M C Jedrej
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 99194 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M C Jedrej |
| PRENOMES | M C |
| SOBRENOME | Jedrej |
| ASSINATURA | JEDREJ M C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Southern Funj of the Sudan under Anglo-Egyptian Rule 1900–1933
This paper reviews political and administrative developments in the southern Funj, a region on the Ethiopian borderlands of the Sudan, during the first thirty years of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. It arises out of historical and ethnographic research among the people of the Ingessana Hills, one of a diverse congeries of small ethnic groups in the region. Ingessana culture was not the outcome of a self-contained history detached and isolated fr…
The Southern Funj of the Sudan as a Frontier Society, 1820-1980
The long civil war in the Sudan between the government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is usually simply described as a war between 'the Arab North' and 'the African South.' Equally simply, it is understood as a continuation, by new means and in new circumstances, of nineteenth-century and earlier inequalities between free people and unfree people, and of hostilities between slavers and those they preyed upon. In the twentieth…
The Manasir of Northern Sudan
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. John Burdick. New York: Routledge, 1998. vii. 246 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Ingessana and the Legacy of the Funj Sultanate
From a perspective based in ethnographic research this article reviews the historical evidence relating to the social organisation of the southern Funj in the Sudan during the nineteenth century. It goes beyond a characterisation of the region as one of pagan 'tribes' more or less successful in resisting subordination by a sophisticated Islamic state to discern a complexity of varied political relations radiating from an elite in a few regional c…
Ingessana. The Religious Institutions of a People of the Sudan-Ethiopia Borderland
Ingessana presents the results of field research carried out in the Ingessana Hills area of Sudan, between the White and the Blue Niles, among a people who maintain a proud tradition of cultural independence. The book examines the religious institutions of the Ingessana people, attempting to understand how their history and development has been affected by interaction with powerful neighbours, such as the Islamic Sudanese, Nilotics and Ethiopian …
Nuer Prophets
I: PRELUDE 1. 'The Hammer of the Kujurs': Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions 2. Deng and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral Community II: PROPHETS 3. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier 4. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet 5. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed 6. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition 7. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western Homeland III…
Incomers And Locals
Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa
This book explores dream discourse in the negotiation of specialist identity among Zezuru (Zimbabwe), Temne (Sierra Leone), Igbo (Nigeria) and Tukolor (Senegal); in everyday life among Berti (Sudan), Yansi (Zaire) and Ingessana (Sudan); and in the construction of Christian experience in nineteenth-century Yoruba history (Nigeria) and in independent African churches
My Father the Spirit Priest
Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa
Body and Space
The Listening Ebony
Mende Religion
Les Masa du Tchad
Coping with Hunger
Journal Article Coping with Hunger: hazard and experiment in an African rice-farming system Get access Coping with Hunger: hazard and experiment in an African rice-farming system, by Paul Richards. The London Research Series in Geography No. 11. Allen and Unwin, London, 1986. xii+176pp. £20.00 hardback. ISBN 0 04 333025 8. M. C. JEDREJ M. C. JEDREJ University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
Priests and Power. The Case of the Dente Shrine in Nineteenth Century Ghana
The Anthropology of Evil
Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. That, at any rate, is substantially the western Christianity (and pre--Christian) view. Yet the different societies have opt…
Jackals, Vultures and Dirty Bodies
THE people who live in the Ingessana Hills, an outcrop of mountains between the White and Blue Niles near the Ethiopian borderlands in the Sudan, have a rich tradition of music, dance, poetry and songs. Certain dances annd musical instruments can only be played at certain seasons of the year, and other dances and instruments are prohibited until their time comes round. Some men can acquire reputations as poets and musicians, and only a few of the…
Dan and Mende masks
Opening ParagraphThe masks and associated traditions of the people of the central Guinea coast of West Africa are among the most obvious and well-known features of the contemporary cultural landscape of the region. For some time social anthropologists have described the functions of the masks as social control mechanisms (Horton, 1976). Recently anthropologists have been elucidating these cultural items in terms of symbolic or structural analyses…
The Language of Secrecy
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
The Growth and Decline of a Mechanical Agriculture Scheme in West Africa
THIS ARTICLE describes the beginnings, development and failure after 25 years of a large scale mechanical cultivation scheme in Sierra Leone, West Africa. An examination of the decline shows that it was not due to technical factors, either mechanical or agricultural, peculiar to the tropics. There were, of course, from the beginning trials and experiments to find the most suitable equipment and techniques but this is typical of agricultural mecha…
A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia
Frazer's theory of masks, that they are attempts at a realistic and therefore effective representation of the gods, is probably the most widely, if somewhat reluctantly, held view. Attempts at an alternative specification of the essential nature of the mask are rare, and even less convincing than Frazer's. This article presents a comparative analysis of masks from Zuni, Banyang, Mende, Ndembu, and Umeda, which suggests that the only thing they al…
Some Structural Features of Ingessana Marriage and Affinity
Opening ParagraphThe Ingessana represent one of the archaic pre-Nilotic cultures on the Sudanese margins of the Western Ethiopian highlands and may be regarded as belonging to that complex of 'montagnards paléonigritiques' extending west by way of, among others, the Nuba Mountain peoples, the Hadjeray in Chad and the numerous hill dwelling peoples of northern Nigeria. The customs with which this article is primarily concerned, such as the avuncul…
Structural Aspects of a West African Secret Society
Secret societies in West Africa have largely been considered from the point of view of their social function. In this article an analysis is made of the relevant collective representations from a structural standpoint. It is argued that this is not as innovatory as current debate might suggest but is implicit in the work of a number of authors. The Sande society initiation ceremonial is examined in relation to three dominant dimensions: that of p…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
Body and Space
Medicine, fetish and secret society in a West African culture
Opening ParagraphCertain aspects of van Gennep's (1908) analysis of the structure of ritual symbolism have in recent years been elaborated by E. R. Leach in a series of articles dealing with such topics as magic, the symbolism of time as well as initiation rites. This development has followed two related courses. Firstly, Leach has tended to emphasize the critical significance of rites of separation rather than van Gennep's overall schema involvi…
The Language of Secrecy
Structural Aspects of a West African Secret Society
Secret societies in West Africa have largely been considered from the point of view of their social function. In this article an analysis is made of the relevant collective representations from a structural standpoint. It is argued that this is not as innovatory as current debate might suggest but is implicit in the work of a number of authors. The Sande society initiation ceremonial is examined in relation to three dominant dimensions: that of p…
A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia
Frazer's theory of masks, that they are attempts at a realistic and therefore effective representation of the gods, is probably the most widely, if somewhat reluctantly, held view. Attempts at an alternative specification of the essential nature of the mask are rare, and even less convincing than Frazer's. This article presents a comparative analysis of masks from Zuni, Banyang, Mende, Ndembu, and Umeda, which suggests that the only thing they al…
An Analytical Note on the Land and Spirits of the Sewa Mende
Opening Paragraph The aim of this article is to interpret and understand certain Sewa Mende socio-spatial categories and at the same time to attempt to reveal an order in the otherwise confusing complex of supernatural spirits. This limited aim may be justified in so far as the Mende are among the most documented of West African societies, and yet an examination of the principal works (Little, 1951; Harris and Sawyerr, 1968) would suggest that Me…
Priests and Power. The Case of the Dente Shrine in Nineteenth Century Ghana
Dan and Mende masks
Opening ParagraphThe masks and associated traditions of the people of the central Guinea coast of West Africa are among the most obvious and well-known features of the contemporary cultural landscape of the region. For some time social anthropologists have described the functions of the masks as social control mechanisms (Horton, 1976). Recently anthropologists have been elucidating these cultural items in terms of symbolic or structural analyses…
Mende Religion
Ingessana and the Legacy of the Funj Sultanate
From a perspective based in ethnographic research this article reviews the historical evidence relating to the social organisation of the southern Funj in the Sudan during the nineteenth century. It goes beyond a characterisation of the region as one of pagan 'tribes' more or less successful in resisting subordination by a sophisticated Islamic state to discern a complexity of varied political relations radiating from an elite in a few regional c…
The Southern Funj of the Sudan as a Frontier Society, 1820-1980
The long civil war in the Sudan between the government and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is usually simply described as a war between 'the Arab North' and 'the African South.' Equally simply, it is understood as a continuation, by new means and in new circumstances, of nineteenth-century and earlier inequalities between free people and unfree people, and of hostilities between slavers and those they preyed upon. In the twentieth…
Some Structural Features of Ingessana Marriage and Affinity
Opening ParagraphThe Ingessana represent one of the archaic pre-Nilotic cultures on the Sudanese margins of the Western Ethiopian highlands and may be regarded as belonging to that complex of 'montagnards paléonigritiques' extending west by way of, among others, the Nuba Mountain peoples, the Hadjeray in Chad and the numerous hill dwelling peoples of northern Nigeria. The customs with which this article is primarily concerned, such as the avuncul…
Incomers And Locals
The Growth and Decline of a Mechanical Agriculture Scheme in West Africa
THIS ARTICLE describes the beginnings, development and failure after 25 years of a large scale mechanical cultivation scheme in Sierra Leone, West Africa. An examination of the decline shows that it was not due to technical factors, either mechanical or agricultural, peculiar to the tropics. There were, of course, from the beginning trials and experiments to find the most suitable equipment and techniques but this is typical of agricultural mecha…
An Analytical Note on the Land and Spirits of the Sewa Mende
Opening Paragraph The aim of this article is to interpret and understand certain Sewa Mende socio-spatial categories and at the same time to attempt to reveal an order in the otherwise confusing complex of supernatural spirits. This limited aim may be justified in so far as the Mende are among the most documented of West African societies, and yet an examination of the principal works (Little, 1951; Harris and Sawyerr, 1968) would suggest that Me…
Structural Aspects of a West African Secret Society
Secret societies in West Africa have largely been considered from the point of view of their social function. In this article an analysis is made of the relevant collective representations from a structural standpoint. It is argued that this is not as innovatory as current debate might suggest but is implicit in the work of a number of authors. The Sande society initiation ceremonial is examined in relation to three dominant dimensions: that of p…
Medicine, fetish and secret society in a West African culture
Opening ParagraphCertain aspects of van Gennep's (1908) analysis of the structure of ritual symbolism have in recent years been elaborated by E. R. Leach in a series of articles dealing with such topics as magic, the symbolism of time as well as initiation rites. This development has followed two related courses. Firstly, Leach has tended to emphasize the critical significance of rites of separation rather than van Gennep's overall schema involvi…
Some Structural Features of Ingessana Marriage and Affinity
Opening ParagraphThe Ingessana represent one of the archaic pre-Nilotic cultures on the Sudanese margins of the Western Ethiopian highlands and may be regarded as belonging to that complex of 'montagnards paléonigritiques' extending west by way of, among others, the Nuba Mountain peoples, the Hadjeray in Chad and the numerous hill dwelling peoples of northern Nigeria. The customs with which this article is primarily concerned, such as the avuncul…
A Comparison of Some Masks from North America, Africa, and Melanesia
Frazer's theory of masks, that they are attempts at a realistic and therefore effective representation of the gods, is probably the most widely, if somewhat reluctantly, held view. Attempts at an alternative specification of the essential nature of the mask are rare, and even less convincing than Frazer's. This article presents a comparative analysis of masks from Zuni, Banyang, Mende, Ndembu, and Umeda, which suggests that the only thing they al…
Reading The Nuer [and Comments and Reply]
The argument of Evans-Pritchard's classic The Nuer has been subject to conflicting interpretations. We examine these interpretations and then present a reading of the work that treats it as a whole. A key conclusion is that Evans-Pritchard distinguishes among three aspects of the "systems" he describes: (1) logical possibilities immanent in all forms of action, (2) cultural or local idioms in terms of which action is formulated and expressed, and…
