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By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change
and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers
pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of
society. "Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term
as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences
of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace
"development" as a way of describing policies that go beyond the
concept of increasing commercial production or making monetary
profits from enterprises. By focusing on topical case histories on
agricultural activity, stock-keeping, cash cropping, mining, and
renewable energy, the authors highlight how ethnographic studies
can and should inform policy decisions at both local and global
levels. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of applied anthropology, sociology, and development
studies.
In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate
the relationship between "language in particular" and "culture in
general" by focusing on language as both social practice and a
means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional
linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their
anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and
experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for
understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to
understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived
material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on
an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and
Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European,
North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students
and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic
anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work
on how the various components of our culture are informed and
shaped through language.
More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by
government departments, companies or as observers of development
processes in their field areas generally. Although these roles can
be very gratifying, they can create ambiguous situations for the
anthropologists who find that new pressures and responsibilities
are placed upon them for which their training did not prepare them.
This volume explores some of the problems, opportunities, issues,
debates, and dilemmas surrounding these roles. The geographic focus
of the studies is Papua New Guinea, but the topic and its
importance apply widely through the world, for example, Africa,
South America, Australia, and the Pacific in general, as well as in
relation to indigenous groups in Canada and elsewhere. All the
authors have first-hand experience and they address these new
pressures and responsibilities of anthropological research. The
book's chapters are written in a way that combines scholarship with
a style accessible to general readers.
This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary
and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although
anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the
diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the
broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought
remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change,
diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the
reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in
the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with
thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of
contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both
established and more recent researchers are engaged. The companion
begins by exploring classic topics such as Religion; Rituals;
Language and Culture; Violence; and Gender. This is followed by a
focus on current developments within the discipline including Human
Rights; Globalization; and Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism. It
provides an interesting and challenging look at the state of
current thinking in anthropology, serving as a rich resource for
scholars and students alike.
Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when
interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established,
bridging over a number of humanities and social science
disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent
of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also
with history; related to science and health practices and ranging
across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to
encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals
are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive
social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they
relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due
to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find
a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one
which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to
grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together
recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from
across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in
the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power,
Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media,
and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of
a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also
engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the
relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original
synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through
the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of
scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to
developments in the future.
Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world
today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized
coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental
challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes,
warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource
exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled
healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the
cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the
landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of
geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring
Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special
reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the
stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this
volume will be of particular interest to readers working in
shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding
sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and
religious and ritual studies.
Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when
interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established,
bridging over a number of humanities and social science
disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent
of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also
with history; related to science and health practices and ranging
across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to
encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals
are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive
social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they
relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due
to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find
a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one
which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to
grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together
recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from
across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in
the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power,
Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media,
and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of
a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also
engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the
relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original
synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through
the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of
scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to
developments in the future.
Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world
today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized
coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental
challenges-cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes,
warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource
exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled
healing practitioners utilize knowledge embedded in the
cosmological grounding of place and experiences of place and the
landscapes in which such experience is encapsulated. A range of
geographic case studies are presented in this volume, exploring
Asia, Europe, the Pacific, and South America. With special
reference throughout to ritual as a mode of seeking the
stabilization, renewal, and continuity of life processes, this
volume will be of particular interest to readers working in
shamanic and healing practices, environmental concerns surrounding
sustainability and conservation, ethnomedical systems, and
religious and ritual studies.
This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of
analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela
J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis
risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between
viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced,
people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total
system approaches (-isms) and suggest that theory should relate
cogently to ethnography. Mindful anthropology, as this book
envisages it, is not a specific theory but a philosophical
aspiration for the discipline as a whole.
By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change
and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers
pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of
society. "Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term
as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences
of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace
"development" as a way of describing policies that go beyond the
concept of increasing commercial production or making monetary
profits from enterprises. By focusing on topical case histories on
agricultural activity, stock-keeping, cash cropping, mining, and
renewable energy, the authors highlight how ethnographic studies
can and should inform policy decisions at both local and global
levels. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars of applied anthropology, sociology, and development
studies.
How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded
to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have
entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century?
Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but
relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development,
these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by
redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order
to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining
features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity,
attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the
future.
"Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future" provides a new
analysis of changes in the lifeworlds of the Aluni Valley Duna
people living in a remote part of the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea. Influenced by companies mining for gold, cooper, and oil,
they have devised ingenious ways to adapt their own myths about the
cosmos in order to make claims for compensation and royalty
payments. They have also improvised their own responses to the
demands of Christian missionaries. The book expands out from this
case study, providing a comparative framework for analyzing changes
in neighboring societies and a general evaluation of work on the
politics of tradition in Pacific societies.
This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary
and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although
anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the
diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the
broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought
remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change,
diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the
reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in
the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with
thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of
contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both
established and more recent researchers are engaged. The companion
begins by exploring classic topics such as Religion; Rituals;
Language and Culture; Violence; and Gender. This is followed by a
focus on current developments within the discipline including Human
Rights; Globalization; and Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism. It
provides an interesting and challenging look at the state of
current thinking in anthropology, serving as a rich resource for
scholars and students alike.
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