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Comparing Impossibilities : Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Hawoo Publishing Company, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781912808069
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Comparing ImpossibilitiesDDC classification:
  • 301
LOC classification:
  • GN25 .M667 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments and Sources -- Foreword by John Borneman -- An Oblique Introduction -- Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology -- Chapter One - Part of the Story: A Memoir -- Chapter Two - Comparisons: Possible and Impossible -- Chapter Three - Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania -- Part II: Perspectives on Africa -- Chapter Four - From Giving and Lending to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro -- Chapter Five - History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro -- Chapter Six - Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running "Their Own" Native Courts -- Chapter Seven - Individual Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as "Events of Articulation" -- Chapter Eight - Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography -- Part III: Excursions into Mythology -- Chapter Nine - Descent and Symbolic Filiation -- Chapter Ten - The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism -- Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics -- Chapter Eleven - Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study -- Chapter Twelve - Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973 -- Chapter Thirteen - Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments and Sources -- Foreword by John Borneman -- An Oblique Introduction -- Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology -- Chapter One - Part of the Story: A Memoir -- Chapter Two - Comparisons: Possible and Impossible -- Chapter Three - Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania -- Part II: Perspectives on Africa -- Chapter Four - From Giving and Lending to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro -- Chapter Five - History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro -- Chapter Six - Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running "Their Own" Native Courts -- Chapter Seven - Individual Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as "Events of Articulation" -- Chapter Eight - Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography -- Part III: Excursions into Mythology -- Chapter Nine - Descent and Symbolic Filiation -- Chapter Ten - The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism -- Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics -- Chapter Eleven - Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study -- Chapter Twelve - Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973 -- Chapter Thirteen - Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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