Divinity and Experience : The Religion of the Dinka
Author: Godfrey Lienhardt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Published: 1961-01-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0191591858
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Publisher: iUniverse
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Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0595284590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRules and Meanings
Author: Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1136489762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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 language with the anthropologists' theory of everyday knowledge.
African Religions
Author: Benjamin C. Ray
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a portrait of African religious history framed in the religious themes common to the rest of the world. It looks at the traditional religions that provided the philosophical, religious, and ethical basis of African culture. Focusing primarily on traditional African religions and their related myths, rituals, authorities, ethics, and artwork, the book also includes substantial treatment on nationalism, African Islam and Christianity. For anyone who wants to gain an understanding of the relationship between African religion and culture.
Kings of Disaster
Author: Simon Simonse
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1628953330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse’s study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from René Girard’s theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows that the longstanding distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster proposes an elegant and powerful solution to the vexed problem of regicide.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Author: Janice Boddy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 1119124999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world Explores a broad range of topics including the ‘perspectivism’ debate, the rise of religious nationalism, reflections on religion and new media, religion and politics, and ideas of self and gender in relation to religious belief Includes examples drawn from different religious traditions and from several regions of the world Features newly-commissioned articles reflecting the most up-to-date research and critical thinking in the field, written by an international team of leading scholars Adds immeasurably to our understanding of the complex relationships between religion, culture, society, and the individual in today’s world
Dreamtime
Author: Hans Peter Duerr
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780631133759
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Author: Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1136489274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.
Having the Spirit of Christ
Author: Giovanni B. Bazzana
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0300245629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative reinterpretation of accounts of spirit possession and exorcism in early Christianity The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of the earliest groups of his followers. Most critical scholarship, however, regularly marginalizes these topics or discards them altogether in reconstructing early Christian history. This innovative book approaches the study of possession from a different methodological angle by using a comparative lens that includes contemporary ethnographies of possession cross-culturally. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be exorcized, can also have a positive role in many cultures. Often it helps individuals and groups to reflect on and reshape their identity, to plan their moral actions, and to remember in a most vivid way their past. When read in light of these materials, these ancient documents reveal the religious, cultural, and social meaning that the experience of possession had for the early Christ groups.
Museum Objects
Author: Sandra H. Dudley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 041558177X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuseum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and definition of the object itself, the senses and embodied experience of objects. No other volume brings together such perspectives in this way, and no other volume includes such a focus on the museum context. Museum Objects incorporates both theorised and more practical readings from a range of international academic and contextual perspectives. The overall result is a definitive set of readings that offers a comprehensive understanding of objects and their place within the museum context.
