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Pierre Fatumbi Verger - From Detached Look To Knowledge Through Initiation

by Jérôme Souty

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 With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Vergerâ€™s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha VodunÂ deities.
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Understanding Cultural Transmission In Anthropology - A Critical Synthesis

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 The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations.
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Search After Method - Sensing, Moving, And Imagining In Anthropological Fieldwork

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 Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributorâ€™s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.
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The Social Origins Of Thought - Durkheim, Mauss, And The Category Project

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 Explores the Durkheim Schoolâ€™s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the â€œcategory projectâ€.
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Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology

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 Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.
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A History Of Oxford Anthropology

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 Offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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The Spirit Of Matter - Modernity, Religion, And The Power Of Objects

by Peter Pels

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 A range of meaningful objectsâ€"exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersâ€"demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their â€œlifeâ€. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of â€œmind over matterâ€.
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger - From Detached Look To Knowledge Through Initiation

by Jérôme Souty

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 A maverick photographer who travelled the world in search of otherness, over time Verger became a prominent ethnographer, botanist and historian. He devoted fifty years of research to the black cultures of Brazil and Africa and to the transatlantic world of the Orisha and Vodun deities. Living in the field, initiated into diverse religious societies, he was reborn under the name of Fatumbi. A go-between of the Yoruba diaspora, Verger practiced an anti-colonial ethnology avant la lettre. This book is an anthropological essay, but also a cross-cultural portrait and the story of an extraordinary life. It provides a detailed analysis of the artistic and scientific work of Pierre Fatumbi Verger (1902-1996).
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Anyone - The Cosmopolitan Subject Of Anthropology

by Nigel Rapport

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 The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being.
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Durkheim In Dialogue - A Centenary Celebration Of The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life

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 A dialogue between theory and ethnography, the book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in which Durkheim's great work on religion remains relevant to thinking about culture.
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The Spirit Of Matter - Modernity, Religion, And The Power Of Objects

by Peter Pels

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 A range of meaningful objectsexhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersdemonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.
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Empire And Eduards Volters - The Ethnography Of Lithuanians And Latvians, 1882-1941

by Vida Savoniakaite

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 Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.
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Learning Religion - Anthropological Approaches

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 As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of downloading but also as a social process with its relational dimension.
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Christianity, Colonialism And Indigenous History In French Polynesia - Advance Into Past

by Mai Misaki

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 In an increasingly modernised French Polynesian society, some Christians have been tackling contemporary social issues and repatriate traditional indigenous values . Pursuing the past in the present means grappling with ongoing existential issues as an indigenous people, such as the dismantling of the kinship community, the decline of domestic agriculture and the loss of indigenous cultural heritage. Mòhi Christians strive to reconnect with a perceived Indigenous, sacred past within a present they consider to be alienating. This book illustrates how indigenous Christians perceive social change and how their historical perceptions inform the creation of their own Christianity.
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Empire And Eduards Volters - The Ethnography Of Lithuanians And Latvians, 1882-1941

by Vida Savoniakait

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 Eduards Volters was a Latvian linguist, renowned early ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society. He studied the Lithuanians and Latvians in the Northwest Krai of the Russian Empire and Lithuania from 1882 to 1941. As Volters began his research at a time when the printing of Lithuanian and Latgalian publications in the Latin alphabet was forbidden, this book aims to uncover his role as one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.
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Understanding Social Images - Essays On Visual Methods And Teaching Anthropology

by Chihab El Khachab, David Zeitlyn e Marcus Banks

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 Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banksâ€™ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.
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Understanding Social Images - Essays On Visual Methods And Teaching Anthropology

by Chihab El Khachab, David Zeitlyn e Marcus Banks

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 Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banksâ€™ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.
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Correcting The Record - Essays On The History Of American Anthropology

by Herbert S. Lewis

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 The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who â€œextractedâ€ information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
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From Triads To Pentads - Modelling Myth And Kinship In The Work Of N.J. Allen

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 N.J. (â€˜Nickâ€™) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.
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From Triads To Pentads - Modelling Myth And Kinship In The Work Of N.J. Allen

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 N.J. (â€˜Nickâ€™) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.
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Who Are 'We'? - Reimagining Alterity And Affinity In Anthropology

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 Who do "we" anthropologists think "we" are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological "we" has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. Drawing together both reflections and ethnographic case studies, it interrogates the critical—yet poorly studied—roles played by myriad anthropological "we" as in generating and influencing anthropological theory, method, and analysis. In the process, new spaces are opened for reimagining who "we" are - and what "we," and indeed anthropology, could become.
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Radcliffe-Brown - Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

by Isak Niehaus

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 Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.
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Correcting The Record - Essays On The History Of American Anthropology

by Herbert S. Lewis

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 The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who â€œextractedâ€ information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
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An Ethnographic Chiefdom - Epistemic Arrest And Knowledge Production In Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969â€“1989)

by Nikola Balas

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 The Czechoslovak academic discipline called â€˜Ethnography and Folklore Studiesâ€™ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969â€"1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxistâ€"Leninist ideology brought about the disciplineâ€™s epistemic stalling.
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