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Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region 妇女书写非洲:东部地区
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2007-09-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.45-5411
Karen R. Keim
Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region. Edited by Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L. Moyo, M.M. Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi, and Saida Yahya-Othman. The Women Writing Africa Project, vol. 3. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007. Pp. xiv, 478. $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. As with the two previously published volumes from The Women Writing Africa Project1 (The Southern Region, and West Africa and the Sahel, 2003), this remarkable work features women's voices in a variety of genres that includes fiction, poetry, letters, speeches, songs, lullabies, tales, and riddles. The selected texts represent 300 years of history (1711-2004) and five countries that experienced British rule, listed here with the number of authors from each: Kenya (35), Malawi (10), Tanzania (24), Uganda (26), and Zambia (12). This well-documented volume, with excellent explanatory and historical materials, is a promising addition to the body of resources for teaching about Africa; it is suitable for courses in literature, history, women's studies, and cultural studies, at the upper-class undergraduate and the graduate levels. The anthology opens with "A Note on the Women Writing Africa Project" from project co-directors Tuzyline Jita Allan, Abena Busia, and Florence Howe, who guided the making of this volume. A Preface by Austin Bukenya follows, in which he introduces the country committees and coordinators-including men as well as women-who planned, collected, and prepared texts and accompanying information over a period of more than ten years. He explains that the collectors in the field focused especially on oral texts, and that selections for the volume were made according to two criteria: "women's emancipation and sociohistorical significance" (p. xxi). The anthology editors Lihamba, Moyo, Mulokozi, Shitemi, and Yahya-Othman have authored a substantial Introduction (67 pages), which examines the background of the texts in a well researched, easy to read, and interesting discussion. Focusing on the status of Eastern African women over time, they include references to individual texts, scholarly notes, and a seven-page Works Cited and Select Bibliography. The goal of the anthology, they explain, is "to conect distortions characteristic of Eastern African historiography and anthologizing," as well as to celebrate women's achievements (p. 1). They treat the following topics in chronological order: the cultural functions of oral literature in the precolonial period; Mother Earth as a theme in traditional African religions; variety in forms of slavery; the impact of Islam; colonialism and Christianity; beginning writing and publishing; the influence of settler women; the effects of capitalism; women and independence; women in Parliament; conflicts and women fighters; the late twentieth century; prostitution and HIV/AIDS; the presence of women writers (including East Africans of Indian descent); and the struggle for women's rights in the twenty-first centu
