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Title: | At the fringes of modernity: people, animals, transitions |
Editors: | Van Wolputte, S. Verswijver, G. |
Year: | 2004 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 237 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African pastoralists studies |
City of publisher: | Tervuren |
Publisher: | Royal Museum for Central Africa |
ISBN: | 9075894627 |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia Uganda Kenya Namibia |
Subjects: | Daasanach Himba Karamojong Nyangatom Turkana pastoralists |
Abstract: | The contributions in this collective volume have in common that they question the stubborn assumptions commonly held on herders in Africa. Gustaaf Verswijver examines the body politic of the Karimojong in Uganda. He argues that dress, hairstyles or material culture in general cannot be considered apart from a more encompassing, social and political context, and deals with the repression and marginalization of the Karimojong under the Amin regime. Ivan Houtteman argues that the identity of the Daasanech (Ethiopia) is made and unmade through bodily ritual. He describes the rich symbolism associated with each ritual performance. Carla Huysmans focuses on the complexities of 'pastoral development' in Turkanaland (Kenya) and highlights the tensions between modernist thought and Turkana reality. In his contribution on the social construction of emotions, Pierre Liénard examines gift and exchange to apply insights from cognitive psychology to the life world of Turkana and Nyangatom (Ethiopia and Sudan) herders. Steven Van Wolputte investigates the role of cattle in the political ecology and economy of Himbaland, northern Namibia, particularly focusing on the early period under South African rule. [ASC Leiden abstract] |