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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human body / Social aspects / Africa ; Human body / Social aspects / Melanesia ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Africa ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Melanesia ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Afrika ; Melanesien ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Melanesien
    Abstract: Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals to heal the sick, 'electric vampires', and even the impact of capitalism. There are detailed ethnographic analyses, and suggestive comparisons of classic African and Melanesian ethnographic cases, such as the Nuer and the Melpa. The contributors debate alternative strategies for cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate that there is a surprising range of continuities, putting in question common assumptions about the huge differences between these two parts of the world
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Transcending dichotomies: "It's a boy," "it's a girl!": reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Rita Astuti -- Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Edward Lipuma -- Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Ellen Corin -- Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Michael Lambek -- pt. 2. Transitions, containments, decontainments: Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult / René Devisch -- To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Sandra Bamford -- Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Brad Weiss -- pt. 3. From exchange to history: Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Bruce M. Knauft -- Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Eytan Bercovitch -- Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Afterword: embodying ethnography / Janice Boddy
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557910
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Cultural pluralism ; Difference (Psychology) / Social aspects ; Lesbian feminist theory ; Gay and lesbian studies ; Postmodernism / Social aspects ; Postmoderne ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Feminismus ; Homosexualität ; Soziologische Theorie ; Postmoderne ; Soziologische Theorie ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Feminismus ; Homosexualität
    Abstract: Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 101
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    DDC: 392/.5/095693
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1995 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Marriage customs and rites / Cyprus ; Social change / Cyprus ; Social classes / Cyprus ; Brauch ; Griechen ; Hochzeit ; Gesellschaft ; Cyprus / Social life and customs ; Zypern ; Zypern ; Hochzeit ; Brauch ; Griechen ; Geschichte 1930-1995 ; Zypern ; Brauch ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1930-1995
    Abstract: The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The island of Aphrodite -- 2. Nationalism and the poverty of imagination -- 3. The weddings of the 1930s -- 4. The meaning of change -- 5. Distinction and symbolic class struggle -- 6. Anthropology and the specter of "monoculture" -- 7. The dialectics of symbolic domination
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607653
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)
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    DDC: 307.3/36
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Indianer ; Dwellings / Social aspects ; Dwellings / Southeast Asia ; Dwellings / South America ; Kinship / Southeast Asia ; Indians of South America / Kinship ; Hausbau ; Verwandtschaft ; Wohnen ; Haus ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohnen ; Verwandtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Wohnen ; Hausbau ; Ethnologie ; Haus ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Wohnen ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people, and ideas. They reveal some of the ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order
    Description / Table of Contents: Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson -- The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Houses in Langkawi : stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten -- Having your house and eating it : houses and siblings in Ara, South Sualwesi / Thomas Gibson -- The Lio House : building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell -- Houses and hierarchy : the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon -- Houses, places and people : community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Rivière -- The houses of the Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea -- Inside-out and back-to-front : the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
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