Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria
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尼日利亚的联邦制和种族冲突
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10.1080/03612759.2002.10526065
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2002
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D. Gorman
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人类学家维克多·特纳此前曾对该地区的居民进行过深入研究，他在近半个世纪前就该地区撰写了三篇杰出的开创性研究报告。普里切特的研究首先旨在更新特纳对该地区的民族志研究，以考虑到周边国家最近的长期内乱以及更广泛的现代化力量的影响。其次，普里切特意识到过去二十年非洲社会研究在概念和理论方面取得的重大进展，并承认受到扬·万西纳 (Jan Vansina) 最近的作品的启发。 lgor Kopytoff 和 Robert LeVine 等 (7-14)。鉴于普里切特的研究与特纳 20 世纪 50 年代的开创性研究之间的时间差距和理论进展，有趣的是普里切特在附录（334-54）中的启发性定量数据仍然紧密遵循特纳的旧范式。附录中关于定居点、流动性以及家庭和政治舞台上的社会关系的十七张表格都与特纳在 1952 年和 1954 年所做的表格密切相关。同样有趣的是，普里切特选择的伦达-恩登布之间的关系集（构成本书的八章）受到特纳、马克斯·格鲁克曼和其他曼彻斯特人类学家 (16) 的显着影响，他们都代表了范式和20世纪50年代和1960年代的利益。布赫以一个简短且相当不令人满意的历史章节开始。接下来是七个实质性章节，所有章节都引人入胜。尽管它们之间存在一些明显的相互关系。它们都以普里切特现场笔记的适当摘录作为序言，为其余的讨论奠定了基础。整体叙述清晰、连贯、易于理解。尽管这项研究中有一些繁琐的细节，但普里切特成功地用当地的幽默来调味其中的大部分内容，这无疑证实了他十四年来与当地人民和地区断断续续的接触。他是少数与隆达-恩登布有着如此密切和密切互动的外国研究人员之一，以至于与社区分享了一系列令人印象深刻的当地发酵酒精烈酒。讽刺的是。这项研究最具创新性的方面是它的修正主义倾向，这对于论文主题来说显然是有风险的。很遗憾。深受特纳影响的修正主义说服普里切特采取一种相当过时的观点，即“驯服历史、内在变化、为当下辩护”，并且只是偶尔偏离历史分析（5）。凭借良好的专业历史平衡和更激进的概念和理论方法，《伦达-恩德姆胡》有机会成为这些人的决定性著作。在目前的情况下，这项研究刺激了对已经得到充分研究的地区进行更多研究。专业学者、大学生和公众都可以从本书中获益。
its people have been quite well studied before by anthropologist Victor Turner, who wrote three outstanding, pioneering studies on the region nearly a half century ago. Pritchert’s study is intended first to update Turner’s ethnographical study of the region to the present, in light of the recent prolonged civil strife in the surrounding states and the impact of forces of modernization more generally. Second, Pritchett is conscious of significant conceptual and theoretical advanccs in African social studies over the last two decades and acknowledges being inspired b) the more recent works of Jan Vansina. lgor Kopytoff, and Robert LeVine, among others (7-14). In view of the time gap and theoretical advances in between Pritchett’s research and Turner’s pioneering studies of the 1950s, it is interesting that Pritchett’s illuminating quantitative data in the appendix (334-54) still closely follow Turner’s old paradigms. The seventeen tables in the appendix on settlements, mobility, and social relations-in the household and political arena-are all closely patterned along those of Turner done in 1952 and 1954. I t is also interesting that the sets of relationships among the Lunda-Ndembu selected by Pritchett, which constitute the eight chapters of the book, are significantly influenced by Turner, Max Gluckman, and other Manchester anthropologists (16)-all of whom represented paradigms and interests of the 1950s and 1960s. The booh opens with a brief and rather unsatisfactory historical chapter. Seven substantive chapters follow, all of which are absorbing. despite some obvious interrelationships among them. They are all prefaced by appropriate extracts from Pritchett’s field notes, which set the stage for the rest of the discussion. The overall narrative is clear, coherent, and easy to follow. Although there are some cumbersome details in the study, Pritchett has successfully flavored most of it with such local humor that the work surely validates his over fourteen years of intermittent contuct with the people and region. He is among a handful of foreign-born researchers to have s o closely and intensely interacted with Lunda-Ndembu, to the point of sharing an impressive range of locally fermented alcoholic spirits with the community. Ironically. the most innovative aspect of the study is its revisionist tilt, which is obviously risky business for a dissertation topic. Unfortunately. the revisionism, heavily influenced by Turner, persuaded Pritchett to adopt a rather outdated perspective of “taming history, internaliLing change, justifying the present” and only occasionally digressing into historical analysis (5). With good professional historical balance and a more radical conceptual and theoretical approach, The Lunda-Ndemhu had a chance to be the detinitive work on those people. In its present I’orm the study stimulates more research on an already well studied region. The book can be profitably enjoyed by professional academics, college students, and the general public.