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    ISBN: 9780415128964
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (254 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Religion: A Humanist Interpretation
    DDC: 200.1
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    Abstract: Treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements
    Description / Table of Contents: Religion: a Humanist Interpretation; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 An anthropological approach to the study of religion; Chapter 2 Religious belief and personal adjustment; Chapter 3 Spiritual aroma? Religion and politics; Chapter 4 Gods and God: monotheism and polytheism; Chapter 5 Offering and sacrifice: problems of organization; Chapter 6 Ritual and drama in Malay spirit mediumship; Chapter 7 Faith and scepticism in Kelantan village magic; Chapter 8 Paradox in religious systems; Chapter 9 The truth of religion?; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415667081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6
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    Abstract: 〈P〉First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 Food as a system of communication; Food studied as a system of communication; Food as an art form; The Food Art Exhibition; Food is not feed; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9781136537172 , 1136537171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (633 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Firth, Raymond Primitive Polynesian Economy
    DDC: 330.9935
    Keywords: Geschichte 1935 ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference ; Economic anthropology ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Economic anthropology ; Sozialanthropologie ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Polynesier ; Polynesien ; Polynesien ; Sozialanthropologie ; Wirtschaftliches Verhalten ; Geschichte 1935 ; Polynesien ; Wirtschaft ; Polynesier ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftssystem
    Description / Table of Contents: A great classic of British anthropology, Primitive Polynesian Economy is structured as follows: Problems of Primitive Economics Food and Population in Tikopia Knowledge, Technique and Economic Lore The Labour Situation Ritual in Productive Activity Economic Functions of the Chiefs Property and Capital in Production Principles of Distribution and Payment Exchange and Value Characteristics of a Primitive Economy First published in 1939
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    ISBN: 9781136538018 , 1136538011
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (667 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Firth, Raymond We the Tikopia : A sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia
    DDC: 572.9935
    Keywords: Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Biochemistry ; Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936
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    ISBN: 9780415314541
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding. Expressed with clarity and dynamism, the passionate analysis which follows remains one of the most insightful and rewarding studies of human behaviour ever written
    Description / Table of Contents: Mary Douglas Natural Symbols Explorations in cosmology; Copyright; Contents; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 Edition; Introduction; 1 Away from ritual; 2 To inner experience; 3 The Bog Irish; 4 Grid and group; 5 The two bodies; 6 Test cases; 7 The problem of evil; 8 Impersonal rules; 9 Control of symbols; 10 Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415263948
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (415 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The international behavioural and social sciences library. Anthropology 4
    Parallel Title: Print version Man in Africa
    DDC: 301.29/6
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    Abstract: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Man in Africa; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Part I: General; Jacques Maquet The Cultural Units of Africa: A Classificatory Problem; Part II: Political Economy; R. E. Bradbury Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture; Robin Horton From Fishing Village to City-state: A Social History of New Calabar; I. M. Lewis From Nomadism to Cultivation: The Expansion of Political Solidarity in Southern Somalia; Peter Morton-Williams The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti
    Description / Table of Contents: J. A. Barnes The Politics of LawPart III: Problems in Kinship; Mary Douglas Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?; Rosemary Harris Unilineal Fact or Fiction: A Further Contribution; M. G. Smith Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies; Phyllis M. Kaberry Witchcraft of the Sun: Incest in Nso; Part IV: Expression of Values; Clara Odugbesan Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art; Robert Brain Friends and Twins in Bangwa; Victor W. Turner Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of Two Bantu-speaking Societies; Jan Vansina The Bushong Poison Ordeal
    Description / Table of Contents: John Middleton Oracles and Divination among the LugbaraMichael Onwuejeogwu The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa; Farnham Rehfisch Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture; Part V: Enigmas of the Past; Clifford J. Jolly and Peter J. Ucko The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey; Don R. Brothwell Africa's Contribution to Palaeopathology: From the Past to the Future; Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415488501
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Rules and Meanings
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Knowledge, Sociology of ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1973, Rules and Meanings is an anthology of works that form part of Mary Douglas' struggle to devise an anthropological modernism conducive to her opposition to reputedly modernizing trends in contemporary society. The collection contains works by Wittgenstein, Schutz, Husserl, Hertz and other continentals. The underlying themes of the anthology are the construction of meaning, the force of hidden background assumptions, tacit conventions and the power of spatial organization to reinforce words. The work serves to complement the philosophers' work on everyday langua
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; MARY DOUGLAS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One Tacit Conventions; 1 L. Wittgenstein (1921) Understanding Depends on Tacit Conventions; 2 A. Schutz (1953 and 1954) The Frame of Unquestioned Constructs; 3 H. Garfinkel (1967) Background Expectancies; 4 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1937) For Example, Witchcraft; Part Two The Logical Basis of Constructed Reality; 5 L. Wittgenstein (1921) The World is Constructed on a Logical Scaffolding; 6 E. Durkheim and M. Mauss (1903) The Social Genesis of Logical Operations
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1949) 'Where the Women are, the Cattle are not'8 J. C. Faris (1968) 'Occasions' and' Non-Occasions'; 9 E. Husserl (1929 and 1907) The Essence of Redness; 10 G. Lienhardt (1961) Configurations of Colour Structure the Diverse Field of Experience; Part Three Orientations in Time and Space; 11 E. Husserl (1905) Lived Experiences of Time; 12 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1940) Time is not a Continuum; 13 J. A. Roth (1963) Benchmarks; 14 H. Garfinkel (1967) Time Structures the Biography and Prospects of a Situation; 15 J. Cage (1968) Musical Time and Other Time
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 M. L. J. Abercrombie (1971) Face to Face17 L. Marshall (1960) Each Side of the Fire; 18 P. Bourdieu (1971) The Berber House; 19 P. Gidal (1971) Eight Hours or Three Minutes; Part Four Physical Nature Assigned to Classes and Held to Them by Rules; 20 Mr Justice Ormrod (1971) Sex; 21 R. Hertz (1909) The Hands; 22 F. Steiner (1956) The Head; 23 Mrs Humphry (1897) The Laugh; 24 S. J. Tambiah (1969) Classification of Animals in Thailand; 25 R. Bulmer (1967) Why the Cassowary is not a Bird; Part Five The limits of Knowledge; 26 E. Husserl (1907) The Possibility of Cognition
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 L. Wittgenstein (1921) The Limits of my Language mean the Limits of my World28 B. Bernstein (1971) The Limits of my Language are Social; Part Six Interpenetration of Meanings; 29 D. R. Venables and R. E. Clifford (1957) Academic Dress; 30 T. Wolfe (1968) Shiny Black Shoes; 31 L. Wittgenstein (1938) Wittgenstein's Tailor; 32 Anon (1872) Etiquette: Dinner Party; 33 L. G. Allen (1915) Etiquette: Table; 34 A. Fortescue and J. O'Connell (1943) Etiquette: Altar; Part Seven Provinces of Meaning; 35 A. Schutz (1945) Multiple Realities; 36 E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1937) Social Principles of Selection
    Description / Table of Contents: 37 C. W. M. Hart and A. R. Pilling (1960) Rules Ensure Correspondence between Provinces: The Judicial Contest38 H. Hesse (1943) Insulation Makes the Finite Province Trivial: The Glass Bead Game; 39 Saint Francis (1959) Techniques for Breaking the Claims of Socially Selected Meanings: Brother Masseo's Path-Finding; 40 J. Cage (1968) Indeterminacy; Part Eight Formal Correspondences; 41 L. Wittgenstein (1921) Pictorial Form; 42 S. M. Salim (1962) Disorder Depicts Dishonour; 43 A. Segal (1971) Breach of One Rule Breaches the System of Rules; 44 R. Vailland (1957) The Racketeer in Life and in Play
    Description / Table of Contents: 45 M. A. K. Halliday (1969) The Syntax Enunciates the Theme
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    ISBN: 9780415291149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (119 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Risk and Acceptability
    DDC: 304
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    Abstract: First published in 1985, Mary Douglas intended Risk and Acceptability as a review of the existing literature on the state of risk theory. Unsatisfied with the current studies of risk, which she found to be flawed by individualistic and psychologistic biases, she instead uses the book to argue risk analysis from an anthropological perspective. Douglas raises questions about rational choice, the provision of public good and the autonomy of the individual
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; RiskAcceptability According to the Social Sciences; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Moral Issues in Risk Acceptability; 2. The Emergence of a New Subdiscipline; 3. Perception of Risk; 4. Choice and Risk; 5. Natural Risks; 6. Credibility; 7. Risk-Seeking and Safety First; 8. Institutional Constraints; 9. Risks Encoded; Bibliography; Acknowledgments
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    ISBN: 9780415330190
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (305 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Themes in Economic Anthropology
    DDC: 301.5
    Keywords: Economic anthropology ; Economic anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. 〈BR〉 Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans.〈BR〉 First published in 1967
