Neal Sobania
Biographic Data
| ID | 96709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neal Sobania |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neal |
| FAMILY NAME | Sobania |
| SIGNATURE | SOBANIA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hope College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feasts, Famines and Friends: Nineteenth Century Exchange and Ethnicity in the Eastern Lake Turkana Region 1
This chapter offers a description of the processes among the peoples of the Eastern Lake Turkana basin in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It provides a general picture of the social and ecological environment of the region. The chapter considers the networks of trade and exchange that operated across the region. It examines the bond relationships that linked individuals within certain societies and permitted links to be constructed be…
The formation of ethnic identity in South Omo: The Dassenech
The traditional history of the Dassenech is based almost entirely on oral sources. An amalgam of peoples who identify themselves as members of territorial sections, clans and sub-clans, the Dassenech came together as a people over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper reviews these various traditions and notes the particular role played by environmental and ecological disasters in causing individuals, families and…
Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting
March 01 2009 Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting Neal Sobania, Neal Sobania Neal Sobania is a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University and executive director of the Wang Center for International Programs. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman is professor of a…
The Truth Be Told: Stereoscopic Photographs, Interviews and Oral Tradition from Mount Kenya
Popular representations of Africa are ever-present, and their historical roots many. A little studied source of these representations is the stereoscopic slide, which was hugely popular in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth and into the first few decades of the twentieth century. This article examines a set of stereoscopic images taken of the Kikuyu near Mt. Kenya c. 1909. After a brief introduction to place this form of home e…
Mining a Mother Lode: Early European Travel Literature and the History of Precious Metalworking in Highland Ethiopia
Our primary concern in this essay is with reconstructing the history of material culture. As anyone who has ever looked into the material culture of Ethiopia quickly discovers, the travel accounts of early European visitors can be a rich and varied source for illuminating any number of such traditions, including those of metal-, leather-, basket-, and woodworking, as well as pottery, weaving, and painting. Dating from the first part of the sixtee…
Culture and Customs of Kenya (Culture and Customs of Africa)
An in-depth survey of the history, culture, and customs of Kenya
Culture and Customes of Kenya
But Where Are the Cattle? Popular Images of Maasai and Zulu across the Twentieth Century
Images of the Maasai and Zulu have served to represent alternative sides of the Other in popular depictions of Africa. The printing and marketing of collectable trade cards and stereographs at the end of the nineteenth century until the release of popular films and coffee-table books at the end of the twentieth century has ensured that this pattern of representation/misrepresentation of Maasai and Zulu culture continues to be taught and reinforce…
Okiek Portraits: A Kenyan People Look at Themselves
The Maasai of Matapato: A Study of Rituals of Rebellion
Journal Article The Maasai of Matapato: a study of rituals of rebellion Get access The Maasai of Matapato: a study of rituals of rebellion, by Paul Spencer. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, Manchester, 1988. xii+297 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 07190 25540. NEAL SOBANIA NEAL SOBANIA Hope CollegeMichigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 355, …
Fishermen Herders: Subsistence, Survival and Cultural Change in Northern Kenya
This article examines the unique role played by fishing, hunting and gathering groups in the survival strategy of the pastoralist societies in whose midst they live. During periods of extreme adversity, these groups acted as a refuge for destitute herdsmen and their households by absorbing population in periods of hardship and releasing individuals back into pastoralism when conditions once again allowed the accumulation of stock. Extensive quota…
Pastoral partners: Affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia
Journal Article Pastoral partners: affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia Get access Pastoral partners: affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia, by Uri Almagor. Manchester University Press, 1978. xii+258pp, maps, bibliography, index. NEAL SOBANIA NEAL SOBANIA School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
Fishermen Herders: Subsistence, Survival and Cultural Change in Northern Kenya
This article examines the unique role played by fishing, hunting and gathering groups in the survival strategy of the pastoralist societies in whose midst they live. During periods of extreme adversity, these groups acted as a refuge for destitute herdsmen and their households by absorbing population in periods of hardship and releasing individuals back into pastoralism when conditions once again allowed the accumulation of stock. Extensive quota…
But Where Are the Cattle? Popular Images of Maasai and Zulu across the Twentieth Century
Images of the Maasai and Zulu have served to represent alternative sides of the Other in popular depictions of Africa. The printing and marketing of collectable trade cards and stereographs at the end of the nineteenth century until the release of popular films and coffee-table books at the end of the twentieth century has ensured that this pattern of representation/misrepresentation of Maasai and Zulu culture continues to be taught and reinforce…
The formation of ethnic identity in South Omo: The Dassenech
The traditional history of the Dassenech is based almost entirely on oral sources. An amalgam of peoples who identify themselves as members of territorial sections, clans and sub-clans, the Dassenech came together as a people over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper reviews these various traditions and notes the particular role played by environmental and ecological disasters in causing individuals, families and…
Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting
March 01 2009 Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting Neal Sobania, Neal Sobania Neal Sobania is a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University and executive director of the Wang Center for International Programs. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman is professor of a…
The Truth Be Told: Stereoscopic Photographs, Interviews and Oral Tradition from Mount Kenya
Popular representations of Africa are ever-present, and their historical roots many. A little studied source of these representations is the stereoscopic slide, which was hugely popular in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth and into the first few decades of the twentieth century. This article examines a set of stereoscopic images taken of the Kikuyu near Mt. Kenya c. 1909. After a brief introduction to place this form of home e…
Mining a Mother Lode: Early European Travel Literature and the History of Precious Metalworking in Highland Ethiopia
Our primary concern in this essay is with reconstructing the history of material culture. As anyone who has ever looked into the material culture of Ethiopia quickly discovers, the travel accounts of early European visitors can be a rich and varied source for illuminating any number of such traditions, including those of metal-, leather-, basket-, and woodworking, as well as pottery, weaving, and painting. Dating from the first part of the sixtee…
Pastoral partners: Affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia
Journal Article Pastoral partners: affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia Get access Pastoral partners: affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of South-West Ethiopia, by Uri Almagor. Manchester University Press, 1978. xii+258pp, maps, bibliography, index. NEAL SOBANIA NEAL SOBANIA School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
Fishermen Herders: Subsistence, Survival and Cultural Change in Northern Kenya
This article examines the unique role played by fishing, hunting and gathering groups in the survival strategy of the pastoralist societies in whose midst they live. During periods of extreme adversity, these groups acted as a refuge for destitute herdsmen and their households by absorbing population in periods of hardship and releasing individuals back into pastoralism when conditions once again allowed the accumulation of stock. Extensive quota…
The Maasai of Matapato: A Study of Rituals of Rebellion
Journal Article The Maasai of Matapato: a study of rituals of rebellion Get access The Maasai of Matapato: a study of rituals of rebellion, by Paul Spencer. Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, Manchester, 1988. xii+297 pp. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 07190 25540. NEAL SOBANIA NEAL SOBANIA Hope CollegeMichigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 355, …
Okiek Portraits: A Kenyan People Look at Themselves
But Where Are the Cattle? Popular Images of Maasai and Zulu across the Twentieth Century
Images of the Maasai and Zulu have served to represent alternative sides of the Other in popular depictions of Africa. The printing and marketing of collectable trade cards and stereographs at the end of the nineteenth century until the release of popular films and coffee-table books at the end of the twentieth century has ensured that this pattern of representation/misrepresentation of Maasai and Zulu culture continues to be taught and reinforce…
Culture and Customs of Kenya (Culture and Customs of Africa)
An in-depth survey of the history, culture, and customs of Kenya
Culture and Customes of Kenya
Mining a Mother Lode: Early European Travel Literature and the History of Precious Metalworking in Highland Ethiopia
Our primary concern in this essay is with reconstructing the history of material culture. As anyone who has ever looked into the material culture of Ethiopia quickly discovers, the travel accounts of early European visitors can be a rich and varied source for illuminating any number of such traditions, including those of metal-, leather-, basket-, and woodworking, as well as pottery, weaving, and painting. Dating from the first part of the sixtee…
The Truth Be Told: Stereoscopic Photographs, Interviews and Oral Tradition from Mount Kenya
Popular representations of Africa are ever-present, and their historical roots many. A little studied source of these representations is the stereoscopic slide, which was hugely popular in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth and into the first few decades of the twentieth century. This article examines a set of stereoscopic images taken of the Kikuyu near Mt. Kenya c. 1909. After a brief introduction to place this form of home e…
Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting
March 01 2009 Icons of Devotion/Icons of Trade: Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary “Traditional” Ethiopian Painting Neal Sobania, Neal Sobania Neal Sobania is a professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University and executive director of the Wang Center for International Programs. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman Raymond Silverman is professor of a…
The formation of ethnic identity in South Omo: The Dassenech
The traditional history of the Dassenech is based almost entirely on oral sources. An amalgam of peoples who identify themselves as members of territorial sections, clans and sub-clans, the Dassenech came together as a people over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper reviews these various traditions and notes the particular role played by environmental and ecological disasters in causing individuals, families and…
Feasts, Famines and Friends: Nineteenth Century Exchange and Ethnicity in the Eastern Lake Turkana Region 1
This chapter offers a description of the processes among the peoples of the Eastern Lake Turkana basin in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It provides a general picture of the social and ecological environment of the region. The chapter considers the networks of trade and exchange that operated across the region. It examines the bond relationships that linked individuals within certain societies and permitted links to be constructed be…
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