Richard Fardon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 90395 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Fardon |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Fardon |
| ASSINATURA | FARDON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 375 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of ‘Identity’ in West Africa
Tiger in an African Palace 1
As a modernist movement the social anthropology of Bronislaw Malinowski and the two intellectual generations of anthropologists who succeeded him, set both itself and its theories firmly in the present. Itself, partly because modern simply means ‘of the now’, and partly, because functional anthropology made much of its displacement of evolutionist, diffusionist and outmoded intellectualist theories by its own vivid explanations of practices and i…
Between God, the Dead and the Wild
Based on observations in two West African villages - one a traditionally uncentralised community in contemporary Nigeria, the other a small chiefdom in Cameroon - this study shows that despite basic presuppositions regarding various types of being, the beliefs of the two groups manifest themselves in quite different ways. Focusing particularly on Chamba conceptions of people, masks and cults, Richard Fardon applies contemporary social theory to C…
Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture—style and ethnicity
Revisiting the attribution of figures to Mumuye, provides us with an opportunity to think about the effects of ethnic labelling on our appreciation of ‘precontemporary African art’. By virtue of not being typical, extreme cases throw more general issues into sharp relief. The mismatch between the renown and the documentation of precontemporary Mumuye art has few parallels. Mumuye figures are celebrated as icons of African sculpture by the institu…
Immortality Yet? Or, the Permanence of Mary Douglas
There is no absolute measure for the lasting impact of work by anthropologists. However, the scholarship of Mary Douglas has achieved wide-ranging interdisciplinary recognition. Here the author considers ways in which her work has impacted scholarship
Portrait
Sub-Saharan Africa is frequently, but unjustly, seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geography and religious influence.By contrast, North Africa is considered to be directly linked to the alleged center of the Muslim world, that is, the Arab Middle East.In fact, Islam has had a presence in sub-Saharan Africa since the earliest days of its history.This chapter tries to redress the periphery bias in the analysis of African Mu…
Do You Hear Me? It Is Me, Akiga
The publication of a new translation of Akiga Sai'sHistory of the Tivinvites reappraisal of Akiga himself as a local intellectual. This essay presents a biographical account of this early Tiv convert to Christianity, locating his celebratedHistoryin its social, cultural, ethnic and historical contexts, and presents a provisional narrative of his career subsequent to the publication ofAkiga's Story, the version of theHistoryedited by Rupert East. …
Naming powers
Hausa and Tiv words for occult power, tsafi and tsav, look very similar; is this coincidental, or is there a historical reason? If there is some historical connection, then did one people borrow the root from the other directly, or has something more complex occurred for which a resemblance between tsav and tsafi provides only part of the evidence? Reasoning from wide comparisons and from the grammatical and phonological structures of Hausa and T…
Citations out of place (Respond to this article at http
Mary Douglas wrote that she derived the phrase ‘dirt is matter out of place’ from Lord Chesterfield, but the authorship of something close to this phrase was more likely Lord Palmerston's, and it arose in the context of policy concerns over urban sewage and rural fertilizer. The phrase was picked up immediately, made more abstract, and applied in a variety of contexts that drew together moral judgements with considerations of hygiene. Hence the p…
Human Rights and African Airwaves
Reviewed by: Human Rights and African Airwaves: mediating equality on the Chichewa radio by Harri Englund Richard Fardon Harri Englund , Human Rights and African Airwaves: mediating equality on the Chichewa radio. Bloomington and Indianapolis IN: Indiana University Press (hb £31.99 - 978 0 25335 677 2; pb £19.99 - 978 0 25322 347 0). 2011, x + 294 pp. Harri Englund's latest book is a challenging synthesis of theory and ethnography. The theory dev…
Ghosts of Kanungu
Richard Vokes has written a compelling account of the tragic events that hindsight suggests were to culminate in 2000 with the deaths of some hundreds of members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandmants of God (MRTC) in the south-west of Uganda. Ethnographic monographs on Africa, whatever their other virtues, can rarely be described as riveting from first to last, but this one is. Its achievement is to explain the concatenation…
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
Central Nigeria Unmasked
The perils of belonging
Encounter, transformation and identity
In and out of the West
The pot-king
Obituary
Lela in Bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Ca…
Lela in Bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Ca…
The ethics of spying
Anthropologists as Spies
A response to ‘CIA seeks anthropologists’, news item in AT 20[4
Eldridge Mohammadou
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African broadcast cultures
Tiger in an African Palace, and Other Thoughts about Identification and Transformation
Out of Context
Semantic Anthropology
Power and Knowledge
Anthropologists as Spies
A response to ‘CIA seeks anthropologists’, news item in AT 20[4
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
African Broadcast Cultures
African broadcast cultures, Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss. Part 1 Sub-Saharan surveys: saucepan to dish - radio and TV in Africa, Graham Mytton rural radio in Africa - audience research and participation strategies, Jean-Pierre Ilboudo. Part 2 Case studies in local radio: communtiy radio and development -issues and examples Francophone West Africa, Mary Myers the evolution of radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso - from mother radio to local rad…
African Broadcast Cultures
Discourse and the Social Life of Meaning
The Faithful Disciple
Sisters, wives, wards and daughters
Introduction The re-analysis of classical ethnography has become an anthropological industry Since segmentary lineage models enshrined so many of the assumptions integral to what we have learned to call the structural-functional paradigm, they have been subjected to trial by this form of interrogation particularly often. Africanists will be aware that the statuses of Evans-Pritchard's model of Nuer social organization and of Fortes's of Tallensi …
Malinowski's Precedent
