Sandra Wallman
Biographic Data
| ID | 99832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Wallman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallman |
| SIGNATURE | WALLMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
New Identities and the Local Factor — or When is Home in Town a Good Move?
Beginning with a definition of &s;home&s; as a proxy for &s;belonging somewhere&s;, this chapter explores conditions of belonging in urban settings and sets out to account for variations in peoples&s; construction of the urban home. In some ways London is a very particular example. It has been described as a collection of villages, each with its own style and locus of belonging, and each firmly distinguished from the next. Indeed, some Londoners …
Sometime Kin
In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement – its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider sig…
Sometime Kin: Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
"In Sometime Kin Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this, journal extracts show the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider…
Sometime Kin: Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider sig…
Value and Limitations of Broad Brush Surveys Used in Community-Randomized Trials in Southern Africa
We describe and reflect on a rapid qualitative survey approach called "Broad Brush Survey" (BBS) used in six community-randomized trials (CRTs)/studies in Zambia and South Africa (2004-2018) to document, compare, classify, and communicate community features systematically for public health and multidisciplinary research ends. BBS is based on a set sequence of participatory qualitative methods and fieldwork carried out prior to a CRT intervention …
Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of ‘Capability’ Brown: Representations of what, by whom, and to what end?
Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Introduction: Contemporary Futures
In industrial societies,1 in this end-of-millennium decade, imaging the future is serious business. The versions of it which were fashionable for a century are no longer so: as David Lowenthal would have it (Chapter 1), the old images are simply not alive anymore. There is a resurgence of interest in the scientific modelling of time;2 science fiction and futuristic fantasy have lost their minority cult status and become the object of literary and…
Boundaries of Memory and Anthropology
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Sandra Wallman uses her experience of fieldwork in the Italian Alps in the 1970s to reflect on the essential fuzziness of our categorial boundaries--be…
Global threats, local options, personal risk: Dimensions of migrant sex work in Europe
The middle ground of risk is less well developed than broader considerations at policy level and fine-tuned individual perception and behaviour at micro level. The sex industry in particular is increasingly portrayed as a global phenomenon and, alternatively, within the context of interpersonal relationships. This article explores a middle-level analysis of threats and risk-taking behaviour. It draws attention to important distinctions between da…
Global threats, local options, personal risk: Dimensions of migrant sex work in Europe
The middle ground of risk is less well developed than broader considerations at policy level and fine-tuned individual perception and behaviour at micro level. The sex industry in particular is increasingly portrayed as a global phenomenon and, alternatively, within the context of interpersonal relationships. This article explores a middle-level analysis of threats and risk-taking behaviour. It draws attention to important distinctions between da…
Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Evidences and Explanations of Changing Age-Sex Ratios in Kampala
In the second half of the twentieth century the population of Kampala grew substantially and the long-remarked surplus of men over women began to level out. These general trends are equally evident in other African cities, but important differences show up when the balance of age cohorts within the male and female populations is considered. Thus in Kampala, along with population growth and a declining overall sex ratio, censuses show a growing ex…
Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Evidences and Explanations of Changing Age. Sex Ratios in Kampala
In the second half of the twentieth century the population of Kampala grew substantially and the long-remarked surplus of men over women began to level out. These general trends are equally evident in other African cities, but important differences show up when the balance of age cohorts within the male and female populations is considered. Thus in Kampala, along with population growth and a declining overall sex ratio, censuses show a growing ex…
Risk, STD and HIV infection in Kampala
The clinical association between HIV and other sexually transmitted disease is accepted medical wisdom and it is widely recognised, even among those persons most at risk, that the same behaviours are implicated in the spread of both infections. How is it then that sexually transmitted disease remains a life-threatening problem in so many areas? One answer is that too little attention is paid to social and cultural risk factors embedded in the con…
Ordinary women and shapes of knowledge: Perspectives on the context of STD and Aids
In Europe, as well as in Africa, HIV-related studies of women tend to focus on narrowly-defined professional, behavioral, or reproductive categories. The research population for this study of symptom definition and treatment-seeking among women in Kampala, Uganda, was defined only by residence in one low-income “parish” of that city. Its practical justification is the association of STD and HIV: effective treatment of (curable) STD can reduce the…
Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of Aids
Health and Structural Adjustment in Rural and Urban Zimbabwe
Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of Aids
Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of Aids
Which resources pay for treatment? A model for estimating the informal economy of health
Ethnicity, work and localism: Narratives of difference in London and Kampala
The value of ethnicity varies with context. Whether and for whom it is a resource, a liability, or without salience of any kind depends on the options of a particular environment, and other-things-happening within it. By this reasoning, the simple fact of an ethnically mixed population is not predictive of whether or how ethnicity counts in the business of livelihood. This article argues that different kinds of urban system are more or less amena…
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
The Myth of the Hidden Economy: Towards a New Understanding of Informal Economic Activity
Vecchi simboli, nuovi usi. Le implicazioni dello sviluppo del Canary Wharf
Sandra Wallman, Vecchi simboli, nuovi usi. Le implicazioni dello sviluppo del Canary Wharf, La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 20, Antropologia urbana. Progettare e abitare: le contraddizioni dell'urban planning (Oct., 1989), pp. 31-38
"Un contributo all'antropologia delle societa "complesse
The Boundaries of 'Race: Processes of Ethnicity in England
Eight London households
Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology of Work
Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940
Take Out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland
The Myth of the Hidden Economy: Towards a New Understanding of Informal Economic Activity
Which resources pay for treatment? A model for estimating the informal economy of health
Ethnicity, work and localism: Narratives of difference in London and Kampala
The value of ethnicity varies with context. Whether and for whom it is a resource, a liability, or without salience of any kind depends on the options of a particular environment, and other-things-happening within it. By this reasoning, the simple fact of an ethnically mixed population is not predictive of whether or how ethnicity counts in the business of livelihood. This article argues that different kinds of urban system are more or less amena…
Ethnography by Proxy: Strategies for research in the Inner City
1980). Ethnography by Proxy: Strategies for research in the Inner City. Ethnos: Vol. 45, No. 1-2, pp. 5-38
Social Anthropology of Work
Value and Limitations of Broad Brush Surveys Used in Community-Randomized Trials in Southern Africa
We describe and reflect on a rapid qualitative survey approach called "Broad Brush Survey" (BBS) used in six community-randomized trials (CRTs)/studies in Zambia and South Africa (2004-2018) to document, compare, classify, and communicate community features systematically for public health and multidisciplinary research ends. BBS is based on a set sequence of participatory qualitative methods and fieldwork carried out prior to a CRT intervention …
Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of Aids
Difference, differentiation, discrimination
(1976). Difference, differentiation, discrimination. New Community: Vol. 5, No. 1-2, pp. 1-14
The modernization of dependence: A further note on Lesotho
A narrowly economic definition of development may distort the realities of backwardness, even where social and psychological variables are admitted. My own article on 'Conditions of non-Development in Lesotho'1 apparently does so: a number of Basuto, while tolerent of the analysis, have contested the pessimistic inference. I have since attempted to deal with this discrepancy by taking the sence of advance as seriously as I there took measurable i…
Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Evidences and Explanations of Changing Age-Sex Ratios in Kampala
In the second half of the twentieth century the population of Kampala grew substantially and the long-remarked surplus of men over women began to level out. These general trends are equally evident in other African cities, but important differences show up when the balance of age cohorts within the male and female populations is considered. Thus in Kampala, along with population growth and a declining overall sex ratio, censuses show a growing ex…
Ethnicity Research in Britain
Kinship, a-kinship, anti-kinship: Variation in the logic of kinship situations
The Peasant Urbanites: A Study of Rural-Urban Mobility in Serbia
Boundaries of Memory and Anthropology
The history of anthropology is a growing field of study within the discipline itself. Our series 'Key Informants on the History of Anthropology' contributes to the discussion of how anthropology, as it is understood and practised today, evolved and took shape. In the following invited contribution Sandra Wallman uses her experience of fieldwork in the Italian Alps in the 1970s to reflect on the essential fuzziness of our categorial boundaries--be…
Perceptions of Development
Perceptions of Development
Notes on Three Innovators in Lesotho
It would be naïve to suppose that any one variable could ensure the success of planned change. The factors contributing to failure and success are numerous, and the possible interrelations between them immensely complex. The acceptability of the innovator is therefore no more than a small part of the success of a development project. But, if the analysis of one specific example of this single factor allows a better understanding of one necessary …
The Communication of Measurement in Basutoland
The process of innovation basic to economic development requires the active cooperation of two agents: the government (or its equivalent) which has the necessary technical ideas and resources, and the mass of people in village communities whose actions implement change. It follows that each must understand the other: information should pass between them with the least possible distortion. Perfect communication is obviously unlikely and probably n…
The Communication of Measurement in Basutoland
The process of innovation basic to economic development requires the active cooperation of two agents: the government (or its equivalent) which has the necessary technical ideas and resources, and the mass of people in village communities whose actions implement change. It follows that each must understand the other: information should pass between them with the least possible distortion. Perfect communication is obviously unlikely and probably n…
Le developpement Social: Symposium
Lesotho's Pitso: Traditional Meetings in a Modern Setting
(1968). Lesotho's Pitso: Traditional Meetings in a Modern Setting. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 167-174
The Farmech Scheme: Basutoland (Lesotho)
Journal Article THE FARMECH SCHEME: BASUTOLAND (LESOTHO) Get access SANDRA WALLMAN SANDRA WALLMAN University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 267, April 1968, Pages 112–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095720 Published: 01 April 1968
Notes on Three Innovators in Lesotho
It would be naïve to suppose that any one variable could ensure the success of planned change. The factors contributing to failure and success are numerous, and the possible interrelations between them immensely complex. The acceptability of the innovator is therefore no more than a small part of the success of a development project. But, if the analysis of one specific example of this single factor allows a better understanding of one necessary …
Take Out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland
Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795-1940
Conditions of non‐development: The case of Lesotho
A peculiar combination of social and economic factors entailed by the proximity of South Africa creates, for Lesotho, a syndrome of non‐development that may usefully be visualised as a vicious circle in three parts—Poverty, Migration, Ideology—and is so described here. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that the economic facts of village life in Lesotho (and in countries with certain characteristics in common with Lesotho) are perpetu…
Readings in the Sociology of Migration
The Peasant Urbanites: A Study of Rural-Urban Mobility in Serbia
Kinship, a-kinship, anti-kinship: Variation in the logic of kinship situations
Race, Class and Power: Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
A street in Waterloo
Sacred Fire and the D.H.S.S
Difference, differentiation, discrimination
(1976). Difference, differentiation, discrimination. New Community: Vol. 5, No. 1-2, pp. 1-14
The modernization of dependence: A further note on Lesotho
A narrowly economic definition of development may distort the realities of backwardness, even where social and psychological variables are admitted. My own article on 'Conditions of non-Development in Lesotho'1 apparently does so: a number of Basuto, while tolerent of the analysis, have contested the pessimistic inference. I have since attempted to deal with this discrepancy by taking the sence of advance as seriously as I there took measurable i…
Ethnicity Research in Britain
Perceptions of Development
Race relations or ethnic relations
(1978). Race relations or ethnic relations? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 306-309
Perceptions of Development
The Boundaries of 'Race: Processes of Ethnicity in England
Ethnography by Proxy: Strategies for research in the Inner City
1980). Ethnography by Proxy: Strategies for research in the Inner City. Ethnos: Vol. 45, No. 1-2, pp. 5-38
Perceptions of Development
Social Anthropology of Work
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Perhaps no other nation can claim an ethnic heritage as diverse and dynamic as the United States.That this claim has more than a little merit is well illustrated in one of the most remarkable single-volume reference works to appear in recent years.The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, edited by Harvard social historian Stephan Thernstrom, provides an authoritative introduction to the origin, history, and current status of more than …
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