Showing papers on "Emancipation published in 1996"

Disorders of discourse

Abstract: Introduction - orders and disorders "What pills are you on now?" - doctors ask, and patients answer hierarchy or democracy? - power and discourse in school committee meetings understanding the news? - information already informed! "self reflection and emancipation?" - sociolingustics aspects of the therapeutic process and its effect.

Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High

Abstract: Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High, by Signithia Fordham. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. 411 pp. $22.95, paper. Reviewed by Jean Harris, Olympic College. At a time when the standardized test scores and educational attainment levels of African American students have been shown to lag stubbornly behind those of European Americans despite a spate of remedies directed at teachers, educators, and curriculum, a study that sheds light on how African American adolescents define and evaluate the cost of academic success should be of immediate interest to educators and policymakers. Moreover, anthropological research by an African American scholar who has herself traversed the oft-mined terrain of educational institutions should be must reading for ethnographers, psychologists, and general readers who want to understand Black student achievement, underachievement, and what Cose (1993) has dubbed the "rage" of the Black middle class. Such are the elements of Blacked Out, a study of success in the Black community that uses a high school as its field research site. In Blacked Out, Fordham expands upon her earlier argument, first posited in the 1980s, that Black students' academic and out-of-school behaviors must be understood in light of an ethos that, on one hand, values Black identity and, on the other, defines achieving academic success as "acting White" (Fordham, 1988; Fordham & Ogbu, 1986). True to form, she rejects simplistic arguments that success for African Americans is dependent solely upon desire and ability. She rejects as well the notion that African Americans who resist conventional notions of success do not want to live out some aspects of the American Dream. Instead, she contends that, for Black students, academic success and academic underachievement are processes of resistance that enable African Americans to maintain their humanness in the face of a stigmatized racial identity. As Blacked Out reveals, this resistance manifests among African American adolescents as both conformity and avoidance. Employing the holistic perspective that is the hallmark of her discipline, Fordham examines the myriad cultural, sociohistorical, and psychological processes that affect student academic success at Capital High, a pseudonym for a school of almost two thousand students located in Washington, D.C. Core data for this study were collected by means of participant observation, interviews, and field notes Fordham gathered over a four-year period with 33 key informants, their peers, and nonfamilial adult members of the school community. Additional data came from questionnaires she administered to a large sample of other students and school personnel. Fordham maintains in Blacked Out that, among African Americans, differences in childrearing practices and gender socialization are associated with differences in levels of academic achievement and in preferred resistance strategies. As background to her study, Fordham traces historical events that have influenced African American cultural practices and social structure, delineating four eras that have elicited varying responses from different strata within this group: the enslavement era (ca. 1609-1865); the First Emancipation (1866-1959), or the period after the Civil War when slavery was legally abolished, yet people of African descent were forbidden to "act White" and assume citizenship on a par with European Americans; the Second Emancipation, the 26-year transition period corresponding roughly to the years 1960-1986, during which time Black Americans were obligated to act White in order to compete with European Americans; and the neosegregation or contemporary period, which Fordham observes others have called the era of the "new racism," with its emerging and not yet clearly defined parameters. For example, acknowledging that fictive kinship has been an organizing principle among Black families since the time of official enslavement, Fordham argues that the egalitarian ethos of cooperation and sharing fostered by this principle stands in opposition to the individualistic ethos of the schools. …

Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

Abstract: One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.

The Reflective Practitioner: Mantra or a Model For Emancipation?

Abstract: (1996). The Reflective Practitioner: Mantra or a Model For Emancipation? Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 146-161.

Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War

Abstract: "Clad in glittering white" virtuous inferiority "to die young" - muscular Christians, spreading the gospel, the rush to the colours business as usual - a strategy of sorts, the people respond, a nation divided, strategy in disarray war by improvization - money, manpower, munitions and food - arms and the nation, feeding the people, the problem of manpower, paying for the war working for the war - co-operation and conflict, the state and the worker, working women aliens, outlaws and dissenters - the criminal element, pernicious pacifists, anti-conscriptionists, spies and imaginary spies lions and donkeys mobilizing minds - propaganda, censorship and the press, German atrocities, the enemy within house, homes and health - housing, food and household necessities, the nation's health, children, holding it all together "are you forgetting there's a war on?" denouement - 1918 coming home - slips and civvie suits, pensions and rehabilitation, demobilized women, "standing stoutly together" the dead, the living and the living dead - the dead, surviving, the ritual of remembrance the social legacy of the war - three steps forward, two back - consciousness and conflict, a land fit for heroes, freedom and emancipation vs, homes, husbands and babies politics and the people - the triumph of the hard-faced men - the 1918 representation of the People Act, politics and the 1918 election, women and politics, reconstruction.

A People's History of the United States: From 1492 to the Present

Abstract: 1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. 2. Drawing the Color Line. 3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition. 4. Tyranny is Tyranny. 5. A Kind of Revolution. 6. The Intimately Oppressed. 7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs. 8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God. 9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom. 10. The Other Civil War. 11. Robber Barons and Rebels. 12. The Empire and the People. 13. The Socialist Challenge. 14. War is the Health of the State. 15. Self-help in Hard Times. 16. A People's War? 17. "Or Does It Explode?" 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam. 19.Surprises. 20.The Seventies: Under Control? 21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus. 22. The Unreported Resistance. 23.The Coming Revolt of the Guards. Afterword: On the Clinton Presidency. Bibliography. Index

Strategic Sisterhood or Sisters in Solidarity? Questions of Communitarianism and Citizenship in Asia

Abstract: The Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) has spawned a triumphant sense among Western/Northern feminists that they are forging a strategic sisterhood with less privileged women in the South. Feminists from metropolitan countries seek a new North-South alliance whereby they make strategic interventions on behalf of third world women by putting pressure on their governments. Professor Ong critiques strategic sisterhood on the following grounds: First, strategic sisterhood is based on individualistic notions of transnational feminine citizenship, ignoring the historical and cultural differences between women from the first and third worlds. In particular, the concept ignores geopolitical inequalities whereby postcolonial countries are sensitive to what they view as new forms of cultural imperialism. For many Asian leaders and subjects, women 's emancipation is seldom just a question about individual rights, but fundamentally about culture, community, and the nation. Second, strategic sisterhood brushes aside other forms of morality? whether expressed in nationalist ideology, or embedded in religious and communal practices?that shape local notions and relations of gender, hierarchy, loyalty, and social security. These webs of power relations are the everyday contexts within which third world women must struggle for their rights. To illustrate both points, Professor Ong draws on cases from China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, where popular struggles for human rights are usually couched in terms of community?class, religion, or nation?not gender. The silence regarding women 's problems is especially striking in resurgent labor movements where a significant proportion of workers are young women working in abysmal conditions. Foreign feminists must first understand the

Modernization, Marginalization, and Emancipation: Toward a Normative Model of Journalism and National Development

Abstract: The idea of “development journalism,” central to many discussions of mass communication and development in the Third World, needs to be reconceptualized because deliberations about its validity and usefulness have been bogged down in arguments structured by Western notions of press freedom. The debate has diverted attention from important questions about how journalism can contribute to participatory democracy, security, peace, and other humanistic values. This article argues that social transformations are deeply rooted in changing ideas and practices related to space and time. Thus, as background for reconceptualizing development journalism, the expectations and actual impacts of the dominant models of mass communication and development are analyzed, with particular attention to the relationships among mass communication, space, and time. Then the concept of emancipation is explicated and a normative model for “emancipatory journalism” is outlined. The model specifies an activist role within “new social movements” for journalism and journalists in the process of national development. The relationship between emancipatory journalism and social change is considered in the final section.

