R G Abrahams
Biographic Data
| ID | 82675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R G Abrahams |
| GIVEN NAMES | R G |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrahams |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAMS R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Structural Functionalism
Structural functionalism is a variety of functionalism that came to the fore in social anthropology and sociology in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Its most direct roots lie in Durkheim's work. Its main focus is on forms of social structure and on the functions of institutions and customs for the persistence of social systems. Radcliffe‐Brown was the key figure in this development, and he attracted a following of scholars who were dissatisfied with…
Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies: Death, mourning and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer – By Lesley A. Sharp
John Arundel Barnes (1918-2010)
Aidan Southall (1921-2009)
Society for the Anthropology of Europe: Anthropology and the Inner Frontiers of the State
After Socialism: Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe
Land Tenure and Citizenship in Tazlar (Hungary) * Responses to 'Democratic' land reforms in a Bulgarian Village * The Privatisation and Transformation of Polish Agriculture - New Conflicts and Divisions * The Transition in Hungarian Agriculture 1990-1993 General Tendencies, Background Factors and the Case of the 'Golden Age' * Restitution of Property and Land in the Estonian Countryside: the case of Puka Village * Redefining Women's Work in Rural…
Women and Rural Development in Contemporary Estonia
A great deal has been written in recent years concerning the role and changing status of women in the context of rural development, and especially in the countries of the so-called Third World. Attention has been paid to the impact of cash-cropping and labour migration upon rural women (cf. Boserup, 1970: ch.3 and passim; Murray, 1981), to the failure of development agencies properly to appreciate their role in agriculture (cf. Swantz, 1985; Nels…
The re-generation of family farming in Estonia
L'A. etudie le milieu rural estonien des annees 1991-1992. Il montre qu'avec la Perestroika vers la fin des annees 1980 puis l'independance en 1991 de nombreuses exploitations familiales ont pu voir le jour. Celles-ci ont pu s'approprier les anciennes terres des fermes collectives et des fermes d'Etat. L'A. montre que des conflits d'interets n'ont pas tarde a opposer ces dernieres aux nouveaux proprietaires ce qui a paralyse la mise en place de r…
Sauna as Symbol: Society and Culture in Finland
Contents: The sauna as a window onto Finnish culture and society - Exploration of the Finnish world view and personality as well as the specific sauna rituals
A Place of Their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland
Virgin Births and Sterile Debates: Anthropology and the New Reproductive Technologies
This article explores the anthropological debate surrounding new reproductive technologies (NRTs). It critiques the tendency within anthropology to focus on the sociocultural implications of NRTs through the lens of kinship, thereby neglecting the embodied experiences of women and the broader political-economic context. The authors argue that the focus on "virgin births" and the supposed disruption of traditional kinship structures obscures the c…
A Place of their Own: Family Farming in Eastern Finland
Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Subjects treated include marriage and the family, work and mechanization, succession to farms, and the paradoxical combination of fierce individualism and co-operation. Two major themes of the book are t…
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Chaos and Kachin
Law and order and the state in the Nyamwezi and Sukuma area of Tanzania
IntroductionThe Nyamwezi and Sukuma area of Tanzania covers about 50,000 square miles from Lake Victoria in the north to the southern edges of Tabora District. The area probably contains between 4 and 5 million people, about one fifth of the total Tanzanian mainland population. The two peoples speak regional variants of a single language-the name Sukuma simply meant 'northerners' originally-and they share many common social structural and cultura…
Heating, lighting and a decent funeral: Wills and contracts among Finnish farming families
The paper examines succession practices on eastern Finnish farms through an analysis of the use of wills and other documents of transfer. Wills are relatively rarely used, and the most important documents are contracts inter vivos between parents and children and between siblings. Such documents, with their detailed and precise conditions and provisions, may appear to mark the invasion of the family by the form and spirit of legal rationality and…
Dual Classification Reconsidered: Nyamwezi Sacred Kingship and Other Examples
The Political Development of Uganda: 1900-1986
Sungusungu: Village Vigilante Groups in Tanzania
Journal Article SUNGUSUNGU: VILLAGE VIGILANTE GROUPS IN TANZANIA Get access RAY ABRAHAMS RAY ABRAHAMS Ray Abrahams is a Fellow of Churchill College and Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He undertook research in Tanzania in early 1986 and is grateful to the Department of Sociology of the University of Dar es Salaam, the British Council, Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, Shell Exploration and the LRDC team in T…
Villagers, Villages, and the State in Modern Tanzania
Anthropological Contributions to Planned Change and Development
Villagers, Villages, and the State in Modern Tanzania
Anthropology Among One's Affines
Dual organisation in Labwor
Family, farm and wider society: The Finnish case
1985). Family, farm and wider society: The Finnish case. Ethnos: Vol. 50, No. 1-2, pp. 40-59
Sungusungu: Village Vigilante Groups in Tanzania
Journal Article SUNGUSUNGU: VILLAGE VIGILANTE GROUPS IN TANZANIA Get access RAY ABRAHAMS RAY ABRAHAMS Ray Abrahams is a Fellow of Churchill College and Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. He undertook research in Tanzania in early 1986 and is grateful to the Department of Sociology of the University of Dar es Salaam, the British Council, Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, Shell Exploration and the LRDC team in T…
A State in the Making: Myth, History and Social Transformation in Pre-Colonial Ufipa
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
After Socialism: Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe
Land Tenure and Citizenship in Tazlar (Hungary) * Responses to 'Democratic' land reforms in a Bulgarian Village * The Privatisation and Transformation of Polish Agriculture - New Conflicts and Divisions * The Transition in Hungarian Agriculture 1990-1993 General Tendencies, Background Factors and the Case of the 'Golden Age' * Restitution of Property and Land in the Estonian Countryside: the case of Puka Village * Redefining Women's Work in Rural…
African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town
Journal Article African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town Get access African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town. By Joan Vincent. New York, London: Columbia University Press. 1971. 309 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.95. R. G. Abrahams R. G. Abrahams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1973, Pages 483–484, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616888 Published: 01 July 1973
The Political Development of Uganda: 1900-1986
Essays in Sudan Ethnography
Virgin Births and Sterile Debates: Anthropology and the New Reproductive Technologies
This article explores the anthropological debate surrounding new reproductive technologies (NRTs). It critiques the tendency within anthropology to focus on the sociocultural implications of NRTs through the lens of kinship, thereby neglecting the embodied experiences of women and the broader political-economic context. The authors argue that the focus on "virgin births" and the supposed disruption of traditional kinship structures obscures the c…
Law and order and the state in the Nyamwezi and Sukuma area of Tanzania
IntroductionThe Nyamwezi and Sukuma area of Tanzania covers about 50,000 square miles from Lake Victoria in the north to the southern edges of Tabora District. The area probably contains between 4 and 5 million people, about one fifth of the total Tanzanian mainland population. The two peoples speak regional variants of a single language-the name Sukuma simply meant 'northerners' originally-and they share many common social structural and cultura…
Villagers, Villages, and the State in Modern Tanzania
Neighbourhood Organization: A Major Sub-System among the Northern Nyamwezi
Opening ParagraphRelations between neighbours simply in their capacity as neighbours rather than as kinsfolk, age-mates, or fellow subjects of a chief or headman have received relatively little consideration in the study of African tribal societies. In many cases this has clearly been determined by the nature of the ethnographic data. At least in the East African area, however, a concentration upon other principles of social organization seems oc…
On the Frontier of Change: Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania
Sauna as Symbol: Society and Culture in Finland
Contents: The sauna as a window onto Finnish culture and society - Exploration of the Finnish world view and personality as well as the specific sauna rituals
Anthropological Contributions to Planned Change and Development
The Nyamwezi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970's
The people and their country 2. Political organisation: local government and justice in the national frame 3. The village 4. Marriage and kinship 5. The Nyamwezi in the wider world Notes References Index
Chiefship in Western Tanzania: A political history of the Kimbu
Journal Article Chiefship in Western Tanzania: a political history of the Kimbu Get access Chiefship in Western Tanzania: a political history of the Kimbu, by Aylward Shorter. OUP, 1972. 439 pp. £7·50. RAY ABRAHAMS RAY ABRAHAMS Cambridge University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 288, July 1973, Pages 341–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096397 Published:…
The Peoples of Greater Unyamwezi
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and has a population of 400,000. Dr Abrahams outlines the social and economic framework and examines the origins of the modern political system. He then discusses the internal organization of Nyamwezi chiefdoms and villages and the emergence of national politics. The theoretical and comparative implicat…
Anthropology Among One's Affines
The Nyamwezi Today
Dual Classification Reconsidered: Nyamwezi Sacred Kingship and Other Examples
Tradition and Transition in East Africa: Studies of the Tribal Element in the Modern Era
Aidan Southall (1921-2009)
Women and Rural Development in Contemporary Estonia
A great deal has been written in recent years concerning the role and changing status of women in the context of rural development, and especially in the countries of the so-called Third World. Attention has been paid to the impact of cash-cropping and labour migration upon rural women (cf. Boserup, 1970: ch.3 and passim; Murray, 1981), to the failure of development agencies properly to appreciate their role in agriculture (cf. Swantz, 1985; Nels…
