African GeniusOhio University Press, 1 sty 2005 - 384 The African Genius presents the ideas, social systems, religions, moral values, arts, and metaphysics of a range of African peoples. Basil Davidson points toward the Africa that might emerge from an ancient civilization that was overlaid and battered by colonialism, then torn apart by the upheaval of colonialism’s dismantlement. Davidson disputes the notion that Africa gained under colonialism by entering the modern world. He sees, instead, an ancient order replaced by modern dysfunction. Davidson’s depiction of the sophisticated “native genius” that has carried Africans through centuries of change is vital to an understanding of modern Africa as well. |
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... Moral Order 8. Elaborations I : Age Sets 9. Elaborations II : Secret Societies PART THREE . STRUCTURES OF BELIEF 10. A Science of Social Control 11. Of Witches and Sorcerers 12. Upside - Down People 13. Explanation and Prediction 14 ...
... order are promoted through group relations arranged by patrilineal ties ... morality and set of legal norms. No Dinka should get or keep more than enough, because ... moral or legal automata bound blindly to their rules. As in every human ...
... against the norm . And it was the norm of the ideal balance , however battered by individual ambitions or dimmed by social stratification , that shaped morality through the years . 7 A Moral Order BRITAIN LIVES TODAY, WE ARE TOLD.
Basil Davidson. 7. A. Moral. Order. BRITAIN LIVES TODAY, WE ARE TOLD BY SOCIOLOGISTS, AMIDST 'a jumble of ethical precepts, now bereft of their significance . . . within a wasteland littered with the debris of broken convictions'. For a ...
... moral framework of intimately binding force. These relations between people, as Fortes reports of the Tallensi of northern Ghana, were expressed in moral concepts or axioms 'rooted in the direct ... moral order was robustly collective.
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PART FOUR MECHANISMS OF CHANGE | |
From Elders to Kings | |
The Nature of Kingship | |
Conquest and Clientage | |
Trade and Islam | |
Power Rank and Privilege | |
The Crisis Opens | |
PART FIVE THE DELUGE AND TODAY | |
Age Sets | |
Secret Societies | |
PART THREE STRUCTURES OF BELIEF | |
A Science of Social Control | |
Of Witches and Sorcerers | |
UpsideDown People | |
Explanation and Prediction | |
The Danger Within | |
Useful Magic | |
Answers to Anxiety | |
Art for Lifes Sake | |
The Dynamics of Reality | |
From a Guerrilla Diary | |
The Great Transition | |
The Kings Resist | |
Twilight of the Old Gods | |
New Redeemers | |
The Modern Context | |
The Masses React | |
Epilogue AFRICAN DESTINIES | |
Acknowledgements | |
Notes and References | |
Select Bibliography | |
Index | |