Megan Vaughan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 122073 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Megan Vaughan |
| PRENOMES | Megan |
| SOBRENOME | Vaughan |
| ASSINATURA | VAUGHAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0062-9605 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 358 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Perceptions and knowledge of diabetes in poor urban communities in Accra, Ghana
Diabetes is a major public health concern, leading to costly and life-threating complications while significantly impacting quality of life. However, limited evidence exists on how diabetes is understood in poor urban communities in Africa, including Ghana. Evidence suggests that community beliefs about disease can shape health outcomes and influence intervention strategies. This cross-sectional qualitative study assessed perceptions and knowledg…
Changes in food quality and habits in urban Ghana
Respondents reported a shift from home cooking and communal meals toward eating out-of-home meals. The current dietary habits reflect a hybrid of modern foods with traditional foods. Food insecurity is high, and their diets provide little protection against chronic non-communicable diseases. This limits opportunities to move towards healthy diets and improved health outcomes as envisioned in the Agenda 2030
Community perspectives on the built environment, community stress, and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in Accra, Ghana
The growing burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases in Africa demands greater understanding of the contextual drivers of risk factors, including the built environment. Cognitive Mapping (CM) is a participatory research approach that allows community members to visualise their environmental context through drawing. The maps express in visual form the situated knowledge of the environment from local perceptions of daily experiences. …
Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (Care) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana
Diabetes remains a major, global clinical and public health threat with consistent rises in prevalence around the world over the past four decades. Two-thirds of the projected increases in global diabetes prevalence to 2045 are expected to come from low- and middle-income countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana is typical of this trend. However, there are gaps in evidence regarding the appropriate development of interventions and …
Misunderstood and underappreciated
Mental health advocacy and activism have been highlighted as important in the effort towards creating environments for better mental health. However, relevant research in low- and middle-income country settings remains limited and lacks critical exploration. We seek to contribute to filling this gap by exploring driving factors behind mental health advocacy and activism efforts in low- and middle-income country settings. This review uses a critic…
Death in Africa
In this chapter, we explore a number of issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies and of the extensive scholarship on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic change, urbanization, the interventions of …
Theatre Blogging
In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads. Contextualising the key debates of fifteen years of theatre history, and featuring the writings of over 40 theatre bloggers, Theatre Blogging brings past and present practitioners into conversation with one another. Starting with Encore Theatre Ma…
Reframing NCDs? An analysis of current debates
There have been many debates in recent years as to whether the communicable disease versus non-communicable disease (NCD) division is a meaningful one in disease classification. Several critiques have been raised about the framing of NCDs, regarding not only the prominent role that infections play in the aetiology of NCDs, but also the communicability of many social determinants of NCDs and the individualistic, 'lifestyle' framing of NCDs that te…
Conceptualising metabolic disorder in Southern Africa
This paper traces the history of the concept of metabolic disorder in global health and its application to the collection of health metrics relating to the 'epidemic' of non-communicable diseases in Southern Africa, with a focus on Malawi. Although the contemporary science of metabolism points to complexity and contingency, the application of a simplified version of 'metabolic disorder' or 'metabolic syndrome' as the supposed central driver of no…
A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria
This article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in colonial Africa, including experimentation, the construction of the "field," and biosecurity
Kenneth John McCracken, 1938-2017
John McCracken was born in Edinburgh in 1938 and brought up in the Scottish borders, where both his parents were GPs. After National Service, he went to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read histor
Changing the Subject? Psychological Counseling in Eastern Africa
Does the spread of psychological counseling techniques in eastern Africa represent a "globalization" of the mind? This essay traces the genealogies of this phenomenon and points to the ways in which a set of imported techniques has been localized
Terence Ranger
