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  • Frobenius-Institut  (6)
  • MFK München  (1)
  • 2005-2009  (7)
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press
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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-0-19-979821-6 , 978-0-19-536774-4 , 0-19-536774-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 225 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiel
    Edition: First issued as paperback, 2011
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Tadschikistan ; Musik ; Gebet ; Musikethnologie ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Spiritualität ; Musikinstrument ; Poesie ; Afrika ; Sufismus ; Pamir 〈Gebirge, Zentralasien〉
    Abstract: Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, yet traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects and balances the physical with the spiritual to promote health and healing. As people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare, more and more people are now turning to these ancient cultural practices of holistic and ICAM healing (integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine). Beyond the Roof of the World convincingly demonstrates the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM approaches to health and healing. Revealing the Western separation of healing from spiritual and musical practices as a culturally determined phenomenon, Dr. Benjamin D. Koen confirms their underlying unity. In a place poetically known as the Roof of the World, the culture found within the towering Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan Tajikistan serves as the paradigm of ICAM healing practices. Koen's extensive research and immersion into the Badakhshani culture provides a well-balanced "insider" perspective while maintaining an "observer's" view, as he effectively bridges the widespread gaps between ethnomusicology, health science, and music therapy. Moving beyond the paradigm of the Pamir Mountains to reach out to cultures across the globe, Koen infuses scholarship with lived experience and applied practice as he shows spirituality and musicality to be intimately intertwined with one's physical life, health and healing.
    Description / Table of Contents: Language, Pronunciation, and Transliteration -- 1. Medical Ethnomusicology and the Ontology of Oneness -- 2. The Five Factors of Music, Prayer, Health, and Healing -- 3. Music-Prayer Dynamics and Cognitive Flexibility -- 4. Soundscape and Musical-Spiritual Entrainment -- 5. Healthscape, Mystical Poetry, and Multimodal Healing -- 6. Transformative Meaning in Sound, Empowered Sound in Culture --7. Human Certainty Principle, of Science, Spirituality, and Experience -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [213]-220; Text teilw. in persischer Sprache
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  • 2
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0192842382 , 9780192842381
    Language: English
    Pages: 210 p. , ill (chiefly col.) , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Oxford history of art
    DDC: 709.96
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    Keywords: Art, Polynesian ; Art, Micronesian ; Polynesien ; Kunst ; Mikronesien ; Kunst
    Note: Introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian artArtistic visions, rituals, and sacred containers -- Aesthetics, carving, metaphor, and allusion -- Genealogical connections: the texts of textiles -- Adorning the adorned: tattoo, ornaments, clothing, fashion -- Ritual spaces, cultural landscapes: space, and the aesthetic environment. , Introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art -- Artistic visions, rituals, and sacred containers -- Aesthetics, carving, metaphor, and allusion -- Genealogical connections: the texts of textiles -- Adorning the adorned: tattoo, ornaments, clothing, fashion -- Ritual spaces, cultural landscapes: space, and the aesthetic environment
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  • 3
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-517706-0 , 0-19-517706-1 , 978-0-19-51770-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 208 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Frau ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Tradition ; Alltag ; Familie ; Haushalt
    Abstract: In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals. This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious practice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pt. 1. Engaging domesticity. The cat in the courtyard: the performance of Sanskrit and the religious experience of women / Laurie L. Patton -- Wandering from "hills to valleys" with the goddess: protection and freedom in the Matamma tradition of Andhra / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Lovesick Gopi or woman's best friend: the mythic Sakhi and ritual friendships among women in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- Words that breach walls: women's rituals in Rajasthan / Lindsey Harlan -- Threshold designs, forehead dots, and menstruation rituals: exploring time and space in Tamil Kolams / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan. Pt. 2. Beyond domesticity. Domesticity and difference/women and men: religious life in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr -- The anatomy of devotion: the life and poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar / Elaine Craddock -- The play of the mother: possession and power in Hindu women's goddess rituals / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Does Tantric ritual empower women? Renunciation and domesticity among female Bengali Tantrikas / June McDaniel -- Performing arts, re-forming rituals: women and social change in South India / Vasudha Narayanan.
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  • 4
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-925605-5 , 978-0-19-925604-4 , 978-0-19-925605-1
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 301 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Series Statement: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Keywords: Organisationsethnologie Theorie ; Soziale Beziehung ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziologie ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Gesellschaft ; Philosophie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-280
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  • 5
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-530434-9 , 978-0-19-530775-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Rajasthan Punjab ; Sikhismus ; Kastenwesen ; Sozialer Status ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Lied ; Tradition ; Musik, traditionelle ; Musikethnologie
    Abstract: Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But focus in these studies is typically placed on the way caste is imagined according to the agendas and desires of elite Westerners such as colonial officials. In this book, by contrast, the author argues that Bhats themselves understand the imaginative dimensions of caste relations. Indeed, such insights are shown to lie at the heart of the Bhats traditional profession of praise- and insult-singing. Likewise, the author demonstrates how the ability to cleverly rework and even sabotage lingering caste inequalities continues to form the basis for Bhat claims to status and dignity in contemporary India.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [201]-213
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  • 6
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-517782-7 , 978-0-19-517782-4 , 978-0-19-534643-5 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 278 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopen ; Israel ; Jude ; Diaspora ; Repatriierung ; Geschichte ; American Association for Ethiopian Jews ; AAEJ 〉 American Association for Ethiopian Jews
    Abstract: "Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. Now, in this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and immediacy of a novel, here is the dramatic story of the rescue of the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia. Spector recounts how 20,000 Jews were willingly lured from their ancestral villages to Addis Ababa, expecting to be taken quickly from there to the Holy Land. Instead, they became pawns in a struggle between the Israeli government and Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who tried to coerce Israel into selling him weapons he needed in a losing war against rebel armies. In the resulting stalemate, the Jewish community was forced to live for nearly a year in squalid hovels, vulnerable to the dangers of the city, including crime and HIV. Worse yet, the imminent collapse of Addis Ababa, with the rebels closing in on the capital, raised the threat of bloody street fighting or even a genocidal attack on the Jews, a small minority in a nation that is primarily Christian and Muslim. Spector describes the tense negotiations among Israelis, Ethiopians, and Americans, which became increasingly urgent as time ran low and the danger mounted. And he highlights the secret deals and sudden setbacks that nearly aborted the mission at the eleventh hour, even as Israeli jets sat on the runway in Ethiopia, waiting to take the Jews to the land for which they had yearned for generations. Recounting the full story for the first time, Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic rescue achieved in the face of daunting odds.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Glossary of names and terms -- Preface -- Introduction: from King Solomon to Operation Solomon -- 1. Restoring relations conceiving the Aliyah, July 1988-January 1990 -- 2. The AAEJ accelerates the process, February-April 1990 -- 3. A potential catastrophe, May-July 1990 -- Chomanesh and Dan'el -- 4. Eggs - Uri Lubrani - cluster bombs, July-October 1990 -- 5. Carrots, not carats - the kitchen cabinet, November-December 1990 -- 6. The doomsday scenario - the Falash Mura, January-February 1991 -- 7. Mengistu's chestnuts - the ante, March 1991 -- 8. Taking the chips away - the cordon sanitaire - Rudy Boschwitz, April 1-18, 1991 -- 9. The Boschwitz mission setting the price, April 24-29, 1991 -- 10. Playing poker with sechel, May 1-19, 1991 -- 11. The final week: Mengistu's flight - closing the deal, Monday, May 20-Wednesday, 22, 1991 -- 12. "The wings of history", Thursday, May 23, 1991 -- 13. Operation Solomon, Friday, May 24, 1991 4:00 am- 3:00 pm -- 14. Operation Solomon (continued), Friday, May 24-3:00 pm, Saturday, May 25, 1991 -- Chomanesh crosses the red sea -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: annual emigration from Ethiopia to Israel -- Appendix 2: the number of people brought to Israel in Operation Solomon -- Appendix 3: a conversation with Kassa Kebede -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-268
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  • 7
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Pages: 247 Seiten
    Keywords: Rezension
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