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Malanggan
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Author : Susanne Küchler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-23
Malanggan written by Susanne Küchler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-23 with Social Science categories.
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003 Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Central to funerals in New Ireland, these ‘death' figures are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. Wrapped in images that are conceived of as ‘skins', they are both visually complex and intriguing. This book is the first to interpret these mysterious agents of resemblance and connection as having a cognitive rather than a linguistic basis. Found in nearly every ethnographic museum in the world, Malanggan collections have been left virtually untouched. This original study begins by tracing the history of the collections and moves on to consider the role these artefacts play in sacrifice, ritual and exchange. What is the relationship between Malanggan and memory? How can Malanggan be understood as a life force as well as a vehicle for thought? In an analysis of the cognitive aspects of Malanggan, Küchler offers a highly original conceptualization of the centrality of the knot as a mode of being, thinking and binding in the Pacific. Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice is a groundbreaking study. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork and collection research, it provides an incisive new take on one of the Pacific's classic puzzles, as well as a wealth of new information and resources for anthropologists, collectors and curators alike.
Cargo Cult As Theater
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Author : Dorothy K. Billings
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2002-05-23
Cargo Cult As Theater written by Dorothy K. Billings and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-23 with Political Science categories.
Dorothy K. Billings' unique ethnography is based on thirty-five years of anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. Cargo Cult as Theater offers anthropologists, and anyone interested in the Johnson cult, careful insight into this unlikely cultural phenomenon.
Malanggan Art Of New Ireland And Adjacent Islands
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Author : Richard Hansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Malanggan Art Of New Ireland And Adjacent Islands written by Richard Hansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Art categories.
Anthropology For Architects
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Author : Ray Lucas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Anthropology For Architects written by Ray Lucas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Architecture categories.
What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects – a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the choices that designers have to make – whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis – and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions. Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help designers to think about the social life of buildings at an appropriate scale: that of the individual life-worlds which make up the everyday lives of a building's users. Showing how anthropology offers an invaluable framework for thinking about complex, messy, real-world situations, the book argues that, ultimately, a truly anthropological architecture offers the potential for a more socially informed, engaged and sensitive architecture which responds more directly to people's needs. Based on the author's experience teaching as well as his research into anthropology by way of creative practice, this book will be directly applicable to students and researchers in architecture, landscape, urban design, and design anthropology, as well as to architectural professionals.
The Social After Gabriel Tarde
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Author : Matei Candea
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-02-25
The Social After Gabriel Tarde written by Matei Candea and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with History categories.
The social sciences and humanities are now being swept by a Tardean revival, a rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of this truly unique thinker, for whom ‘everything is a society and every science a sociology’. Tarde is being brought forward as the misrecognised forerunner of a post-Durkheimian era. Reclaimed from a century of near-oblivion, his sociology has been linked to Foucaultian microphysics of power, to Deleuze's philosophy of difference, and most recently to the spectrum of approaches related to Actor Network Theory. In this connection, Bruno Latour hailed Tarde’s sociology as "an alternative beginning for an alternative social science". This volume asks what such an alternative social science might look like.
The Changing South Pacific
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Author : Serge Tcherkézoff
language : en
Publisher: ANU E Press
Release Date : 2008-12-01
The Changing South Pacific written by Serge Tcherkézoff and has been published by ANU E Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with Social Science categories.
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of ceremonial exchanges in a market economy, and so forth. Each chapter presents a society seen from a specific point of view, but always with reference to the issue of collective identity and its confrontation with history and change. The collection thus invites the reader to understand how the inhabitants of these societies seek to affirm both an individual identity and a sense of belonging to the contemporary world. In doing so, it informs the reader about the contemporary realities experienced by the inhabitants of the South Pacific, with a view to contributing to an intercultural dialogue between the reader and these inhabitants.
Ethnographies Of Moral Reasoning
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Author : K. Sykes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-12-22
Ethnographies Of Moral Reasoning written by K. Sykes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-22 with Social Science categories.
Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism, contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age.
Beyond Aesthetics
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Author : Christopher Pinney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-25
Beyond Aesthetics written by Christopher Pinney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-25 with Social Science categories.
The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music
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Author : Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music written by Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Music categories.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set.To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932.
The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music
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Author : J.W. Love
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music written by J.W. Love and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Music categories.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.