Read The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa

The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa

James Anthony Pritchett

4.9/5 (19112 ratings)

Description:Continuity and change in Zambia. Bridging history and anthropology, this richly documented account of the Lunda- Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia has at its center the paradox of continuity and change. To legitimate and justify innovations to their cultural identity and practice, the Lunda-Ndembu propose that such innovations have conceptual similarities to long-standing While framing the discussion around classic anthropological oppositions--the individual versus the group, old versus young, females versus males, rich versus poor, us versus them, people versus the natural environment, the physical world vs. the metaphysical world--James A. Pritchett also offers a work of historical imagination. It is at the shifting boundaries of these relationships, he argues, that change is actually confronted on a daily basis, spoken about, and negotiated into conformity with widespread and enduring traditions. Juxtaposing Victor Turner's ethnographic data on the Ndembu from the 1950s with his own fieldwork in the 1980s and 1990s, Pritchett demonstrates that, by restudying areas already well known, it is possible to generate richly nuanced answers about social change that more accurately reflect local sensibilities. AUTHORBIO: James A. Pritchett is assistant professor of anthropology and assistant director of the African Studies Center at Boston University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa. To get started finding The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0299171507

Description: Continuity and change in Zambia. Bridging history and anthropology, this richly documented account of the Lunda- Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia has at its center the paradox of continuity and change. To legitimate and justify innovations to their cultural identity and practice, the Lunda-Ndembu propose that such innovations have conceptual similarities to long-standing While framing the discussion around classic anthropological oppositions--the individual versus the group, old versus young, females versus males, rich versus poor, us versus them, people versus the natural environment, the physical world vs. the metaphysical world--James A. Pritchett also offers a work of historical imagination. It is at the shifting boundaries of these relationships, he argues, that change is actually confronted on a daily basis, spoken about, and negotiated into conformity with widespread and enduring traditions. Juxtaposing Victor Turner's ethnographic data on the Ndembu from the 1950s with his own fieldwork in the 1980s and 1990s, Pritchett demonstrates that, by restudying areas already well known, it is possible to generate richly nuanced answers about social change that more accurately reflect local sensibilities. AUTHORBIO: James A. Pritchett is assistant professor of anthropology and assistant director of the African Studies Center at Boston University.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa. To get started finding The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa

The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa

More Books

Dark Bits (QuickLII, #1)

Dark Bits (QuickLII, #1)

A Century of George Eliot Criticism

A Century of George Eliot Criticism