ISBN:
9780511802782
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
Parallel Title:
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
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Human body / Social aspects / Africa
;
Human body / Social aspects / Melanesia
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Human body / Symbolic aspects / Africa
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Human body / Symbolic aspects / Melanesia
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Leib-Seele-Problem
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Kulturvergleich
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Afrika
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Melanesien
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Afrika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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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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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511802782
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