African Broadcast Cultures
Central Nigeria Unmasked
Between God, the Dead and the Wild
Lela in Bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Ca…
Between God, The Dead, and The Wild
Protestations of ignorance? Or, things left unsaid? ways of being: the living, the dead, the wild and god Jup: the Mapeo variant of cult Lera and v(c)ma: the Yeli variant the human span the annual round the animate wild inanimate wilderness, and the nature of things the new religions of god god and the dead: locating the unknown
Do You Hear Me? It Is Me, Akiga
The publication of a new translation of Akiga Sai'sHistory of the Tivinvites reappraisal of Akiga himself as a local intellectual. This essay presents a biographical account of this early Tiv convert to Christianity, locating his celebratedHistoryin its social, cultural, ethnic and historical contexts, and presents a provisional narrative of his career subsequent to the publication ofAkiga's Story, the version of theHistoryedited by Rupert East. …
The ethics of spying
Destins croisés
Fardon Richard,Daloz Jean-Pascal,Daloz Lesley. «Destins croisés» : histoires des identités ethniques et nationales en Afrique de l’Ouest. In: Politique africaine, n°61, 1996. Besoin d'État. pp. 75-97
Citations out of place (Respond to this article at http
Mary Douglas wrote that she derived the phrase ‘dirt is matter out of place’ from Lord Chesterfield, but the authorship of something close to this phrase was more likely Lord Palmerston's, and it arose in the context of policy concerns over urban sewage and rural fertilizer. The phrase was picked up immediately, made more abstract, and applied in a variety of contexts that drew together moral judgements with considerations of hygiene. Hence the p…
Lela in Bali
Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Ca…
Applied anthropology in the 21st century
Metissage or Curate's Egg
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Raiders and Refugees
Sisters, wives, wards and daughters
Opening Paragraph In the first part of this article I set myself two objectives, each of which took its cue from a generalization made about the political and social organization of the Tiv by their principal ethnographers, Laura and Paul Bohannan. I proposed to challenge the related views (1) that the political organization of the Tiv could adequately be described as a segmentary lineage organization and (2) that their organization was atypical …
Sisters, wives, wards and daughters
Introduction The re-analysis of classical ethnography has become an anthropological industry Since segmentary lineage models enshrined so many of the assumptions integral to what we have learned to call the structural-functional paradigm, they have been subjected to trial by this form of interrogation particularly often. Africanists will be aware that the statuses of Evans-Pritchard's model of Nuer social organization and of Fortes's of Tallensi …
Semantic Anthropology
Sisters, wives, wards and daughters
Opening Paragraph In the first part of this article I set myself two objectives, each of which took its cue from a generalization made about the political and social organization of the Tiv by their principal ethnographers, Laura and Paul Bohannan. I proposed to challenge the related views (1) that the political organization of the Tiv could adequately be described as a segmentary lineage organization and (2) that their organization was atypical …
Colloquium on African Religion and Ritual
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Rites of Power
History, Ethnicity and Pageantry the 1987 A.S.A. Conference
Sociological Review Monograph 32. Power Action and Belief
Out of Context
The Faithful Disciple
Discourse and the Social Life of Meaning
Power and Knowledge
Moral Imagination of Kaguru Modes of Thought
This article examines Kaguru modes of thought, focusing on their moral imagination as expressed through proverbs, riddles, and other forms of cultural discourse. It argues that Kaguru thought processes are not simply "pre-logical" or "mystical," but rather reflect a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the world, grounded in their specific social and ecological context. The authors analyze how Kaguru concepts of personhood, agency, and caus…
Power and Knowledge
Persuasions and Performances
Works and Lives
State Formation and Political Legitimacy. Ronald Cohen and Judith D. Toland
The Listening Ebony
Journal Article The Listening Ebony: moral knowledge, religion and power among the Uduk of Sudan Get access The Listening Ebony: moral knowledge, religion and power among the Uduk of Sudan, by Wendy James. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. xvii + 391 pp. £40 hardback. ISBN 0 19 823403 1. RICHARD FARDON RICHARD FARDON School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Raiders and Refugees
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Journal Article Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey: the process and organization of religious movement Get access Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey: the process and organization of religious movement, by Richard P. Werbner. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989. ix+396pp. £35 hardback. ISBN0 7190 1929 X. RICHARD FARDON RICHARD FARDON School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Malinowski's Precedent
African fictions in representations of West African and Afro-Cuban cultures
Judging from repetitious appearances of her marital arms in the painted line-endings, the Psalter-Hours John Rylands Library Latin MS 117 probably belonged to Jeanne of Flanders (c.1272–1333), daughter of Count Robert III of Flanders and in 1288 second wife to Enguerrand IV of Coucy. Yet the line-endings also contain some 1,800 diminutive painted escutcheons, many of which refer to other members of the local nobility active during the 1280s. This…
Localizing Strategies
Postmodern Anthropology? Or, an Anthropology of Postmodernity
Postmodernism's 'populist priorities' are reputedly one of its distinctive characteristics (Jameson, 1988b: 112); no apologies, therefore, for beginning with a quotation from a review of the last decade in the weekend supplement of the Guardian newspaper, Few -isms have provoked as much perplexity and exasperation as postmodernism, no doubt because of the way in which the word 'modern' is squeezed in between both a prefix and a suffix, each as du…
Bìsíwéérí
African Divination Systems
Journal Article African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing Get access African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing, edited by Philip M. Peek. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1991. x + 230 pp. $35.00 hardback, $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0 253 34309 7. RICHARD FARDON RICHARD FARDON School of Oriental and African Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 363…
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