Slaves into workers : emancipation and labor in Colonial Sudan

Abstract: In the Sudan, native Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on an institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898, they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to replace their labor in the country's economy. This pathfinding study explores the process of emancipation and the development of wage labor in the Sudan under British colonial rule. Ahmad Sikainga focuses on the fate of ex-slaves in Khartoum and on the efforts of the colonial government to transform them into wage laborers. He probes into what colonial rule and city life meant for slaves and ex-slaves and what the city and its people meant for colonial officials. This investigation sheds new light on the legacy of slavery and the status of former slaves and their descendants. It also reveals how the legacy of slavery underlies the current ethnic and regional conflicts in the Sudan. It will be vital reading for students of race relations and slavery, colonialism and postcolonialism, urbanization, and labor history in Africa and the Middle East.

Decency, dependence and the lash: Gender and the British debate over slave emancipation, 1830–34

Abstract: (1996). Decency, dependence and the lash: Gender and the British debate over slave emancipation, 1830–34. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 163-184.

Chinese Outcasts: Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China

Abstract: Outcasts and pariahs are known to exist in several Asian countries but have usually not been associated with traditional Chinese society. Chinese Outcasts shows that some Chinese were in fact treated as outcasts or semi-outcasts. They include the boat people of South China and certain less well-known groups in different regions, including the "musicians' households" and the "fallen people". The reasons for their inferior status and perceived impurity is examined, as well as the intent behind a series of imperial emancipation edicts in the 1720s and 30s. The edict provided an escape route from inferior legal status but failed to put a quick end to customary social discrimination.

Serfdom and Slavery: Studies in Legal Bondage

Abstract: Part 1 Comparative studies of serfdom and slavery: slvaery, serfdom and other forms of coerced labour - similarities and differences, Stanley L. Engerman some controversial questions concerning 19th-century emancipation from slavery and serfdom, Peter Kolchin. Part 2 Themes and case studies on slavery: continuity and change in Western slavery - ancient to modern times, William D. Phillips Jr the origin and establishment of Ancient Greek slavery, Tracey Rihll the hierarchical household in Roman society - a study of domestic slavery, Richard Saller emancipation in Byzantium - Roman law in a medieval society, Rosemary Morris New World slavery, Old World slavery, Howard Temperley slave exploitation and the elementary structure of enslavement, Robin Blackburn slave emancipation in modern history, David Turley. Part 3 Themes and case studies in serfdom: serfdom in medieval and modern Europe, Michael Bush on servile status in the early Middle Ages, Wendy Davies the rises and declines of serfdom in medieval and early modern Europe, Robert Brenner memories for freedom - attitudes towards serfdom in England, 1200-1350, Christopher Dyer subject farmers in Brandenberg-Prussia and Poland - village life and fortunes under manorialism in early modern Central Europe, William W. Hagen the serf economy and the social order in Russia, Steven Hoch when and why was the Russian peasantry emancipated?, Boris N. Mironov.

Deconstructing Site-Based Management: Possibilities for Emancipation and Alternative Means of Control.

Abstract: Recent years have seen widespread popular attention to site-based management (SBM) at both the policy and practice level . A review of empirical research, however, concluded that at most sites, SBM was operating \"primarily as a symbolic response\" rather than as a \"substantive reform\" (Malen, Ogawa, and Kranz, 1991, p. 3Tl) . This analysis of SBM literature reaches a similar conclusion, but holds out hope for the future. Site-based management can be defined as the devo­ lution of decision-making authority from the district level to the individual school site. SBM is the most re­ cent (and perhaps, most promoted) in a long history of organizational participatory decision-making initia­ tives. Its primary objective is to \"bring about signifi­ cant change in educational practice\" (David, 1989, p. 45) by providing school staffs sufficient autonomy from external regulation to modify and restructure services traditionally mandated from above and, by alleviating the morale-diminishing and effort-reducing effect of strong central control (David, 1989) .

Caribbean freedom : economy and society from emancipation to the present : a student reader

Abstract: This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The range of coverage is comprehensive calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean. Three broad themes are identified: the slow disintegration of the slave system which was not completed until 1886; the attempts by resistant social groups and imperial agencies to accept and adjust to freedom; and the maturing of nationalist consciousness in terms of constitutional and cultural independence. Among the areas covered under these themes are popular revolts and aborted revolutions; the sugar industry and economic diversification; peasants and planters; immigration from Europe, India and China; the role of women; labour movements; independence and nationhood.

Slave Mothers and Freed Children: Emancipation and Female Space in Debates on the ‘Free Womb’ Law, Rio de Janeiro, 1871*†

Abstract: Through an analysis of the debates in 1871 on the Law of the ‘Free Womb’ in the Brazilian Empire, this article tries to understand the role of the slave mother and her freed children in the process of abolition. In addition, it discusses the possible obstacles and dangers the ‘Free Womb’ would present for the perpetuation of slaveowners' dominance.

“The Marriage Covenant is at the Foundation of all Our Rights”: The Politics of Slave Marriages in North Carolina after Emancipation

Abstract: In the fall of 1865, North Carolina lawmakers gathered in Raleigh to draw up a new constitution. Despite the absence of the most extreme secessionists, those in attendance were still a remarkably homogeneous group of planters, businessmen, and professionals—white men of the same wealthy families that had always governed the state. Yet faced with the sweeping changes wrought by war and emancipation, they anticipated a difficult session. Edwin Reade, who delivered the opening address, tried to set a positive tone, assuring the assembly that the future would be easy compared to the hardships of the past five years. The metaphor he chose was that of a homecoming. “Fellow citizens,” he intoned, “we are going home”: “Let painful reflections upon our late separation, and pleasant memories of our early union, quicken our footsteps towards the old mansion, that we may grasp hard again the hand of friendship which stands at the door, and, sheltered by the old homestead which was built upon a rock and has weathered the storm, enjoy together the long, bright future which awaits us.”

Art in South Africa: The future present

Abstract: This work documents in 60 pages of full colour the most dynamic and exciting artists and their works that have emerged since South Africa s emancipation in 1990. Sue Williamson is an artist herself; Ashraf Jamal is a writer, journalist and playwright.

Testing the Boundaries of Marginality: Twentieth-Century Slavery and Emancipation Struggles in Nkanu, Northern Igboland, 1920–29

Abstract: In 1914 the Enugu Government Colliery and the construction of its railway link to the Biafran coast used slave-owning chiefs as labor recruiters. Although aware of slavery in the Nkanu clan area the state simply outlawed the slave trade and excessive treatment but left it to slaves to secure their 'freedom'. Nkanu slavery was unusually pervasive, incorporating over half of some villages, with few opportunities for manumission or marriage to the freeborn. Severe ritualistic proscriptions excluded slave men from village politics. But forced labor destabilized slavery, causing unrest which reached crisis proportions in the fall of 1922. The revolt presents a unique opportunity for historical study of the goals, ideology and strategies of indigenous slave populations creating 'freedom' within the emergent colonial order. When owners demanded slaves' wages, the slaves resisted and demanded full social and political equality with the freeborn. Slaves who remained in the village struggled to provision Enugu's urban working class. For both slavery hindered opportunities in the colonial economy. In retaliation owners evicted slave families, increased their labor requirements and unleashed a reign of terror, abduction and sacrifice of slave women and children. By the fall of 1922 local government collapsed forcing the state to develop a policy on emancipation. It is significant that this struggle converted the slaves from a scattered subordinate group of patrilineages to an aggressive and cohesive community.

For a red pedagogy: feminism, desire, and need

Abstract: eminism in the classrooms of late capitalism is increasingly a "ludic feminism" whose primary pedagogy is a libidinal pedagogy of desire and pleasure: pleasure in and of textuality, the body, sexuality. The notion of pleasure takes many forms, from a revival of an experiential (cultural) feminist idea of pleasure as "feelings," "affect," and "empathy" (e.g. Juhasz, Reading from the Heart) to the poststructuralist view of pleasure as the subversion of establishment representations through an "excess" beyond the rational and the ideological (e.g. Garber, Vice Versa). By ludic feminism I mean the form of feminism that, following the dominant postmodern theories, has rearticulated politics as almost exclusively a cultural politics of representation: as a language-effect, a mode of rhetoric aimed at changing cultural representations and concerned with simply voicing the silenced desires and experiences of women and other marginalized people (for a full development of this issue, see my Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism). In doing so, it has largely abandoned and discredited politics as emancipation (see Butler, "Poststructuralism"; Laclau; Laclau and Mouffe)-that is, politics as a collective practice through which existing social institutions and the exploitative divisions of labor can be transformed so that economic resources and cultural power can be equally distributed without regard to gender, nationality, race, class, sexuality, or physical abilities. Following Foucault, ludic feminism understands power as diffuse, asystematic, contingent, and "aleatory"-that is marked by chance and arbitrariness-rather than historically determined by production prac-

