Antropologia polityczna w Afryce
Political Anthropology in Africa
Contributor(s): Maciej Ząbek (Editor)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Africa; Georges Balandier; political anthropology; customary law; Algerian war
Summary/Abstract: A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-3893-6
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-3885-1
- Page Count: 248
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Słowo wstępne. Ciągłość nauki jako wartość spajająca wspólnotę badaczy
Słowo wstępne. Ciągłość nauki jako wartość spajająca wspólnotę badaczy
(Preface. Continuity of learning as a bonding value a community of researchers)
- Author(s):Zofia Sokolewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:7-13
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Africa; Georges Balandier; political anthropology; customary law; Algerian war
- Summary/Abstract:A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.
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Wprowadzenie
Wprowadzenie
(Introduction)
- Author(s):Maciej Ząbek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:15-18
- No. of Pages:4
- Keywords:Africa; Georges Balandier; political anthropology; customary law; Algerian war
- Summary/Abstract:A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.
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Historyk wobec metod antropologii politycznej
Historyk wobec metod antropologii politycznej
(The historian and methods in political anthropology)
- Author(s):Michał Tymowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:21-43
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:history; political anthropology; Early State; chiefdom; comparative and interdisciplinary studies
- Summary/Abstract:This paper is devoted to the impact that history and political anthropology have on one another. It presents the thoughts and experiences of a historian of political systems in precolonial Africa, who has been collaborating since the 1970s with the milieu of political anthropologists. The author describes the differences in the development of the two scientific disciplines, their various areas of research, and the different methods they use. He also discusses the removal of the time factor in comparative anthropological studies and the possibility of using this method in historical studies. In addition, he uses examples of studies of chiefdoms and Early States and discusses the problems with borrowing anthropological terminology by historians.
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Badania afrykańskie w antropologii politycznej
Badania afrykańskie w antropologii politycznej
(African research in political anthropology)
- Author(s):Anna Malewska-Szałygin
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:45-59
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:political anthropology; Africa; ethnographic fieldwork; concepts and theories
- Summary/Abstract:The paper presents arguments for the thesis that Africa has proven to be a research areaparticularly inspiring for the creation of new methodologies in social and culturalanthropology. Ethnographic research conducted on this continent, especially regardingissues of politics and power, has stimulated researchers to improve existing and seek fornew descriptive and analytical tools: from functional-structural approaches, throughprocessual ones connected to the Manchester School, related to symbolic anthropology(Cohen, Kertzer), to postcolonial studies of Achille Mbembe and the findings of LilaAbu-Lughod related to globalization.
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Antropologia polityczna Afryki – tradycja brytyjska
Antropologia polityczna Afryki – tradycja brytyjska
(Political anthropology of Africa – the British tradition)
- Author(s):Wojciech Dohnal
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:61-90
- No. of Pages:30
- Keywords:British anthropology; political anthropology; Africa; colonialism; postcolonialism
- Summary/Abstract:The article is devoted to a critical reflection on the history of research conducted by British political anthropologists in Africa. The author discusses major theoretical paradigms, including structural functionalism, processualism, symbolism and postmodernism and analyzes how the changing historical context – from implementation of the system of indirect rule in Africa to the present day – has influenced the ways of understanding politics in anthropological discourse.
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Władza i zmiana. Antropologia polityczna Georges’a Balandiera
Władza i zmiana. Antropologia polityczna Georges’a Balandiera
(Power and change. The political anthropology of Georges Balandier)
- Author(s):Jacek Jan Pawlik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:91-112
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Georges Balandier; political anthropology; politics; modernity; colonial situation
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the political anthropology of Georges Balandier, paying special attention to the development of his interests and theoretical proposals. At the heart of his research is the reaction of power to change, which he considered a barometer of subsequent political forms and structures. The author points out the relationship in Balandier’s work between political thought and religion as well as the entanglement of tradition with modernity.
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Afryka i świat w teorii społecznej Georges’a Balandiera
Afryka i świat w teorii społecznej Georges’a Balandiera
(Africa and the world in the social theory of Georges Balandier)
- Author(s):Adam Pomieciński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:113-129
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Georges Balandier; African ethnology; contemporary ethnology; political anthropology
- Summary/Abstract:This text deals with the problems of social theory according to Georges Balandier. The main goal of the article is to present a complex analytical perspective, which is based on two pillars: African studies and studies on contemporary culture. The element that brings together these two contexts is political anthropology and the reflection on the political aspects of the phenomena described and interpreted.
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Georges Balandier, badacz historii Konga
Georges Balandier, badacz historii Konga
(Georges Balandier as researcher of the Old Kingdom of Kongo)
- Author(s):Robert Piętek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:131-148
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Georges Balandier; Kingdom of Kongo; Christianity; European expansion; Portugal
- Summary/Abstract:The book Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century was one of first works describing in detail the organization of the Kongo Kingdom and its society. Georges Balandier described the kingdom in the context of cultural, political and economic confrontation between Europe and Africa. According to him, the European influences weakened the kingdom and its Christianization was superficial. Balandier was influenced by the ideas of the epoch of the colonization of Africa. He considered the early modern European policy towards the Kongo to be similar to the one in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century an era of colonial expansion and colonial times.
