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Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America: A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South America
written by Dwight B. Heath (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2002, originally published 1965), 540 page(s)
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written by Dwight B. Heath (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2002, originally published 1965), 540 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Dwight B. Heath
Author / Creator
Dwight B. Heath
Date Published / Released
1965, 2002
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
Cultural change and history, Civilization, Anthropology, South Americans
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Copyright © 2002 by Waveland Press
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Occasions of Faith: An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
edited by Lawrence J. Taylor, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, originally published 1995), 301 page(s)
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edited by Lawrence J. Taylor, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995, originally published 1995), 301 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Lawrence J. Taylor
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Topic / Theme
Irish, Religious communities, Religious life, Catholicism, Priests, Churches, Field work for anthropology, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1995 by University of Pennsylvania Press
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Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
written by Kirin Narayan, 1959-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 299 page(s)
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written by Kirin Narayan, 1959-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 299 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Kirin Narayan, 1959-
Author / Creator
Kirin Narayan, 1959-
Date Published / Released
1989
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Topic / Theme
Hindu, Social customs, Saints, Religious practices, Folklore, Hinduism, Ethnography, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1989 by University of Pennsylvania Press
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Disappearing World, War of the Gods
directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by Brian Moser, fl. 1960, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971), 1 hour 7 mins
While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the M...
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directed by Brian Moser, fl. 1960; produced by Brian Moser, fl. 1960, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1971), 1 hour 7 mins
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While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering, and the sedentary Barasana, who live mainly by farming. The film contrasts the belief sy...
While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering, and the sedentary Barasana, who live mainly by farming. The film contrasts the belief systems and way of life of the Indians, presented by the anthropologists who worked and lived with them, with those of Protestant and Catholic missionaries. The Protestants, North American Fundamentalists from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, are said to have used their organisation as a cover in order to be allowed to work with the Indians, because open Protestant missionary activity would not have been acceptable to the authorities. No attempt is made to gloss over the complexities of contact between Whites and Indians: the Barasana themselves want change, and the missionaries' influence is undoubtedly more beneficial to the Indians than that of rubber gatherers. Included in this film is an interview — using voice-over — with a Maku shaman, and there are scenes from the Barasana moloka, the communal house which is a centre of social and domestic activity. The climax of the film is a contrasting look at a church service at the S.I.L. headquarters, a Barasana ritual dance (accompanied by the ritual use of the hallucinogen yage), and a Mass at the Catholic mission attended by some of the Indians who took part in the ritual dance. Some missionaries who have seen this film consider that its editing is unfair to the S.I.L., but the head of another important missionary organisation has said that it should be screened during missionary training courses.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
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Christine Hugh-Jones, fl. 1971, Stephen Hugh-Jones, 1945-, Peter Silverwood-Cope, fl. 1971, Brian Moser, fl. 1960
Author / Creator
Brian Moser, fl. 1960, Christine Hugh-Jones, fl. 1971, Stephen Hugh-Jones, 1945-, Peter Silverwood-Cope, fl. 1971
Date Published / Released
1971
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Disappearing World
Topic / Theme
Colombian, Cultural change and history, Religious beliefs, Missionaries, American Indians, English
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1971 by the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Disappearing World, Umbanda
directed by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977; produced by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1977), 53 mins
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, Umbanda flourishes in the heterogeneous culture of contemporary urban Brazil. The film somewhat ambitiously seeks to give...
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directed by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977; produced by Stephen Cross, fl. 1977, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1977), 53 mins
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Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, Umbanda flourishes in the heterogeneous culture of contemporary urban Brazil. The film somewhat ambitiously seeks to give an exposition of the eclectic repertoire of the Umbanda movement. There is lengthy coverage of ritual performances, including intervie...
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, Umbanda flourishes in the heterogeneous culture of contemporary urban Brazil. The film somewhat ambitiously seeks to give an exposition of the eclectic repertoire of the Umbanda movement. There is lengthy coverage of ritual performances, including interviews with mediums and their clients, which emphasise the role the movement plays in the management of personal malaise and affliction experienced as a by-product of change and urbanisation. The concluding sequences of the Sea Goddess, Yemenya – identified with the Virgin Mary – show the annual Umbanda festival where half a million participants from all over the country assemble on the beaches of Säo Paulo. The film's strength lies in its graphic footage of spiritual possession and healing but it has been criticised for not providing a fuller account of the functioning of Umbanda groups, and the movement's articulation with the political authorities in Brazil.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Peter Fry, 1941-, Stephen Cross, fl. 1977
Author / Creator
Stephen Cross, fl. 1977, Peter Fry, 1941-
Date Published / Released
1977
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Disappearing World
Topic / Theme
Brazilian, Mediums, Religious beliefs, Brazilian people, Jews
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1977 by the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Feast: Why Humans Share Food
written by Martin Jones, 1940- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 379 page(s)
The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evid...