妇女书写非洲:东部地区。编辑:Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L. Moyo, M.M. mullokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi和Saida Yahya-Othman。妇女写作非洲项目,第3卷。纽约:纽约城市大学女权主义出版社,2007。第14页,478页。布75美元,纸29.95美元。与《非洲妇女写作项目》之前出版的两卷(《南部地区》和《西非和萨赫勒》,2003年)一样,这部杰出的作品以各种类型的女性声音为特色,包括小说、诗歌、信件、演讲、歌曲、摇篮曲、故事和谜语。所选文本代表了300年的历史(1711-2004)和经历过英国统治的五个国家,这里列出了每个国家的作者人数:肯尼亚(35人),马拉维(10人),坦桑尼亚(24人),乌干达(26人)和赞比亚(12人)。这本文献详实的书,有出色的解释和历史材料,是非洲教学资源的一个有希望的补充;它适用于文学、历史、妇女研究和文化研究等课程,适用于高年级本科生和研究生。选集以“非洲妇女写作项目注释”开头,由项目联合主任Tuzyline Jita Allan、Abena Busia和Florence Howe指导编写。奥斯丁·布肯亚(Austin Bukenya)在前言中介绍了国家委员会和协调员(包括男性和女性),他们在十多年的时间里计划、收集和编写了文本和相关信息。他解释说,该领域的收集者特别关注口头文本,并根据两个标准进行选择:“妇女解放和社会历史意义”(第21页)。选集编辑Lihamba, Moyo, Mulokozi, Shitemi和Yahya-Othman撰写了大量的介绍(67页),其中以深入研究,易于阅读和有趣的讨论来检查文本的背景。关注东非妇女在历史上的地位,包括对个别文本的参考,学术笔记,以及七页的作品引用和参考书目选择。他们解释说,这本选集的目标是“将东非史学和选集的扭曲特征联系起来”,并庆祝妇女的成就(第1页)。他们按时间顺序处理以下主题:前殖民时期口头文学的文化功能;大地母亲是非洲传统宗教的主题;奴役形式的多样性;伊斯兰教的影响;殖民主义和基督教;开始写作和出版;移民妇女的影响;资本主义的影响;妇女和独立;议会中的妇女;冲突与女性战士;20世纪后期;卖淫和艾滋病;女性作家(包括有印度血统的东非人)的出现;以及在21世纪为争取妇女权利而进行的斗争。选集中的文本按时间顺序分为五个部分:“十八和十九世纪”(六个文本);《二十世纪初(1900-1935)》(15个文本);《二十世纪中期(1936-1969)》(四十文本);“20世纪末(1970-1995)”(19文本);《进入二十一世纪(1996-2004)》(64篇文章,其中近50篇是歌曲和诗歌选集)。…
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引用次数: 9
Democracy and Elections in Africa 非洲的民主与选举
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/book.3263
A. Abraham
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引用次数: 0
Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya 心灵的忧虑:肯尼亚的寡妇、家庭和社区
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-09-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.45-6335
B. Shadle
Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. By Kenda Mutongi. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 256. $50.00 / £31.50 cloth, $20.00 / £12.00 paper. Worries of the Heart is an in-depth study of the Maragoli section of the Luyia people of western Kenya from the early years of colonial rule through independence. Mutongi divides the book into three parts. The first, "Everyday Life," examines the coming of Christianity; negotiations between missionaries and converts, and Christians and non-Christians; and the impact of the discovery of gold in the 1930s. Part 2, "Family Life," examines how relations within homesteads and extended families changed, especially in regard to parents and children, marriage and bridewealth, gender and morality, widows, and domestic violence. In Part 3, Mutongi continues her story into the postcolonial period, discussing legal disputes over inheritance and how widows negotiated the new discourse of citizenship. Worries of the Heart has much to recommend it. To begin, Mutongi offers a much richer understanding of the plight and strategies of African widows than has any previous historian. Despite the large percentage of widows to be found in any African village or city, few scholars have addressed their history. Mutongi explains how Maragoli widows used the local discourse of "worries of the heart" to draw attention to their needs and induce male relatives to live up to their culturally-defined role as providers for and protectors of widows. As many widows' sons sought food and education from missionaries, widows struggled to restrain them-local rumors had it that missionaries were cannibals-or, later, to fund their educations. After uhuru, widows sought help from their new African administrators and elected officials, particularly in land disputes. Rather than speaking of their "worries of the heart," widows now portrayed themselves as loyal members of the new nation of Kenya. The book is brimming with examples, often very personal ones, of how widows negotiated (although not always successfully) life in the twentieth century. In fact, one of the strongest-although somewhat problematic-aspects of the book is Mutongi's use of oral interviews. The stories her informants related-fears of cannibalistic missionaries, of widows forced to ask male relatives to beat sons who refused to stay away from mission stations, of women who suffered violence at the hands of their husbands-make her book come alive. …
心灵的忧虑:肯尼亚的寡妇、家庭和社区。作者:Kenda Mutongi芝加哥和伦敦:芝加哥大学出版社,2007。第15页,第256页。布$50.00 /£31.50,纸$20.00 /£12.00。《心之忧》是一部深入研究肯尼亚西部鲁伊亚人从殖民统治初期到独立时期马拉戈利部分的作品。Mutongi把这本书分成了三个部分。第一部《日常生活》考察了基督教的到来;传教士与皈依者、基督徒与非基督徒之间的谈判;以及20世纪30年代发现黄金的影响。第二部分“家庭生活”考察了宅基地和大家庭内部关系的变化,特别是在父母和子女、婚姻和新娘财富、性别和道德、寡妇和家庭暴力方面。在第三部分中,Mutongi将她的故事延续到后殖民时期,讨论了关于遗产的法律纠纷以及寡妇如何谈判新的公民话语。《心灵的烦恼》有很多值得推荐的地方。首先,穆通吉对非洲寡妇的困境和策略的理解比以往任何一位历史学家都要丰富得多。尽管在非洲的任何一个村庄或城市都有很大比例的寡妇,但很少有学者研究过她们的历史。Mutongi解释了马拉戈利寡妇如何利用当地的“内心忧虑”话语来吸引人们关注她们的需求,并促使男性亲属履行他们作为寡妇的提供者和保护者的文化定义角色。由于许多寡妇的儿子向传教士寻求食物和教育,寡妇们努力限制他们——当地有传言说传教士是食人族——或者后来为他们的教育提供资金。乌呼鲁之后,寡妇们向新的非洲管理者和民选官员寻求帮助,尤其是在土地纠纷方面。寡妇们不再谈论她们“内心的忧虑”,而是把自己描绘成肯尼亚这个新国家的忠实成员。这本书充满了例子,通常都是非常私人的例子,讲述了寡妇如何在20世纪生存(尽管并不总是成功)。事实上,尽管有些问题,但书中最强的一个方面是Mutongi对口头采访的使用。她的线人讲述的故事——对吃人的传教士的恐惧,寡妇被迫要求男性亲属殴打拒绝离开传教站的儿子,遭受丈夫暴力的妇女——使她的书变得生动起来。…
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引用次数: 5
Historical Dictionary of Algeria 阿尔及利亚历史词典
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-09-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.33-0043
Anthony G. Pazzanita
Historical Dictionary of Algeria. By Phillip C. Naylor. Historical Dictionaries of Africa, No. 102, Third Edition. Lanham, Mary.: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. xlvi, 573; 16 illustrations, 7 maps. $120.00. Discussions of Algerian politics, society, and history became relatively rare in the late 1990s with the subsidence of the quasi-civil war between armed Islamists and a military-supported government that had gripped Algeria since 1992. This changed in late 2006 and early 2007 when an upturn in violence by an apparently revivified Islamic movement (led by the so-called Groupe Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat, recently rechristened "AI-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb") elevated Algeria-the second largest nation in Africa and a key oil and gas producer-to a higher profile in the crisis-oriented Western media. So it can safely be said that there is a need for a well researched, nonpartisan reference source for Algeria that encompasses the country's entire history and places present-day events and problems in perspective. Fortunately, Phillip C. Naylor has written just such a volume. The book under review (a revision and expansion of Naylor's 1994 work, which itself built upon a 1981 treatment of the subject by the late Alf Andrew Heggoy) begins with a detailed introduction that sets the tone for the rest of the book: every major phase of Algerian history-from earliest times to the Arab conquest, through the Ottoman period and the 1830 takeover of the country by France, down to the brutal 1954-1962 independence war and the eventful post-1962 period-is discussed at length. Naylor has omitted very little in his selection of entries for the volume. All major historical events, geographical features and locations, many important personalities, and economic and cultural information are included. A short, random listing of some of these entries gives an idea of their breadth: the midtwentieth-century political leaders Ramdane Abane and Ferhat Abbas; Emir 'Abd al-Qadir, the renowned 1800s resistance leader; the 1956-57 Battle