INTERPRETING RUPTURE IN ORAL MEMORY: THE REGIONAL CONTEXT FOR CHANGES IN WESTERN SERENGETI AGE ORGANIZATION (1850–1895)

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN BENDER SHETLER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of widespread disasters the small, unconsolidated western Serengeti ethnic groups that we now know as Nata, Ikoma, Ishenyi and Ngoreme formed their identities. New generational and gender contests of power came into play as western Serengeti peoples responded creatively to the pressures of the late nineteenth century by mobilizing their own internal cultural resources.

Intimacy and Family in the California Borderlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie Brown-Coronel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
California History ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

Using personal and family letters written between 1876 and 1896, this article charts the life of a post-conquest Californiana, Josefa del Valle Forster (1861–1943). It argues that the industrial and commercial development that took place in Southern California after 1850 reconfigured family relationships and gender dynamics, shifting understandings of intimacies for del Valle Forster. This discussion of an era and community often overlooked in California history contributes to a fuller picture of how Californianas experienced the late nineteenth century, and it highlights the significance of letters as a historical source for understanding how individuals and families negotiated the transformations wrought by war and conquest.

The “Chinese Confucian” and the “Chinese Buddhist” in British Burma, 1881–1947

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 384-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B. Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Right

By the late nineteenth century British control over Burma had been firmly established and by 1893 a comprehensive legal system for its population put in place. The guiding principle of the judicial and legislative system was that each racial or religious group had the right to its own law in matters of religion and custom. Thus, Burmese “Buddhist law” for the Burmese, “Mohammadan law” for Muslims and Hindu law for the Hindus. In addition, the customary laws of other ethnic groups were also recognized.

scholarly journals Dreamers in dialogue: evolution, sex and gender in the utopian visions of William Morris and William Henry Hudson

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Caterina Novák
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
William Henry Hudson ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

The aim of this article is to explore the parallels between two late-nineteenth-century utopias,William Henry Hudsons A Crystal Age (1882) and William Morriss News from Nowhere (1891). Itaims to explore how these two works respond to the transition from a kinetic to a static conception ofutopia that under pressure from evolutionary and feminist discourses took place during the period.Particular focus lies on the way in which this is negotiated through the depiction of evolution, sexuality,and gender roles in the respective novels, and how the depiction of these disruptive elements may workas a means of ensuring the readers active engagement in political, intellectual and emotional terms.

scholarly journals Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ethan Doyle White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presented to the public by the Woodland Trust, a charity which own Joyden’s Wood, focusing on how both information boards and installed sculptures have foregrounded the narrative of the earthwork as a fifth-century defensive barrier between ‘Roman London’ and ‘Saxon Kent.’ This, in turn, has interesting connotations regarding the current administrative divisions between Greater London and Kent.

scholarly journals The Politics of Managing Pluralism: Austria-Hungary 1867-1918

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Witt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Many

The multi-cultural nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century created much unrest among the many different ethnic groups within the Empire. As each group struggled against the other groups for more rights, dissolution threatened the Empire. The Hapsburg government under Franz Joseph used two different strategies in Austria and Hungary to keep the country united, and these strategies successfully kept the Empire together for half a century.  After the Emperor’s death, opposing interests and separatism proved too powerful without Franz Joseph’s uniting influence, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed.

scholarly journals The Pleistocene Moraine Stages of West-Central Peru

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (62) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chalmers M. Clapperton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Field Mapping ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
West Central ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract Detailed field mapping in three massifs of the central Andes of Peru indicates that there are four glacial moraine stages. Historical evidence and correlation with Patagonia and South Georgia suggest that the three youngest stages relate to Neoglacial re-advances which culminated before 4000 b.p., between a.d. 1750 and 1800 and during the late nineteenth century. The oldest moraine stage may be of late Wisconsin/Weichselian age. The absence of older moraines suggests that the Peruvian Andes were not high enough earlier in the Pleistocene to support larger glaciers.

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