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Françoise Héritier (1933–2017): Anthropologist of the fourth generation of French Africanists and theorist of feminist hope
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Steven Robins, Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa. Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016. 314 pp.
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“I Feel Like Two In One”: Complex Belongings Among Namibian Czechs
Get PDFThis paper, based on the analysis of archive documents, biographical interviews and participant observation, focuses on the social and narrative construction of collective cultural identity of so-called Namibian Czechs living in Namibia. These represent a group of originally fifty-six Namibian child war refugees who received asylum and were educated in Czechoslovakia between 1985 and 1991. In order to understand their complex identity special attention has been paid to the dual education of the children in Czechoslovakia, to the role of the Czech language and the symbolical narratives in the construction of their collective cultural identity and to diverse discursive and social practices through which they shape, maintain, and reproduce their Czechness – both situationally in social interactions and narratively in a form of communicative memory
Klíma, Jan. 2017. Dějiny Španělské Afriky a Rovníkové Guineje [The History of Spanish Africa and Equatorial Guinea]. Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. 512 pp. ISBN: 978-80-7422-616-8.
Get PDFThe Sanctuaries for Witch-hunt Victims in Northern Ghana
Get PDFWitch-hunts in Ghana’s Northern Region occur mainly among neighbours and members of the extended family. Triggers for accusations are disease, death and accidents. With many exceptions, the accused are postmenopausal women. Accusers include children, women and men alike. Witch-hunts do only ocassionally target specific behaviour or deviancy: they are registered as accidental and “unjust” by almost all victims. Most accusations disrupted productive relationship and reaped no benefit for the accusers. Victims are often tortured to produce confessions. The accusers rely on dreams for singling out the accused, while the latter are then forced to chicken- and potion-ordeals at diverse shrines to determine their guilt or innocence. Exorcisms include potions and shaving. Today, about 800 victims of witchcraft-accusations live in nine sanctuaries for witchhunt-victims to dodge further accusations and lynchings. While diverse in character, eight of the nine sanctuaries adhere to an earth-shrine-complex typical for Northern Ghana and beyond. Social work with the victims and educational campaigns by NGO’s are well-tried and promising, but governmental malpractice and media attention have reaped mixed results so far
Hříbek and residua of traditional philosophy of mind
No full textV článku diskutuji východiska knihy Tomáše Hříbka Jaké to je, nebo o čem to je? Cílem článku je ukázat, že přes Hříbkovy sympatie k Dennettovu postmetafyzickému pojetí vědomí lze v jeho výkladu vysledovat tendence k tradičně filosofickému myšlení o vědomí. Soustředím se přitom na Hříbkovu definici fyzikálního a na jeho charakterizaci Dennettova programu jako problematické redukce vědomí pomocí intencionality.I discuss the starting points of Tomáš Hříbek’s Jaké to je, nebo o čem to je? My aim is to show that despite Hříbek‘s appreciation for Dennett’s postmetaphysical position we can find residua of more traditional philosophical approaches to consciousness in Hříbek’s account. I focus on Hříbek’s definition of the physicaland on the way in which he characterizes Dennett’s program as a problematic reduction of consciousness to intentionality