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

Anténor Firmin and Haiti’s contribution to anthropology

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Anténor Firmin and Haiti’s contribution to anthropology (1850-1911) — Anténor Firmin was an anthropologist who pioneered a critical study of race and physical anthropology and developed in his major work, De L’égalité des races humaines..., a vision of anthropology as an integrated study of humanity. The publication date of 1885 of De L’égalité 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 Firmin’s tome was lost to Francophone anthropology, it was recognized not only in Haiti but also among Pan-Africanist scholars as an early work of négritude. Anténor 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.Anténor Firmin fut l’un des premiers anthropologues qui porta un jugement critique sur la notion de «race», aussi l’anthropologie physique forme-t-elle la partie principale de son œuvre. De l’égalité des races humaines, dont la publication date de 1885, constitue un texte pionnier en la matière. En outre, il s’agit peut-être là de la première œuvre majeure d’anthropologie rédigée par un chercheur d’ascendance africaine. Même si le texte d’Anténor Firmin resta longtemps lettre morte pour l’anthropologie francophone, il fut reconnu non seulement en Haïti, mais aussi parmi les scientifiques panafricains comme une œuvre «annonçant» la négritude. Anténor Firmin eut non seulement une influence profonde sur Jean Price-Mars, le créateur, au xxe siècle, de l’ethnologie haïtienne, mais ces liens s’étendirent plus loin, jusqu’à Melville Herskovits, fondateur de l’anthropologie africaniste et afro-américaniste

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

Esej ten stanowi rozszerzoną wersję komentarza dotyczącego referatów zaprezentowanych w trakcie sesji pt. „Antropologie oparte na współpracy, zaangażowanie społeczne i epistemologie równości”, 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 „Collaborative Anthropologies, Public Engagement, and Epistemologies of Equity”, chaired and organized by Luke Eric Lassiter, at the 2007 annual meeting of the AAA in Washington, DC

Scholarly Humanism

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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