Barbara A Bianco
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 135630 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barbara A Bianco |
| PRENOMES | Barbara A |
| SOBRENOME | Bianco |
| ASSINATURA | BIANCO B A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Social Science Research Council |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 2 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Songs of mobility in West Pokot
Expert witnesses and scholars have been unable to locate the wellsprings of the postwar millennial ardor of the Pokot, an East African cattle-keeping people seemingly untouched by modernity and colonial rule. In this article I provide a revisionist reading of Pokot religious enthusiasm and the social terrain in which it took shape. Drawing primarily on new ethnographic data about the activities and aspirations of Pokot adherents of the proscribed…
Women and things
Among the cattle-keeping Pokot of northwestern Kenya, women use cowhide belts to support and to undermine the clans for which they bear children. By analyzing the design, symbolic associations, and uses of these commonplace but extraordinarily powerful items of adornment, this article shows how one East African patrilineal society deals with the problematic nature of maternal nurture. More generally, it suggests that by attending to the wide vari…
Women and things
Among the cattle-keeping Pokot of northwestern Kenya, women use cowhide belts to support and to undermine the clans for which they bear children. By analyzing the design, symbolic associations, and uses of these commonplace but extraordinarily powerful items of adornment, this article shows how one East African patrilineal society deals with the problematic nature of maternal nurture. More generally, it suggests that by attending to the wide vari…
Songs of mobility in West Pokot
Expert witnesses and scholars have been unable to locate the wellsprings of the postwar millennial ardor of the Pokot, an East African cattle-keeping people seemingly untouched by modernity and colonial rule. In this article I provide a revisionist reading of Pokot religious enthusiasm and the social terrain in which it took shape. Drawing primarily on new ethnographic data about the activities and aspirations of Pokot adherents of the proscribed…
Women and things
Among the cattle-keeping Pokot of northwestern Kenya, women use cowhide belts to support and to undermine the clans for which they bear children. By analyzing the design, symbolic associations, and uses of these commonplace but extraordinarily powerful items of adornment, this article shows how one East African patrilineal society deals with the problematic nature of maternal nurture. More generally, it suggests that by attending to the wide vari…
Songs of mobility in West Pokot
Expert witnesses and scholars have been unable to locate the wellsprings of the postwar millennial ardor of the Pokot, an East African cattle-keeping people seemingly untouched by modernity and colonial rule. In this article I provide a revisionist reading of Pokot religious enthusiasm and the social terrain in which it took shape. Drawing primarily on new ethnographic data about the activities and aspirations of Pokot adherents of the proscribed…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Ethnology (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras) · Gender Studies (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Politics (2 obras) · Sociology (2 obras)