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The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R8,131 Discovery Miles 81 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Breaking the Frames - Anthropological Conundrums (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern Breaking the Frames - Anthropological Conundrums (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R1,589 Discovery Miles 15 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Dealing with Disasters - Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Diana Riboli, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew... Dealing with Disasters - Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Diana Riboli, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern, Davide Torri
R2,796 Discovery Miles 27 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity - Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Paperback): Pamela J. Stewart,... Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity - Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Paperback)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Language and Culture in Dialogue (Paperback): Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart Language and Culture in Dialogue (Paperback)
Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Anthropology and Consultancy - Issues and Debates (Paperback): Pamela Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern Anthropology and Consultancy - Issues and Debates (Paperback)
Pamela Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (Paperback): Pamela J. Stewart The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (Paperback)
Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew J. Strathern
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R8,101 Discovery Miles 81 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Dealing with Disasters - Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Diana Riboli, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew... Dealing with Disasters - Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Diana Riboli, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern, Davide Torri
R2,772 Discovery Miles 27 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity - Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Hardcover): Pamela J. Stewart,... Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity - Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices (Hardcover)
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original... Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)
Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart
R1,291 R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Save R262 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, 2004 ed.): Andrew J. Strathern,... Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart
R1,046 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R203 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (Hardcover, New Ed): Pamela J. Stewart The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (Hardcover, New Ed)
Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew J. Strathern
R6,321 Discovery Miles 63 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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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