ISBN:
978-0-9861325-2-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXIX, 502 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Ethnologie Kulturanthropologie
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Anthologie
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Ämter und Würden
;
Ehre
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Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche
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Verwandtschaft
;
Opfer
;
Ritual und Zeremonie
Abstract:
The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life-including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and more-this omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pitt-Rivers's diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done. Classic, definitive, and yet still extraordinarily relevant for contemporary anthropology, Pitt-Rivers's lifetime contribution will provide a new generation of anthropologists with an invaluable resource for reflection on both ethnographic and theoretical issues. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A perfect host: Julian Pitt-Rivers and the anthropology of grace / Andrew Shryock and Giovanni da Col -- Part I. Moral frames: honor, mana, and grace -- chapter one Honor and social status in Andalusia -- chapter two Mana -- chapter three The place of grace in anthropology -- chapter fourThe malady of honor -- Part II. Uncertain relations: kin/friend, host/guest, male/female, and human/animal -- chapter five The kith and the kin -- chapter six Ritual kinship in the Mediterranean: Spain and the Balkans -- chapter seven The law of hospitality -- chapter eight Women and sanctuary in the Mediterranean -- chapter nine The paradox of friendship -- chapter ten Lending a hand: Neighborly cooperation in southwestern France -- chapter eleven Spiritual power in Central America: The naguals of Chiapas -- Part III. Transformative rites: sacrifice, substitution, and the sacred -- chapter twelve The sacrifice of the bull -- chapter thirteen The role of pain in rites of passage -- chapter fourteen From the love of food to the love of God -- chapter fifteen Quand nos aînés n`y seront plus -- chapter sixteen The fate of Shechem or the politics of sex -- Part IV Analytics in place: concepts, theory, and method -- chapter seventeen Contextual analysis and the locus of the model -- chapter eighteen On the word "caste" -- chapter nineteen Race in Latin America: The concept of "raza" -- chapter twenty Reflections on fieldwork in Spain -- Afterword. Grace and insight: The legacy of Julian Pitt-Rivers / Michael Herzfeld -- Reference list -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [473]-492
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