Enid Schildkrout
American Museum of Natural History, Anthropology, Department Member
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... Additional Information. How to Cite. Schildkrout, E. (1999), Royal Treasury, Historic House, or Just a Museum? Transforming Manhyia Palace, Ghana, into a Site of Cultural Tourism. Museum Anthropology, 22: 1427. doi:... more
... Additional Information. How to Cite. Schildkrout, E. (1999), Royal Treasury, Historic House, or Just a Museum? Transforming Manhyia Palace, Ghana, into a Site of Cultural Tourism. Museum Anthropology, 22: 1427. doi: 10.1525/mua.1999.22.3.14. Author Information. ...
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Government, Immigration, English language, Behavior, Housing, and 15 moreDancing, Health, Islam, Hausa, Ethnicity, French, Immigrants, Boundaries, Cotton, Authority, Assimilation, English Language, E, J, and A
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Geography, Government, Immigration, Agriculture, Islam, and 15 moreCompetition, Hausa, Ethnicity, French, Forests, Authority, Agricultural, Currency, Hart, Collectors, Hill, Apprenticeship, E, G, and A
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Thepolitical status of strangers in African societies, particularly in urban areas, has been insufficiently analysed.1This may be partly because studies of African politics and political development have been dominated by a conceptual... more
Thepolitical status of strangers in African societies, particularly in urban areas, has been insufficiently analysed.1This may be partly because studies of African politics and political development have been dominated by a conceptual framework which contrasts two types of society, the ‘traditional’ or ‘tribal’ and the ‘modern’ or ‘developed’. The former usually implies a rural community with a relatively self- sufficient political system.2In such a society, the traditional leaders are usually associated with a particular ethnic group and territory; and their authority may be derived from sacred sources, such as tradition itself, ties to land, or genealogical links to ancestors. In the ‘modern’ society, leadership is assumed to be ‘rational’ and ‘secular’, oriented towards western rather than traditional values.3Political development has often been somewhat vaguely conceived as the transformation of a society from the traditional to the modern type.
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ABSTRACT Reprinted from Museum Anthropology 15 (2), 16-23.
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Logic, Leadership, Political Science, Politics, Islam, and 6 moreHausa, Kinship, Arabic Language, Boundaries, Endogamy, and Affinity
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In: Female and Male in West Africa, Eds. C. Oppong et. al. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., pp. 107-127. (This is an Expanded version of the paper published in Bay, ed., 1982)
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The analysis of a dispute over leadership of reflects the changing position of northern Muslim the Central Mosque in Kumasi, Ghana, demonstrangers in a southern Ghanaian city and the strates how local and national politics are related.... more
The analysis of a dispute over leadership of reflects the changing position of northern Muslim the Central Mosque in Kumasi, Ghana, demonstrangers in a southern Ghanaian city and the strates how local and national politics are related. changing political significance of ethnicity and The actual dispute began in the 1 940s, more than nationality. I argue that the position of strangers a decade before Ghanaian independence, and and local political events must be viewed in the continued until the early 1 970s. The controversy context of national economic systems.
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As a result of the rise and growth of the Asante state and the development of a complex administration of leisured officials based in Kumasi, the urbanized capital of the Asante empire, there developed, in the 19th century, a... more
As a result of the rise and growth of the Asante state and the development of a complex administration of leisured officials based in Kumasi, the urbanized capital of the Asante empire, there developed, in the 19th century, a "peasantry" in the area surrounding Kumasi with economic, political, and cultural characteristics comparable with those of peasantries elsewhere.
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... 132 ENID SCHILDKROUT TABLE 1 Marital Status and Age of Widows and Divorcees in Kano, January 1982 Age Marital status Under 40 40 or over Unknown Widowed 5" 9 1 4 28 6 4 1 1 1 Divorced Widowed or divorced? ... This applies both to... more
... 132 ENID SCHILDKROUT TABLE 1 Marital Status and Age of Widows and Divorcees in Kano, January 1982 Age Marital status Under 40 40 or over Unknown Widowed 5" 9 1 4 28 6 4 1 1 1 Divorced Widowed or divorced? ... This applies both to divorcees and to widows. ...
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After two decades in temporary locations, first on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan, then in the more Bohemian Soho, and currently in the ethnically diverse working class borough of Queens, the Museum for African Art is planning... more
After two decades in temporary locations, first on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan, then in the more Bohemian Soho, and currently in the ethnically diverse working class borough of Queens, the Museum for African Art is planning to move to a permanent new home in Harlem in 2008. This project has generated great excitement but also apprehension in some of Harlem’s diverse communities. I will discuss the challenge of cultivating new audiences and dealing with local concerns about economic development, culture, and identity.
