Here is the final report of the project We believe that this project is important because Kansans... more Here is the final report of the project We believe that this project is important because Kansans and Americans need to know who the new African immigrants are, why they left home, why they have come here, and what distinctive human perspectives and practices they contribute to American society. Our project is one of civic education and cultural awareness raising. As the only African Studies Center in Kansas-and the Central Plains-we believe we can fulfill our mandate of educating the public about Africa by getting better acquainted with the new African immigrants who are also our new neighbors and fellow citizens. All in all, the project ran more or less as it was planned, although most aspects took longer than anticipated. A team of Center affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students interviewed project partners and others in their communities. We held two public meetings in spring 2006 that raised important issues and produced rich narratives. Along the way photo work was done of the project and in the communities. All materials generated by the project, detailed at the end of this report, will be deposited with the Kansas Collections at the Spencer Research Library at KU, and offered to KHC. Perspectives on Migration, Research, and Public Programming Migration is an old American phenomenon. Most Americans have a history of immigration in their background. Yet today migration scholarship frames this phenomenon in global perspective, as much as a local, state, or national perspectives. Even the term "transnational migration" reflects an effort to transcend the boundaries of territories, societies, states and nations to grasp the dynamic characteristics of migration and the continuing transnational identities that ensue for those who move from one nation-state to another, or continue shuttling back and forth, or have long-term hyphenated identities. Scholarship focuses on transnational flows of people and capital, on the "push" of war, poverty, and persecution, and "pull" factors of economic opportunity, education, and religious freedom.
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, ... more 9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz This chapter explores religious healing among recent Somali and Great Lakes ... Politically, he joined the ADFLC, the party that dethroned Mobutu. ...
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, ... more 9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz This chapter explores religious healing among recent Somali and Great Lakes ... Politically, he joined the ADFLC, the party that dethroned Mobutu. ...
This article presents research undertaken by the authors during their stay in Kivu with an NGO wo... more This article presents research undertaken by the authors during their stay in Kivu with an NGO working with Rwandan refugees. Children--some Tutsi, others Hutu--were asked to record their experiences of the genocide and flight in drawings. The work was intended mainly to help them externalize their tgraumatic experiences. Several drawings are reproduced and analyzed.
Ce texte présente une recherche entreprises par les auteurs alors qu'ils étaient au Kivu... more Ce texte présente une recherche entreprises par les auteurs alors qu'ils étaient au Kivu pour assister les ONG chrétiens intervenant auprès des réfugiés rwandais. Plusieurs enfants, certains d'origines tutsi, d'autres d'origines hutu, ont été sollicités afin d'exprimer leur ...
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Megan Vaughan's central interest in this work is to examine how colonial biomedical discours... more Megan Vaughan's central interest in this work is to examine how colonial biomedical discourse constructed'the African'. The work contributes to the growing body of writing in medical history and anthropology on the culture of biomedicine, which, like other healing ...
Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1978
The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in ant... more The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in anthropology to define the medical system usually fall within the scope of empirical field studies of illness perception, disease ...
Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1981
... on the periphery of revised extraneous elements, even including a gradual widening of the rec... more ... on the periphery of revised extraneous elements, even including a gradual widening of the recognition of empirical causation ... The definitive story of Kongo consecrated medicines has yet to be written, but the more I study particular clusters ... Janzen JM The Development of Health. ...
Social science & medicine. Medical anthropology, 1979
The history of precolonial Equatorial African medicine may be viewed through three types of trans... more The history of precolonial Equatorial African medicine may be viewed through three types of transformations: successive classifications of medicinal taxonomies over time; the shifting base of corporate social structures of healing organizations (a measure of their control of ...
The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in ant... more The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in anthropology to define the medical system usually fall within the scope of empirical field studies of illness perception, disease ...
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Here is the final report of the project We believe that this project is important because Kansans... more Here is the final report of the project We believe that this project is important because Kansans and Americans need to know who the new African immigrants are, why they left home, why they have come here, and what distinctive human perspectives and practices they contribute to American society. Our project is one of civic education and cultural awareness raising. As the only African Studies Center in Kansas-and the Central Plains-we believe we can fulfill our mandate of educating the public about Africa by getting better acquainted with the new African immigrants who are also our new neighbors and fellow citizens. All in all, the project ran more or less as it was planned, although most aspects took longer than anticipated. A team of Center affiliated faculty, staff, and graduate students interviewed project partners and others in their communities. We held two public meetings in spring 2006 that raised important issues and produced rich narratives. Along the way photo work was done of the project and in the communities. All materials generated by the project, detailed at the end of this report, will be deposited with the Kansas Collections at the Spencer Research Library at KU, and offered to KHC. Perspectives on Migration, Research, and Public Programming Migration is an old American phenomenon. Most Americans have a history of immigration in their background. Yet today migration scholarship frames this phenomenon in global perspective, as much as a local, state, or national perspectives. Even the term "transnational migration" reflects an effort to transcend the boundaries of territories, societies, states and nations to grasp the dynamic characteristics of migration and the continuing transnational identities that ensue for those who move from one nation-state to another, or continue shuttling back and forth, or have long-term hyphenated identities. Scholarship focuses on transnational flows of people and capital, on the "push" of war, poverty, and persecution, and "pull" factors of economic opportunity, education, and religious freedom.
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, ... more 9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz This chapter explores religious healing among recent Somali and Great Lakes ... Politically, he joined the ADFLC, the party that dethroned Mobutu. ...
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, ... more 9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz This chapter explores religious healing among recent Somali and Great Lakes ... Politically, he joined the ADFLC, the party that dethroned Mobutu. ...
This article presents research undertaken by the authors during their stay in Kivu with an NGO wo... more This article presents research undertaken by the authors during their stay in Kivu with an NGO working with Rwandan refugees. Children--some Tutsi, others Hutu--were asked to record their experiences of the genocide and flight in drawings. The work was intended mainly to help them externalize their tgraumatic experiences. Several drawings are reproduced and analyzed.
Ce texte présente une recherche entreprises par les auteurs alors qu'ils étaient au Kivu... more Ce texte présente une recherche entreprises par les auteurs alors qu'ils étaient au Kivu pour assister les ONG chrétiens intervenant auprès des réfugiés rwandais. Plusieurs enfants, certains d'origines tutsi, d'autres d'origines hutu, ont été sollicités afin d'exprimer leur ...
Checkbox_Abstract. Your search found 1 record(s). New Basic Search | New Advanced Search | POPLIN... more Checkbox_Abstract. Your search found 1 record(s). New Basic Search | New Advanced Search | POPLINE Document Delivery Policy ...
Megan Vaughan's central interest in this work is to examine how colonial biomedical discours... more Megan Vaughan's central interest in this work is to examine how colonial biomedical discourse constructed'the African'. The work contributes to the growing body of writing in medical history and anthropology on the culture of biomedicine, which, like other healing ...
Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1978
The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in ant... more The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in anthropology to define the medical system usually fall within the scope of empirical field studies of illness perception, disease ...
Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1981
... on the periphery of revised extraneous elements, even including a gradual widening of the rec... more ... on the periphery of revised extraneous elements, even including a gradual widening of the recognition of empirical causation ... The definitive story of Kongo consecrated medicines has yet to be written, but the more I study particular clusters ... Janzen JM The Development of Health. ...
Social science & medicine. Medical anthropology, 1979
The history of precolonial Equatorial African medicine may be viewed through three types of trans... more The history of precolonial Equatorial African medicine may be viewed through three types of transformations: successive classifications of medicinal taxonomies over time; the shifting base of corporate social structures of healing organizations (a measure of their control of ...
The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in ant... more The Comparative Study of Medical Systems as Changing Social Systems JOHN M. JANZEN Efforts in anthropology to define the medical system usually fall within the scope of empirical field studies of illness perception, disease ...
APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser c... more APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser configuration. - alerts user that their session is about to expire - display, print, save, export, and email selected records - get My ...
The attack and killing of nine polio vaccination workers by gunmen in Kano, northern Nigeria, in ... more The attack and killing of nine polio vaccination workers by gunmen in Kano, northern Nigeria, in February 2013 renewed international focus on the problem of polio vaccination in Nigeria. Anti-polio campaigners in Nigeria’s north had in the past linked polio vaccinations with a western plot to sterilize women and suppress the population of Moslems. Nigeria accounted for 121 of 222 new polio cases worldwide in 2012. Using Bauchi and Kano, epicenters of Nigeria’s polio virus outbreaks as sampling sites, this panel examines why it is so difficult to control the trans-border flows of polio virus outbreaks in northern Nigeria. The panel examines results from a 2011 World Health Organization (WHO)-funded study to determine the drivers and inhibitors of polio vaccine acceptance in high risk and low risk zones of Bauchi state and Kano state of Nigeria. The results shed light on four of the factors discussed by the study: (1) Whether spatial distribution of households at polio vulnerable site...
Senior anthropologist reflects on just-published letters written during two years of service in t... more Senior anthropologist reflects on just-published letters written during two years of service in the Congo and an early attempt at an ethnography of the Chokwe of the Southern Savanna, for reasons underlying his choice of a career.
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