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Baloma The Spirits Of The Dead In The Trobriand Islands
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1916
Baloma The Spirits Of The Dead In The Trobriand Islands written by Bronislaw Malinowski and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Ethnology categories.
Ways Of Baloma
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Author : Mark S. Mosko
language : en
Publisher: Hau
Release Date : 2017
Ways Of Baloma written by Mark S. Mosko and has been published by Hau this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Ethnology categories.
Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on extended fieldwork at Omarakana village--home of the Tabalu "Paramount Chief"--Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between the mirror worlds that baloma and humans inhabit. Informed by a synthesis of Strathern's model of "dividual personhood" and L vy-Bruhl's theory of "participation," Mosko upends a century of discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology's other leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of "life" (momova) and "death" (kaliga) strikes at the nexus of anthropology's received wisdom, and Ways of Baloma will inevitably lead practitioners and students to reflect anew on the discipline's multifold theories of personhood, ritual agency, and sociality.
Baloma
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Author : Bronisław Malinowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Baloma written by Bronisław Malinowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Ethnology categories.
Baloma The Spirits Of The Dead
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Baloma The Spirits Of The Dead written by Bronislaw Malinowski and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with categories.
Among the natives of Kiriwina, death is the starting point of two series of events which run almost independently of each other. Death affects the deceased individual; his soul (baloma or balom) leaves the body and goes to another world, there to lead a shadowy existence. His passing is also a matter of concern to the bereft community. Its members wail for him, mourn for him, and celebrate an endless series of feasts. These festivities consist, as a rule, in the distribution of uncooked food; while less frequently they are actual feasts in which cooked food is eaten on the spot. They center around the dead man's body, and are closely connected with the duties of mourning, wailing and sorrowing for the dead individual. But--and this is the important point for the present description--these social activities and ceremonies have no connection with the spirit. They are not performed, either to send a message of love and regret to the baloma(spirit), or to deter him from returning; they do not influence his welfare, nor do they affect his relation to the survivors. It is possible, therefore, to discuss the native beliefs in afterlife without touching the subject of mourning and mortuary ceremonies. The latter are extremely complex, and, in order to be properly described, a thorough knowledge of the native social system would be required. In this article the beliefs concerning the spirits of the dead and afterlife will be described.
Baloma
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Author : Bronislaw Malinowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-17
Baloma written by Bronislaw Malinowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-17 with categories.
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Imagining Karma
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Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-11-11
Imagining Karma written by Gananath Obeyesekere and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-11 with Religion categories.
With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Classic Anthropology
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Author : John William Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Classic Anthropology written by John William Bennett and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories.
Classic Anthropology is Bennett's label for the work produced by anthropologists during the period 1915-1955, which many believe represents the most productive era in the discipline's history. It is also one that can never be repeated, given the fact that most of anthropology's basic data - the ideas and customs of tribal peoples - have been extinguished or greatly transformed by modernization and nationalization. The book is composed of some fifteen essays. Among the issues examined are: the emergence of a functionalist viewpoint in ethnology; the difficulties of developing a theory of human behavior because of the focus on culture; the "search" for concepts of culture to serve specialized needs; the neglect of social psychology by the "culture and personality" field; how value judgments emerged, willy-nilly - or conversely, were neglected, in ethnological research; how applied anthropology was challenged by "Action Anthropology"; and how the interdisciplinary anthropology of the late 1940s was submerged in the postwar effort to return the discipline to traditionalroots. Individual anthropologists whose work is examined include, among others. Bronislaw Malinowski, Leslie Spier, Alfred Kroeber, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Clyde Kluckhohn, Gregory Bateson, and Walter Taylor.
Karma And Rebirth
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Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 2006
Karma And Rebirth written by Gananath Obeyesekere and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Karma categories.
With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.
The Trobriand Islanders Ways Of Speaking
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Author : Gunter Senft
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-07-19
The Trobriand Islanders Ways Of Speaking written by Gunter Senft and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Bronislaw Maliniowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae ... as a corpus inscriptionum, as documents of native mentality". This book finally meets Malinowski's demand. Based on more than 40 months of field research the author presents, documents and illustrates the Trobriand Islanders' own indigenous typology of text categories or genres, covering the spectrum from ditties children chant while spinning a top, to gossip, songs, tales, and myths. The typology is based on Kilivila metalinguistic terms for these genres, and considers the relationship they have with registers or varieties which are also metalinguistically distinguished by the native speakers of this language. Rooted in the 'ethnography of speaking' paradigm and in the 'anthropological linguistics/linguistic anthropology' approach, the book highlights the relevance of genres for researching the role of language, culture and cognition in social interaction, and demonstrates the importance of understanding genres for achieving linguistic and cultural competence. In addition to the data presented in the book, its readers have the opportunity to access the original audio- and video-data presented via the internet on a special website, which mirrors the structure of the book. Thus, the reader can check the transcriptions against the original data recordings. This makes the volume particularly valuable for teaching purposes in (general, Austronesian/ Oceanic, documentary, and anthropological) linguistics and ethnology.
Cultural Models In Language And Thought
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Author : Dorothy Holland
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-01-30
Cultural Models In Language And Thought written by Dorothy Holland and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.