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Author : Aarne A. Koskinen
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Kite: Polynesian Insights Into Knowledge written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Lindhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450484
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Practicing the Faith written by Martin Lindhardt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship. This book examines Pentecostal-charismatic ritual practice in different parts of the world, highlighting, among other things, the crucial role of ritual in creating religious communities and identities.
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396486
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Making History written by Robert Borofsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making History begins with a puzzle. In 1976 the inhabitants of Pukapuka, a Polynesian island in the South Pacific, revived a traditional form of social organization that several authoritative Pukapukan informants claimed to have experienced previously in their youth. Yet five professional anthropologists, who conducted research on the island prior to 1976, do not mention it in any of their writings. Had the Pukapukans 'invented' a new tradition? Or had the anthropologists collectively erred in not recording an old one? In unraveling this puzzle, Robert Borofsky compares two different ways of 'making history', two different ways of constructing knowledge about the past. He examines the dynamic nature of Pukapukan knowledge focusing on how Pukapukans, in the process of learning and validating their traditions, continually change them. He also shows how anthropologists, in the process of writing about such traditions for Western audiences, often overstructure them, emphasizing uniformity at the expense of diversity, stasis at the expense of change. As well as being of interest for what it reveals about Pukapukan (and more generally Polynesian) culture, Making History helps clarify important strengths and limitations of the anthropological approach. It provides valuable insights into both the anthropological construction of knowledge and the nature of anthropological understanding.
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824881966
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
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.
Author : Jacqueline Ryle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351916165
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book My God, My Land written by Jacqueline Ryle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the multifaceted nature of Christianity in Fiji, My God, My Land reveals the deeply complex and often paradoxical dynamics and tensions between processes of change and continuity as they unfold in representations and practices of Christianity and tradition in people's everyday lives. The book draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork in different denominations to explore how shared values and cultural belonging are employed to strengthen relations. As such My God, My Land will be of interest to anthropologists of Oceania as well as scholars and students researching into social and cultural change, ritual, religion, Christianity, enculturation and contextual theology.
Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226845605
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Kingship and Sacrifice written by Valerio Valeri and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawaiian society—and a central focus for Valeri—is the complex and encompassing sacrificial ritual that is the responsibility of the king, for it displays in concrete actions all the concepts of pre-Western Hawaiian society. By interpreting and understanding this ritual cycle, Valeri contends, we can interpret all of Hawaiian religious culture.
Author : Aarne A. Koskinen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Oceanic Studies written by Aarne A. Koskinen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela W. Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135651701
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Education, Cultures, and Economics written by Angela W. Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.
Author : Anne E. Becker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290240
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Body, Self, and Society written by Anne E. Becker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.
Author : R. G. Crocombe
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820200395
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Pacific Universities written by R. G. Crocombe and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 1988 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anthropos written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Prospects written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Pacific Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Polynesian Society (N.Z.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Journal of the Polynesian Society written by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Author : John Lynch
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Oceanic Studies written by John Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elusive Fragments written by Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is available as an ebook only. The body is a central reality of culture and a fundamental site at which culture is expressed in action and in thought. Yet anthropological analyses continue to regard the body as a cultural artifact--something static, objectifiable, and removed from the everyday experiences of living in society. These are central ideas in the new book by Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian, Elusive Fragments: Making Power, Propriety, and Health in Samoa. In this book, the author argues for another way of thinking about the body and bodies. Based on ongoing field research in Samoa, the author describes everyday processes of village and family life as the primary sites through which the body works as an agent of cultural production. By locating the body as a process of awareness and enactment, he links it with Samoan concerns for dignity, humility, and strength, thereby illuminating central dynamics within Samoan culture. This book is part of the Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series, edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. "There are many useful insights to be gained from this book... Readers with interests in the Pacific and in medical anthropology, as well as anthropologists with an interest in theory and ethnography should find this book a thought-provoking read." -- The Journal of the Polynesian Society, March 2003
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Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