of Algiers; Presidents Ahmed Ben Bella (1962-65), Houari Boumedienne (1965-78), Chadli Benjedid (1979-92), and Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1999-present); the Evian Accords that ended the independence conflict in 1962; the courageous feminist dissident Khalida Messaoudi; and the Sant'Egidio (Italy) National Contract and Platform of 1994-95, which laid the groundwork for reconciliation between most of the Islamist forces and the regime, without, however, addressing the root causes of Islamist discontent or resolving the countless abuses perpetrated by both sides of the 1992-99 conflict (Naylor calls it a state of fitna, an Arabic term describing dissention or disorder). In addition, there are lengthy sections on the variable fortunes of Algerian agriculture and industry; an educational system that delivered notable gains in literacy after 1962, though mostly without accompanying employment opportunities; the unusually strong (for a develo
阿尔及利亚历史词典。菲利普·c·内勒著。非洲历史词典,第102号,第三版。台北,玛丽。:稻草人出版社,2006。Pp. xlvi, 573;16幅插图,7幅地图。120.00美元。1990年代末,随着伊斯兰武装分子与军方支持的政府之间的准内战(自1992年以来一直困扰着阿尔及利亚)的平息,有关阿尔及利亚政治、社会和历史的讨论变得相对罕见。这种情况在2006年底和2007年初发生了变化,当时一场明显复兴的伊斯兰运动(由所谓的萨拉菲斯特预测与战斗组织领导,最近更名为“伊斯兰马格里布基地组织”)使阿尔及利亚——非洲第二大国家和重要的石油和天然气生产国——在以危机为导向的西方媒体中获得了更高的曝光率。因此,可以肯定地说,阿尔及利亚需要一个经过充分研究的、无党派的参考资料来源,包括该国的整个历史,并正确地看待当今的事件和问题。幸运的是,Phillip C. Naylor写了这样一本书。这本书进行审查(修改和扩展内勒的1994工作,本身建立在一个1981的主题到阿尔夫安德鲁Heggoy)开始详细介绍,定下了基调的书:每一个主要阶段的阿尔及利亚沿岸最早时期阿拉伯征服,通过奥斯曼时期和1830年收购的法国,到残酷的1954 - 1962年的独立战争和不平凡的1962年之后的时期了。内勒在为这本书选择条目时几乎没有遗漏。所有重大的历史事件、地理特征和地点、许多重要人物以及经济和文化信息都包括在内。一个简短的,随机列出的一些条目可以看出他们的广度:二十世纪中叶的政治领袖拉姆丹·阿巴内和费尔哈特·阿巴斯;埃米尔·阿卜杜勒·卡迪尔,19世纪著名的抵抗运动领袖;1956-57年阿尔及尔战役;艾哈迈德·本·贝拉总统(1962-65)、胡阿里·布梅迪纳总统(1965-78)、查德利·本杰迪德总统(1979-92)和阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·布特弗利卡总统(1999-至今);1962年结束独立冲突的《埃维昂协定》;勇敢的女权主义持不同政见者Khalida Messaoudi;1994-95年的圣埃吉迪奥(意大利)国家契约和平台,为大多数伊斯兰势力和政权之间的和解奠定了基础,然而,没有解决伊斯兰不满的根本原因,也没有解决1992-99年冲突双方犯下的无数虐待行为(内勒称之为fitna状态,一个阿拉伯语术语,描述分歧或混乱)。此外,书中还用了很长的篇幅讲述阿尔及利亚农业和工业多变的命运;1962年之后,教育体系在识字率方面取得了显著进步,尽管大多没有随之而来的就业机会;(对一个发展中国家来说)异常强大的电影和文学舞台;主要居住在欧洲的重要移民/移民社区;柏柏尔人的问题,值得特别长的条目,绝对是理解现代阿尔及利亚的关键,考虑到柏柏尔人和多数阿拉伯人之间的长期竞争。…
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引用次数: 11
Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History 撒哈拉以南非洲:一部环境史
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.44-3427
Jacob Tropp
Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History. By Gregory H. Maddox. Nature and Human Societies Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Pp. xi, 355. $85.00 cloth. Gregory Maddox has crafted an insightful and accessible introductory survey of sub-Saharan Africa's environmental history over the millennia. Impressively covering material from the origins of human life on the continent to HIV/AIDS in the twenty-first century, from the sands of the Sahara to the central African rainforest, this work brings together the diversity, dynamism, constraints, and innovations of human interactions with their natural surroundings into a concise and readable narrative, without diluting the complexity of particular histories. Maddox frames his analysis around two central themes: the unique and extreme variability of African environments has greatly shaped people's ways of coping with their landscapes; and Africans have consistently demonstrated "ingenuity and tenacity" in working to control their local environments (pp. 2-4). The first six chapters then pursue these themes through successive historical stages: the environmental and climatic contexts for the origins