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The Drums of Affliction

Author : V. W. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429941692
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Drums of Affliction written by V. W. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Ndembu of Zambia, ritual is examined under two aspects: as a regulator of social relations over time and as a system of symbols. Social life is thereby given direction and meaning. An extended case-study of a series of ritual performances in the life of a single village community is analysed in order to estimate the effects of participation in these symbolic events on its component groups and personalities.

The Drums of Affliction

Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801492051
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Drums of Affliction written by Victor Witter Turner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drums of Affliction

Author : Victor Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The Drums of Affliction written by Victor Turner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drums of Affliction

Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Drums of Affliction written by Victor Witter Turner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experiencing Ritual

Author : Edith Turner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203984
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Ritual written by Edith Turner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings—the view of millions of Africans—that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.

Lemba, 1650-1930

Author : John M. Janzen
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lemba, 1650-1930 written by John M. Janzen and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1982 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Author : Graham St. John
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845454623
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance written by Graham St. John and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

The Historical Study of African Religion

Author : Terence O. Ranger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520031791
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Study of African Religion written by Terence O. Ranger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa

Author : Steven Feierman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066816
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa written by Steven Feierman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays are an account of disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present.

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Author : Kalle Kananoja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108871828
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa written by Kalle Kananoja and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. The mobility and circulation of healing techniques and materials was an important feature of the early modern Black Atlantic world. African healing specialists not only crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, but also moved within and between African regions to offer their services. At times, patients, Europeans included, travelled relatively long distances in Africa to receive treatment. Highlighting cross-cultural medical exchanges, Kananoja shows that local African knowledge was central to shaping responses to illness, providing a fresh, global perspective on African medicine and vernacular science in the early modern world.

Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts

Author : Penelope Gouk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351556924
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts written by Penelope Gouk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people use music to heal themselves and others? Are the healing powers of music universal or culturally specific? The essays in this volume address these two central questions as to music?s potential as a therapeutic source. The contributors approach the study of music healing from social, cultural and historical backgrounds, and in so doing provide perspectives on the subject which complement the wealth of existing literature by practitioners. The forms of music therapy explored in the book exemplify the well-being that can be experienced as a result of participating in any type of musical or artistic performance. Case studies include examples from the Bolivian Andes, Africa and Western Europe, as well as an assessment of the role of Islamic traditions in Western practices. These case studies introduce some new, and possibly unfamiliar models of musical healing to music therapists, ethnomusicologists and anthropologists. The book contributes to our understanding of the transformative and healing roles that music plays in different societies, and so enables us better to understand the important part music contributes to our own cultures.

Philanthropy in the World's Traditions

Author : Warren F. Ilchman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253112923
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Philanthropy in the World's Traditions written by Warren F. Ilchman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of global giving. “The provocative information challenges the assumptions that philanthropy is a primarily Western or Christian tradition.” —Choice This book is an investigation of how cultures outside the Western tradition understand philanthropy and how people in these cultures attempt to realize “the good” through giving and serving. These essays study philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and Native American religious traditions and in cultures from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Contributors include Steven Feierman, John A. Grim, Leona Anderson, Ananda W. P. Guruge, G. D. Bond, Leslie S. Kawamura, Said Amir Arjomand, Joanna F. Handlin Smith, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Derek J. Penslar, Amanda Porterfield, Miroslav Ružica, Mark Juergensmeyer, Darrin M. McMahon, Gregory C. Kozlowski, Adele Lindenmeyr, Vivienne Shue, Andrés A. Thompson, Leilah Landim. “The cross-cultural understandings this book provides can do much to help us determine the distinctive shape and form American religious philanthropy might take in the future.” —Christian Century

Significant Others

Author : Richard Handler
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299194736
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Significant Others written by Richard Handler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is by definition about "others," but in this volume the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures, but to "significant others"—spouses, lovers, and others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships that are both personal and professional. The essays in this volume look at the roles of these spouses and partners of anthropologists over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially their work as they accompanied the anthropologists in the field. Other relationships discussed include those between anthropologists and informants, mentors and students, cohorts and partners, and parents and children. The book closes with a look at gender roles in the field, demonstrated by the "marriage" in the late nineteenth century of the male Anthropological Society of Washington to the Women’s Anthropological Society of America. Revealing relationships that were simultaneously deeply personal and professionally important, these essays bring a new depth of insight to the history of anthropology as a social science and human endeavor.

Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness among Muslims

Author : Evelyne A. Reisacher
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0878086978
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Toward Respectful Understanding and Witness among Muslims written by Evelyne A. Reisacher and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen preeminent Christian scholars of Islam present their latest research and reflections. The book is organized around three themes: encouraging friendly conversation, Christian scholarship, and Christian witness. Published in honor of J. Dudley Woodberry, it is more than a collection of essays by friends and colleagues. It offers a seldom-available synopsis of the theories of contemporary leading Christian academicians whose work is currently influencing a wide range of Christian institutions, agencies, churches, and individuals. The authors provide cutting-edge and greatly needed resources for developing a better understanding of Muslims. In an age of increasing challenges facing Muslim-Christian relations, this volume offers Christians a unique opportunity to rethink their assumptions. It also presents practical steps which can inform their daily encounters with Muslims. This book is essential reading for people with research interests in Islam, for Bible school and seminary students, for church leaders, and for all those who want to be informed of the latest empirical research and theoretical perspectives affecting Muslim-Christian relations.

Implicit Meanings

Author : Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415606738
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Implicit Meanings written by Professor Mary Douglas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implicit Meanings was first published to great acclaim in 1975. It includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas' work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as food, pollution, risk, animals and myth. The papers in this text demonstrate the importance of seeking to understand beliefs and practices that are implicit and a priori within what might seem to be alien cultures.

Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation

Author : Timothy D. Son
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183117
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation written by Timothy D. Son and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various kinds of Christian rituals with respect to how rituals influence the formational processes of a congregation’s identity. Based on Victor Turner’s ritual theory, this book also investigates the pedagogical and transformative efficacies of ritual practices within the dynamics of congregational education.

Between Life and Thought

Author : Don Seeman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487558724
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Between Life and Thought written by Don Seeman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential anthropology is an approach inspired by existential and phenomenological thought to further our understanding of the human condition. Its ethnographic methodology emphasizes embodied experience and focuses on what is at stake for people amid the contingencies, struggles, and uncertainties of everyday life. While anthropological research on religion abounds, there has been little systematic attention to the ways anthropology and religious studies might benefit from better consideration of one another or from the adoption of a shared existential perspective. Between Life and Thought gathers leading anthropologists and religion scholars, including some of existential anthropology’s most recognized advocates and thoughtful critics. The collection opens with a comprehensive introduction to phenomenology and existentialism in anthropology and religious studies and concludes with an analysis of how existential anthropology might address the long-standing problem of constructivism and perennialism in religious studies. The chapters altogether present existential anthropology as an especially generative paradigm with which to rethink and remake both anthropology and the academic study of religion. A timely and significant intervention across multiple areas of research, Between Life and Thought is an invaluable source for critically exploring the prospects, as well as the limits, of an anthropological approach to religion grounded in experiential ethnography and existential thought.