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Dunbar’s Number (Hardcover)
David Shankland; Contributions by Robin Dunbar, Simon Dein, Clive Gamble, Esther Goody, …
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Dunbar’s Number, as the limit on the size of both social groups
and personal social networks, has achieved something close to
iconic status and is one of the most influential concepts to have
emerged out of anthropology in the last quarter century. It is
widely cited throughout the social sciences,archaeology, psychology
and network science,and its reverberations have been felt as far
afield as the worlds of business organization and social-networking
sites, whose design it has come to underpin.Named after its
originator, Robin Dunbar, whose career has spanned biological
anthropology, zoology and evolutionary psychology, it stands
testament to the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to
human behaviour. In this collection Dunbar joins authors from a
wide range of disciplines to explore Dunbar’s Number’s
conceptual origins, as well as the evidence supporting it, and to
reflect on its wider implications in archaeology, social
anthropology and medicine.
In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no
successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was
Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption.
After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While
some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected
as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed.
The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been
Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as
such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data
obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book
presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism
and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with 'belief'
and 'dissonance' to examine the role of rhetoric, religious
experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions.
Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and
messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive
perspective for examining messianism generally
In 1994 the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson, died leaving no
successor. For many years his followers had maintained that he was
Moshiach -the Jewish Messiah and would usher in the Redemption.
After his death Lubavitch divided into two opposing groups. While
some messianists hold that the Rebbe died but is to be resurrected
as the messiah, others hold that he is still alive, but concealed.
The anti-messianists maintain that the Rebbe could have been
Moshiach if God had willed it, but they disagree vehemently that as
such he could come back from the dead. Using ethnographic data
obtained by the author through twenty years of fieldwork, this book
presents a social-psychological account of Lubavitcher Messianism
and moves beyond the typical scholarly preoccupation with belief
and dissonance to examine the role of rhetoric, religious
experience and ritual in maintaining counterintuitive convictions.
Through examining the parallels between early Christianity and
messianism in Lubavitch this book provides a comprehensive
perspective for examining messianism generally.
Written predominantly for those working in the mental health
services, this book aims to extend the theory and practice of
psychiatry. The chapters explore the culture of psychiatry as well
as seeking to reaffirm the importance of anthropology for
understanding psychiatric practice and psychological disorders in
both socio-historical and individual contexts. The development and
use of psychiatric diagnostic categories, the nature of expressed
emotion within cross-cultural contexts and the religious context of
perceptions of pathological behaviour are all refracted through an
anthropological perspective. The second part of this book focuses
clinical applications.
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