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written by Martin Jones, 1940- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 379 page(s)
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The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evidence to illuminate how prehistoric humans first came to share food and to trace the ways in which the human meal has shaped our cultura...
The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evidence to illuminate how prehistoric humans first came to share food and to trace the ways in which the human meal has shaped our cultural evolution. Jones shows that by studying the activities of our closest animal relative, the chimpanzee, and by unearthing ancient hearths, some more than 30,000 years old, scientists have been able to piece together a picture of how our ancient ancestors found, killed, cooked, and divided food. In sites uncovered all over the world, fragments of bone, remnants of charred food, pieces of stone or clay serving vessels, and the outlines of ancient halls tell the story of how we slowly developed the complex traditions of eating we recognize in our own societies today. Jones takes us on a tour of the most fascinating sites and artifacts that have been discovered, and shows us how archeologists have made many fascinating discoveries. In addition, he traces the rise of such recent phenomena as biscuits, 'going out to eat,' and the Thanksgiving-themed TV dinner. From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its profound impact on human society.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Martin Jones, 1940-
Author / Creator
Martin Jones, 1940-
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Diet and food, Apes, Cooking, Seasons, Humans and human ancestors, Food habits, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 by Martin Jones
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The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization
written by Alice Beck Kehoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2006, originally published 2006), 212 page(s)
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written by Alice Beck Kehoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2006, originally published 2006), 212 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Alice Beck Kehoe
Author / Creator
Alice Beck Kehoe
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
American Indian, American Indians, Religion, Dances, Historic research for anthropology, Death, Religious practices
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2006 by Waveland Press
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Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands
written by Jackie Sillito and Paul Sillitoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2009, originally published 2009), 212 page(s)
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written by Jackie Sillito and Paul Sillitoe (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2009, originally published 2009), 212 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Jackie Sillito, Paul Sillitoe
Author / Creator
Jackie Sillito, Paul Sillitoe
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
New Guinean, Spirituality, Biographies, Sociology, Cultural views, Indonesians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 by Waveland Press
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Himalaya, a Path to the Sky
directed by Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008; produced by Manuel Catteau, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2008), 53 mins
Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Buddhist monk and lives in the Phukthal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan mountains of Zanskar. Kenrap chose his life away from his family: when he was five, he remembered he was the reincarnation of a 68 year-old monk, and then decided to return to the monastery where he b...
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directed by Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008; produced by Manuel Catteau, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2008), 53 mins
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Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Buddhist monk and lives in the Phukthal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan mountains of Zanskar. Kenrap chose his life away from his family: when he was five, he remembered he was the reincarnation of a 68 year-old monk, and then decided to return to the monastery where he belonged. Filmed from the point of view of a subjective camera by a young ethnologist, Path to the Sky follows this attaching little mon...
Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Buddhist monk and lives in the Phukthal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan mountains of Zanskar. Kenrap chose his life away from his family: when he was five, he remembered he was the reincarnation of a 68 year-old monk, and then decided to return to the monastery where he belonged. Filmed from the point of view of a subjective camera by a young ethnologist, Path to the Sky follows this attaching little monk with whom we share moments of intimacy, and gives us a rare glance at Buddhist monastic life.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008, Manuel Catteau, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Marianne Chaud, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
ZED (Film production)
Topic / Theme
Tibetan, Spiritual guidance, Afterlife, Youth, Monasteries, Monks, Buddhism, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of ZED.
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Holy Hustlers
directed by Richard Werbner, 1937- (Manchester, England: International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, 2009), 53 mins
Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana's capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations divide Eloyi's village-based archbishop and his son, the city-based bishop. The church itself, seen to be 'under...
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directed by Richard Werbner, 1937- (Manchester, England: International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, 2009), 53 mins
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Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana's capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations divide Eloyi's village-based archbishop and his son, the city-based bishop. The church itself, seen to be 'under destruction', splits.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Richard Werbner, 1937-
Author / Creator
Richard Werbner, 1937-
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research
Topic / Theme
Batswana, Spiritual leaders, Churches, Pentecostalism, In-group conflicts, Clergy, Faith healing, Ethnography, Tswana
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research.
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