of humanity (Chapter 1); the development of food production systems in early human societies (Chapter 2); the evolution of "complex" societies and their intensification and spread of agricultural production through roughly the fifteenth century (Chapter 3); the impacts of the Columbian exchange, the transatlantic slave trade, and European "contact" on African populations and environments from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries (Chapter 4); the reorganization of space under colonial rule (Chapter 5); and (Chapter 6) the "age of conservation and development"- a creative way to address the continuities between political ecological dynamics in the high colonial and postcolonial eras and to frame the globally and locally influenced environmental challenges Africans continue to face today. Chapter 7 then provides three detailed case studies on, respectively, the Sahara, the Serengeti, and food production and agriculture in eastern, central, and southern Africa, some of which overlaps with previous chapters. Finally, a "documents" section follows, offering a small collection of diverse primary source excerpts (from an oral tradition of clan origins in Tanzania to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) and brief introductory remarks by the author. Throughout his analysis, Maddox thoughtfully suggests how evidence from Africa's past undermines a number of myths and stereotypes that have continued to plague historical depictions of the continent's populations and landscapes. Some of the most forceful comments in this vein are when the author describes the indigenous development of crop domestication and when he explores the "Monsoon Exchange"-connecting eastern Africa with the Indian Ocean world-to refute older paradigms that gave undue weight to Mediterranean influences and the Columbian exchange to e
撒哈拉以南非洲:一部环境史。Gregory H. Maddox著。自然与人类社会系列。加州圣巴巴拉:ABC-CLIO, 2006。第11页,355页。布85.00美元。格雷戈里·马多克斯对撒哈拉以南非洲数千年来的环境历史进行了深刻而易懂的介绍性调查。从非洲大陆的人类起源到21世纪的艾滋病毒/艾滋病,从撒哈拉沙漠到中非雨林,这本书令人印象深刻,将人类与自然环境互动的多样性、活力、限制和创新汇集在一起,以简洁易懂的方式叙述,而不会淡化特定历史的复杂性。马多克斯围绕两个中心主题进行分析:非洲环境的独特和极端变化极大地影响了人们应对景观的方式;非洲人在努力控制当地环境方面一直表现出“独创性和坚韧”(第2-4页)。然后,前六章通过连续的历史阶段探讨这些主题:人类起源的环境和气候背景(第1章);早期人类社会粮食生产系统的发展(第2章);大约在15世纪,“复杂”社会的演变及其农业生产的集约化和传播(第3章);从16世纪到18世纪,哥伦布大交换、跨大西洋奴隶贸易和欧洲“接触”对非洲人口和环境的影响(第4章);殖民统治下的空间重组(第五章);以及(第6章)“保护和发展的时代”——这是一种创造性的方式,以解决高殖民时期和后殖民时期政治生态动态之间的连续性,并阐述非洲人今天继续面临的受全球和地方影响的环境挑战。然后,第七章提供了三个详细的案例研究,分别是撒哈拉沙漠、塞伦盖蒂草原,以及非洲东部、中部和南部的粮食生产和农业,其中一些与前几章重叠。最后是“文献”部分,提供了一些不同的原始资料摘录(从坦桑尼亚部族起源的口头传统到约瑟夫·康拉德的《黑暗之心》)和作者的简短介绍。在他的分析中,马多克斯若有所思地指出,来自非洲过去的证据如何打破了一些神话和刻板印象,这些神话和刻板印象一直困扰着对非洲大陆人口和景观的历史描述。在这方面,最有力的评论是作者在描述作物驯化的本土发展时,以及在探讨“季风交换”(连接东非和印度洋世界)时,驳斥了将地中海影响和哥伦比亚交换过于重视以解释撒哈拉以南非洲农业创新的旧范式。…
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引用次数: 25
Women's Organization and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority 南非妇女组织与民主:对权威的挑战
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.44-1759
S. Mueller
Women's Organization and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. By Shireen Hassim. Madison, Wise: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 355. $24.95 paper. This book discusses the intersection between the growth of women's organizations and democracy in South Africa. It examines the struggle for women's rights and how it was affected by issues of race, class, and ideology during the campaign against apartheid and after independence. The study is an empirical analysis of women's groups and how they changed over time as they negotiated this difficult terrain. It analyzes