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Ariki The First Born An Analysis Of A Polynesian Chieftain Title By Aarne A Koskinen
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Book Synopsis Ariki the First-born, an Analysis of a Polynesian Chieftain Title by Aarne A. Koskinen by : Aarne A. Koskinen
Download or read book Ariki the First-born, an Analysis of a Polynesian Chieftain Title by Aarne A. Koskinen written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ariki, the First-born; an Analysis of a Polynesian Chieftain Title by : Aarne A. Koskinen
Download or read book Ariki, the First-born; an Analysis of a Polynesian Chieftain Title written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ariki, the first-born by : Aarne A. Koskinen
Download or read book Ariki, the first-born written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Brothers Dwell Together by : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Download or read book When Brothers Dwell Together written by Frederick E. Greenspahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although primogeniture is commonly assumed to have prevailed throughout the world and firstborns are regarded as most likely to achieve success, many of the most prominent figures in biblical literature are younger offspring, including Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon. Central to the plot of most biblical stories, the sibling relationships depicted are rarely harmonious, and the surprising preference for younger siblings is an intriguing and unexplained pattern. Using evidence from a wide range of disciplines. Frederick E. Greenspahn presents a seminal interpretation of this phenomenon. In this study, he demonstrates that ancient Israelite fathers were in fact free to choose their primary heirs. The Bible's propensity for younger offspring, Greenspahn shows, reflects neither a legally mandated norm nor a protest against the prevailing custom, but rather conforms to a widespread folk motif, evoking innocence, vulnerability, and destiny. Within the biblical context, this theme heightens God's role in supporting ostensibly unlikely heroes. Drawing on the resources of law, anthropology, folklore, and linguistics, Greenspahn shows how, in portraying younger siblings triumphing over older ones, these tales serve as complex parables of God's relationship to his chosen people, and reflect Israel's own discomfort with the contradiction between its theology of election and the reality of political weakness.
Book Synopsis How "Natives" Think by : Marshall Sahlins
Download or read book How "Natives" Think written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives"—Hawaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic custom-bound "natives", endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the White man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, through wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history—not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of the "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a home-made "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history. How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.
Book Synopsis Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) by : Raymond Firth
Download or read book Rank and Religion in Tikopia (Routledge Revivals) written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of generations, the traditional pagan religion had disappeared. Only a few remote islands such as Tikopia preserved their ancient cults. Over eighty years ago, the author first observed and took part in these pagan rites, and on later visits he studied the change from paganism to Christian faith. Unique in its rich documentation, this book presents a systematic account of the traditional beliefs in gods and spirits and of the way in which these were fused with the social and political structure. The causes and dramatic results of the conversion to Christianity are then described, ending with an examination of the religious situation at the time of the book’s original publication. The book is both a contribution to anthropology and a case study in religious history. It completes the major series of studies of Tikopia society for which the author is famous. It gives the first full account of a Polynesian religious system in a state of change.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Polynesian Society by : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Book Synopsis Origins, Ancestry and Alliance by : James J. Fox
Download or read book Origins, Ancestry and Alliance written by James J. Fox and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Developments in Polynesian Ethnology by : Robert Borofsky
Download or read book Developments in Polynesian Ethnology written by Robert Borofsky and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development in Polynesian Ethnology assesses the current state of anthropological research in Polynesia by examining the debates and issues that shape the discipline today. What have anthropologists achieved? What concerns now dominate discussion? Where is Polynesian anthropology headed? In a series of provocative and original essays, leading scholars examine prehistory, social organization, socialization and character development, mana and tapu, chieftainship, art and aesthetics, and early contact. Together these essays show how history, anthropology, and archaeology have combined to give a broad understanding of Polynesian societies developing over time--how they represent a blend of modernity and tradition, continuity and change. This book is both an introduction to Polynesia for interested students and a thought-provoking synthesis for scholars charting new directions and posing possibilities for future research. Scholars outside Polynesian studies will find the perspectives it offers important and its comprehensive bibliography an invaluable resource.
Book Synopsis Mana: A History of a Western Category by : Nicolas Meylan
Download or read book Mana: A History of a Western Category written by Nicolas Meylan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mana: A History of a Western Category Nicolas Meylan proposes a critical account of Western imaginations of mana, a word belonging originally to Oceanic languages but borrowed by European languages in which it acquired the meaning ‘supernatural power.’ While mana is best known for its tenure in the disciplines studying religion, Nicolas Meylan situates such academic uses in a wider context, analyzing the ways Westerners conceptualized mana in the earlier colonial context as well as its mobilizations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries by (video)game designers and Neo-Pagan witches. This focus on various Western uses of mana allows for the critical investigation of the ways power has been mystified in conjunction with religion.
Book Synopsis Oceania by : Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
Download or read book Oceania written by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature by : Katharine Luomala
Download or read book Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature written by Katharine Luomala and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Jukka Siikala Publisher :Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica ISBN 13 : Total Pages :310 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (27 download)
Book Synopsis Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia by : Jukka Siikala
Download or read book Cult and Conflict in Tropical Polynesia written by Jukka Siikala and published by Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica. This book was released on 1982 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of American Folklore by :
Download or read book The Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication by :
Download or read book Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Linking of Symbols: Polynesian Patterns by : Aarne A. Koskinen
Download or read book Linking of Symbols: Polynesian Patterns written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quarterly Check-list of Ethnology and Sociology by :
Download or read book Quarterly Check-list of Ethnology and Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
