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Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94867 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R E S Tanner |
| PRENOMES | R E S |
| SOBRENOME | Tanner |
| ASSINATURA | TANNER R E S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Footprint, Padworth Common, Reading , Berks. RG7 4QG, United Kingdom |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1955 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Ideology and the Killing of Albinos in Tanzania
Public opinion dictates public ideas of causation. The logic of quasi-traditional reactions to distress and anxiety are little affected by the narrow limits of Western scientific pragmatism. This Sukuma violence should be understood in the context of inexplicable distress and within the accepted paradigm of widespread creatable spiritual power to do and prevent interpersonal evil.Key Words: CauseCorrelationFearCupidityRelief
Conservation of Water in Dry Eastern Africa
The use of water is not based on what can be expected to become available because of the economic cost and the lowering of the water table. There is a need to lower the use of water for personal hygiene and to develop dry systems of hygiene.Key Words: Over-useHygieneMigrationCostMaintenance
Folklore, Water and Development
The folklore of water use among the subsistence farmers of Eastern Africa is based on the principles of neighbourhood having priority over individual needs. This is now under pressure from population growth, political leaders replacing traditional ones, the ideology of development and central governments’ combination of administrative inadequacies and political hopefulness. This has led to the decline of effective folklore control over water use.…
Cognition and Social Development
Based on ethological patterning and the length of biological time in which humans have lived under uncertain social and environmental conditions, they are conditioned to short-term cognition. Modern circumstances may have increased these uncertainties and make it even less likely that mankind will forego the present for future ecological benefits and survival
Children and the Use of Social Space
Cross-culturally there is little individualised use of space by children and it is dictated by considerations of safety, range of sight, house and compound construction and familial social requirements
Anthropological Methodology in Advance of its Time? Some Reflections on the Usefulness of Data
The complexity of human behaviour and the instantaneous nature of all cognition makes the carefulimpressions of anthropologists of greater value than attempts at lineal understandings
Postcards
Thousands of postcards exist covering public activities in Asia and Africa for which very little other data exists. This data is a valuable resource for anthropologists for comparison to contemporary activities which is both cheap and out of copyright as well as a source for original research
Contemporary Religious Violence and the Environment
The implications of current approaches to changes in the environment are that reason and voluntary actions are the only acceptable ways of offsetting deleterious environmental actions. Thus any form of biological regulation is to be deplored and prevented, and further any Malthusian checks on environmental deterioration by means of war, famine and disease cannot be considered as viable options. There is also the possibly in our thinking of the re…
Colonial Administrators and their Tribal Preferences. A North Burma Case Study 1945-8. Bias, Beneficial Policy, Inevitability of Divisions or Divide and Rule
Burma divided between the Burmese and the tribal peoples as an administrative necessity and the latter wished this difference to be maintained and the war directly supported this claim. British wishes and administrative practices were irrelevant to pre- Independence realities.Key Words: Tribecostwarnationalismideology
Sukuma identity and modernization
Religion and the Environment
This book is an analysis of the whole frontier between religion and the environment. It deals in turn with their interactions and the effects of each on the other in the major world religions. It cons
Social Research in East Africa
Over twenty years of field work, the importance shown of data controlling the methodology. The inadvisability of specialization if advantage is to be taken of research opportunities. The need for sharing data and working with as well as for others is stressed. The basic need for bilingualism in all cross-cultural research
I am just a Sukuma
I Am Just a Sukuma
The moral understandings of urban children in sub-Saharan Africa. Some preliminary observations
Contemporary research regarding children's moral development has consistently cited the influential role of social experience and interaction. It is hypothesised that the child's environment will provide social experiences which once processed and catalogued, lead to the formation of moral concepts. Accepting the diversity of childhood experience globally, one might conclude that there will be similar diversity in children's moral understanding. …
