Zimbabwe is on the brink of a major crisis. The university can play a crucial role in averting or at least rmodifying it. The very long-term perspective of pre<otonial history offers a view of the situation that involves every faculty and department in the university. Consequently, this lecture will take a rather different form from the usual. The first part summarizes a recent book that is its...

Guinean hosts viewed Liberian refugees with the same ambivalence and fascination that many held for their own children, who were embracing the consumerist ethos of Guinea’s postsocialist 1990s. Loma-speaking farmers’ categories for evaluating historical change and refugee comportment grew out of metaphors of embodied agency and morality. These categories challenge some aspects of both Guinean e...

Africana philosophy is in the main a of present. Many will demur and with good reason. In first place, worrying about definition animating energies philosophers, philosophers have looked to past furnish answers former, future motivate its orientation latter. For Lucius Outlaw, for example, writing Stanford Encyclopedia Philosophy, “Africana third-order, metaphilosophical, umbrella-concept used ...

Max Weber’s concept of routinization offers a useful framework for understanding the relationship between political economy and the organization of religious movements. Here, we apply this concept to a comparison of Hopewell and Mississippian, two of the most important religious movements in the precolonial Eastern Woodlands. We focus on two archaeological contexts in particular—Mound 25 at the...

Scouring a bookshop in Havana, Cuba, I came across Olive Senior's poem Colonial Girls’ School.1Senior O girls school.in: Ellis K Poetas del Caribe anglophóno. Casa las Américas, Havana2011: 105Google Scholar It teleported me to my mother's and aunts’ musings about their colonial girls’ schools. Borrowed imageswilled our skins palemuffled laughter […]dekinked hairdenied sex gym tunics bloomers [...

This paper introduces the cultural r/k theory an evolutionary theory that explains why different cultures evolve in different directions. The cultural r/k theory links differences in artistic style with war and peace, geography, political system and religion. This theory is useful for explaining cultural differences, for classifying artefacts and for predicting sampling bias in the archaeologic...

Black history is the study of human past that focuses on people with black skin: things those have done, societies Africa, world events from perspective people, and so on. Nowadays, recovery increasingly seen as important in United Kingdom elsewhere.1 People campaign for its inclusion school curricula; there are documentaries exploring African civilisations, university research programmes devot...

This article explores the ‘apprehension’ that permeates life in coastal Sierra Leone as fisherfolk struggle to navigate a precarious economy of overfished waters and overstrained relationships. In context deepening uncertainty, social vigilance has come be regarded key survival skill. At sea, even fishermen strain their senses for evidence shoaling fish, they remain equally vigilant rival crews...

The article is dedicated to the loving memory of !A|’xuni. Ju|’hoansi east central Namibia sometimes refer state as a whiteman and /’hun (steenbok). In this article, I contextualize these naming practices by tracing history colonial encounters on fringes Western Kalahari through small-scale animist perspective. then discuss what means for concept ‘recognition’, which treat two-way intersubjecti...

This article evaluates origin theories of sex differences in human behavior by reviewing crosscultural distributions of sex-differentiated behavior. We examine the behavior of women and men in a wide range of nonindustrial societies, especially the activities that contribute to the sextyped division of labor and patriarchy. To explain these cross-cultural findings, we consider the perspectives ...