Igor Kopytoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 84141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Igor Kopytoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Igor |
| FAMILY NAME | Kopytoff |
| SIGNATURE | KOPYTOFF I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 578 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ancestrais enquanto pessoas mais velhas do grupo de parentesco na África
traduzido deKOPYTOFF, Igor. Ancestors as Elders in Africa. Africa, v. 51, p. 129-142, 1971.tradutoras: Claudia Fioretti Bongianino / Denise Ferreira da Costarevisora: Juliana Braz Dias
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Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: The Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon
There is an evolutionary bias in the anthropological view of political development, a bias that makes it seem obvious that political forms should have moved from the simple to the complex. Thus, “chiefdoms” necessarily arose out of acephalous structures such as “bands,” usually in response to similar economic conjunctures, such as a rise in trade. And the chiefdom, unless mired in evolutionary stagnation, necessarily moved in the direction of the…
In the Shadow of History: The Passing of Lineage Society
Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka. Rene Devisch
Slaves & Slavery in Muslim Africa, Vol. 1, Islam and the Ideology of Slavery
The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. Claude Meillassoux
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies (Midland Books: No. 539)
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
The African Frontier. The Reproduction of African Societies
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
George Peter Murdock's Contributions To African Studies
Social Facts and Fabrications: Customary Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980
Public Culture: A Durkheimian Genealogy
Research Article| January 01 1988 Public Culture: A Durkheimian Genealogy Igor Kopytoff Igor Kopytoff Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 11–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Igor Kopytoff; Public Culture: A Durkheimian Genealogy. Public Culture 1 January 1988; 1 (1): 11–16. doi: https://d…
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
The cultural biography of things: Commoditization as process
For the economist, commodities simply are. That is, certain things and rights to things are produced, exist, and can be seen to circulate through the economic system as they are being exchanged for other things, usually in exchange for money. This view, of course, frames the commonsensical definition of a commodity: an item with use value that also has exchange value. I shall, for the moment, accept this definition, which should suffice for raisi…
Misspelling Names
Modern Kongo Prophets: Religion in a Plural Society. Wyatt Macgaffey
On the Viability of Sibling Marriages: A Comment on McCabe's Argument
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
The Politics of Elite Culture: Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society.Abner Cohen
Does Probability Equal Guilt
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volum…
Ancestors as Elders in Africa
Opening ParagraphAncestor cults and ancestor worship loom large in the anthropological image of sub-Saharan Africa and few would disagree with Fortes that 'comparatively viewed, African ancestor worship has a remarkably uniform structural framework' (Fortes, 1965: 122). The general pattern may be quickly summarized. Ancestors are vested with mystical powers and authority. They retain a functional role in the world of the living, specifically in t…
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies (Midland Books: No. 539)
Slavery in Africa
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies
Traditional Bamenda: The Pre-Colonial History and Ethnography of the Bamenda Grassfields
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Knowledge and belief in Suku thought
Opening ParagraphThis discussion grows out of an attempt to account for the presence among the Suku of Zaïre of a rather common but somewhat puzzling feature of African 'ancestor cults.' For all the importance of ancestors in African traditional life and thought, there is surprisingly little elaboration of the mode of their existence in the other world. In a masterly discussion of 'ancestor worship' in Africa, Fortes (1965: 126ff) notes this fact…
Matrilineality, Residence, and Residential Zones
The combination of matrilineal descent and patrilocal residence is regarded as inherently unstable by several theoretical models, notably Murdock (1949, 1959a, 1959b) and Lévi-Strauss (1949). The case of the Suku of Zaire is examined to lay bare the unwarranted assumptions in these models. The logic of existing residence terminology, which focuses on households, is found to be inappropriate to some problems concerning the relationship of residenc…
Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
On the Viability of Sibling Marriages: A Comment on McCabe's Argument
Ancestrais enquanto pessoas mais velhas do grupo de parentesco na África
traduzido deKOPYTOFF, Igor. Ancestors as Elders in Africa. Africa, v. 51, p. 129-142, 1971.tradutoras: Claudia Fioretti Bongianino / Denise Ferreira da Costarevisora: Juliana Braz Dias
The Research Climate in Francophone West Africa and Liberia (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association in June-July, 1967)
The mission was designed in part as a follow-up and in part as a complement to Professor Philip D. Curtin's research liaison visit to western Africa in 1965 on behalf of the Association. Senegal, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Tchad, and Cameroun were revisited. The previously unvisited Central African Republic, Dahomey, Niger, and Upper Volta were added to the itinerary. Difficulties in flight scheduling and unexpected delays during the trip ruled out th…
"The Mother's Brother in South Africa" Revisited
George Peter Murdock's Contributions To African Studies
Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo
Congo Disaster. Colin Legum
"The Mother's Brother in South Africa" Revisited
Other: The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780–1850. Philip D. Curtin
Ethnology and General: La Division du temps et le calendrier rituel des peuples lagunaires de Côte d'Ivoire. Georges Niangoran-Bouah
The Research Climate in Francophone West Africa and Liberia (Report on a Mission for the Research Liaison Committee of the African Studies Association in June-July, 1967)
The mission was designed in part as a follow-up and in part as a complement to Professor Philip D. Curtin's research liaison visit to western Africa in 1965 on behalf of the Association. Senegal, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Tchad, and Cameroun were revisited. The previously unvisited Central African Republic, Dahomey, Niger, and Upper Volta were added to the itinerary. Difficulties in flight scheduling and unexpected delays during the trip ruled out th…
Ethical Surveillance Committee
Ancestors as Elders in Africa
Opening ParagraphAncestor cults and ancestor worship loom large in the anthropological image of sub-Saharan Africa and few would disagree with Fortes that 'comparatively viewed, African ancestor worship has a remarkably uniform structural framework' (Fortes, 1965: 122). The general pattern may be quickly summarized. Ancestors are vested with mystical powers and authority. They retain a functional role in the world of the living, specifically in t…
Traditional Bamenda: The Pre-Colonial History and Ethnography of the Bamenda Grassfields
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volum…
Matrilineality, Residence, and Residential Zones
The combination of matrilineal descent and patrilocal residence is regarded as inherently unstable by several theoretical models, notably Murdock (1949, 1959a, 1959b) and Lévi-Strauss (1949). The case of the Suku of Zaire is examined to lay bare the unwarranted assumptions in these models. The logic of existing residence terminology, which focuses on households, is found to be inappropriate to some problems concerning the relationship of residenc…
Slavery in Africa
Slavery in Africa
AE Policy Queried
American Ethnologist Criticized
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Slavery in Africa
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Does Probability Equal Guilt
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Knowledge and belief in Suku thought
Opening ParagraphThis discussion grows out of an attempt to account for the presence among the Suku of Zaïre of a rather common but somewhat puzzling feature of African 'ancestor cults.' For all the importance of ancestors in African traditional life and thought, there is surprisingly little elaboration of the mode of their existence in the other world. In a masterly discussion of 'ancestor worship' in Africa, Fortes (1965: 126ff) notes this fact…
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
The Politics of Elite Culture: Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society.Abner Cohen
On the Viability of Sibling Marriages: A Comment on McCabe's Argument
Modern Kongo Prophets: Religion in a Plural Society. Wyatt Macgaffey
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