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From hospitality to grace : a Julian Pitt-Rivers omnibus (2019)

Pitt-Rivers, Julian ; Da Col, Giovanni ; Shryock, Andrew

Chicago : HAU Books

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ISBN: 978-0-9861325-2-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 502 Seiten) , Illustrationen

Schlagwort(e): Ethnologie Kulturanthropologie ; Anthologie ; Ämter und Würden ; Ehre ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Verwandtschaft ; Opfer ; Ritual und Zeremonie

Kurzfassung: 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)

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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

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Mistrust : an ethnographic theory (2018)

Carey, Matthew

Chicago : HAU Books

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ISBN: 978-0-9973675-2-2

Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (146 Seiten)

Serie: The _Malinowski Monographs Series

Schlagwort(e): Soziale Beziehung Soziales Netzwerk ; Soziales Verhalten ; Kommunikation ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Sozialpsychologie ; Vertrauen ; Toleranz ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, psychologische ; Marokko ; Feldforschung

Kurzfassung: Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and generally holds society together. Against these overwhelmingly laudable qualities, mistrust often goes unnoticed as a positive social phenomenon, treated as little more than a corrosive absence, a mere negative of trust itself. With this book, Matthew Carey proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust that raises it up as legitimate stance in its own right. While mistrust can quickly ruin relationships and even dissolve extensive social ties, Carey shows that it might have other values. Drawing on fieldwork in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains as well as comparative material from regions stretching from Eastern Europe to Melanesia, he examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, and politics and cooperation. In doing so, he demonstrates that trust is not the only basis for organizing human society and cooperating with others. The result is a provocative but enlightening work that makes us rethink social issues such as suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Te apotheosis of trust -- chapter 1 Lying and obfuscation: Te uncertain ground of speech -- chapter 2 Trust or tolerance? On the treachery of friends -- chapter 3 The triumph of contingency: Anarchism as Realpolitik -- chapter 4 Conspiracy, witchcraft and theft: Manifestations of the mistrusting imagination -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

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Friendship groups in leisure time in Bulgaria : examples from the socialist and postsocialist period (2006)

Benovska-Sabkova, Milena

Halle (Saale) : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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Sprache: Englisch

Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)

Serie: Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology no. 86

Schlagwort(e): Bulgarien Freizeit ; Freundschaft ; Beziehungen, zwischenmenschliche ; Sport ; Zeitgeschichte ; Sozialer Wandel

Kurzfassung: The main objective of the paper is the investigation of leisure time friendship groups in Bulgaria, mainly during the second half of the 20th century. The specific goals are first, to establish a typology and to analyse the functioning of these friendship groups in Sofia and amongst the educated strata, focused in the context, first, of hiking, and second, of making merry in a restaurant; second, to make a comparison between the two types of groups in view of the transformation of the social and interpersonal relations since the mid-20th century. The very activity of the mountaineering groups creates a context, which largely determines their functioning. In this case the context includes the wild natural environment, and this prompts specific requirements on the behaviour and activity of the hikers associated with their safety. Practical requirements of immediate solidarity on the mountain determine the development of friendship as an after-effect of the group`s functioning. The predominant principle for structuring of the friendship groups of hikers is inclusion. The groups called `groups for fun` here are presented not so much as an object of an independent investigation than as a possibility for comparing them to the mountaineering groups. The two specific groups for fun investigated here belong to different strata of Bulgarian society (one of them clearly belongs to the new emerging middle class and the other consists of rather poor pensioners). Both differ substantially from those of the mountaineering groups. This difference offers the opportunity of tracing how social, economic and status differences reflect on the structure and the functional and cultural expressions of the groups. Unlike the groups of hikers, pragmatic aspects are absent in the activities and interaction among members of the `groups for fun`. Their members invest time and means not in the context, but in `the pure relationship`. The emotional aspect of the friendship is much stronger than among the hikers. This logically finds expression in the more explicit group identity too, as demonstrated in the self-naming of the groups, established routine practices, as well as rituals and even special emblems. The different socio-class characteristics of the friendship groups presented here show that the informal units function at various levels of the social hierarchy in the country: both in (the almost) elitist environment and in differing segments of the non-elite strata. Though seemingly paradoxical, the friendship groups are at one and the same time both evidence of the development of individualism as a life strategy, but also a means of development of personal and collective social capital. (Abstract)

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