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  • Frobenius-Institut  (3)
  • 1990-1994  (3)
  • 1945-1949
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (3)
  • Ritual und Zeremonie  (3)
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  • Frobenius-Institut  (3)
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    Honor and grace in anthropology (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39055-9 , 978-0-521-39055-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 260 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 76
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Spanien ; Andalusien ; Katholik ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained. They range from the French royal rituals of the Middle Ages to the murderous feuds and peace-making rites of the Rif; they show how different peoples and periods have faced the problems of power, legitimacy, purity, divinity, and personal destiny. The concluding chapter suggests that anthropology, which ignored honor until a quarter of a century ago, should no longer ignore grace, whose varied connotations provide the basis of religious doctrines as well as the common coinage of the exchange of favors and thanks.
    Description / Table of Contents: Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France / Catherine Lafages -- The court surrounds the king: Louis XIV, the Palatine princess, and Saint-Simon / Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie -- Rites as acts of institution / Pierre Bourdieu -- Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain / Julio Caro Baroja -- The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community / J.G. Peristiany -- The Greek hero / J.K. Campbell -- Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily / Maria Pia Di Bella -- From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif / Raymond Jamous -- Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept / Sandra Ott -- Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology / Julian Pitt-Rivers.
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  • 2
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    Sacred void : spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40466-5 , 978-0-521-40466-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 80
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kenia ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Giryama ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Raumvorstellung ; Viehhalter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Arbeitsmigration ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations among communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as laborers or fisherman on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Fantasies of the West -- 2. Western Kaya, sacred centre -- 3. View from the west: cattle and co-operation -- 4. From west to east: the works of marriage -- 5. Spanning west and east: dances of death -- 6. Alternative authorities: incest and fertility -- 7. Alternative selves: invasions and cure -- 8. Coastal desires and personal centre -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [247]-253
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    Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38504-0 , 978-0-521-38504-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: [xv], 221 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 71
    Keywords: Ozeanien Papua-Neuguinea ; Melanesien ; Sepik ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Manambu ; Ethnographie ; Politisches System ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Namen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Manambu; 2. Avatip; 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology; 4. Ceremonial rank; 5. Male initiation; 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot; 7. The debating system; 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw; 9. Symbolic economies in Melanesia; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-213 , [Based on author's thesis, Australian National University] , Thesis, Ph.D., Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, 1982 entitled "Stealing people's names: social structure, cosmology and politics in a Sepik River village". Online verfügbar unter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116867
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