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Emplaced Myth

Author : Alan Rumsey
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823894
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Emplaced Myth written by Alan Rumsey and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and place - an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.

Constitutionalism of Australian First Nations

Author : Maria Salvatrice Randazzo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000609901
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Constitutionalism of Australian First Nations written by Maria Salvatrice Randazzo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers Australian First Nations constitutionalism by drawing on the chthonic constitutional traditions of three distinct Australian First Nations legal orders: the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi legal orders, in the endeavour of identifying, via a comparative analysis, a core of similarities to be drawn upon and articulate an emergent legal theory common to the three legal orders. The comparative analysis is undertaken at the most foundational levels of their legal traditions, via the prism of a legal paradigm elaborated with reference to an Australian Indigenous cosmological, ontological, and epistemological standpoint. The proposed legal theory comprises a broad overview, general concepts, normative principles, and general working principles. In so doing, the book expounds how Australian First Nations constitutionalism unfolds into holistic orders of spiritual, political, and legal authority that are explainable in terms of legal theory. At the most foundational level, such elaboration may help delineate normative and legal constitutional patterns throughout Indigenous Australia.

Regulation in Asia

Author : John Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135249156
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Regulation in Asia written by John Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike much analysis about regulation in Asia which focuses on globalisation and the transplant effect, leaving domestic influence over commercial regulation under-researched and under-theorized, this book focuses on how local actors influence regulatory change. It explores the complex economic and regulatory factors that generate social demand for state regulation and shows how local networks, courts, democratic processes and civil society have a huge influence on regulatory systems. It examines the particular circumstances in a wide range of Asian countries, provides transnational comparisons and comparisons with Western countries, and assesses how far local regulatory regimes increase economic value and convey competitive advantages.

Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land

Author : Thomas Reuter
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192094270X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land written by Thomas Reuter and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and specific territories. Focused on the nexus of local and global processes, the volume offers fresh perspectives to current debate in social theory on the conflicting human tendencies of mobility and emplacement.

The Immersive Internet

Author : R. Teigland
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283025
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Immersive Internet written by R. Teigland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting short thought pieces by some of the leading thinkers on the emerging 'Immersive Internet', Power and Teigland's book questions what a more immersive and intimate internet – based on social media, augmented reality, virtual worlds, online games, 3D internet and beyond – might mean for society and for each of us.

Creative Land

Author : James Leach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816931
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Creative Land written by James Leach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating "creativity" as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchange and artistic production as the activities in which substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to each other.

Ancestral Presence

Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000293866
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Presence written by Eric Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds. For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not ‘history’ in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derive from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the ‘centre of the world’. But Fuyuge people are part of another history, too: they have experienced decades of mission and government influence from centres of power located elsewhere, to which their mountain home is marginal and remote. Through a detailed exploration of Fuyuge myth, changes to ritual life and cosmology, Eric Hirsch weaves an account of the relationship between these two histories. He documents the real changes wrought by colonialism, government and Christianity from the late nineteenth century to the turn of the millennium. Yet this is not a story of ‘continuity and change’. Hirsch demonstrates how transformation was always central to Fuyuge life: changes brought by missionaries and government were processes they themselves initiated in the ancestral past through Tidibe, the cosmological creator force. Engaging in debates that have been pivotal to Melanesian anthropology, the book presents an ethnographically rich account of a distinctive world, cosmology and ideas of historical change. It also raises questions regarding assumptions central to Western History, its worldview and ideas of historical time.

Violence in Place, Cultural and Environmental Wounding

Author : Amanda Kearney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317415760
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Place, Cultural and Environmental Wounding written by Amanda Kearney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites it becomes the anchorage point for ethnic, cultural and national identities. Yet it is also place that becomes the battlefield, war zone, mass grave, desecrated site and destroyed landscape in the midst or aftermath of cultural wounding. Much attention has been given to the impact of trauma and violence on human lives across generations, but what of the spaces in which it occurs? How does culturally prescribed violence impact upon place? And how do the non- human species with whom we coexist also suffer through episodes of conflict and violence? By identifying violence in place as a crisis of our times, and by encouraging both the witnessing and the diagnosing of harm, this book reveals the greater effects of cultural wounding. It problematises the habit of separating human life out from the ecologies in which it is held. If people and place are bound through kinship, whether through necessity and survival, or choice and abiding love, then wounding is co- terminus. The harms done to one will impact upon the other. Case studies from Australia, North and South America, Europe and the Pacific, illustrate the impact of violence in place, while supporting a campaign for methodologies that reveal the fullness of the relational bond between people and place. The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests in cultural and human geography, anthropology, environmental humanities and moral ecology.

Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845459673
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging written by and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greek Literature and the Ideal

Author : Alexander Kirichenko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192692003
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Greek Literature and the Ideal written by Alexander Kirichenko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.

Storytelling around the World

Author : Jelena Cvorovic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440872953
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling around the World written by Jelena Cvorovic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.

American/Medieval Goes North

Author : Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847009524
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book American/Medieval Goes North written by Gillian R. Overing and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the period's popular uptake – cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists' brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages – this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the 'American' and the 'medieval'." – Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

The Ontological Turn

Author : Martin Holbraad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103886
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Ontological Turn written by Martin Holbraad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

On the Emic Gesture

Author : Iracema H. Dulley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429854056
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book On the Emic Gesture written by Iracema H. Dulley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Wagner’s work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as ‘group’ and ‘culture’ in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner’s work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some years ago not a central reference for anthropological theory. The question Dulley asks throughout her engagement with Wagner’s main essays is whether it is possible for the emic gesture to account for difference within difference without falling into the closure of totalization. Wagner’s work contains this potentiality but is hindered by its very foundation: the emic gesture, in which difference is circumscribed through a name that others. If this gesture is one of the pillars of anthropology, and one that allows for the inscription of difference, the reflection proposed in this book concerns anthropology as a whole: How can one inscribe difference within difference? Dulley argues that this can only be accomplished through an erasure of the emic. Offering a comprehensive discussion of Wagner’s concepts and a detailed reading of his most important work, this book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to reflect on the relationship between ethnography and difference, and especially those who in various ways engage with the ‘ontological turn’. As the book reflects on how Derridean différance can be appropriated by anthropology in its search for subtler and more critical ethnographic accounts, anthropologists interested in post-structuralist theory and methodology will also find it useful.

Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

Author : Leslie F. Zubieta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030969428
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge written by Leslie F. Zubieta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares timely and thought-provoking methodological and theoretical approaches from perspectives concerning landscape, gender, cognition, neural networks, material culture and ontology in order to comprehend rock art’s role in memorisation processes, collective memory, and the intergenerational circulation of knowledge. The case studies offered here stem from human experiences from around the globe—Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America—, which reflects the authors’ diverse interpretative stances. While some of the approaches deal with mnemonics, new digital technologies and statistical analysis, others examine performances, sensory engagement, language, and political disputes, giving the reader a comprehensive view of the myriad connections between memory studies and rock art. Indigenous interlocutors participate as collaborators and authors, creating space for Indigenous narratives of memory. These narratives merge with Western versions of past and recent memories in order to construct jointly novel inter-epistemic understandings of images made on rock. Each chapter demonstrates the commitment of rock art studies to strengthen and enrich the field by exploring how communities and cultures across time have perceived and entangled rock images with a broad range of material culture, nonhumans, people, emotions, performances, sounds and narratives. Such relations are pivotal to understanding the universe behind the intersections of memory and rock art and to generating future interdisciplinary collaborative studies.

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

Author : Ellen Perecman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412973422
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Social Science Field Research written by Ellen Perecman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods provides both novice and experienced scholars with valuable insights to a select list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on ethnography to case study, archival research, oral history, surveys, secondary data analysis, and ethics, this refreshing new collection offers "tales from the field" by renowned scholars across various disciplines.

The Other Side

Author : John Patrick Taylor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833023
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side written by John Patrick Taylor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of north Pentecost Island, a region that was home to the late Father Walter Lini, Vanuatu’s first prime minister. Exploring Raga social, spatial, and historical consciousness, this richly poetic account provides important theoretical contributions to ongoing debates in Pacific anthropology about the relation between structure and history, and place and time. It reveals important insights into the convergence of indigenous and exogenous cosmologies and hegemonies historically, and shows how these are implicated in contemporary social, ritual, and material cultural expressions. These analyses engage with broader concerns relating to colonial and postcolonial identities, political economy, and globalization in island Melanesia. The Other Side combines original and substantial ethnography with sophisticated theoretical reflection that will appeal broadly across the field of anthropology. It will also be of considerable value to scholars of Pacific and Melanesian history, politics, and society. The clear writing and entertaining narrative combine to create a work that is accessible to a wide audience. The volume’s critical and reflective analysis of anthropological research makes it a valuable teaching aid in courses that focus on ethnographic methods and writing. Students in Pacific anthropology will find it especially useful.37