The Growth and Decline of a Mechanical Agriculture Scheme in West Africa
THIS ARTICLE describes the beginnings, development and failure after 25 years of a large scale mechanical cultivation scheme in Sierra Leone, West Africa. An examination of the decline shows that it was not due to technical factors, either mechanical or agricultural, peculiar to the tropics. There were, of course, from the beginning trials and experiments to find the most suitable equipment and techniques but this is typical of agricultural mecha…
The Language of Secrecy
Jackals, Vultures and Dirty Bodies
THE people who live in the Ingessana Hills, an outcrop of mountains between the White and Blue Niles near the Ethiopian borderlands in the Sudan, have a rich tradition of music, dance, poetry and songs. Certain dances annd musical instruments can only be played at certain seasons of the year, and other dances and instruments are prohibited until their time comes round. Some men can acquire reputations as poets and musicians, and only a few of the…
Dan and Mende masks
Opening ParagraphThe masks and associated traditions of the people of the central Guinea coast of West Africa are among the most obvious and well-known features of the contemporary cultural landscape of the region. For some time social anthropologists have described the functions of the masks as social control mechanisms (Horton, 1976). Recently anthropologists have been elucidating these cultural items in terms of symbolic or structural analyses…
Coping with Hunger
Journal Article Coping with Hunger: hazard and experiment in an African rice-farming system Get access Coping with Hunger: hazard and experiment in an African rice-farming system, by Paul Richards. The London Research Series in Geography No. 11. Allen and Unwin, London, 1986. xii+176pp. £20.00 hardback. ISBN 0 04 333025 8. M. C. JEDREJ M. C. JEDREJ University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Afr…
Priests and Power. The Case of the Dente Shrine in Nineteenth Century Ghana
The Anthropology of Evil
Evil may be said to be shadowy, mysterious, covert, and associated with night, darkness, secrecy. It is a force acting to destroy the integrity, happiness and welfare of a normala society. It is at once the cause and the explanation of misfortune, of the wretchedness of human existence, and of our own individual wrongdoing. That, at any rate, is substantially the western Christianity (and pre--Christian) view. Yet the different societies have opt…
Les Masa du Tchad
The Listening Ebony
Mende Religion
Body and Space
Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa
Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa
This book explores dream discourse in the negotiation of specialist identity among Zezuru (Zimbabwe), Temne (Sierra Leone), Igbo (Nigeria) and Tukolor (Senegal); in everyday life among Berti (Sudan), Yansi (Zaire) and Ingessana (Sudan); and in the construction of Christian experience in nineteenth-century Yoruba history (Nigeria) and in independent African churches
My Father the Spirit Priest
Incomers And Locals
Nuer Prophets
I: PRELUDE 1. 'The Hammer of the Kujurs': Government, Ethnography, and Nilotic Religions 2. Deng and Aiwel: Elements of the Prophetic Idiom and Definition of the Moral Community II: PROPHETS 3. Ngundeng: Prophetic Inspiration on the Eastern Frontier 4. Deng Laka: A Pragmatic Prophet 5. Guek Ngundeng and the Minor Prophets: Divinity Dispersed 6. Dual Diu and the Continuity of a Prophetic Tradition 7. Prophetic Rivalries in the Western Homeland III…
Ingessana. The Religious Institutions of a People of the Sudan-Ethiopia Borderland
Ingessana presents the results of field research carried out in the Ingessana Hills area of Sudan, between the White and the Blue Niles, among a people who maintain a proud tradition of cultural independence. The book examines the religious institutions of the Ingessana people, attempting to understand how their history and development has been affected by interaction with powerful neighbours, such as the Islamic Sudanese, Nilotics and Ethiopian …
Ingessana and the Legacy of the Funj Sultanate
From a perspective based in ethnographic research this article reviews the historical evidence relating to the social organisation of the southern Funj in the Sudan during the nineteenth century. It goes beyond a characterisation of the region as one of pagan 'tribes' more or less successful in resisting subordination by a sophisticated Islamic state to discern a complexity of varied political relations radiating from an elite in a few regional c…
The Manasir of Northern Sudan
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. John Burdick. New York: Routledge, 1998. vii. 246 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index
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