From Hedda Gabler to Votes for Women : Elizabeth Robins's Early Feminist Critique of Ibsen

Abstract: In Elizabeth Robins's preview of the Coronation Suffrage Pageant of 1911--the largest and most spectacular demonstration of the British suffrage campaign--she announced that the Actresses' Franchise League contingent would be "led by Hedda Gabler, in the accomplished person of the Princess Bariatinsky on horseback."' The actresses' choice of a leader was at once fitting and incongruous. On the one hand, Hedda Gabler signified an anger that the actresses' professional reliance on popularity with audiences prohibited them from expressing more directly and assertively;2 and Hedda's anger, together with her brilliance and desperation, had immediately established her as one of the great roles for women in the dramatic repertory. On the other hand, Hedda hardly qualified to marshal feminist followers toward their goal of emancipation, since she lacks the courage and conviction of the many suffragists who endured such hardships as jail sentences and forced feedings. She does, after all, opt to commit suicide rather than to confront in a more constructive manner the circum-

Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia

Abstract: Because the American history of slavery and emancipation tends to be foremost in Western minds, few realise that traditional forms of servitude still exist in a variety of places around the world: children are sold on the streets of Bangkok, bondage persists in India despite official efforts to abolish it and, until 1980, slavery was legal in Mauritania. "Breaking the Chains" deals with emancipation in African and Asian societies which were either colonised or came under the domination of European powers in the 19th century. In these societies, emancipation involved the imposition on non-European societies of an explicitly European discourse on slavery, and, in most cases, a free labour ideology. Most of the slave masters described in these essays were not European and found European ideas on emancipation difficult to accept. Against this backdrop, the essayists (many of whom contribute their own non-Western perspective) focus on the transition from slavery (or other forms of bondage) to emancipation. They show that in each case the process involved pressure from European abolition movements, the extension of capitalist relations or production, the concerns and perceptions of the colonial state, and the efforts of non-Western elites to modernise their cultures. Martin Klein argues that the Asian and African experience has much in common with the American experience, particularly in efforts to control labour and family life. The struggle to control the labour of former slaves has often been intense and, he suggests, has had a continuing impact on the social order in former slave societies.

The Slavery of Emancipation

Abstract: The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes the institution of slavery rather than freeing individual slaves. Yet it quickly came to stand for little more than granting universal rights to make labor contracts and to leave service. This article develops a distinction between abolishing an institution and reclassifying individuals within it. Drawing on the comparative history of slavery, it shows that the institution of slavery has generally included mechanisms for the manumission of slaves and their passage into a liminal status combining self-ownership with social subordination and relative isolation. A critical account of the Antelope litigation shows that proponents of mass manumission still often assumed that ex-slaves would need to be governed by whites. A discussion of manumission, self-purchase and labor contracting in the antebellum U.S. argues that although these mechanisms were less common than in other slave societies, they were nevertheless important until the decades immediately preceding the Civil War. The article concludes that the narrow interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment that prevailed merely conferred on African Americans the liminal status typically occupied by manumittees in a slave society. The institution of slavery arguably survived in the form of a racially defined subordinate status, reducing the autonomy and income potential of all African-Americans.

