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“Effects of Training for a Profession on Life Styles and Life-Changes of African Women in South Africa.” Paper presented to the Women in Development Section at the 15th World Conference of the Society for International Development, Amsterdam, November 28-December 3, 1976, 16 pp.
The study of the person, or self, is one of the most exciting areas of anthropological research today. Though it has recendy become a central concern of psychological anthropology and gender studies, the person has been a significant theme in African studies ever since the 1930s; reflection on this theme promises today not only to shed new ...
5 wrz 2018 · This entry begins by outlining the roots of modern anthropology and then moves to the end of the nineteenth century, when Darwinian influence led to the growth of academic anthropology.
16 lip 2019 · This article discusses the challenges of the realization of women’s rights in relation to the concept of culture relativism in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines how the concept of culture is misconstrued with a traditional hierarchy and patriarchy approach that intervenes in the realization of women’s rights in sub-Saharan African states.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed research articles, book reviews, commentary, and other material relevant to engaged scholarly discourse within and outside Anthropology. The journal is listed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index.
The social anthropology of women is not a new topic. Women have been in there somewhere from the beginning of the discipline. According to Evans-Pritchard (1955) the relationship between the sexes was a favourite subject of Victorian British social anthropologists. Rogers (1978, op.cit. below, pp.125-6)
21 lis 2019 · This virtual issue feature articles on the cutting edge of research on women and gender in Africa. The articles draw on and feed into key debates about women, gender, and change in African societies.
