Constituted through Conflict: Images of Community (and
... Indeed, these enactments are usually explicit statements about the nature of local social relations; as such they reveal much about what community might mean for local populations. As Don Handelman notes about public events generally: “It is vital to the ongoing existence of any moreor-less dense ne ...
... Indeed, these enactments are usually explicit statements about the nature of local social relations; as such they reveal much about what community might mean for local populations. As Don Handelman notes about public events generally: “It is vital to the ongoing existence of any moreor-less dense ne ...
View/Open
... In Bloch’s view, rituals do not give a picture of a necessary part of social life. In some societies rituals remain ubiquitous that correlate with the amount of institutionalized hierarchy and in some societies rituals do not play dominant role in the social transformations. From the perspective of ...
... In Bloch’s view, rituals do not give a picture of a necessary part of social life. In some societies rituals remain ubiquitous that correlate with the amount of institutionalized hierarchy and in some societies rituals do not play dominant role in the social transformations. From the perspective of ...
Chapter 1. Introduction After culture: anthropology as radical
... considering how culture is used just in one setting: broadcasts on Balinese television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated u ...
... considering how culture is used just in one setting: broadcasts on Balinese television. Culture then is a way of articulating events and practices by invoking a particular set of presuppositions. The effect is to hierarchize or disarticulate other ways of appreciating what is going on, articulated u ...
People and Ideas Travel Together Tambiah`s Approach to Ritual
... developed in Brazil, making ethnographic theories parallel to cosmologies. Furthermore, focusing on rituals puts us into the realm of social action. In the context of shared world views, communication between individuals reveals implicit classifications among human beings and between human beings an ...
... developed in Brazil, making ethnographic theories parallel to cosmologies. Furthermore, focusing on rituals puts us into the realm of social action. In the context of shared world views, communication between individuals reveals implicit classifications among human beings and between human beings an ...
Contemplating the binary bind between cultural relativism and
... For example, Merry is one of the anthropologists who explains that cultural relativism position is misinterpreted, because both the anthropologist’s stance and the concept of culture are often misconceived among the general population (Merry 2003). Lila Abu-Lughod makes a similar, if not the same po ...
... For example, Merry is one of the anthropologists who explains that cultural relativism position is misinterpreted, because both the anthropologist’s stance and the concept of culture are often misconceived among the general population (Merry 2003). Lila Abu-Lughod makes a similar, if not the same po ...
CASTE, ANTHROPOLOGY OF
... trumped mere ritual (1959), and that, although an individual’s ritual status was indeed fixed by their játi, whole játis could sometimes increase their status by adopting the customs of higher-ranked castes (1956). Srinivas’s important insights nevertheless remained within the received picture of th ...
... trumped mere ritual (1959), and that, although an individual’s ritual status was indeed fixed by their játi, whole játis could sometimes increase their status by adopting the customs of higher-ranked castes (1956). Srinivas’s important insights nevertheless remained within the received picture of th ...
symbolic anthropology
... ...in the Nkang’a ritual, each person or group in successive contexts, sees the milk tree only as representing her or their own specific interests and values at those times. However the anthropologist, who has previously made a structural analysis of Ndembu society, isolating its organizational pri ...
... ...in the Nkang’a ritual, each person or group in successive contexts, sees the milk tree only as representing her or their own specific interests and values at those times. However the anthropologist, who has previously made a structural analysis of Ndembu society, isolating its organizational pri ...
Ethnographic studies of Public Elites: Beyond interpretive
... and the symbolic worlds that people inhabit, its dependence on textual metaphors, literary devices and highly subjective interpretations leads to some major shortcoming in its theory of culture and in its representations of ‘meaning’. Geertz’s ethnographic accounts often blur into narrative fictions ...
... and the symbolic worlds that people inhabit, its dependence on textual metaphors, literary devices and highly subjective interpretations leads to some major shortcoming in its theory of culture and in its representations of ‘meaning’. Geertz’s ethnographic accounts often blur into narrative fictions ...
THE NEW MIDDLE EASTERN ETHNOGRAPHY
... generations of Orientalist scholars had immersed themselves in the historical study of cosmopolitan culture and in recovering and translating the great literature of Islam. For them, these books contained the essential truth about the region, and the hierarchical urban and courtly world of the Medie ...
... generations of Orientalist scholars had immersed themselves in the historical study of cosmopolitan culture and in recovering and translating the great literature of Islam. For them, these books contained the essential truth about the region, and the hierarchical urban and courtly world of the Medie ...