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Preface; RAYMOND FIRTH; Themes in Economic Anthropology: A General Comment; Economic viewpoints; Economics of the gift; Problems of valuation; Economic anthropology in the modern world; Notes; References; LEONARD JOY; One Economist's View of the Relationship betweenEconomics and Anthropology; Social and economic determinants of behaviour; Implications of economic models for anthropology; Relevance of economic analysis; Equilibrium analysis; Complexity of choice situations; Communication of anthropologists with economists; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: RONALD FRANKENBERGEconomic Anthropology: One Anthropologist's View; A prefatory thought; What is economic anthropology?; Neo-classical views: e.g. the contribution of RaymondFirth; Berliner's critique; Attack I: Robbins Burling and the individual; Counter-attack I: Fredrik Barth, Robert Paine, andthe entrepreneurial process; Attack II: Dalton, Polanyi, and the inapplicability ofeconomic theory; Counter-attack II: Salisbury and the criterion oflabourtime; Counter-attack III: Scarlett Epstein on change in twopeasant villages in India; Attack III: Sahlins and the evolution of culture
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusions - magnificent dynamicsNotes; References; PERCY S. COHEN; Economic Analysis and Economic Man: Some Commentson a Controversy; Introduction; A brief history of the debate; Types of economic analysis; Economic man and the social system; Conclusion; Notes; References; MARY DOUGLAS; Primitive Rationing: A Study in Controlled Exchange; Controlled and competitive economies; Primitive coupon systems; Discontinuity in the demand function; Controlled exchange; References; FREDRIK BARTH; Economic Spheres in Darfur; Physical background; Subsistence; Institutional forms; Economic spheres
    Description / Table of Contents: Patterns and alternatives of allocationPossibilities for growth; Spheres and barriers; Management and stratification; Discrepancies of evaluation; Innovating activity; Concluding remark; Notes; References; LEONARD JOY; An Economic Homologue of Barth's Presentation ofEconomic Spheres in Darfur; Analytical preliminaries; Explanation of the matrix; Value of matrix formulation; Quantification; Conclusion; Notes; References; SUTTI ORTIZ; The Structure of Decision-making among Indians ofColombia; Introduction; The Paez Indians; The organizational context of economic relations; Managerial decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionsNotes; References; SCARLETT EPSTEIN; Productive Efficiency and Customary Systems of Rewardsin Rural South India; Introduction; The Jajmani system; Types of traditional labour relations; Customary systems of rewards and improved productiontechniques; Average product and customary rewards; Conclusion; Note; References; LORRAINE BARIC; Traditional Groups and New Economic Opportunities inRural Yugoslavia; The institutional framework; Alternative possibilities for economic action; Social variables; Flexibility in social manoeuvre; The decline of traditional zadrugas; Conclusion; Notes
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    ISBN: 9780415291132
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (608 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Constructive Drinking
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies ; Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies ; Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1987,〈I〉 Constructive Drinking〈/I〉 studies the functions drinking plays within society. A series of original case studies deal with a variety of exotic - not just alcohol - from a variety of cultural and geographical contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors to this volume; I Introductory; 1 Mary Douglas. A distinctive anthropological perspective; 2 Dwight Heath. A decade of development in the anthropological study of alcohol use, 1970-1980; II Drinks construct the world as it is; 3 Joseph Gusfield. Passage to play: rituals of drinking time in American society; 4 Gerald Mars. Longshore drinking, economic security and union politics in Newfoundland; 5 Mary Anna Thornton. Sekt versus Schnapps in an Austrian village; 6 Ndolamb Ngokwey. Varieties of palm wine among the Lele of the Kasai
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Anne Tyler Calabresi. Vin Santo and wine in a Tuscan farmhouse8 Farnham Rehfisch. Competitive beer drinking among the Mambila.; III Drinks construct an ideal world; 9 Paul Antze. Symbolic action in Alcoholics Anonymous; 10 Elizabeth Bott. The Kava ceremonial as a dream structure; 11 Haim Hazan. Holding time still with cups of tea; 12 Lisa Anne Gurr. Maigret's Paris conserved and distilled; IV Alcohol entrenches the alternative economy; 13 Thomas Crump. The alternative economy of alcohol in the Chiapas highlands
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Hillel Levine. Alcohol monopoly to protect the noncommercial sector of eighteenth-century Poland15 Gerald Mars and Yochanan Altman. Alternative mechanism of distribution in a Soviet economy; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415694667
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (467 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Symbols (Routledge Revivals) : Public and Private
    DDC: 301.2/1
    Keywords: Symbolism ; Symbolism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book first published in 1973 offers a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.The study of symbolism is popular nowadays and anthropologists have made substantial contributions to it. Raymond Firth has long been internationally known for his field research in the Solomons and Malaysia, and for his theoretical work on kinship, economics and religion. Here from a new angle, he has produced a broad survey of the study of symbolic ideas and behaviour.Professor Firth examines definitions of symbol. He traces the history of scientific inquiry into the symbolism of religious cu
