http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f12-subject%3DAfrican%20Studies Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f12-subject=African Studies Sat, 01 Jan 1994 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft6q2nb3zj/ft6q2nb3zj.xml This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts. http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft6q2nb3zj/ft6q2nb3zj.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft958009mm/ft958009mm.xml Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies.Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other co... http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft958009mm/ft958009mm.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT