Naven Or The Other Self

Author : Michael Houseman,Carlo Severi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379015

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Naven or the Other Self by Michael Houseman,Carlo Severi Pdf

In this work, the author propose a novel theory of ritual action founded upon an in-depth study of the wide variety of behaviors that the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea identify as naven: a transvestism rite studied by Gregory Bateson in the 1930s and documented by other anthropologists since. Ritual performance is shown to involve the construction of complex relational networks entailing the condensation of contradictory modes of relationship in accordance with over-arching interactive forms. In this volume, inquiry into the history of anthropology, detailed ethnographic analysis and theoretical discussion are combined. The first part examines Bateson's and others' understandings of naven; the second offers a reinterpretation of this ritual in the light of new ethnographic data; and the third proposes a general approach to the analysis of ritual and suggests how this perspective may be applied elsewhere.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047412502

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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context by Michael Stausberg Pdf

Rituals play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest religious traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to discuss Zoroastrian rituals in different historical contexts and geographical settings.

Author : Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047421825

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Theorizing Rituals, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005 by Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg Pdf

Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory.

Author : Jens Kreinath,Michael Strausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004153431

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Theorizing Rituals by Jens Kreinath,Michael Strausberg Pdf

Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory. Instead of proposing yet another theory of ritual, the bibliography is a comprehensive monument documenting four decades of theorizing rituals.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442844

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Workers of the World by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

Author : R. Jon McGee,Richard L. Warms
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452276304

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Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology by R. Jon McGee,Richard L. Warms Pdf

Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the "who, what, where, how, and why," if you will. In response, SAGE Reference plans to publish the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Features & Benefits: Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader's Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular English Emigrants to the United States by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Ronald L. Grimes,Ute Husken,Udo Simon,Eric Venbrux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199830206

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Ritual, Media, and Conflict by Ronald L. Grimes,Ute Husken,Udo Simon,Eric Venbrux Pdf

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

Author : Ludovic Coupaye
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457349

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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships by Ludovic Coupaye Pdf

What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the 'finished product' that is displayed, representing what could be an indigenous form of non-verbal 'sociology'. Engaging with several contemporary anthropological topics (material culture, techniques, arts, aesthetics, rituals, botany, cosmology, Melanesian ethnography), the text also discusses in depth the complex position of the study of 'technology' within anthropology.

Author : Joseph Watras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137484215

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Philosophies of Environmental Education and Democracy: Harris, Dewey, and Bateson on Human Freedoms in Nature by Joseph Watras Pdf

The project examines how three prominent philosophers of education - William Torrey Harris, John Dewey, and Gregory Bateson - each developed a world view that provides a philosophical basis for environmental education.

Author : Jean-Baptiste Eczet
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800731691

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Cattle Poetics by Jean-Baptiste Eczet Pdf

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. The killing of cattle may be brief and inflicted with few words, but it is preceded by a series of intense aesthetic practices, such as body painting and adornments, colour poetics, poems and oratory art. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle with Mursi daily life and finds that these rituals cut across pastoralism, social organisation and politics in forming the very fabric of Mursi society.

Author : James Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429921377

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The Making of Psychotherapists by James Davies Pdf

Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and personally), but also the community itself. The author's fascinating and original data is culled from his extensive fieldwork, his case-studies of clinical work, and his interviews with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees. This book is written to be accessible to all those who have an interest in the therapeutic profession from the professional (whether psychotherapist or anthropologist) to the trainee and general reader.

Author : Tatiana Safonova,Sántha István
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783942883368

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Evenki microcosm by Tatiana Safonova,Sántha István Pdf

This experimental book is about the Evenki hunter-gatherers of Siberia. Through innovative visual methodology it reveals that despite an old stereotype of that lifestyle being part of the humanity's past, it is probably in humanity's future. In six chapters filled with a flow of photographs that cover such topics as shamanic rituals, hunting, foraging, reindeer herding, the application of new technologies and jade mining, the authors show that hunter-gathering is not a primitive way of survival, but a complex and open-to-change philosophy of life that is embodied in everyday practices. Photographs allow readers to immerse themselves in the most profound layers of human experiences, and astute ethnographic and analytic summaries help them navigate the world of the taiga, where people are neither conquerors of natural forces nor passive consumers of resources. The book will be of interest both to social anthropologists and general readers curious about life in unfamiliar places.

Author : Evangelos Chrysagis,Panas Karampampas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785334542

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Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance by Evangelos Chrysagis,Panas Karampampas Pdf

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. Highlighting the sheer physicality of the ethnographic encounter, as well as the forms of sociality that gradually emerge between self and other, each contribution demonstrates how dance and music open up pathways and give shape to life trajectories that are neither predetermined nor teleological, but generative.

Author : Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047410775

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Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts by Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg Pdf

Volume one of Theorizing Rituals assembles 34 leading scholars from various countries and disciplines working within this field.