Terence Ranger loved to tell people that he first went to Africa for the money. It was the supplementary salary offered to British academics who taught in African universities that made a teaching position at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland so attractive. He was finishing his Oxford D.Phil. in early modern Irish history, and had taught for a few years at the Dartmouth Royal Naval College: he was ready for a change. He later wrote…
The Discovery of Suicide in Eastern and Southern Africa
Historically African societies have been assumed to have low suicide rates, though there is little conclusive evidence to support this assertion and it is informed by dubious colonial assumptions about the nature of African subjectivity. In particular, longitudinal evidence is lacking. In recent years suicide has begun to attract the attention of psychiatry professionals in Eastern and Southern Africa and of the media. It is now widely argued tha…
Introduction
Suicide in Late Colonial Africa
IN THE EXTENSIVE LITERATURE on the history of suicide, the societies of the African continent barely feature, except in brief discussions of folk beliefs and practices.1 A simple explanation for the relative lack of attention given to this issue is that historically African societies have been assumed to have very low rates of suicide. But that assumption itself needs historicizing. The statistical evidence for suicide in most African countries i…
Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic ch…
Divine Kings
The elaborate mortuary rites of the Chitimukulu (the paramount chief of the Bemba people) attracted the attention of both colonial administrators and anthropologists in inter-war Northern Rhodesia. This paper examines the political and symbolic significance of these rites before turning to an analysis of accounts, by the anthropologist Audrey Richards, of the deaths of two ‘commoners’ in the 1930s. The paper argues that chiefly power resided less…
Scarification in Africa
The meaning and function of ‘inscriptions on the body’ have been the subject of lively debate amongst historians and anthropologists of colonial expansion and the societies of the Pacific. With some notable exceptions, the parallel history of scarification practices in Africa has received less attention. However, colonial evidence for scarification exists and can be re-read in the light of recent debates on the limits of the ‘invention of traditi…
Africa and the Birth of the Modern World
The Commission for Africa, which reported in March 2005, drew attention to the enduring problem of poverty in Africa, but also reinforced the common perception that Africa has a troubled relationship with the 'modern world'. This essay reviews the literature on Africa's long-term political and economic development, paying particular attention to the continent's insertion into the global system in the period described by C. A. Bayly as the 'birth …
Creating the Creole Island slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
Economic Relations Between Britain and Australia from the 1940s-196
In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. T
Martinique and the Radical Ideal
Imperial Bedlam
In 1959, on the eve of Nigerian independence, a twenty-nine-year-old clerk was admitted to the Aro Mental Hospital in southwestern Nigeria. At some later stage he wrote his own account of the "attack" that had led him to be institutionalized. This account is one among many used by Jonathan Sadowsky to write his imaginative, sympathetic, and perceptive narrative of the history of madness and of psychiatric institutions in colonial southwestern Nig…
Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony
This paper addresses the politics and practices of history and memory through an examination of the historiography of Malawi with reference to the literature on slavery. In the late 1970s, an oral historical research project in Malawi set out to 'uncover' the pre-colonial history of part of the Southern Region. Informed by new methods for oral historical research and by the post-colonial context, the testimonies collected were framed by a number …
Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic ch…
Creating the Creole Island slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
Cutting Down Trees
Introduction: In & Out of Context: The Problems of a R e-Study - The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History & Anthropology - The Colonial Construction of Knowledg e: Ecology & Agriculture - Relishing Porridge: The Gen der Politics of Food - Cultivators & Colonial Officers : Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing - Developing M en: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer - Migration &am p Marriage - Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s …
Which Family
This paper explores some of the major methodological problems associated with the study of the history of the family in Africa. It sets out to explore the problem of the unit of analysis, concluding that the historian must be careful to distinguish between idealized family forms and the reality of family structures. Using both historical and contemporary examples from southern Malawi the paper explores this problem further by analysing the role o…
Food Production and Family Labour in Southern Malawi
The mechanics of food production by peasant cultivators have received relatively little attention from historians of colonial Africa, and yet a knowledge of food production systems and the labour they require is crucial to any understanding of rural change and stratification in the colonial period. On the Shire Highlands of Southern Malawi, ecological disturbance and the alienation of land in the early years of the twentieth century meant that an…
