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Antropologen Johannes Nicolaisen
Johannes Nicolaisen – af alle kendt som Nic – var dansk antropologis første og i mange år eneste professor. Han ændrede det romantiske museumsfag med rod i Nationalmuseets faglige behov til et moderne analytisk universitetsfag. Nic var den store feltarbejder. Han drog først til Lapland og senere til Sahara – og stort set uden penge. På rejserne var tobak, notesbog og fotoudstyr langt vigtigere end mad, og transport klarede han selv til fods, på ski eller æsel. Målet med feltarbejdet var ud over at forstå menneskers kultur og historie altid at svare på de store spørgsmål: nomadismens oprindelse eller menneskets oprindelige kultur som jægere og samlere. Altid skulle han derfor længst ud, hvor han mente, at den traditionelle kultur havde overlevet i størst udstrækning. For Nic var kulturrelativismen kombineret med en insisteren på, at friheden til selv at bestemme også skulle gælde minoriteter rundt om i verden. Mere og mere blev han klar over, at det liv, civilisationen tilbød os, manglede mange af de fundamentale menneskelige værdier, som han fandt under sine ophold hos såkaldt primitive folk.
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Among Herders of Inner Mongolia
This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries...
The Pastoral Tuareg
Popularly known as the blue people, the Tuareg have for centuries lived in the heart of the Sahara, unwilling to accept the political authority of others. This two-volume set offers a unique glimpse of Tuareg culture and society from the intricacies of their pastoral way of life to the complexity of their political, economic, and social systems. 515 illus. 210 in color.
I renernes land
I den iskolde vinter 1945 drager 24-årige Johannes Nicolaisen af sted på en eventyrlig skifaerd for at leve blandt samerne og deres rener. Nic, som han kaldes, er studerende, han har vaeret modstandsmand, og nu vil han forfolge en drengedrom om at leve som nomaderne. Han vil tilegne sig deres viden om dyr og natur, og han vil opnå deres tillid, så de giver ham indsigt i deres kultur. For Nic vil vaere forsker og bryde nye veje for antropologien i Danmark. Det kommer han til. Nic bliver den forste magister og den forste professor i antropologi. Internationalt beromt for dybtgående studier af 'det blå folk' i Saharas orken og jaegerfolk i Borneos regnskov. 'I Renernes land' er en faengslende beretning om at stå i laere hos samerne og om gaestfrihed, skaebner, tro og overtro. Det er samtidig en skildring af en ung mands livsmod under barske kår, af ustyrlige situationer, staerke kvinder og svedigt arbejde - og af den lykke, Nic foler, når han ligger med forfrosne fodder ved bålet og ser op i stjernehimlen.
The French War on Al Qa'ida in Africa
This book investigates France's 2013 military intervention in Mali and its lessons for America's fight against terrorist groups in Africa and worldwide. Its assessment of new anti-terrorist military strategy will be of use to those in the foreign policy and national security communities.
Veiling in Africa
“This volume examines the complex histories, politics, and experiences of wearing Islamic dress in sub-Saharan Africa.” —Heather Marie Akou, Indiana University Bloomington The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is distinctive about veiling in Africa, what religious histories or practices are reflected in particular uses of the veil, and how styles of veils have changed in response to contemporary events. Together, they explore the diversity of meanings and experiences with the veil, reveal...
Evil in Africa
William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in African cultural and social contexts. These studies of evil entanglements take local and national histories and identities into account, including state politics and civil war, religious practices, Islam, gender, and modernity.
Persons of Courage and Renown
Persons of Courage and Renown is a theoretically engaged ethnography by a social/cultural anthropologist that explores issues of culture, memory, creativity, and power by analyzing beloved, yet vulnerable, actors, acting, and play performances in Tamajaq-speaking, predominantly Muslim, traditionally stratified, and semi-nomadic Tuareg communities in northern Mali. The town and region of Kidal are the primary sites of field research. This book traces how Tuareg actors powerfully negotiate cultural memory and encounters in communities caught, between political violence and peacekeeping efforts in northern Mali. Urban, state, and nongovernmental bureaucracies there seek to reshape Tuareg verbal art performances to comply with official agendas aimed at transforming local culture. This book shows how acting and plays are crucial in continuing, but also debating and redefining, the meanings of older verbal art performances of Tuareg tales, songs, and epics, as well as wider cultural knowledge and social practice. Their arts offer important possibilities for peacemaking in a turbulent and unpredictable world.
The Pastoral Tuareg
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