how they dealt with divisions over the role of women in the nationalist struggle and the various tensions within and between groups concerning inclusion and exclusion, strategy and tactics, the desire for autonomy, and other matters. The volume unveils the enormous difficulties women had asserting themselves within a largely male-centric nationalist movement and addressing the problem of violence against women and children. It also examines how women's organizations dealt with issues related to leadership, including the role of Winnie Mandela, and how the legalization of political parties paved the way for separate women's organizations outside the ANC, eventually leading to the equality of women being enshrined in the constitution. The study covers the entire history of the struggles of South African women from 1913 onwards. It is divided into eight chapters that discuss the following: feminism and nationalism, which situate the study theoretically; the emergence of women as a political constituency; the ANC in exile; the return of the ANC women's league; transition and its impact on the South African women's movement; political parties, quotas and representation in the new democracy; one women, one desk, one typist- moving into the bureaucracy; and autonomy, engagement, and democratic consolidation. Each chapter is packed full of interesting empirical data gleaned from primary and secondary sources as well as from in-depth interviews. Throughout these chapters, Hassim effectively connects her findings to the broader theoretical literature and to the history of women's struggles in other parts of the world as well as including a comprehensive bibliography. While raising generic issues, the book's primary appeal is to individuals interested in the history of women's organizations and democracy in South Africa and the relationship between feminism and nationalism. South African women's organizations fought against being thought of as derivatives of middle class feminism in the west. …
南非妇女组织与民主:对权威的挑战。希琳·哈西姆著。麦迪逊,怀斯:威斯康星大学出版社,2006。第14页,355页。24.95美元。这本书讨论了妇女组织的发展与南非民主之间的交集。它考察了争取妇女权利的斗争,以及在反对种族隔离运动期间和独立后,它是如何受到种族、阶级和意识形态问题的影响的。这项研究是对女性群体的实证分析,以及她们在应对这一艰难地形时如何随着时间的推移而变化。它分析了他们如何处理民族主义斗争中妇女角色的分歧,以及群体内部和群体之间关于包容与排斥、战略与战术、自治愿望和其他问题的各种紧张关系。这本书揭示了妇女在一个主要以男性为中心的民族主义运动中主张自己的巨大困难,并解决了对妇女和儿童的暴力问题。它还研究了妇女组织如何处理与领导有关的问题,包括温妮·曼德拉的作用,以及政党合法化如何为非国大以外的独立妇女组织铺平道路,最终导致妇女平等被载入宪法。这项研究涵盖了自1913年以来南非妇女斗争的整个历史。全文共分八章,分别论述了以下问题:女性主义与民族主义,这是本文研究的理论定位;妇女作为政治选民的出现;流亡中的非国大;非国大妇女联盟的回归;过渡时期及其对南非妇女运动的影响;新民主主义的政党、配额和代表权;一个女人,一张桌子,一个打字员——进入官僚机构;以及自治、参与和民主巩固。每一章都充满了有趣的经验数据,这些数据收集自第一手和二手资料以及深度访谈。在这些章节中,哈西姆有效地将她的发现与更广泛的理论文献和世界其他地区妇女斗争的历史联系起来,并包括一个全面的参考书目。虽然提出了一般性的问题,但这本书的主要吸引力是对南非妇女组织和民主的历史以及女权主义和民族主义之间的关系感兴趣的个人。南非妇女组织反对被认为是西方中产阶级女权主义的衍生物。…
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引用次数: 11
The End of Chidyerano. A History of Food and Everyday Life in Malawi, 1860-2004 《奇耶拉诺的终结》1860-2004年马拉维食物和日常生活的历史
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.43-5425
E. Messer
The End of Chidyerano. A History of Food and Everyday Life in Malawi, 1860-2004. By Elias C. Mandate. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xiv, 346. $139.