Cutting down Trees
Cutting Down Trees
Africa and the Birth of the Modern World
The Commission for Africa, which reported in March 2005, drew attention to the enduring problem of poverty in Africa, but also reinforced the common perception that Africa has a troubled relationship with the 'modern world'. This essay reviews the literature on Africa's long-term political and economic development, paying particular attention to the continent's insertion into the global system in the period described by C. A. Bayly as the 'birth …
Cutting Down Trees
CUTTING DOWN TREES: WOMEN, NUTRITION AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF ZAMBIA, 1920–1986 Get access HENRIETTA MOORE, HENRIETTA MOORE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MEGAN VAUGHAN MEGAN VAUGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 345, October 1987, Pages 523–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097947 Publ…
Food production and income generation in a matrilineal society
This article sets out to describe the various food-producing and income generating patterns found in rural households in the Zomba district of Malawi. The study focuses on women but it necessarily links women closely to their own households and the wider family groupings, characterised by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal marriage, of which they are part. ' Over 90 per cent of Malawians live in the rural areas and the country's people are ov…
Idioms of madness
The Discovery of Suicide in Eastern and Southern Africa
Historically African societies have been assumed to have low suicide rates, though there is little conclusive evidence to support this assertion and it is informed by dubious colonial assumptions about the nature of African subjectivity. In particular, longitudinal evidence is lacking. In recent years suicide has begun to attract the attention of psychiatry professionals in Eastern and Southern Africa and of the media. It is now widely argued tha…
Divine Kings
The elaborate mortuary rites of the Chitimukulu (the paramount chief of the Bemba people) attracted the attention of both colonial administrators and anthropologists in inter-war Northern Rhodesia. This paper examines the political and symbolic significance of these rites before turning to an analysis of accounts, by the anthropologist Audrey Richards, of the deaths of two ‘commoners’ in the 1930s. The paper argues that chiefly power resided less…
Curing Their Ills
Changing the Subject? Psychological Counseling in Eastern Africa
Does the spread of psychological counseling techniques in eastern Africa represent a "globalization" of the mind? This essay traces the genealogies of this phenomenon and points to the ways in which a set of imported techniques has been localized
Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony
This paper addresses the politics and practices of history and memory through an examination of the historiography of Malawi with reference to the literature on slavery. In the late 1970s, an oral historical research project in Malawi set out to 'uncover' the pre-colonial history of part of the Southern Region. Informed by new methods for oral historical research and by the post-colonial context, the testimonies collected were framed by a number …
Curing Their Ills
Scarification in Africa
The meaning and function of ‘inscriptions on the body’ have been the subject of lively debate amongst historians and anthropologists of colonial expansion and the societies of the Pacific. With some notable exceptions, the parallel history of scarification practices in Africa has received less attention. However, colonial evidence for scarification exists and can be re-read in the light of recent debates on the limits of the ‘invention of traditi…
Healing and Curing
Metaphors of disease, illness and healing, though they operate in different ways in different cultures and historical periods, appear to have a remarkably common currency. This fact presents both problems and opportunities for the medical anthropologist and historian, and raises important issues of interpretation for both disciplines. The problem of defining the field of analysis in this wide-ranging world of health and sickness has led to a vari…
Household units and historical process in Southern Malawi
This paper discusses the effects of commodity production on rural households in Southern Malawi during the colonial period. It argues that the effects on relations — particularly those of gender — within the household can only be understood within a wider context of inter‐household relations and the interventions of the colonial state. Drawing on two case studies of commoditisation, occurring in the same historical period and within the the same …
Famine Analysis and Family Relations
Journal Article FAMINE ANALYSIS AND FAMILY RELATIONS: 1949 IN NYASALAND Get access Megan Vaughan Megan Vaughan University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 108, Issue 1, August 1985, Pages 177–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/108.1.177 Published: 01 August 1985
Introduction
A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria
This article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in colonial Africa, including experimentation, the construction of the "field," and biosecurity
Health, nutrition and agricultural development in Northern Zambia
The Story of an African Famine
Food Production and Family Labour in Southern Malawi
