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The life of a South African tribe
01 Jan 1927-
About: The article was published on 1927-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 439 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tribe (biology) & Africana studies.
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TL;DR: This article argued that gossip and scandal in primitive communities do not engender feuds and that often the principals concerned are on very good terms, and that envy, slander and hate are the dominant atmosphere of a primitive community.
Abstract: IT HAS TAKEN the development of anthropological interest in the growth and break-up of small groups to put gossip and scandal into their proper perspective, as among the most important societal and cultural phenomena we are called upon to analyse. Perceptive anthropologists dealt with these phenomena from the early days of field observation. Paul Radin, in his Primitive Man as a Philosopher (1927:177-8), described the way in which primitive p ople are indeed among the most persistent and inveterate ofgossips. Contestants for the same honours, possessors of the sacred rites of the tribe, the authorized narrators of legends, all leave you in little doubt as to the character and proficiency of their colleagues. \"Ignoramus,\" \"braggart,\" and not infrequently \" iar\" are liberally bandied about. Radin commented that therefore \"some observers have drawn the conclusion that not love, kindness, and forbearance, but envy, slander and hate are the dominant atmosphere of a primitive community.\" He argued that this was incorrect, because the \"unkind and slanderous remarks o frequently bandied about do not engender feuds and that often the principals concerned are on very good terms.\" Radin dismissed the idea that this contradiction was to be explained by \"suppression or sublimation\"; but he fell back on a meagre psychological thesis, that tribal society has a theory of freedom of expression which gives \"every
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Abstract: ALI, HAIDAR IBRAHIM. i986.\"Ilm al-ijtima' wal sira' al-idiyoloji fil mujtama' al-'arabi\" (Sociology and ideological conflict in Arab society), in Nahw'ilm iltima arabi (Towards an Arab sociology), pp. I07-37. Beirut: Markaz dirasat al wihdah al-'arabiyah. AL-SAYYED, RADWAN. I98I. Al-Jami' wal madrasa wal jami'atarikhiyyat l-'ilm al-islami wa jughrafiyyat al-mu'assah alhaditha (The mosque, the madrasa, and the university: The historicity of Islamic scholarship and the geography of the contemporary institution). Al-Fikr al-'Arabi, no. 20, pp. 4-IO. . i985. Mushkulat al-bahth al-ijtima'i al-'arabi (Problems of Arab sociological research). Al-Fikr al-'Arabi, nos. 37-38, pp. 4-I3.
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TL;DR: A review of research on fire in South Africa can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the effects of fire on various aspects of South African biodiversity, such as vegetation structure and dynamics, forage production and quality, and water yield.
Abstract: 1 Characteristics of South African Biomes.- 2 Fire Regimes in the Biomes of South Africa.- 3 Man's Historical and Traditional Use of Fire in Southern Africa.- 4 An Historical Review of Research on Fire in South Africa.- 5 Fire in Fynbos.- 6 Fire in Grassland.- 7 Fire in Savanna.- 8 Fire in Forest.- 9 Fire Behaviour.- 10 Effects of Fire on Vegetation Structure and Dynamics.- 11 The Effect of Fire on Forage Production and Quality.- 12 Effects of Fire Regime on Faunal Composition and Dynamics.- 13 The Responses and Survival of Organisms in Fire-Prone Environments.- 14 The Effect of Fire on Soil and Microclimate.- 15 The Effect of Fire on Water Yield.- 16 The Use of Fire as a Management Tool.- Concluding Remarks. Fire Research - a Perspective for the Future.- References.- Index of Plants and Animals (Scientific).- Index of Plants and Animals (Common).
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TL;DR: The cultural field consists of a set of systems of interrelated agents and institutions functionally defined by their role in the division of labour (of production, reproduction and diffusion of cultural goods) as mentioned in this paper.
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