Culture of Colonialism - The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru

Informationen zum Autor T. O. Beidelman is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. He is author of Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-historical Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots (IUP, 1982); The Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (IUP, 1986); and The Cool Knife: Metaphors of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual. Klappentext Beidelman unveils the colonial system's problems as it extended its authority into rural areas and shows how these problems persisted even after African independence. Zusammenfassung Details colonial authority and progress in rural Africa Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Colonialism and Anthropology Part 1. History 1. Kaguru and Colonial History: The Rise and Fall of Indirect Rule Part 2. Colonial Life 2. Ukaguru 1957-58 3. The Kaguru Native Authority 4. Court Cases: Order and Disorder 5. Subversions and Diversions: 1957-58 6. The World Beyond: Kaguru Marginality in a Plural World, 1957-61 Part 3. How It Ended and Where It Went Epilogue: Independence and After Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: T O Beidelman, T. O. Beidelman
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2012
• EAN: 9780253002082
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00208-2
• No. of pages: 414
• Series: African Systems of Thought
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology