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Manifestations of Mana

Author : Paul van der Grijp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904967
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Manifestations of Mana written by Paul van der Grijp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of mana in past and present configurations of chiefly power in the Pacific. Chiefs are often seen as transitional figures between traditional (tribal or feudal) and modern forms of leadership, the latter characterized by rationality and the nation-state with its accompanying bureaucracy. Today, the political arena in the Pacific, although occupied by presidents, members of parliament and court justices, is still ruled by chiefs supporting their authority by tradition, including the notion of mana. Mana may be defined as divine inspiration or energy that manifests itself in persons, objects, places and natural phenomena. Polynesian chiefs have mana because of their descent from ancient gods. Other key concepts such as asymmetrical ideology, mythical constructions of social reality, and social drama are elaborated and applied to a wide specter of ethnographic examples. The configuration and reconfiguration of Tongan chieftaincy and kingship in this book are analyzed as an extended case study of the gradual, and sometimes shock-like, integration of a Polynes ian culture into a global structure, a nation-state, partly imposed from the outside (missionarization, colonization) but also generated from within including state formation and the recent quest for democracy. Together with other Polynesian examples, this forms a relevant illustration of both continuity and change in the configuration of mana and chieftaincy in processes of globalization in the Pacific.

New Mana

Author : Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460087
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book New Mana written by Matt Tomlinson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups—Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia—and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.

Religion in Essence and Manifestation

Author : Gerardus Van der Leeuw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140085802X
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Essence and Manifestation written by Gerardus Van der Leeuw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book van der Leeuw discusses the horizontal path to God and the vertical paths descending from God and ascending to Him. If God Himself appears, it is in a totally different manner, which results not in intelligible utterance, but in proclamation; and it is with this that theology has to deal." Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The American Journal of Psychology

Author : Granville Stanley Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110473860
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion written by Jacques Waardenburg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.

The Three Spirits

Author : Sergio E. Serrano
Publisher : SpiralPress
ISBN 13 : 0965564339
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Three Spirits written by Sergio E. Serrano and published by SpiralPress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a simple style, the book includes many practical exercises and illustrations designed to gradually develop the extraordinary latent abilities of one's inner mind and apply the principles of Huna, which means secret in the Hawaiian language.

The Empire of Value

Author : Andre Orlean
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549581
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Value written by Andre Orlean and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior. With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. André Orléan challenges the neoclassical paradigm in this book, with a new way of thinking about perhaps its most fundamental concept, economic value. Orléan argues that value is not bound up with labor, or utility, or any other property that preexists market exchange. Economic value, he contends, is a social force whose vast sphere of influence, amounting to a kind of empire, extends to every aspect of economic life. Markets are based on the identification of value with money, and exchange value can only be regarded as a social institution. Financial markets, for example, instead of defining an extrinsic, objective value for securities, act as a mechanism for arriving at a reference price that will be accepted by all investors. What economists must therefore study, Orléan urges, is the hold that value has over individuals and how it shapes their perceptions and behavior. Awarded the prestigious Prix Paul Ricoeur on its original publication in France in 2011, The Empire of Value has been substantially revised and enlarged for this edition, with an entirely new section discussing the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

The Dark Side of Humanity

Author : Robert Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136646205
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Humanity written by Robert Parkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the Collège de France, shows his own ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to clarify the circumstances leading up to his apparently gratuitous death in the First World War. Two further chapters attempt to situate his work in the broader context of Durkheimian sociology.

Kū Kanaka—Stand Tall

Author : George S. Kanahele
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824841239
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Kū Kanaka—Stand Tall written by George S. Kanahele and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding thinkers of the Western world are pulled into his creation, adding luster, interest, and academic panache to this highly readable book.

The New Science of the Enchanted Universe

Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215928
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The New Science of the Enchanted Universe written by Marshall Sahlins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of “religion” and the “supernatural.” The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights. In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world, from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa, from Araweté swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process, Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane, all-too-human spheres of “economics” and “politics” emerge as people negotiate with, and ultimately usurp, the powers of the gods. The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.

Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions

Author : Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions written by Percy Stafford Allen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions: Religions of the lower culture. Section II. Religions of China and Japan. Section III. Religions of the Egyptians. Section IV. Religions of the Semites

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Author : Percy Stafford Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions: Religions of the lower culture. Section II. Religions of China and Japan. Section III. Religions of the Egyptians. Section IV. Religions of the Semites written by Percy Stafford Allen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religions of the lower culture. Section II. Religions of China and Japan. Section III. Religions of the Egyptians. Section IV. Religions of the Semites

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions: Religions of the lower culture. Section II. Religions of China and Japan. Section III. Religions of the Egyptians. Section IV. Religions of the Semites

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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions

Author : International Association for the History of Religions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions written by International Association for the History of Religions and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 19

Author : L. Bryce Boyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134889496
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 19 written by L. Bryce Boyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone, P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein).

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

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Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465534814
Total Pages : 1468 pages
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Download or read book The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: