ISBN:
0823241890
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0823241904
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9780823241897
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9780823241903
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 330 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Radical Egalitarianism : Local Realities, Global Relations
DDC:
306.694
Keywords:
Sociology
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Culture and globalization
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Equality Philosophy
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Ethnology
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Ethnology Sociological aspects
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Social sciences
;
Ethnology - Sociological aspects
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Ethnology - Sociological aspects
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives.
Abstract:
Intro -- contents -- Introduction: Engaging Radical Egalitarianism -- Religion, Trade, and Transnational Networks via Thailand -- The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets, and Tomb Shrines -- Understanding Social Totalities: Stanley Tambiah's Early Contribution to Sociology of Thai Buddhism -- Transnational Buddhism and the Transformations of Local Power in Thailand -- A Muslim King and His Buddhist Subjects: Religion, Power, and Identity at the Periphery of the Thai State -- Cosmologies, Ideologies, and Localities -- Economies of Ghosts, Gods, and Goods: The History and Anthropology of Chinese Temple Networks -- Trade, Religion, and Civic Relations in the Manangi Long-Distance Trade Community -- Cosmologies of Welfare: Two Conceptions of Social Assistance in Contemporary South Africa -- "A Recurrence of Structures" in Collapsing Nigeria -- People and Ideas Travel Together: Tambiah's Approach to Ritual and Cosmology in Brazil -- Paradoxes of Order in Thai Community Politics -- Violence, Political Confl ict, and Humanitarian Intervention -- Structural Work: How Microhistories Become Macrohistories and Vice Versa -- Perspectives on the Politics of Peace in Aceh, Indonesia -- A Tale of Two Affects: Humanitarianism and Professionalism in Red Cross Aid Work -- At the Base of Local and Transnational Conflicts: The Political Uses of Inferiorization -- Aft erword. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Paradoxes, Social Contradictions, and Cultural Oscillations -- notes -- bibliography -- contributors.
Description / Table of Contents:
""contents""; ""Introduction: Engaging Radical Egalitarianism""; ""Religion, Trade, and Transnational Networks via Thailand""; ""The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets, and Tomb Shrines""; ""Understanding Social Totalities: Stanley Tambiah�s Early Contribution to Sociology of Thai Buddhism""; ""Transnational Buddhism and the Transformations of Local Power in Thailand""; ""A Muslim King and His Buddhist Subjects: Religion, Power, and Identity at the Periphery of the Thai State""; ""Cosmologies, Ideologies, and Localities""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Economies of Ghosts, Gods, and Goods: The History and Anthropology of Chinese Temple Networks""""Trade, Religion, and Civic Relations in the Manangi Long-Distance Trade Community""; ""Cosmologies of Welfare: Two Conceptions of Social Assistance in Contemporary South Africa""; ""“A Recurrence of Structures� in Collapsing Nigeria""; ""People and Ideas Travel Together: Tambiah�s Approach to Ritual and Cosmology in Brazil""; ""Paradoxes of Order in Thai Community Politics""; ""Violence, Political Confl ict, and Humanitarian Intervention""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Structural Work: How Microhistories Become Macrohistories and Vice Versa""""Perspectives on the Politics of Peace in Aceh, Indonesia""; ""A Tale of Two Affects: Humanitarianism and Professionalism in Red Cross Aid Work""; ""At the Base of Local and Transnational Conflicts: The Political Uses of Inferiorization""; ""Aft erword. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Paradoxes, Social Contradictions, and Cultural Oscillations""; ""notes""; ""bibliography""; ""contributors""
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