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Sacred Possessions
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Author : Margarite Fernández Olmos
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1997
Sacred Possessions written by Margarite Fernández Olmos and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Religion categories.
For review see: Joseph M. Murphy, in HAHR : The Hispanic American Historical Review, 78, 3 (August 1998); p. 495-496.
Sacred Possessions
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Author : Gail Feigenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2011
Sacred Possessions written by Gail Feigenbaum and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
Inalienable Possessions
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Author : Annette B. Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992-05-13
Inalienable Possessions written by Annette B. Weiner 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 1992-05-13 with Social Science categories.
Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange, which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of "keeping-while-giving." The idea of keeping-while-giving places women at the heart of the political process, however much that process may vary in different societies, for women possess a wealth of their own that gives them power. Power is intimately involved in cultural reproduction, and Weiner describes the location of power in each society, showing how the degree of control over the production and distribution of cloth wealth coincides with women's rank and the development of hierarchy in the community. Other inalienable possessions, whether material objects, landed property, ancestral myths, or sacred knowledge, bestow social identity and rank as well. Calling attention to their presence in Western history, Weiner points out that her formulations are not limited to Oceania. The paradox of keeping-while-giving is a concept certain to influence future developments in ethnography and the theoretical study of gender and exchange.
The Sacred Act Of Reading
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Author : Anne Margaret Castro
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-01-13
The Sacred Act Of Reading written by Anne Margaret Castro and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spiritual practices. The Sacred Act of Reading examines religion and sociopolitical power in modern and contemporary texts of a variety of genres from the black Americas. By engaging with spiritual traditions such as Vodou, Kumina, and Protestant Christianity while drawing on canonical Eurocentric literary theory, Anne Margaret Castro presents a novel, nuanced reading of power through the physical and metaphysical relationships portrayed in these great works of New World black literature. Castro examines prophecy in the dramas of Derek Walcott, preaching in the ethnography of Zora Neale Hurston, and liturgy in the novels of Toni Morrison, offering comparative readings alongside the works of Afro-Colombian anthropologist Manuel Zapata Olivella, Jamaican sociologist Erna Brodber, and Canadian fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson. The Sacred Act of Reading is the first book to bring together literary texts, historical and contemporary anthropological studies, theology, and critical theory to show how black authors in the Americas employ spiritual phenomena as theoretical frameworks for thinking within, against, and beyond structures of political dominance, dependence, and power.
Marvelous Possessions
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Author : Stephen Greenblatt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-11-26
Marvelous Possessions written by Stephen Greenblatt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-26 with History categories.
Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to the breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigne—and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ages—wonder is a sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference. Marvelous Possession is not only a collection of the odd and exotic through which Stephen Greenblatt powerfully conveys a sense of the marvelous, but also a highly original extension of his thinking on a subject that has occupied him throughout his career. The book reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned? "A marvellous book. It is also a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"—Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement "By far the most intellectually gripping and penetrating discussion of the relationship between intruders and natives is provided by Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions."—Simon Schama, The New Republic "For the most engaging and illuminating perspective of all, read Marvelous Possessions."—Laura Shapiro, Newsweek
Pueblo Indian Religion
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Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1939-01-01
Pueblo Indian Religion written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939-01-01 with Religion categories.
The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life.
Talk Text And Technology
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Author : Inge Kral
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Talk Text And Technology written by Inge Kral and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This study traces one Indigenous group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in the 1930s to the recent arrival of digital literacies and new media. This innovative work examines changing social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
The Routledge Companion To Identity And Consumption
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Author : Ayalla Ruvio
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
The Routledge Companion To Identity And Consumption written by Ayalla Ruvio and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.
The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption introduces the reader to state-of-the-art research, written by the world's leading scholars regarding the interplay between identity and consumption. With chapters discussing the theory, research and practical implications of the relationships between identity and consumption, including, for example the way they change across our life span, this book will be a valuable reference source for students and academics from a variety of disciplines.
Consumption And Spirituality
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Author : Diego Rinallo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Consumption And Spirituality written by Diego Rinallo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Business & Economics categories.
This book sheds light on the consumption of spiritual products, services, experiences, and places through state-of-the-art studies by leading and emerging scholars in interpretive consumer research, marketing, sociology, anthropology, cultural, and religious studies. The collection brings together fresh views and scholarship on a cultural tension that is at the centre of the lives of countless individuals living in postmodern societies: the relationship between the material and the spiritual, the sacred and the profane. The book examines how a variety of agents – religious institutions, spiritual leaders, marketers and consumers – interact and co-create spiritual meanings in a post-disenchanted society that has been defined as a ‘supermarket of the soul.’ Consumption and Spirituality examines not only religious organizations, but also brands and marketers and the way they infuse their products, services and experiences with spiritual meanings that flow freely in the circuit of culture and can be appropriated by consumers even without purchase acts. From a consumer perspective, the book investigates how spiritual beliefs, practices, and experiences are now embedded into a global consumer culture. Rather than condemning consumption, the chapters in this book highlight consumers’ agency and the creative processes through which authentic spiritual meanings are co-created from a variety of sources, local and global, and sacred and profane alike.
The Heath Anthology Of American Literature Colonial Period To 1800
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Author : Paul Lauter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Heath Anthology Of American Literature Colonial Period To 1800 written by Paul Lauter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with American literature categories.
Since its first edition, 'The Heath Anthology of American Literature' has enabled instructors to draw comparisons between classic authors and recently discovered writers.