The Study of the Lugbara
Author: John Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: John Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Middleton
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783825840341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis was the first full-length account of this hitherto little-known people and remains one of the very few modern accounts of an African ancestral cult.
Author: John Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Connolly
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2001-11-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0826459609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has been argued that religious studies is a polymethodic discipline, and that the student of religion should be familiar with the approaches of the major disciplines concerned with understanding the nature of religion, not least because the approach adopted has profound influence on the phenomena chose for investigation and the conclusions reached.This book is the first textbook, specifically designed for undergraduate students, that provides the essential background on methods of the major relevant disciplines.Presenting each of the significant approaches to religion in an informed manner, the book brings together experienced researchers from feminism, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. It presents a consistent approach throughout, with each chapter dealing with the same themes: the historical development of the approach, the characteristics of the approach, and the surrounding issues and debates.
Author: Maurice Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-12-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1316582299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.
Author: Aidan Southall
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9783825861193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Author Aidan Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by political anthropologists throughout the subject and also by political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. The book was able to arrive at such long-lasting and imaginative conclusions through the use of ethnographic material of a quality rarely surpassed. It is moreover arguably the best book in social anthropology of a Nilotic-speaking people. Southall's own command of their language and his overall scholarly knowledge of Nilotes is also unsurpassed.
Author: Udobata R. Onunwa
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2010-06-27
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1434953971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alisdair Whittle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1134409818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate. The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain. Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and structure are dealt with, but Professor Whittle emphasises that they are too abstract to be truly useful. Instead, he highlights the multiple dimensions which constituted Neolithic existence: the web of daily routines, group and individual identities, relations with animals, and active but varied attitudes to the past. The result is a vivid, original and perceptive understanding of the early Neolithic which will offer insights to readers at every level.
Author: Roger Sanjek
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1501711954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures—Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead—and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts, especially ethnographies. Unique in conception, this volume contributes importantly to current debates on writing, texts, and reflexivity in anthropology.
Author: Frank Whaling
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 3110859793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.