Researching Institutional Life in Modern Uganda

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart ◽  
Jonathon L. Earle
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract:This introductory article reflects on the trajectories, possibilities, and limitations of studying institutional life in Africa, with a particular emphasis on Uganda. Engaging with some of the central issues articulated in the African Studies Association’s theme for the 2017 Annual Meeting – “Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa” – it considers the category of “institution” and how it has been imagined and contested in Africa’s past and present. The article begins by examining the competing visions of institutions across the continent in the late colonial period. It then moves to a closer consideration of institutions within Uganda’s historiography, while also introducing the articles in this collection and the themes that tie them together. The final two sections turn to the question of sources, illuminating both the possibilities and limitations of recent developments regarding Uganda’s archives. In so doing, this article considers not only the shifting terrain of Uganda’s research landscape, but also explores the ways in which the study of institutional life is animated by deep, longstanding deliberations on questions of community, authority, and reciprocity.

Politics ’72

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
J. Leo Cefkin
Keyword(s):  
Positive Result ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
The Subject

One positive result of the controversy concerning the mission of the African Studies Association has been the formation of the Committee on Current Issues. The Committee arranged several important panel discussions during the 1971 Annual Meeting in Denver, and it was agreed at that time that a special effort should be undertaken to promote a wider understanding of the situation in southern Africa. The 1972 election campaign provides a unique opportunity for discussion of the emerging crisis in southern Africa and for exploration of useful U.S. responses to that crisis. Richard Sklar, chairman of the Committee, was authorized by the Committee to appoint a subcommittee to plan such an effort for the 1972 election campaign. The work of the subcommittee—referred to as Politics ’72 — constitutes the subject of this article.

Critical Reflections on the Konyak Naga Ethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2110365
Author(s):  
G. Kanato Chophy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Peace And War

The Konyak Nagas who inhabit the state of Nagaland in Northeast India have generated considerable anthropological interests since the colonial period. This eastern Naga tribe was mentioned in several colonial reports, but they came into prominence in anthropological literature, following Fürer-Haimendorf’s ethnographic monograph The Naked Nagas: Head-hunters of Assam in Peace and War. Fürer-Haimendorf had conducted fieldwork in Wakching village in the present Mon district between 1936 and 1937, setting off a new genre of ethnographic writing on the Naga tribes. Sifting through Fürer-Haimendorf’s writings, this article attempts a critical analysis of Konyak society and culture in light of recent developments in ethnographic studies. As argued, the Konyak Nagas are far removed from the colonial representations, but they still suffer from exotic imageries in the popular imagination that, in turn, has influenced ethnographic works. This article reflexively analyzes the Konyak Naga ethnography against the backdrop of a rapid sociocultural change facing the community.

African Universities: Problems and Solutions

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-44
Author(s):  
Emma S. Etuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
African Studies ◽  
University Administration ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
Problems And Solutions

The 38th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) was held November 3-6 in Orlando, Florida. In a panel made possible by a grant from USIA, discussion centered on the “Problems In African University Administration” in which more than ten participants from African universities examined some of the problems and solutions affecting the African higher education. The opinions expressed here reflect my extemporaneous comments made at the ASA meeting.

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