"The Vailala Madness" and Other Essays
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher : Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher : Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9780702213922
Author : Francis Edgar Williams
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9780783713137
Author : Geoffrey G. Gray
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0855755512
This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. In his new work, Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline. He argues that to do so, anthropologists had to demonstrate that their discipline was the predominant interpreter of Indigenous life. Thus they were able, and called on, to assist government in the control, development and advancement of Indigenous peoples. Gray aims to help us understand the present organisational structures, and assist in the formulation of anthropology's future role in Australia; to provide a wider political and social context for Australian social anthropology, and to consider the importance of anthropology as a past definer of Indigenous people. Gray's work complements and adds to earlier publications: Wolfe's Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology, McGregor's Imagined Destinies and Anderson's Cultivating Whiteness.
Author : Holger Jebens
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824828516
Cargo cults have long exerted a remarkable attraction on Westerners, and the last decade has seen the publication of much new work on the subject. This collection of original essays is based on fieldwork in Melanesia, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia by scholars who are influential in the contemporary debate on cargo. Conceived as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, the volume offers an up-to-date view of the subject and the debates it arouses among contemporary anthropologists. Some contributors plead for the abolition of "cargo" because of its troublesome implications, but also because, in the authors’ view, cargo cults do not exist as identifiable objects of study. Others argue that it is precisely this troublesome nature that makes the term a useful analytical tool that should be welcomed rather than rejected. By delineating and substantiating key issues and positions in this lively and ongoing debate, this volume underscores and refines the contemporary reevaluation of cargo cults. Scholars of the Pacific region and others interested in new religious movements should find this volume both enlightening and compelling. Contributors: Nils Bubandt, Vincent Crapanzano, Douglas M. Dalton, Elfriede Hermann, Holger Jebens, Martha Kaplan, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Stephen C. Leavitt, Lamont Lindstrom, Ton Otto, Joel Robbins, Jaap Timmer, Robert Tonkinson.
Author : Charles H. Long
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350032654
Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures, an interview, and two book reviews. The foreword is provided by Jennifer Reid, a former student of Long. The collection is divided into four thematic parts: America and the Study of Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion; African American Religion in the United States; Kindling, Embers and Sparks. Long's introduction provides much-awaited insight into his reflections on his work, expanding on questions that remained unanswered in his classic and influential text, Significations: Signs, Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Images (1986). In particular, the new introductory essay explores the significance of “ellipses”, that which is omitted, the projected spaces of the Other in the study of religion. Considered the preeminent founder and advocate of the study of Black Religion, Long was exploring religion and colonialism and the importance of Afro-American religion as early as the 1960s and early 1970s, and this collection of his thinking – which moves across the formations of religious studies, African diasporic studies, and social and cultural theory – is a must-have addition for any institutional or personal library.
Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1994-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521416914
In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.
Author : Bruce M. Knauft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1993-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521429313
The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.
Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 1987-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521336529
This 1987 volume comprises ten essays by anthropologists who interrogate the nature of social inequality between the sexes in societies mostly in Melanesia.
Author : Hermann Hiery
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824816681
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