Cultural Change and Mathematical Thought
S ummary . Sixty children of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin who had spent all their school lives in England, 60 who had arrived within the past three years and 60 British children were randomly selected in two age groups (10/11 years and 12/13 years) from the pupils of 22 schools in 11 towns in the industrial north‐west of England. Individual mathematical tasks called for ‘relational thinking’ rather than instrumental technique. No signi…
Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought
Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought
R. E. S. Tanner, Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought: Some Issues Raised by Translation into Swahili, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 9, Fasc. 2 (1978), pp. 123-135
Socialization in a Changing Society
Journal Article Socialization in a Changing Society: Sukuma childhood in rural and urban Mwanza, Tanzania Get access Socialization in a Changing Society: Sukuma childhood in rural and urban Mwanza, Tanzania, by C. M. Varkevisser. CESO, The Hague, 1973. 334pp. Illustrated, 3 maps, bibliography. Paperback. R. E. S. TANNER R. E. S. TANNER Heythrop CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs,…
A Note On Christianity and Traditional Religious Practices in Ngara, Tanzania
Penal Practice in Africa - Some Restrictions on the Possibility of Reform
This article is based on the assumption that there are worldwide trends towards the more humane treatment of prisoners which have as their principal objective the reform of criminals. These trends are determined by the societies that have evolved them; they trends are not therefore characterised by African aims and they do not express themselves in African forms. So the possibilites of purely African innovation are limited
Social Change and the Individual. A Study of the Social and Religious Responses to Innovation in a Zambian Rural Community
European Leadership in Small Communities in Tanganyika prior to Independence
Crime and Punishment in East Africa
The Social Ecology of Religion
What effect does the Islamic attitude to abortion have upon the family size and growth of Muslim populations? How do the Sukuma people of Tanzania react to the birth of an abnormal child, and why do their reactions differ so radically from those of Roman Catholics in Pennsylvania? Why were one sixth of all brides in English rural parishes between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries pregnant at marriage, and what does this tell us ab…
I am just a Sukuma
Cousin Marriage in the Afro-Arab Community of Mombasa, Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe Afro-Arab community living along the coastal belt of Kenya and Tanganyika contains persons claiming Arab nationality by either patrilineal or matrilineal descent in whom the biological Arab strain may vary between individuals born to pure Arab parents and speaking Arabic and those in whom the Arab strain is unobservable and who speak Swahili. It is not accepted that the term Swahili covers the social interrelationships betwee…
The relationships between the sexes in a coastal Islamic society
1962). The relationships between the sexes in a coastal Islamic society: Pangani district, Tanganyika. African Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 70-82
European Leadership in Small Communities in Tanganyika prior to Independence
Conflict Within Small European Communities in Tanganyika
This study has been made in the belief that methodology in community studies should emphasize the observation of persons within the community to find out the nature of their relationship, behaviour, and values in the framework of events and not the categorical structures of such communities which are essentially static characteristics
Ideology and the Killing of Albinos in Tanzania
Public opinion dictates public ideas of causation. The logic of quasi-traditional reactions to distress and anxiety are little affected by the narrow limits of Western scientific pragmatism. This Sukuma violence should be understood in the context of inexplicable distress and within the accepted paradigm of widespread creatable spiritual power to do and prevent interpersonal evil.Key Words: CauseCorrelationFearCupidityRelief
Penal Practice in Africa - Some Restrictions on the Possibility of Reform
This article is based on the assumption that there are worldwide trends towards the more humane treatment of prisoners which have as their principal objective the reform of criminals. These trends are determined by the societies that have evolved them; they trends are not therefore characterised by African aims and they do not express themselves in African forms. So the possibilites of purely African innovation are limited
