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Author : A. L. Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900633409
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Experience of Shame in Melanesia (Occasional Paper 40) written by A. L. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Leonard Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Experience of Shame in Melanesia written by Arnold Leonard Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066872
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)
Download or read book From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Author : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Occasional Papers -- Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland written by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Debbora Battaglia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226038896
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)
Download or read book On the Bones of the Serpent written by Debbora Battaglia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity—of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society—is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the critical social relations such objects stand for. These commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens, Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding Melanesian social process. One of the "new ethnographies" addressing the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.
Author : A. L. Epstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520911642
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book In the Midst of Life written by A. L. Epstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-02-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. In his new book, A. L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions. By investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs people's conduct, he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis.
Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226446352
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Exchanging the Past written by Bruce M. Knauft and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, the Gebusi of the lowland Papua New Guinea rainforest had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Bruce M. Knauft found then that the killings stemmed from violent scapegoating of suspected sorcerers. But by the time he returned in 1998, homicide rates had plummeted, and Gebusi had largely disavowed vengeance against sorcerers in favor of modern schools, discos, markets, and Christianity. In this book, Knauft explores the Gebusi's encounter with modern institutions and highlights what their experience tells us more generally about the interaction between local peoples and global forces. As desire for material goods grew among Gebusi, Knauft shows that they became more accepting of and subordinated by Christian churches, community schools,and government officials in their attempt to benefit from them—a process Knauft terms "recessive agency." But the Gebusi also respond actively to modernity, creating new forms of feasting, performance, and music that meld traditional practices with Western ones, all of which Knauft documents in this fascinating study.
Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748691146
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Cultural Politics of Emotion written by Sara Ahmed and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on. The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives. New for this editionA substantial 15,000-word Afterword on 'Emotions and Their Objects' which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studiesA revised BibliographyUpdated throughout.
Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134079346
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Sadeq Hedayat written by Homa Katouzian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran. But his most original contribution was the use of modernist, more often surrealist, techniques in Persian fiction. Thus, he was not only a great writer, but also the founder of modernism in Persian fiction. Yet both Hedayat’s life and his death came to symbolize much more than leading writers would normally claim. He still towers over modern Persian fiction and will remain a highly controversial figure so long as the clash of the modern and the traditional, the Persian and the European, and the religious and the secular, has not led to a synthesis and a consensus.
Author : David Lipset
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521564359
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Mangrove Man written by David Lipset and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea.
Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135205752
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Emotion written by Sara Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the emotionality of texts." She offers analyses of the role of emotions in debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, and reconciliation and reparation, and reflects on the role of emotions in feminist and queer politics. Of interest to readers in gender studies and cultural studies, the psychology and sociology of emotions, and phenomenology and psychoanalysis, The Cultural Politics of the Emotions offers new ways of thinking about our inner and our outer lives.--Publisher description
Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299162146
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Forest of Taboos written by Valerio Valeri and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.
Author : Susanna Trnka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136690522
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Senses and Citizenships written by Susanna Trnka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory citizenship. Expanding upon contemporary understandings of the rights and duties of citizens, the volume presents anthropological investigations of the sensory aspects of participation in collectivities such as face-to-face communities, ethnic groups, nations and transnational entities. Rethinking relationships between ideology, aesthetics, affect and bodily experience, the authors reveal the multiple political effects of the senses. The book demonstrates how various elements of political life, including some of the most fundamental aspects of citizenship, rest not only upon our senses, but on their perceived naturalization. Vivid ethnographic examples of sensory citizenship in Europe, the United States, the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East explore themes such as sight in political constructions; smell and ethnic conflict; pain in the constitution of communities; national soundscapes; taste in national identities; movement, memory and emplacement.
Author : Karen L. Ito
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721801
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Lady Friends written by Karen L. Ito and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to revitalize traditional ways; yet, as Karen L. Ito shows, Hawaiian women in particular continue to maintain and express crucial aspects of their cultural heritage in their lifestyle and interactions with others. Ito conducted intensive fieldwork with six Honolulu families, all of which shared the distinguishing characteristics of Hawaii's matrifocal society. In her close examination of the friendships and family relations among the women in these households, she focuses on the significance of a traditional manner of speech known as "talk story" which they use when conversing together. She describes how her subjects employ metaphoric language to address issues concerning responsibility, retribution, understandings of self and personhood, and methods for conflict resolution. For these "lady friends," Ito finds, the emotional quality and quantity of their social relationships help define personal identity while their common concepts of morality bind them together. By applying ethnopsychological strategies to the exploration of culture, Ito demonstrates cultural continuity at a level where most observers would not expect to find it. Lady Friends brings a new dimension to Hawaiian research.
Author : John R. Campbell
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745314235
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Identity and Affect written by John R. Campbell and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1999-02-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Author : Elspeth Probyn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452904197
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Blush: Faces of Shame written by Elspeth Probyn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggie Brady
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855752157
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Heavy Metal written by Maggie Brady and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy metal: The social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia.