The re-generation of family farming in Estonia
L'A. etudie le milieu rural estonien des annees 1991-1992. Il montre qu'avec la Perestroika vers la fin des annees 1980 puis l'independance en 1991 de nombreuses exploitations familiales ont pu voir le jour. Celles-ci ont pu s'approprier les anciennes terres des fermes collectives et des fermes d'Etat. L'A. montre que des conflits d'interets n'ont pas tarde a opposer ces dernieres aux nouveaux proprietaires ce qui a paralyse la mise en place de r…
Neighbourhood Organization: A Major Sub-System among the Northern Nyamwezi
Opening ParagraphRelations between neighbours simply in their capacity as neighbours rather than as kinsfolk, age-mates, or fellow subjects of a chief or headman have received relatively little consideration in the study of African tribal societies. In many cases this has clearly been determined by the nature of the ethnographic data. At least in the East African area, however, a concentration upon other principles of social organization seems oc…
History of East Africa 2
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and has a population of 400,000. Dr Abrahams outlines the social and economic framework and examines the origins of the modern political system. He then discusses the internal organization of Nyamwezi chiefdoms and villages and the emergence of national politics. The theoretical and comparative implicat…
The Peoples of Greater Unyamwezi
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
Tribesmen
Gray's Review of The Peoples of Greater Unyamwezi: A Comment
The Peoples of Greater Unyamwezi, Tanzania (Nyamwesi, Sukuma, Sumbwa, Kimbu, Konongo)
Tradition and Transition in East Africa: Studies of the Tribal Element in the Modern Era
African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town
Journal Article African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town Get access African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town. By Joan Vincent. New York, London: Columbia University Press. 1971. 309 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.95. R. G. Abrahams R. G. Abrahams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1973, Pages 483–484, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616888 Published: 01 July 1973
Chiefship in Western Tanzania: A political history of the Kimbu
Journal Article Chiefship in Western Tanzania: a political history of the Kimbu Get access Chiefship in Western Tanzania: a political history of the Kimbu, by Aylward Shorter. OUP, 1972. 439 pp. £7·50. RAY ABRAHAMS RAY ABRAHAMS Cambridge University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 288, July 1973, Pages 341–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096397 Published:…
Some Aspects of Levirate
‘Siblingship does not cancel out the uniqueness of the individual’ (Fortes, 1949 a p. 243). The levirate has long been a popular ingredient in the anthropological stockpot of exotic kinship institutions. For Frazer and others it provided evidence of ancient forms of group marriage which they, paradoxically, did not live long enough to see, and for some its main interest lay, apparently, in the discovery of Old Testament custom in the more remote …
Occasional Papers in African Traditional Religion and Philosophy. Volumes I to VI
Elders, Shades, and Women: Ceremonial Change in Lango, Uganda
Essays in Sudan Ethnography
Time and Village Structure in Northern Unyamwezi: An Examination of Social and Ecological Factors affecting the Development and Decline of Local Communities
IntroductionIn October 1974 I returned to the Kahama District of Tanzania for a further period of research in northern Unyamwezi where I had previously worked between late 1957 and early 1960. The present paper arises from a consideration of the implications of two facts which impressed me strongly on this second visit. The first of these was that a substantial number of the homestead heads who had been my neighbours in the village of Butumwa for…
L'Intronisation d'un Mwami. By Pascal Ndayishinguje, and La Royauté Capture les Rois . By Jean-Pierre Chrétien. Nanterre: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative1977. 73 p., maps, photog…
L'Intronisation d'un Mwami. By Pascal Ndayishinguje, and La Royauté Capture les Rois. By Jean-Pierre Chrétien. Nanterre: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative1977. 73 p., maps, photographs, bibl. - Volume 50 Issue 2
On the Frontier of Change: Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania
The Nyamwezi Today
A State in the Making: Myth, History and Social Transformation in Pre-Colonial Ufipa
The Nyamwezi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970's
The people and their country 2. Political organisation: local government and justice in the national frame 3. The village 4. Marriage and kinship 5. The Nyamwezi in the wider world Notes References Index
The Nyamwezi Today
Professor Meyer Fortes 1906-83
Dry Grain Farming Families contains so many errors of fact that I ask your permission to correct, as an example, a single instance.She says that in Karnataka I did not use the village land records but obtained all my figures from interviews.But such records indeed formed the basis of the statistics I published relating to land-holdings, although they were amended to some small extent where this was possible-e.g.where a father had redistributed hi…
Family, farm and wider society: The Finnish case
1985). Family, farm and wider society: The Finnish case. Ethnos: Vol. 50, No. 1-2, pp. 40-59
Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship
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