Jon P Kirby
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96637 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jon P Kirby |
| PRENOMES | Jon P |
| SOBRENOME | Kirby |
| ASSINATURA | KIRBY J P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tamale Teaching Hospital |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transculturation
Adam Jones (ed.), Transculturation: mission and modernity in Africa.. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Mission Archives Series No. 22. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik (€12.00, ISBN 3 935999 14 3). 2003, 80 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Catholicism and Problem-solving in Dagbon
The Dagomba people of northern Ghana should not be Christian at all. Although there has been a Catholic presence for the last 50 years in Dagbon, the people have never felt the need for Christianity. But some of their number are now forming village-level Christian communities. Taking the stance that religion in Africa is about problem-solving, especially when it involves the unseen world, the authors surveyed 315 villagers, Catholics and non-Cath…
Asante Catholicism. Religious and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana
White, red and black
The Islamic dialogue with African traditional religion
The Absence of the Missionary in African Ethnography, 1930-65
There is scarcely one [African people]...which has not been affected, to a greater or less extent, by the work of the Christian missions, and among most of them organized communities of native Christians play an integral part in the social organization. No contemporary social study can afford to neglect this element, the form it takes, and its relations with the other groups with which it co-exists and interacts. Beattie 1953, 178 There is perhap…
God, Shrines and Problem-Solving among the Anufo of Northern Ghana
Why the Anufo Do Not Eat Frogmeat
Journal Article WHY THE ANUFO DO NOT EAT FROGMEAT: THE IMPORTANCE OF TABOO-MAKING FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK Get access JON P. KIRBY JON P. KIRBY Jon P. Kirby is a fellow of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, Uk and the director of Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies in Ghana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 59–72, https://doi.org…
The Non-Conversion of the Anufo of Northern Ghana
In Go . . . and Make Disciples Rev. Al Krass chronicled his mission to an isolated people of Northern Ghana—the Anufo. His efforts were unusually successful and attracted considerable public attention in TIME magazine 1 . Seven short years after Krass the author was assigned to establish the Catholic Mission there 2 , but having read Krass’s book, he was little prepared for what he was to find. All but one of the chaples built 3 by Krass had lite…
White, red and black
The Islamic dialogue with African traditional religion
The Absence of the Missionary in African Ethnography, 1930-65
There is scarcely one [African people]...which has not been affected, to a greater or less extent, by the work of the Christian missions, and among most of them organized communities of native Christians play an integral part in the social organization. No contemporary social study can afford to neglect this element, the form it takes, and its relations with the other groups with which it co-exists and interacts. Beattie 1953, 178 There is perhap…
The Non-Conversion of the Anufo of Northern Ghana
In Go . . . and Make Disciples Rev. Al Krass chronicled his mission to an isolated people of Northern Ghana—the Anufo. His efforts were unusually successful and attracted considerable public attention in TIME magazine 1 . Seven short years after Krass the author was assigned to establish the Catholic Mission there 2 , but having read Krass’s book, he was little prepared for what he was to find. All but one of the chaples built 3 by Krass had lite…
Transculturation
Adam Jones (ed.), Transculturation: mission and modernity in Africa.. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Mission Archives Series No. 22. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik (€12.00, ISBN 3 935999 14 3). 2003, 80 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Why the Anufo Do Not Eat Frogmeat
Journal Article WHY THE ANUFO DO NOT EAT FROGMEAT: THE IMPORTANCE OF TABOO-MAKING FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK Get access JON P. KIRBY JON P. KIRBY Jon P. Kirby is a fellow of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, Uk and the director of Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies in Ghana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 59–72, https://doi.org…
The Non-Conversion of the Anufo of Northern Ghana
In Go . . . and Make Disciples Rev. Al Krass chronicled his mission to an isolated people of Northern Ghana—the Anufo. His efforts were unusually successful and attracted considerable public attention in TIME magazine 1 . Seven short years after Krass the author was assigned to establish the Catholic Mission there 2 , but having read Krass’s book, he was little prepared for what he was to find. All but one of the chaples built 3 by Krass had lite…
Why the Anufo Do Not Eat Frogmeat
Journal Article WHY THE ANUFO DO NOT EAT FROGMEAT: THE IMPORTANCE OF TABOO-MAKING FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK Get access JON P. KIRBY JON P. KIRBY Jon P. Kirby is a fellow of the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, Uk and the director of Tamale Institute of Cross Cultural Studies in Ghana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 59–72, https://doi.org…
God, Shrines and Problem-Solving among the Anufo of Northern Ghana
The Absence of the Missionary in African Ethnography, 1930-65
There is scarcely one [African people]...which has not been affected, to a greater or less extent, by the work of the Christian missions, and among most of them organized communities of native Christians play an integral part in the social organization. No contemporary social study can afford to neglect this element, the form it takes, and its relations with the other groups with which it co-exists and interacts. Beattie 1953, 178 There is perhap…
The Islamic dialogue with African traditional religion
White, red and black
Catholicism and Problem-solving in Dagbon
The Dagomba people of northern Ghana should not be Christian at all. Although there has been a Catholic presence for the last 50 years in Dagbon, the people have never felt the need for Christianity. But some of their number are now forming village-level Christian communities. Taking the stance that religion in Africa is about problem-solving, especially when it involves the unseen world, the authors surveyed 315 villagers, Catholics and non-Cath…
Asante Catholicism. Religious and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana
Transculturation
Adam Jones (ed.), Transculturation: mission and modernity in Africa.. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Mission Archives Series No. 22. Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik (€12.00, ISBN 3 935999 14 3). 2003, 80 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Sociology (9 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · African cultural and philosophical studies (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · History (3 obras)