Wealth in People and Self-Realization in Equatorial Africa

Guyer, Jane I.

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“…The third indicator, area farmed, consisted of the total number of hectares farmed across all crops in the previous harvest. The fourth indicator, household size, was the sum of all current household residents, adults and children, predicated on the common perception that in rural Africa, where production is often highly labour-intensive, people (including children) are both a source and an indicator of wealth (Guyer, 1993). These four indicators, asset score, total livestock units, total area farmed and household size, were all strongly positively correlated.…”

Section: Data Analysis 231 Variablesmentioning

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From avengers to hunters: Leveraging collective action for the conservation of endangered lions

Fitzherbert

Caro

Johnson

et al. 2014

Biological Conservation

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a b s t r a c tFewer than 40,000 lions are left in Africa, perhaps 40% of which reside in Tanzania. Lions in East Africa are commonly killed in situations where they prey on livestock, either to retaliate for loss or avert future attacks. Among the Sukuma, Tanzania's largest cattle-raising ethnic group, tradition allows a lion killer to visit households, perform a special dance, and demand rewards for ridding the area of a potentially dangerous predator. Here we document how this tradition of gift-giving provides sufficient economic incentive that lion killing continues to persist in the face of a near absence of livestock loss from lions. Contemporary lion killers no longer act as avengers, retaliating for loss or averting future attacks, but as hunters, pursuing non-threatening lions far from residential and grazing areas and often inside protected areas. Our study reveals that Sukuma householders are less likely to reward a lion dancer if they have received frequent visits from dancers (indicative of donor fatigue) and if they perceive change in motivation from avenging to hunting. These findings suggest that it may be possible to reduce illegal killing of lions by working through Sukuma institutions responsible for collective action within the local community, and to remove the economic incentive for killing non-problem lions.

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Section: Data Analysis 231 Variablesmentioning

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From avengers to hunters: Leveraging collective action for the conservation of endangered lions

Fitzherbert

Caro

Johnson

et al. 2014

Biological Conservation

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“…number of progeny allows men to establish their seniority and position themselves within the social hierarchy as heads of lineages [46]. It secures a so-called "wealth in people" [45] and the necessary social relations that increase a man's opportunities to access political and/or economic power. Among the Yoruba, Gun and Fon in the southeast of Benin, having numerous children is highly valued despite a trend among younger people to have fewer children.…”

Section: Forms Of Marriage Sexuality and Reproduction In The Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Neither increasing urbanization, which modernization theories predicted would contribute to its disappearance ( [41], p. 365), nor missionary efforts have achieved much to change this predominance. The study of polygamy in patrilineal societies in Africa has been at the center of classical ethnographies [42][43][44][45]. One of the main reasons given to explain why men seek to enter polygynous unions is to ensure a large progeny [43], or at least to secure one male child.…”

Section: Forms Of Marriage Sexuality and Reproduction In The Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dilemmas of Monogamy: Pleasure, Discipline and the Pentecostal Moral Self in the Republic of Benin

Quiroz

2016

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Based on ethnographic research in the Republic of Benin, this article explores how Pentecostal teachings on marriage and the management of sexual pleasure contribute to shaping converts' moral selves. For Pentecostals, fidelity towards God, when single and fidelity between partners, once married, is presented as the ideal model of partnership to which every "Born-Again" should aspire. In the context where polygamous unions are socially accepted, Pentecostal pastors teach that a satisfactory sexual life restricted to marriage is the means of building successful monogamous unions. However, sexual satisfaction might not always guarantee marital success, especially when people face problems of infertility. The author suggests that the disciplinary regimes that these teachings promote contribute to shaping new modes of intimacy, which are compatible with societal changes but often contradict the extant social norms and ideals of reproduction. Moral dilemmas arising from this tension are the key to understanding how Pentecostal Christianity shapes the moral self. The article addresses how Pentecostals in Benin navigate and negotiate cultural continuities and discontinuities in relation to church authority and family life.

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“…At that point, quite different social worlds came into abrupt collision: on the European side, a late feudal and developing capitalist system of exchange, soon with Enlightenment reason; on the African side, the most baroquely elaborated systems of trade on the continent, with a bewildering multitude of currencies (see especially Guyer 1993Guyer , 2004. African traders were animated by cultural projects of self-enlargement in a cosmos in which earthly success always depended on unseen powers and ancestral spirits.…”

Section: African Originsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema

Jinsoo¹

2018

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Wealth in People and Self-Realization in Equatorial Africa

Cited by 293 publications

References 26 publications

From avengers to hunters: Leveraging collective action for the conservation of endangered lions

From avengers to hunters: Leveraging collective action for the conservation of endangered lions

The Dilemmas of Monogamy: Pleasure, Discipline and the Pentecostal Moral Self in the Republic of Benin

Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema

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