In this brief introduction to this section on ethnography as method I
... anthropologists took part in the movement in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Early on, two of them, A. Kimball Romney and Roy G. D‟Andrade, organized an influential interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, linguists and anthropologists which was published as a special issue of the Ame ...
... anthropologists took part in the movement in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Early on, two of them, A. Kimball Romney and Roy G. D‟Andrade, organized an influential interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, linguists and anthropologists which was published as a special issue of the Ame ...
SOC1016A-Lecture
... Universal phenomenon: idea of others as cannibals (i.e. non-human) Uses of the discourse of cannibalism in order to establish form of cultural/political hegemony. Today? See articles in the Guardian Anthropologists needed anthropophagy to mark a radical difference. (Disagreement on this point: see K ...
... Universal phenomenon: idea of others as cannibals (i.e. non-human) Uses of the discourse of cannibalism in order to establish form of cultural/political hegemony. Today? See articles in the Guardian Anthropologists needed anthropophagy to mark a radical difference. (Disagreement on this point: see K ...
Thin Description Review_Ryan Jobson
... methods, theory, and representation, one begins to imagine a copy of the book finding its way past the pearly gates and into the hands of a long-deceased structural functionalist, who tosses the book aside in disgust. “But where is the ethnography,” he would beckon, “can’t Jackson simply get to the ...
... methods, theory, and representation, one begins to imagine a copy of the book finding its way past the pearly gates and into the hands of a long-deceased structural functionalist, who tosses the book aside in disgust. “But where is the ethnography,” he would beckon, “can’t Jackson simply get to the ...
Chapter 1
... dramas are people’s interactions and conflicts in everyday social life. How people make sense of their lives is through ritual, pilgrimage and theatre- “things that stand for other things” MARX: (Historical Materialism) History’s material forces explain in world-history terms. Unilineal Evolutionist ...
... dramas are people’s interactions and conflicts in everyday social life. How people make sense of their lives is through ritual, pilgrimage and theatre- “things that stand for other things” MARX: (Historical Materialism) History’s material forces explain in world-history terms. Unilineal Evolutionist ...
Word
... bureaucratic power and postcolonial regimes, globalization, post-modernity, mass media, emergent technologies and especially a re-thinking of morality. Anthropologists have also explored new ways to bring in history, social structure and lived experience into their analytic frames. They have also ve ...
... bureaucratic power and postcolonial regimes, globalization, post-modernity, mass media, emergent technologies and especially a re-thinking of morality. Anthropologists have also explored new ways to bring in history, social structure and lived experience into their analytic frames. They have also ve ...
Anthropology Introduction
... Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre and other Episodes in French Cultural History (London, 1984), Chaps 1 and 2. [See the criticism of this book in Chartier]. Davis, Natalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford 1975), Chapters 4-6. Dezan, Suzanne, ‘Crowds, community and ri ...
... Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre and other Episodes in French Cultural History (London, 1984), Chaps 1 and 2. [See the criticism of this book in Chartier]. Davis, Natalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford 1975), Chapters 4-6. Dezan, Suzanne, ‘Crowds, community and ri ...
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali
Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali is a book written by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a ""hydraulic bureaucracy"" nor an oriental despotism, but rather, an organized spectacle. The noble rulers of the island were less interested in administering the lives of the Balinese, than in dramatizing their rank and hence political superiority through large public rituals and ceremonies. These cultural processes did not support the state, he argues, but were the state.It is perhaps most clear in what was, after all, the master image of political life: kingship. The whole of the negara - court life, the traditions that organized it, the extractions that supported it, the privileges that accompanied it - was essentially directed toward defining what power was; and what power was what kings were. Particular kings came and went, 'poor passing facts' anonymized in titles, immobilized in ritual, and annihilated in bonfires. But what they represented, the model-and-copy conception of order, remained unaltered, at least over the period we know much about. The driving aim of higher politics was to construct a state by constructing a king. The more consummate the king, the more exemplary the centre. The more exemplary the centre, the more actual the realm.Geertz used the Balinese case to develop an abstract model of the Theatre state applicable to all the South East Asian Indic polities. To succinctly summarize his theory, ""Power served pomp, not pomp power."" Other anthropologists have contested the ahistorical, static nature of the model. They point out that he has depoliticized a political institution by emphasizing culture while ignoring its material base.