The installation of Sukuma chiefs in Mwanza district, Tanganyika
SYNOPSIS The purpose of this paper is to compare present‐day installation ceremonies in Mwanza district with those of the recent as well as the historic past. There is first a reconstruction of the form which the ceremony may have taken in the late nineteenth century in Ilemera and at other places, together with some theoretical explanations of the main parts of the ritual. The present chief of Nassa who was appointed in 1927, has given a written…
Hysteria in Sukuma Medical Practice
Opening ParagraphIt is proposed to describe two specialized aspects of the practice of magicians in the northern part of Sukumaland, Tanganyika Territory, in curing patients who are assumed to be ill because of the malevolence of the spirits of their ancestors. Both the curative powers of these specialists and the diseases they treat are closely connected with the cult of the ancestors, which remains the basic spiritual force in the lives of the …
Effects of Parity on Birth Weight and Other Variables in a Tanganyika Bantu Sample
In the highlands of the extreme north-west of Tanganyika, in West Lake Province, live the Hangaza, a Bantu-speaking people, some 55,000 in number, divided socially into the Tutsi ruling class, comprising about 5 per cent, of the population, and the Hutu; the Tutsi here are not an endogamous group, and because of intermarriage with the Hutu are not distinguishable in physical appearance. The economy is mixed, cash income being derived from growing…
Land rights on the Tanganyika coast
Ancestor Propitiation Ceremonies in Sukumaland, Tanganyika
Opening ParagraphThe Sukuma, like many other African peoples, believe that the living and the dead are a continuous line, in which death is not an end but only a transformation within the history of the family. The lack of children means physical and spiritual extinction, since the ancestor spirits depend for their survival on remembrance in the minds of their descendants. The unity of the living and the dead is expressed in their ceremonies when…
An Introduction to the Northern Basukuma's Idea of the Supreme Being
An Introduction to the Spirit Beings of the Northern Basukuma
The Sorcerer in Northern Sukumaland, Tanganyika
Maturity and marriage among the Northern Basukuma of Tanganyika
SYNOPSIS The growing up of boys and girls is without restrictions on their association or activities, provided that their conduct is reasonably restrained. The idea of marriage is associated with the desire for social security and stability and regularity in their lives. The betrothal is a formalixed relationship for which there is freedom of choice for both man and woman, and in which the latter has clear opportunities for repudiating the arrang…
Maturity and marriage among the Northern Basukuma of Tanganyika
Maturity and marriage among the Northern Basukuma of Tanganyika
SYNOPSIS The growing up of boys and girls is without restrictions on their association or activities, provided that their conduct is reasonably restrained. The idea of marriage is associated with the desire for social security and stability and regularity in their lives. The betrothal is a formalixed relationship for which there is freedom of choice for both man and woman, and in which the latter has clear opportunities for repudiating the arrang…
Hysteria in Sukuma Medical Practice
Opening ParagraphIt is proposed to describe two specialized aspects of the practice of magicians in the northern part of Sukumaland, Tanganyika Territory, in curing patients who are assumed to be ill because of the malevolence of the spirits of their ancestors. Both the curative powers of these specialists and the diseases they treat are closely connected with the cult of the ancestors, which remains the basic spiritual force in the lives of the …
Maturity and marriage among the Northern Basukuma of Tanganyika
An Introduction to the Northern Basukuma's Idea of the Supreme Being
An Introduction to the Spirit Beings of the Northern Basukuma
The Sorcerer in Northern Sukumaland, Tanganyika
The Magician in Northern Sukumaland, Tanganyika
The installation of Sukuma chiefs in Mwanza district, Tanganyika
SYNOPSIS The purpose of this paper is to compare present‐day installation ceremonies in Mwanza district with those of the recent as well as the historic past. There is first a reconstruction of the form which the ceremony may have taken in the late nineteenth century in Ilemera and at other places, together with some theoretical explanations of the main parts of the ritual. The present chief of Nassa who was appointed in 1927, has given a written…
Ancestor Propitiation Ceremonies in Sukumaland, Tanganyika
Opening ParagraphThe Sukuma, like many other African peoples, believe that the living and the dead are a continuous line, in which death is not an end but only a transformation within the history of the family. The lack of children means physical and spiritual extinction, since the ancestor spirits depend for their survival on remembrance in the minds of their descendants. The unity of the living and the dead is expressed in their ceremonies when…
A demographic study in an area of low fertility in north-east Tanganyika
A demographic study has been made of settlements of different types in Pangani district, N.E. Tanganyika, selected to illustrate the varying degrees of departure from the old coastal rural economy. The three principal villages investigated have diverged from the demographic pattern characteristic of African tribal communities in their relatively high average age, low proportion of children, excess of adults in particular age groups, high proporti…
The Spirits of the Dead
The Sukuma are pastoral agriculturists living on the semiarid steppe of north western Tanganyika, administratively divided into a series of loosely federated chiefdoms. So far they have been little influenced by either Christianity or Islam and continue to practice their own form of ancestor worship which is the subject of this paper. It is essential before we pass to a consideration of their actual religious practices, to understand what they re…
Land rights on the Tanganyika coast
The relationships between the sexes in a coastal Islamic society
1962). The relationships between the sexes in a coastal Islamic society: Pangani district, Tanganyika. African Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 70-82
Effects of Parity on Birth Weight and Other Variables in a Tanganyika Bantu Sample
In the highlands of the extreme north-west of Tanganyika, in West Lake Province, live the Hangaza, a Bantu-speaking people, some 55,000 in number, divided socially into the Tutsi ruling class, comprising about 5 per cent, of the population, and the Hutu; the Tutsi here are not an endogamous group, and because of intermarriage with the Hutu are not distinguishable in physical appearance. The economy is mixed, cash income being derived from growing…
Conflict Within Small European Communities in Tanganyika
This study has been made in the belief that methodology in community studies should emphasize the observation of persons within the community to find out the nature of their relationship, behaviour, and values in the framework of events and not the categorical structures of such communities which are essentially static characteristics
Cousin Marriage in the Afro-Arab Community of Mombasa, Kenya
Opening ParagraphThe Afro-Arab community living along the coastal belt of Kenya and Tanganyika contains persons claiming Arab nationality by either patrilineal or matrilineal descent in whom the biological Arab strain may vary between individuals born to pure Arab parents and speaking Arabic and those in whom the Arab strain is unobservable and who speak Swahili. It is not accepted that the term Swahili covers the social interrelationships betwee…
Crime and Punishment in East Africa
European Leadership in Small Communities in Tanganyika prior to Independence
Social Change and the Individual. A Study of the Social and Religious Responses to Innovation in a Zambian Rural Community
Penal Practice in Africa - Some Restrictions on the Possibility of Reform
This article is based on the assumption that there are worldwide trends towards the more humane treatment of prisoners which have as their principal objective the reform of criminals. These trends are determined by the societies that have evolved them; they trends are not therefore characterised by African aims and they do not express themselves in African forms. So the possibilites of purely African innovation are limited
A Note On Christianity and Traditional Religious Practices in Ngara, Tanzania
Socialization in a Changing Society
Journal Article Socialization in a Changing Society: Sukuma childhood in rural and urban Mwanza, Tanzania Get access Socialization in a Changing Society: Sukuma childhood in rural and urban Mwanza, Tanzania, by C. M. Varkevisser. CESO, The Hague, 1973. 334pp. Illustrated, 3 maps, bibliography. Paperback. R. E. S. TANNER R. E. S. TANNER Heythrop CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs,…
Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought
Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought
R. E. S. Tanner, Word and Spirit in Contemporary African Religious Practice and Thought: Some Issues Raised by Translation into Swahili, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 9, Fasc. 2 (1978), pp. 123-135
Cultural Change and Mathematical Thought
S ummary . Sixty children of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin who had spent all their school lives in England, 60 who had arrived within the past three years and 60 British children were randomly selected in two age groups (10/11 years and 12/13 years) from the pupils of 22 schools in 11 towns in the industrial north‐west of England. Individual mathematical tasks called for ‘relational thinking’ rather than instrumental technique. No signi…
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