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Polityczna apolityczność Jeana Roucha. Film jako katalizator zmian
Polityczna apolityczność Jeana Roucha. Film jako katalizator zmian
(Political apoliticism of Jean Rouch. Film as a catalyst of change)
- Author(s):Sławomir Sikora
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:151-166
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Africa; anthropology; ethnofiction; film; Jean Rouch; Oumarou Ganda; politics; agency
- Summary/Abstract:The text focuses on the “politics” of Jean Rouch (French filmmaker and anthropologist), which was reflected in the sphere of action rather than declarations. One of the main issues discussed is the empowerment of his African friends, collaborators and actors. The author concludes that enhancing their agency was, in fact, a complex and difficult process. The author claims that the fact that Oumarou Ganda – a migrant worker, the main actor in Moi, un Noir, and then one of the first African film directors – distanced himself from the film made together with Rouch as well as from Rouch himself (thus “freeing himself” from the colonial and hierarchical relationship) one can read as Rouch’s biggest (though probably unintentional) “political” success.
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Prawo zwyczajowe w obozach dla uchodźców w Kenii
Prawo zwyczajowe w obozach dla uchodźców w Kenii
(Customary law in refugee camps in Kenya)
- Author(s):Maciej Ząbek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:167-177
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:refugees; refugee camps; international law; customary law
- Summary/Abstract:Refugee camps are not free from internal crime that must be fought against. This raises the question of how should it be done on the basis on what law? The 1951 Convention on the Protection of Refugees obliges nations to respect the law of the host country in whose territory the camps are located. In the case of Kenya and some other African countries, their authorities have almost completely withdrawn from using their own state law in the camps in favour of UNHCR and its executive partners, who in turn, have withdrawn from enforcing international law. According to the author’s research, customary law rules in the camps.
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Xeer – prawo zwyczajowe Somalijczyków jako narzędzie międzynarodowego reżimu uchodźczego
Xeer – prawo zwyczajowe Somalijczyków jako narzędzie międzynarodowego reżimu uchodźczego
(Xeer – the customary law of the Somalis as a tool of the international refugee regime)
- Author(s):Wojciech Trojan
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:179-204
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:Somaliland; refugees; customary law; xeer; maslaxad; UNHCR
- Summary/Abstract:The article considers the intersection between legal pluralism and the international refugee regime in Somaliland. The author claims that UNHCR is reluctant to embrace legal pluralism as a tool of international protection activities. However, the field research shows that the living law should be considered to be the only effective mechanism of dispute resolution in the region, including the majority of all legal cases in the refugee camps administered in the field by the protection cluster system.
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Pokłosie wojny algierskiej 1954–1962, czyli skrywana tajemnica legalizacji pobytu Harkis i ich rodzin we Francji
Pokłosie wojny algierskiej 1954–1962, czyli skrywana tajemnica legalizacji pobytu Harkis i ich rodzin we Francji
(Aftermath of the Algerian War (1954–1962) or the hidden secret of Harkis and their families’ legalization of residency in France)
- Author(s):Krystyna Kamińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:205-222
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:France; Algerian War; National Liberation Front; Harkis; Kabyle people
- Summary/Abstract:For decades the issue of Harkis was not present in the public debate in France. It has only changed in the 21st century when the French Senate passed the resolution establishing 19 March as the remembrance day of the victims of the French-Algerian war, which was more than fifty years after these events. However, thanks to some recent elaborations of some French scholars and the specific pressure from the community of the Harkis, the secret of the events related to the end of the war in Algeria, which had been hidden from the public, has been revealed.
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Kultura polityczna jako klucz do zrozumienia najnowszej historii Sudanu i Sudanu Południowego
Kultura polityczna jako klucz do zrozumienia najnowszej historii Sudanu i Sudanu Południowego
(Political culture as a key to understanding the modern history of Sudan and South Sudan)
- Author(s):Jędrzej Czerep
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:223-247
- No. of Pages:25
- Keywords:political culture; Sudan; South Sudan; politicalness
- Summary/Abstract:Political culture remains on the margins of the politological, historic or economic analysis of Sudan and South Sudan despite its major influence on the dynamics of developments both within and between the two states. The author analyzes selected writers’ and practitioners’ views on the essence of state–citizen relations, schemes of the political system’s participants’ behaviour and patterns of renegotiating the rules of social living on the grassroots level. This could allow political culture to be lifted to the status of an autonomous object of research in relation to the Sudans, which would supplement the description of their politicalness with an important dimension.
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