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. This well-documented historical and thorough ethnographic account of food and culture in Malawi's Tchiri Valley argues that the inhabitants of this region have always lived on the edge of subsistence; experiencing oases of plenty with deserts of famine. Whereas seasonal hunger (njala) is expected and occurs yearly, famine (chaola, which translates to "rotten hunger") has occurred just twice, because people spread their risks, by planting and harvesting foods from different environmental zones and sharing non-staple foods selectively. Previous analysts, for their own ideological purposes, have hypothesized either (deterioration from) a pre-capitalist "golden age" or relentless "crisis." Both miss the true historical dynamics, which combine "time's cycle" (seasonal oscillations) with "time's arrow"1 (cumulative and irreversible change). As a native-speaker who was able to interview surviving generations in their own idiom, and as a Western-trained historian, the author finds no "end of chidyerano" (sharing the "communal meal"); only never-ending oases of plenty coexistent with deserts of famine. Supporting his case are exhaustive citations from archival literature, travelers' and political accounts, previous historical analyses, and his own recent ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys. Part I reconstructs the very different political circumstances surrounding the famines of 1862-63 and 192223, and in the process critically assesses historical research methods. Part II is an agricultural treasure, specifying what cropping and additional livelihood strategies farmers have used, under varying ecological and political circumstances, to balance their needs and desires for food security and cash. Part III provides an instructive case history of cotton, rationalizing why it never became a more dominant export crop; not only were its chemical inputs costly, but its labor demands interfered with food production. The last two chapters-which consider "The Logic of the Peasant Garden" in all its diversity and "The Daily Meal" with its extensive seasonal, geographic, and personal variants-each stand on their own, and could serve as readings for courses in African history, society, culture, or food studies. The dietary chapter, in particular, demonstrates how consumption strategies of food sharing complement diverse production strategies, and what discretion women have over household food resources. …
《奇耶拉诺的终结》1860-2004年马拉维食物和日常生活的历史。作者:Elias C. Mandate朴茨茅斯,新罕布什尔州:海涅曼出版社,2004年。第14页,346页。布139.95美元,纸29.95美元。这本关于马拉维奇里山谷的食物和文化的文献翔实、详尽的民族志书认为,该地区的居民一直生活在温饱的边缘;经历了丰饶的绿洲和饥荒的沙漠。季节性饥饿(njala)是预料之中的,而且每年都会发生,而饥荒(chaola,意为“腐烂的饥饿”)只发生过两次,因为人们分散了风险,从不同的环境区域种植和收获食物,并有选择地分享副食品。先前的分析家,出于他们自己意识形态的目的,要么假设(从)前资本主义的“黄金时代”恶化,要么假设无情的“危机”。两者都错过了真正的历史动态,它将“时间周期”(季节波动)与“时间箭头”(累积和不可逆转的变化)结合在一起。作为一名能够用他们自己的习语采访幸存的几代人的母语人士,以及一名受过西方训练的历史学家,作者没有发现“共享“公共膳食”的“终结”;只有永远富足的绿洲与饥荒的沙漠共存。为了支持他的观点,他详尽地引用了档案文献、旅行者和政治记录、以前的历史分析,以及他自己最近的民族志观察、采访和调查。第一部分重建了围绕1862-63年和1922 - 23年饥荒的截然不同的政治环境,并在此过程中批判性地评估了历史研究方法。第二部分是农业宝藏,详细说明了农民在不同的生态和政治环境下使用的种植和其他生计策略,以平衡他们对粮食安全和现金的需求和愿望。第三部分提供了一个具有指导意义的棉花历史案例,解释了为什么棉花从未成为一种更主要的出口作物;不仅化学品投入昂贵,而且劳动力需求也干扰了食品生产。最后两章——考虑了“农民花园的逻辑”的多样性和“日常膳食”的广泛季节、地理和个人变化——每一章都有自己的立场,可以作为非洲历史、社会、文化或食品研究课程的阅读材料。特别是饮食这一章,展示了食物共享的消费策略如何补充各种生产策略,以及女性对家庭食物资源的自由裁量权。…
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引用次数: 36
Diasporic Africa: A Reader 散居的非洲:一个读者
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.43-6687
J. Thornton
