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Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural
resource management produces more equitable and successful
outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co-authors, even many
"progressive" methods fail to produce truly equal partnerships.
This book offers a comprehensive and global overview of the
theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of
co-management. The authors critically evaluate the range of
management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous peoples
and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of
co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model. They provide
detailed case studies and concrete details for application in a
variety of contexts. Broad in coverage and uniting robust
theoretical insights with applied detail, this book is ideal for
scholars and students as well as for professionals in resource
management and policy.
Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural
resource management produces more equitable and successful
outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co-authors, even many
OC progressiveOCO methods fail to produce truly equal partnerships.
This book offers a comprehensive and global overview of the
theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of
co-management. The authors critically evaluate the range of
management options that claim to have integrated Indigenous peoples
and knowledge, and then outline an innovative, alternative model of
co-management, the Indigenous Stewardship Model. They provide
detailed case studies and concrete details for application in a
variety of contexts. Broad in coverage and uniting robust
theoretical insights with applied detail, this book is ideal for
scholars and students as well as for professionals in resource
management and policy.
Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that
provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing
cultural data. This compact guide explains complex topics in
straightforward and practical terms, via research examples, textual
and visual software guides, and hands-on exercises. Through each
chapter's introductory examples, the manual illustrates how
socially learned knowledge provides group members with shared
understandings of the world, which allow for mutually intelligible
interactions. The authors then carefully walk readers through the
process of eliciting those socially learned, shared, and thus
cultural representations of reality, which structure the thinking
and practice of individuals inhabiting social groups. Specifically,
the book shows how researchers can elicit such thought and behavior
via methods such as free lists, pile sorts, cultural consensus and
consonance analysis, textual analysis, and personal network
research. The book will help both undergraduate and graduate
students identify ways to unpack the "black box" of culture, which
may be absent or given only cursory attention within their training
and respective fields. The book's clear and systematic step-by-step
walkthroughs of each method will also encourage more established
researchers, educators, and practitioners-from diverse fields and
with varying levels of experience-to integrate techniques for
assessing cultural processes into their research, teaching, and
practice.
Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that
provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing
cultural data. This compact guide explains complex topics in
straightforward and practical terms, via research examples, textual
and visual software guides, and hands-on exercises. Through each
chapter's introductory examples, the manual illustrates how
socially learned knowledge provides group members with shared
understandings of the world, which allow for mutually intelligible
interactions. The authors then carefully walk readers through the
process of eliciting those socially learned, shared, and thus
cultural representations of reality, which structure the thinking
and practice of individuals inhabiting social groups. Specifically,
the book shows how researchers can elicit such thought and behavior
via methods such as free lists, pile sorts, cultural consensus and
consonance analysis, textual analysis, and personal network
research. The book will help both undergraduate and graduate
students identify ways to unpack the "black box" of culture, which
may be absent or given only cursory attention within their training
and respective fields. The book's clear and systematic step-by-step
walkthroughs of each method will also encourage more established
researchers, educators, and practitioners-from diverse fields and
with varying levels of experience-to integrate techniques for
assessing cultural processes into their research, teaching, and
practice.
Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian
state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which
semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also
subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently
contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But
focus in these studies is typically placed on the way caste is
imagined according to the agendas and desires of elite Westerners
such as colonial officials. In this book, by contrast, the author
argues that Bhats themselves understand the imaginative dimensions
of caste relations. Indeed, such insights are shown to lie at the
heart of the Bhats traditional profession of praise- and
insult-singing. Likewise, the author demonstrates how the ability
to cleverly rework and even sabotage lingering caste inequalities
continues to form the basis for Bhat claims to status and dignity
in contemporary India.
The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between
spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic
second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars
can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the Greek
ekstasis, meaning "standing outside oneself." The archaic
techniques of promoting spiritual ecstasy, which remain central to
religious healing traditions around the world, now also have
contemporary analogues in virtual worlds found on the internet. In
this innovative book, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass argues that avatars
allow for the ecstatic projection of consciousness into alternate
realities, potentially providing both the spiritually possessed and
gamers access to superior secondary identities with elevated social
standing. Even if only temporary, self-transformations of these
kinds can help reduce psychosocial stress and positively improve
health and well-being.
The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between
spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic
second selves-avatars-can play in our lives. The use of avatars can
allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the Greek
ekstasis, meaning "standing outside oneself." The archaic
techniques of promoting spiritual ecstasy, which remain central to
religious healing traditions around the world, now also have
contemporary analogues in virtual worlds found on the internet. In
this innovative book, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass argues that avatars
allow for the ecstatic projection of consciousness into alternate
realities, potentially providing both the spiritually possessed and
gamers access to superior secondary identities with elevated social
standing. Even if only temporary, self-transformations of these
kinds can help reduce psychosocial stress and positively improve
health and well-being.
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