Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders. The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical...
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributor...
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders. The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical...
Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributor...
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are: * space, memory and ethnicity * the mnemonic use of objects * mythologies of football and history * use of...
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'be...
This text explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and experienced space. It presents an international overview of the relationship between locality and belonging, with the contributors presenting rigorous case studies from the Congo, Togo, Amazonia, Indonesia, Zanzibar, South Africa, Argentina and the United Kingdom. Contexts range from the use of 'natural' features of the environment to those of nationhood and post-colonial identity-making. The examination of notions of space, memory, ethnicity,...
This text explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and...
This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identities - such as gender, power and history. With examples from a wide range of areas including Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon, it covers themes such as: * how people choose and activate kin * leadership, spiritual power and kinship * inheritance, marriage and...
This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors examine...
This collecton reasserts the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors look at both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures, and examine how relatedness is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's identity - such as gender, power and history.
This collecton reasserts the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology. The contributors look at bot...
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaption that can nevertheless produce new institutional arrangements. Alternatively, they may be directed towards the outright rejection of these processes. The cases examined in this volume explore the ways in which different subjects engage in the...
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected in strategies of accommodation and adaption that can nevertheless produce new institutional arrangements. Alternatively, they may be directed towards the outright rejection of these processes. The cases examined in this volume explore the ways in which different subjects engage in the...
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In
Anthropology of violence has quite recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Moreover, this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict...
Anthropology of violence has quite recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropolog...
'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity.
'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persiste...