Diasporic Africa: A Reader. Edited by Michael Gomez. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 317. $70.00 cloth, $23.00 paper. This collection of essays makes a fine introduction to recent scholarship on the African Diaspora, from the slave trade and the geographic dispersal of African people, to the modern conceptualization of the Diaspora as an imagined homeland. Gomez presents a wide, interdisciplinary presentation, which is hardly comprehensive, and not a textbook presentation, but rather a sample of current trends and research. The book is divided into three broad parts: the first is dedicated to the period of slavery, generally the African background and its transformation in America; the second deals with historical developments in the nineteenth century; and the final section covers the recent and contemporary period. In the first part, Frederick Knight presents new research showing how important African knowledge of indigo production was for the development of its processing in the Americas, shadowing the already celebrated work that has been done on rice production elsewhere. Joâo Jose Reis's article reveals the complexity of African dances and social-religious gatherings in Brazil, both in terms of the ambiguous reactions that whites had to them, and as a potential vehicle for revolts. James Sweet's article on calundu is one of the best in the book, showing how catundu evolved from a spiritual ceremony of Central African origin to a generic African dance in Brazil, eventually crossed the ocean to Europe as a musical form, and then returned to Brazil. Sweet's article on the naturalization of an African tradition provides a good transition to the second part of the book, in which Africa is evoked, but not directly remembered by American-born African Americans. Jerome Archer shows how nineteenth-century African American writers used concepts of African origin like conjure ancestor veneration, possession, and flying to create a special identity for themselves. Diane Botts Morrow's article on the Oblate Sisters in Baltimore is a fine piece tracing the growth of this African American order, with some less convincing attempts to connect it to West African precedents. Fran Markowitz's study of the African Hebrew Israelite community reveals a self-created ideology rooted in conceptions of Africa that are not informed by direct knowledge or folk memory, a piece that sets the stage for further work, which is followed up by Elizabeth Pigou-Denis's contribution on the development of Rastafarian architecture with its connections to an imagined Ethiopia. …
散居的非洲:一个读者。迈克尔·戈麦斯编辑。纽约:纽约大学出版社,2006。第8页,317页。布70美元,纸23美元。这本文集很好地介绍了最近关于非洲散居者的学术研究,从奴隶贸易和非洲人的地理分散,到散居者作为想象家园的现代概念化。戈麦斯展示了一个广泛的、跨学科的展示,这几乎是不全面的,也不是教科书式的展示,而是当前趋势和研究的一个样本。这本书分为三大部分:第一部分致力于奴隶制时期,一般是非洲背景及其在美国的转变;第二部分涉及19世纪的历史发展;最后一部分涵盖了近代和当代。在第一部分中,弗雷德里克·奈特提出了一项新的研究,表明非洲对靛蓝生产的了解对美洲靛蓝加工的发展有多么重要,这与其他地方已经在水稻生产方面取得的著名成就形成了鲜明的关系。jo o Jose Reis的文章揭示了巴西非洲舞蹈和社会宗教集会的复杂性,既体现在白人对它们的模棱两可的反应上,也体现在作为反抗的潜在载体上。James Sweet关于calundu的文章是本书中最好的文章之一,展示了catundu如何从中非的精神仪式演变为巴西的普通非洲舞蹈,最终以音乐形式漂洋过海到欧洲,然后回到巴西。Sweet关于非洲传统归化的文章为书的第二部分提供了一个很好的过渡,在第二部分中,非洲被唤起,但不是被美国出生的非洲裔美国人直接记住。杰罗姆·阿彻展示了19世纪的非裔美国作家如何使用非洲血统的概念,比如对祖先的崇拜、占有和飞翔,来为自己创造一种特殊的身份。黛安·博茨·莫罗(Diane Botts Morrow)关于巴尔的摩Oblate姐妹会的文章是一篇很好的文章,它追溯了这个非裔美国人秩序的发展,并试图将其与西非的先例联系起来。Fran Markowitz对非洲希伯莱以色列人社区的研究揭示了一种根植于非洲概念的自我创造的意识形态,这种意识形态没有直接的知识或民间记忆,这为进一步的工作奠定了基础,随后是Elizabeth Pigou-Denis对拉斯塔法里建筑发展的贡献,它与想象中的埃塞俄比亚有联系。…
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Yoruba Identity and Power Politics 约鲁巴人身份与权力政治
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.44-1679
E. Renne
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引用次数: 3
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 奴隶制与非洲城市的诞生:拉各斯,1760-1900
IF 0.3 4区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.46-1640
D. V. D. Bersselaar
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引用次数: 38
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