Designed to counter-balance the conventional emphasis on religious and ritual functions, this collection of papers re-evaluates the political aspect of age systems in the context of national politics, civil and regional wars.
Recenzijos
The volume contributes to our understanding of the formal genius of age systems ... - -- John G. Galaty * in JRAI * ...East Africa is the single most important area of the world in which age-systems survive, ...This welcome volume is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of age-systems. - -- P.T.W. Baxter * SOAS BULLETIN * If previously anthropologists had focused on a particular society and had suggested that age-systems were autonomous structures of control and sociability this volume considers age-systems as political means for competitions, violence and trans-national association transcending the isolation of social ritual, though using ritual as a political model of competition. ...an interesting and highly significant volume, particularly within the ongoing discussions of ethnicity, identity and globalisation. It provides a new theoretical framework for East African ethnography and a challenge for anthropologists of politics, religion and nationalism. - -- Mario I. Aguilar * CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGY *
Conflict, age and power in North East African age systems, Simon Simonse
and Eisei Kurimoto; resonance of age systems in southeastern Sudan, Eisei
Kurimoto; age, conflict and power in the monyomiji age systems, Simon
Simonse; "brothers in arms" - military aspects of East African age-class
systems in historical perspective, John Lamphear; generational systems on the
threshold of the third millennium - an anthropological perspective, Serge
Tornay; Gaga systems on the meta-ethical level - Gabbra/Boran/Garre
interactions in the Kenyan-Ethiopian borderland, Gunther Schlee; women's age
categories in a male-dominated society - the case of the Chamus of Kenya,
Kaori Kawai; age systems and modes of predatory expansion, Paul Spencer;
peacemakers, prophets, chiefs and warriors - age-set antagonism as a factor
of political change among the Kipsigis of Kenya, Toru Komma; Rendille age
system as an instrument of clan coherence and subsistence security, Shun
Sato; two extinct age systems among the Iteso, Nobuhiro Nagashima.