Folk music revival : Concepts between regression and emancipation

Abstract: The musical behavior of folklore groups towards their environment is marked by conflicting models. On the one hand such groups tend in a historicizing way to try to revive the past using the most authentic forms possible (concept of cultivating the original old). At the same time, involvement with the modern is a transcendence of old concepts in that the local is syncretically blended together with new ideas (concept offusioning the old and new). The dynamic oftradition lies precisely in the musical relationship between local and global perspectives, regression and emancipation, and between retrospection and future outlooks.

Leadership Vistas: From the Constraints of the Behavioral Sciences to Emancipation through the Humanities:

Abstract: Leadership studies, as represented by the two principal journals in the field --Leadership Quarterly and The Journal of Leadership Studies -- has been contrained primarily within the "behavioral sciences" and, more particularly, within the disciplines of psychology/social psychology and business/management. This article proposes consideration of emancipatory perspectives on leadership offered by the humanities and, more particularly, by literature/literary studies. Using neo-institutional theory as a means of framing the discussion, it argues that leadership studies has become embedded, institutionalized enterprise and that the humanities may provide one means of deinstitutionalizing and broadening the field.

1910, the emancipation of dissonance

Abstract: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attention to the life and work of Carlo Michelstaedter, he deftly portrays the reciprocal implications of different discourses - philosophy, literature, sociology, music, and painting. His beautifully balanced and deeply informed study provides a new, wider, and more ambitious definition of expressionism and shows the significance of this movement in shaping the artistic and intellectual mood of the age. "1910" probes the recurrent themes and obsessions in the work of intellectuals as diverse as Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Vasily Kandinsky, Georg Lukacs, Georg Simmel, Dino Campana, and Arnold Schoenberg. Together with Michelstaedter, who committed suicide in 1910 at the age of 23, these thinkers shared the essential concerns of expressionism: a sense of irresolvable conflict in human existence, the philosophical status of death, and a quest for the nature of human subjectivity. Expressionism, Harrison argues provocatively, was a last, desperate attempt by the intelligentsia to defend some of the most venerable assumptions of European culture. This ideological desperation, he claims, was more than a spiritual prelude to World War I: it was an unheeded, prophetic critique.

The press and “delusive theories of equality and fraternity” in the age of emancipation

Abstract: Important insight into race relations during Reconstruction might be gained by examining racial ideologies present in newspaper content, as black and white Americans attempted to establish new social, political, legal, and economic relations in the aftermath of the end to slavery. Nine leading newspapers‐four in the North, two in border states and three in the South‐were examined for language about African American civil rights in coverage of three post‐Civil War amendments, passed in an attempt to guarantee black Americans the full privileges of American citizenship. Findings suggest that the diminishing concern for African American civil rights conveyed in Northern papers, coupled with the increasing language in border and Southern papers suggesting that blacks were not worthy of equal rights, likely thwarted growth of egalitarian racial attitudes among whites.

Aus der Judengasse: Zur Entstehung und Ausprägung deutschsprachiger Ghettoliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert

Abstract: In the 19th century the ghetto literature genre was a central phenomenon in avowedly Jewish literature both in German-speaking areas and in Central Europe in general. In terms of literary history the genre is associated with the rise of regional literature after the 1830s and the village chronicle in particular. This meant that in the course of the 19th century German-speaking areas (alongside Germany itself notably the countries of the Habsburg monarchy) saw the emergence of a wide variety of ghetto narratives. What all these had in common was their function as a literary response by Jewish authors to the cardinal issue of the potential forms available for Jewish emancipation and identity in that period.

Re-Sourcement as Emancipation: A Case Study of Ritualized Sewing

Abstract: Re-sourcement as a rhetorical strategy for emancipation is explored as it occurs through ritualized sewing. Re-sourcement involves creating and living in a world through energy drawn from sources other than patriarchy. It is accomplished in ritualized sewing through rhetorical processes of declaring a commitment, entering into marginal space, cleansing, demarcating boundaries, working magic, returning to the external world, and emblematic display.

Narratives of Infanticide in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa

Abstract: ResumeOn decouvre dans les dossiers de la Colonie du Cap Ouest rurale en Afrique du Sud un nombre inhabituel d'infanticides liees aux missionaires durant la decennie qui a suivi l'emancipation des ...