The mechanics of food production by peasant cultivators have received relatively little attention from historians of colonial Africa, and yet a knowledge of food production systems and the labour they require is crucial to any understanding of rural change and stratification in the colonial period. On the Shire Highlands of Southern Malawi, ecological disturbance and the alienation of land in the early years of the twentieth century meant that an…
Which Family
This paper explores some of the major methodological problems associated with the study of the history of the family in Africa. It sets out to explore the problem of the unit of analysis, concluding that the historian must be careful to distinguish between idealized family forms and the reality of family structures. Using both historical and contemporary examples from southern Malawi the paper explores this problem further by analysing the role o…
Food production and income generation in a matrilineal society
This article sets out to describe the various food-producing and income generating patterns found in rural households in the Zomba district of Malawi. The study focuses on women but it necessarily links women closely to their own households and the wider family groupings, characterised by matrilineal inheritance and matrilocal marriage, of which they are part. ' Over 90 per cent of Malawians live in the rural areas and the country's people are ov…
Idioms of madness
Household units and historical process in Southern Malawi
This paper discusses the effects of commodity production on rural households in Southern Malawi during the colonial period. It argues that the effects on relations — particularly those of gender — within the household can only be understood within a wider context of inter‐household relations and the interventions of the colonial state. Drawing on two case studies of commoditisation, occurring in the same historical period and within the the same …
Famine Analysis and Family Relations
Journal Article FAMINE ANALYSIS AND FAMILY RELATIONS: 1949 IN NYASALAND Get access Megan Vaughan Megan Vaughan University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 108, Issue 1, August 1985, Pages 177–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/108.1.177 Published: 01 August 1985
The Story of an African Famine
This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratifica…
Cutting Down Trees
CUTTING DOWN TREES: WOMEN, NUTRITION AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE OF ZAMBIA, 1920–1986 Get access HENRIETTA MOORE, HENRIETTA MOORE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MEGAN VAUGHAN MEGAN VAUGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 345, October 1987, Pages 523–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097947 Publ…
The Story of an African Famine
Health, nutrition and agricultural development in Northern Zambia
The Story of an African Famine
List of maps List of illustrations Preface Glossary Introduction 1. The 1949 famine 2. Famine as a Malthusian crisis 3. Famine as a failure of the market 4. Food entitlement and employment 5. Gender and famine 6. After the famine: a conclusion Notes List of oral interviews Bibliography Index
The Story of an African Famine
Books reviewed
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. viii and 206. £25.00 Dorothy O. Helly, Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987). Pp. xviii + 404. £37.95. Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism. (London and New York: Longman, 1987). Pp. xiii + 462. £9.95 paperback Phyllis Lewsen, Voices of Protest. (…
Patriarchy and Class
The Story of an African Famine
The Story of an African Famine
Curing Their Ills
Curing Their Ills
Curing Their Ills
Healing and Curing
Metaphors of disease, illness and healing, though they operate in different ways in different cultures and historical periods, appear to have a remarkably common currency. This fact presents both problems and opportunities for the medical anthropologist and historian, and raises important issues of interpretation for both disciplines. The problem of defining the field of analysis in this wide-ranging world of health and sickness has led to a vari…
Short Notices
Short Notices Veronica Berry and Celia Petty (eds.), The Nyasaland Survey Papers 1938–43: Agriculture, Food and Health, London: Academy Books, 1992. Pp. xiii + 293. £29.95. ISBN 0-9509470-2-4. MEGAN VAUGHAN MEGAN VAUGHAN Nuffield CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 1995, Pages 153-b–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/8.1.153-b Published: 0…
Cutting Down Trees
Introduction: In & Out of Context: The Problems of a R e-Study - The Colonial Construction of Knowledge: History & Anthropology - The Colonial Construction of Knowledg e: Ecology & Agriculture - Relishing Porridge: The Gen der Politics of Food - Cultivators & Colonial Officers : Food Supply and the Politics of Marketing - Developing M en: The Creation of the Progressive Farmer - Migration &am p Marriage - Working for Salt: Nutrition in the 1980s …
Cutting down Trees
Cutting Down Trees
Slavery and Colonial Identity in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
On 25 May 1785, a M. Lousteau arrived at the police station in Port Louis, Isle de France (now Mauritius) to complain that his slave Jouan had been abducted. He described Jouan as an ‘Indien’, ‘Lascar’ and ‘Malabar’, and said that he had learned that he had been smuggled on to the royal ship Le Brillant , bound for Pondicherry in southern India, by one Bernard (whom Lousteau describes as a ‘creol libre’ but who later is described as ‘Malabar, soi…
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