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Symbols; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; I; 1. An Anthropologist's Reflections on Symbolic Usage; 2. A Question of Terms: Scope and Meaning of 'Symbol'; 3. Development of Anthropological Interest in Symbols; 4. Crystallization of Problems of Symbol Theory; 5. Modern Anthropological Views of Symbolic Processes; 6. Private Symbols and Public Reactions; II; 7. Food Symbolism in a Pre-Industrial Society; 8. Hair as Private Asset and Public Symbol; 9. Bodily Symbols of Greeting and Parting; 10. Symbolism of Flags; 11. Symbolism in Giving and Getting
    Description / Table of Contents: 12. Symbol and SubstanceReferences; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780415694728
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (550 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 390.0899442
    Keywords: Economic anthropology ; New Zealand ; Maori (New Zealand people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1929, Raymond Firth's original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation.Bridging the gap between anthropology and economics, the work covers the class structure, land system, industry, methods of co-operative labour, exchange and distribution, and the psychological foundations of Maori society. This reissue will be welcomed by all students of anthropology and anyone interested the history of the Maori people
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Primitive Economics of the New Zealand Maori; Copyright Page; Contents; I. The Study of Primitive Economics; II. The Maori And His Economic Resources; III. Social Structure and Economic Organization; IV. The Psychology of Work; V. The Nature of Maori Industry; VI. The Organization of Production; VII. Magic in Economics; VIII. The Distribution of Goods and Payment for Labour; IX. The Feast; X. The Ownership and Command of Wealth; XI. The Land; XII. The Exchange of Gifts; XIII. Native Tracks and Canoe-Ways; XIV. The Economic Aspect of Culture Change; XV. The Maori Community
    Description / Table of Contents: Bibliography(i) The literature of Primitive Economics; (ii) New Zealand Iiterature; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780415694681
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (386 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
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    Parallel Title: Print version Tikopia Ritual and Belief (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 390.0996
    Keywords: Rites and ceremonies ; Polynesia ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book of essays describes rites and beliefs of a people who still maintained their traditional institutions remote from civilization. Studies of totemism, of magic and of beliefs in the fate of the soul in the afterworld, not only throw new light on Polynesian attitudes but also contribute some novel ideas to th
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Tikopia Ritual and Belief; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. Outline of Tikopia Culture; 2. Ceremonies for Children; 3. Privilege Ceremonies; 4. Bond Friendship; 5. Suicide and Risk-Taking; 6. Rumour in a Primitive Society with A Note on the Theory of 'Cargo' Cults; 7. The Meaning of Dreams; 8. The Analysis of Mana: An Empirical Approach; 9. The Sociology of 'Magic'; 10. Ritual Adzes in Tikopia; 11. Totemism in Polynesia; 12. Economics and Ritual in Sago Extraction; 13. The Plasticity of Myth
    Description / Table of Contents: 14. Individual Fantasy and Social Norms: Seances with Spirit Mediums15. The Fate of the Soul; 16. A Commentary; INDEX;
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    ISBN: 9780415667081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (319 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    Parallel Title: Print version In the Active Voice (Routledge Revivals)
    DDC: 306.6
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    Abstract: First published in 1982, this collection of essays is a reproach to a form of the sociology of religion that treats people as the passive objects of impersonal social influences. In opposition to this, the author seeks to assert an active voice style of thinking about the relations between individuals and their cultural environment, whether in economics, history or literary criticism.This collection is assembled with the guiding principle that all the essays touch upon the borderland between economic values and personal judgements of quality. Several essays illustrate the theme from the place
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; In the Active Voice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Passive voice theories in religious sociology; 2 Goods as a system of communication; 3 Money; The contempt of ritual; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy; Primitive rationing; 4 Food as a system of communication; Food studied as a system of communication; Food as an art form; The Food Art Exhibition; Food is not feed; 5 Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction; 6 Population control in primitive groups
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness8 The exclusion of economics; 9 Cultural bias; 10 Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945; 11 Judgments on James Frazer; 12 The debate on the Holy: review of The Making of Late Antiquity; Name index; Subject index;
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