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The Sudan
Sudan, Africa\u27s largest country, straddles a vast expanse of geography, history and culture. Its great diversity is a most prominent characteristic. While Sudan has not itself played a central role in world history, the great powers from the ancient Egyptians to the British imperialists have involved it in international affairs. However, it is often forgotten that Sudan once ruled Egypt during the height of the Kushites, that it was under Byzantine Christian rule for a longer period than under Islam, and that the great Sudanese nationalist, the Mahdi, defeated a joint Anglo-Egyptian military venture in the late nineteenth century
AntĂ©nor Firmin and Haitiâs contribution to anthropology
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, AntĂ©nor Firmin and Haitiâs contribution to anthropology (1850-1911) â AntĂ©nor Firmin was an anthropologist who pioneered a critical study of race and physical anthropology and developed in his major work, De LâĂ©galitĂ© des races humaines..., a vision of anthropology as an integrated study of humanity. The publication date of 1885 of De LâĂ©galitĂ© des races humaines marks it as a pioneering text in anthropology and it is perhaps the first major work of anthropology written by a person of African descent. Although Firminâs tome was lost to Francophone anthropology, it was recognized not only in Haiti but also among Pan-Africanist scholars as an early work of nĂ©gritude. AntĂ©nor Firmin also had a seminal impact on Jean Price-Mars, the 20th century founder of Haitian ethnology, and these ties extend further to the American founder of African and Afro-American anthropology, Melville Herskovits.AntĂ©nor Firmin fut lâun des premiers anthropologues qui porta un jugement critique sur la notion de «race», aussi lâanthropologie physique forme-t-elle la partie principale de son Ćuvre. De lâĂ©galitĂ© des races humaines, dont la publication date de 1885, constitue un texte pionnier en la matiĂšre. En outre, il sâagit peut-ĂȘtre lĂ de la premiĂšre Ćuvre majeure dâanthropologie rĂ©digĂ©e par un chercheur dâascendance africaine. MĂȘme si le texte dâAntĂ©nor Firmin resta longtemps lettre morte pour lâanthropologie francophone, il fut reconnu non seulement en HaĂŻti, mais aussi parmi les scientifiques panafricains comme une Ćuvre «annonçant» la nĂ©gritude. AntĂ©nor Firmin eut non seulement une influence profonde sur Jean Price-Mars, le crĂ©ateur, au xxe siĂšcle, de lâethnologie haĂŻtienne, mais ces liens sâĂ©tendirent plus loin, jusquâĂ Melville Herskovits, fondateur de lâanthropologie africaniste et afro-amĂ©ricaniste
Tribe : A Socio-Political Analysis
In 1974 we authored an essay entitled Tribe and Tribalism which recommended that the term tribe be dropped from scientific usage by anthropologists because of its pejorative connotations associated with non-European peoples and because the term is arbitrarily, rather than systematically applied.
Increasing numbers of scholars are putting quotation marks around the word tribe or are using the phrase the so-called tribal societies. Still others are presenting a critical review of the term tribe before abandoning it or using it in the text in modified or altered form. The term primitive has undergone a similar evolution in recent years
Collaborative Anthropology as Twenty-first-Century Ethical Anthropology
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cego referatĂłw zaprezentowanych w trakcie sesji pt. âAntropologie oparte na wspĂłĆpracy, zaangaĆŒowanie spoĆeczne i epistemologie rĂłwnoĆciâ, zorganizowanej i prowadzonej przez L.E. Lassitera na dorocznym spotkaniu American Anthropological Association w 2007 roku w Waszyngtonie.This essay expands upon a commentary on papers offered in the Presidential Session titled âCollaborative Anthropologies, Public Engagement, and Epistemologies of Equityâ, chaired and organized by Luke Eric Lassiter, at the 2007 annual meeting of the AAA in Washington, DC
EL ALAMI, Dawoud S. , The Marriage Contract in Islamic Law in the Shariah and Personal Status Laws of Egypt and Morocco (London: Graham and Trotman, 1992), Glossary and Index, 224 pp. Cloth $76.00
John O. Hunwick (ed.), Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity and politics in the Sudan and Nigeria. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1992, 188 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0 8101 1037 7.
The Sudan
Sudan, Africa\u27s largest country, straddles a vast expanse of geography, history and culture. Its great diversity is a most prominent characteristic. While Sudan has not itself played a central role in world history, the great powers from the ancient Egyptians to the British imperialists have involved it in international affairs. However, it is often forgotten that Sudan once ruled Egypt during the height of the Kushites, that it was under Byzantine Christian rule for a longer period than under Islam, and that the great Sudanese nationalist, the Mahdi, defeated a joint Anglo-Egyptian military venture in the late nineteenth century