not offered as a comment on Beidelman's overall scheme but has a somewhat narrower focus, addressing itself to two aspect…
Ghanaian University Students: A Research Note
Effutu Curing: Preliminary Survey of Traditional and Spiritist Healers
On the Rationality of the Devout Opposition
Horton's argument is best understood in the context of the intellectualist approach to religion which he has developed in a number of highly stimulating articles.2 This approach, which owes its inspiration to such classical anthropologists as Tylor and Frazer, focusses upon belief rather than ritual practice, and is particularly concerned with the conscious religious thought-the intellectual efforts-of religious leaders and systematizers in tradi…
Divination and Face-Work
Ghanaian University Students: A Research Note
The Aboakyer of the Effutu: A Critique of Meyerowitz's Account
Opening Paragraph In her book, The Akan of Ghana (1958), Eva L. Meyerowitz examines some of the religious beliefs and practices of the Akan in an attempt to show that they are of Libyo-Phoenician origin and that Akan civilization is essentially pre-Arab North African in character. As an example of an Akan New Year festival she describes the annual Aboakyer (lit. ‘the catching of an animal’) ritual of the Effutu people of southern Ghana and interp…
Ritual and Social Change: A Ghanaian Example1
A communal ritual of tribal origin is discussed in order to show that its persistence in an urban area is attributable to its ability to remain congruent with the urban sociocultural system. It is argued that congruity/incongruity operates at three distinct levels: the cognitive-affective, the structural, and the functional. The ritual, organized on a mass basis, generates a nonritual superstructure that affords political, commercial, recreationa…
Migrant Aŋlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A Comparative Study
Opening ParagraphThe Aŋlo are an Ewe-speaking people who occupy the low-lying coastal area between the Volta river in Ghana and Lome, the capital of Togo. They are among the most mobile of West African peoples, Aŋlo beach seine fishing companies having for many years operated from beaches as far afield as Sierra Leone and Angola. In recent years, however, the governments of certain West African countries have ordered their removal in attempts to …
Divination and Face-Work
Introspective Witchcraft Among the Effutu of Southern Ghana
Pioneers of Ghanaian Pentecostalism: Peter Anim and James Mckeown
Some contradictions in missionizing
Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Beidelman (1974: 235-249) has argued cogently for a more systematic study of missions on the part of students of colonial societies and has indicated, in a preliminary fashion, several analytical themes which might provide a general theoretical framework for such a study. The present paper is not offered as a comment on Beidelman's overall scheme but has a somewhat narrower focus, addressing itself to two aspect…
On the Rationality of the Devout Opposition
Horton's argument is best understood in the context of the intellectualist approach to religion which he has developed in a number of highly stimulating articles.2 This approach, which owes its inspiration to such classical anthropologists as Tylor and Frazer, focusses upon belief rather than ritual practice, and is particularly concerned with the conscious religious thought-the intellectual efforts-of religious leaders and systematizers in tradi…
Ghanaian Spiritual and Traditional Healers' Explanations of Illness: A Preliminary Survey
Resultats d'une enquete sur l'etiologie des maladies selon les guerisseurs de Winneba, Ghana. Quarante guerisseurs spirituels, prophetes ou traditionnels furent interroges
Effutu Curing: Preliminary Survey of Traditional and Spiritist Healers
Books/Livres
Girding up the Loins: Missions and Missionaries in Colonial Africa
Perceptions of the Spiritist Churches: A Survey of Methodists and Roman Catholics in Winneba, Ghana
Domestic tourism revisited
Do the Effutu Really Believe That the Spirits Cause Illness? a Ghanaian Case Study
diagnostic and therapeutic actions are ultimately guided by various spirit-entities, to whom they stand in a special relationship as medium or earthly representative; and that while western medicine may suffice in the treatment of illnesses caused by natural agencies (nkratodobz), only their spiritually-informed expertise can offer cures for spiritually caused illnesses (sunsumtodobt). Interviews with 40 such healers revealed that while they clas…
Gods, Locals, and Strangers: The Effutu Aboakyer as Visitor Attraction
Hana revisited: Development and controversy in a Hawaiian tourism community
Not in our Backyard: Opposition to Tourism Development in A Hawaiian Community
The rapid growth of tourism in Maui. Hawaii has heightened anxieties about its possible spread outside the tourist areas along the island's west and south coasts. In an interior community an attempt was made by some residents to forestall future golf tourism development. To this end a campaign was mounted lo effect zoning changes on a possible site for a golfing resort This met with strong opposition, not only from the site owners, but also from …
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