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This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the
politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working-
and middle-class Kingston. The study is based upon the author's
observations of life in Selton Town and Vermount, two neighborhoods
of Kingston, between 1971 and 1982. The author analyses the local
social conflicts and ideologies, thereby, demonstrating how larger
issues of class domination and cultural hegemony pervade
neighbourhood life. The study provides a detailed contextual
account of the significance of belonging to different classes. It
provides a different perspective of Caribbean anthropology
combining the techniques of ethnography and political economy.
This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the
politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working-
and middle-class Kingston. The study is based upon the author's
observations of life in Selton Town and Vermount, two neighborhoods
of Kingston, between 1971 and 1982. The author analyses the local
social conflicts and ideologies, thereby, demonstrating how larger
issues of class domination and cultural hegemony pervade
neighbourhood life. The study provides a detailed contextual
account of the significance of belonging to different classes. It
provides a different perspective of Caribbean anthropology
combining the techniques of ethnography and political economy.
The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of
conversion far more complex than its customary image in
anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom
simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change
both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental
attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both
on its cultural setting and on the distinct individuals who undergo
it. The book explores religious conversion in a variety of cultural
settings and considers how anthropological approaches can help us
understand the phenomenon. Fourteen case studies span historical
and geographical contexts, including the contemporary United
States, modern and medieval Europe, and non-western societies in
South Asia, Melanesia, and South America. They discuss conversion
to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Spiritualism.
Combining ethnographic description with theoretical analysis,
authors consider the nature and meaning of conversion, its social
and political dimensions, and its relationship to individual
religious experience.
The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of
conversion far more complex than its customary image in
anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom
simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change
both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental
attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both
on its cultural setting and on the distinct individuals who undergo
it. The book explores religious conversion in a variety of cultural
settings and considers how anthropological approaches can help us
understand the phenomenon. Fourteen case studies span historical
and geographical contexts, including the contemporary United
States, modern and medieval Europe, and non-western societies in
South Asia, Melanesia, and South America. They discuss conversion
to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Spiritualism.
Combining ethnographic description with theoretical analysis,
authors consider the nature and meaning of conversion, its social
and political dimensions, and its relationship to individual
religious experience.
People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction
that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense
of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous
communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion
remains embedded in traditionalizing views of indigenous people,
and in accounts that seem to underline essential and apparently
timeless difference. In this volume the editors and contributors
assume that "the person" is socially defined and reconfigured as
contexts change, both immediate and historical. Essays in this
collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed
"remote". These indigenous communities were largely established as
residential concentrations by Australian governments, some first as
missions, most in areas that many of the indigenous people involved
consider their homelands. A number of these settlements were
located in proximity to settler industries - pastoralism,
market-gardening, and mining - locales that many non-indigenous
Australians think of as the homes of the most traditional
indigenous communities and people. The contributors discuss the
changing circumstances of indigenous people who originate from such
places, revealing a diversity of experiences and histories that
involve major dynamics of disembedding from country and home
locales, re-embedding in new contexts, and reconfigurations of
relatedness. The essays explore dimensions of change and continuity
in childhood experience and socialization in a desert community;
the influence of Christianity in fostering both individuation and
relatedness in northeast Arnhem Land; the diaspora of Central
Australian Warlpiri people to cities and the forms of life and
livelihood they make there; adolescent experiences of schooling
away from home communities; youth in kin-based heavy metal gangs
configuring new identities, and indigenous people of southeast
Australia reflecting on whether an "Aboriginal way" can be
sustained. By taking a step toward understanding the relation
between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous
Australians, the volume provides a sense of the quality and feel of
those lives.
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