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Bond, George Clement was born on November 16, 1936 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of J. Max and Ruth Elizabeth (Clement) Bond.
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This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historic contexts.
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( Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in whi...)
Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in which human beings construct, experience, and think about the “occult.” It brings together anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists, from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, to engage the metaphysical properties of “witchcraft” and “sorcery” and to explore their manifestations in people's lived experiences. While many Africanist scholars shun the analysis of “witchcraft” as an appropriate domain of investigation, the experiences, thoughts, activities, and powers that “witchcraft” encompasses have become increasingly the source of interest and debate. Concepts of witchcraft and the phenomena to which they are applied express something fundamental to the human condition and have their equation in the logic of other human practices such as racism and its various crafts. Thus, the focus on “witchcraft” is not just a concern with the occult, but a manifestation of the convergence of interest in mediating and transcending disciplinary domains. The contributors to this volume embrace the challenge of exploring “witchcraft” as a mode of experiencing and explaining human circumstances as well as confronting the limitations of their own intellectual traditions and paradigms. The range of their explorations takes us in new directions, making use not only of their academic training but also of their personal experiences, to reframe the conceptual terrain of the “occult” and the epistemological orientations of their various academic fields of inquiry.
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Bond, George Clement was born on November 16, 1936 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of J. Max and Ruth Elizabeth (Clement) Bond.
Bachelor, Boston University, 1959. Master of Arts, London School of Economics, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, London School of Economics, 1968.
Lecturer, U. East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1966-1968; assistant professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1968-1974; associate professor Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, 1974-1980; professor, Columbia University, New York City, since 1980; director Institute African Studies, Columbia University, New York City, since 1989.
( This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Afr...)
( Witchcraft Dialogues analyzes the complex manner in whi...)
Married Alison Murray, September 21, 1940. Children: Matthew, Rebecca, Jonathan, Sarah.