Authors:Vigdis Broch-Due, David M. Anderson,
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: eastern, african, studies, africa, poor, pastoralism, poverty
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-01-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0852552653
ISBN-13: 9780852552650

This collection concerning East African pastoralists rejects the premise of pastoral egalitarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities, and the impact of external values. North America: Ohio U Press

Authors:Vigdis Broch-due, Richard A Schroeder,
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Keywords: africa, poverty, nature, producing
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2000-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9171064524
ISBN-13: 9789171064523

Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs.

Authors:Vigdis Broch-Due, Ingrid Rudie, Tone Bleie,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: cross, practices, cultural, perspectives, women, social, symbols, flesh, cast, selves, gendered, carved
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-01-06
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0854968687
ISBN-13: 9780854968688

This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge and to power.

Author: Vigdis Songe-M?ller
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: contemporary, european, thinkers, series, athlone, thought, women, birth, sexism, western, philosophy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-20
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0826458491
ISBN-13: 9780826458490

For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of European culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Vigdis Songe-Muller examines the differences between Presocratic monists like Parmenides, and implicit pluralists such as Anaximander, and shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind. The text re-evaluates Greek mythology, throws a harsh new light on the invention of demo

Author: Hermann Broch
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: sleepwalkers
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1996-01-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0679764062
ISBN-13: 9780679764069

Authors:E. Broch, D.K. Lysne, et al,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: conference, intl, 973rd, hydropower
Number of Pages: 724
Published: 1997-07-30
List price: $164.95
ISBN-10: 9054108886
ISBN-13: 9789054108887

Contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, Trondheim, Norway 30 June - 2 July 1997, which examined hydropower in the environmental context. Among the topics studied are: the process aspect of environmental studies, mitigation and monitoring, and hydropower versus thermal power.

Author: Hermann Broch
Publisher: Marlboro Press
Keywords: quantity, unknown
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2000-12-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 081016082X
ISBN-13: 9780810160828

Richard Hieck had a difficult childhood in early-20th-century Germany. With his withdrawn mother and his enigmatic father, he studies mathematics in an attempt to find the discipline he craves. Broch examines the impossibility of life within a society whose values are in decay.