Rebecca Gearhart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 679596 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Gearhart |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Gearhart |
| ASSINATURA | GEARHART R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Concepts of Illness Among the Swahili of Lamu, Kenya
The Swahili of Lamu, Kenya, understand illness as the result of a spiritual imbalance caused by personal transgression or an attack by harmful forces directed by an envious person. Another underlying component of the Swahili concept of illness is that each person’s physical body operates in conjunction with personal attributes that are fixed at birth and determine moral character, behavior, and predisposition to ailments. When physical symptoms o…
Dan Ge Performance
Reviewed by: Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte D'Ivoire Rebecca Gearhart Reed, Daniel . 2003. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary CÔTe D'Ivoire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 212 pp.$ 24.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). In Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire, Daniel Reedintroduces readers to the ways in which a masked performance tradition known as Gegenerates meaning among…
Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Book Review| August 01 2005 Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa Mai Palmberg and Annemette Kirkegaard, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstituet, 2002 182 pp., $27.90 (paper) Rebecca Gearhart Rebecca Gearhart Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
NgomaMemories
This essay integrates ethnographic data collected between Mombasa and the Lamu archipelago in Kenya into the growing body of scholarship on Swahili music and dance (ngoma) traditions. The analysis underscores how the Swahili have used ngoma events to stake claims to higher positions on the social ladder, negotiate difference, create socioeconomic security networks, establish and mark group identity, connect to the spirit world, and pass through v…
Association for Africanist Anthropology
NgomaMemories
This essay integrates ethnographic data collected between Mombasa and the Lamu archipelago in Kenya into the growing body of scholarship on Swahili music and dance (ngoma) traditions. The analysis underscores how the Swahili have used ngoma events to stake claims to higher positions on the social ladder, negotiate difference, create socioeconomic security networks, establish and mark group identity, connect to the spirit world, and pass through v…
Association for Africanist Anthropology
Dan Ge Performance
Reviewed by: Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte D'Ivoire Rebecca Gearhart Reed, Daniel . 2003. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary CÔTe D'Ivoire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 212 pp.$ 24.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). In Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire, Daniel Reedintroduces readers to the ways in which a masked performance tradition known as Gegenerates meaning among…
Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
Book Review| August 01 2005 Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa Mai Palmberg and Annemette Kirkegaard, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstituet, 2002 182 pp., $27.90 (paper) Rebecca Gearhart Rebecca Gearhart Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-503 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
NgomaMemories
This essay integrates ethnographic data collected between Mombasa and the Lamu archipelago in Kenya into the growing body of scholarship on Swahili music and dance (ngoma) traditions. The analysis underscores how the Swahili have used ngoma events to stake claims to higher positions on the social ladder, negotiate difference, create socioeconomic security networks, establish and mark group identity, connect to the spirit world, and pass through v…
Concepts of Illness Among the Swahili of Lamu, Kenya
The Swahili of Lamu, Kenya, understand illness as the result of a spiritual imbalance caused by personal transgression or an attack by harmful forces directed by an envious person. Another underlying component of the Swahili concept of illness is that each person’s physical body operates in conjunction with personal attributes that are fixed at birth and determine moral character, behavior, and predisposition to ailments. When physical symptoms o…
African history and culture studies (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras)