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The Anthropology of Climate Change
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change guided by a critical political ecological framework. It argues that anthropologists must significantly expand their focus on climate change and their contributions to responding to climate change as a grave risk to humanity. The book presents a human socioecological framework for conceptualizing climate change. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change; reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change; and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in th...
Negotiating Personal Autonomy
Negotiating Personal Autonomy offers a detailed ethnographic examination of personal autonomy and social life in East Greenland. Examining verbal and non-verbal communication in interpersonal encounters, Elixhauser argues that social life in the region is characterized by relationships based upon a particular care to respect other people’s personal autonomy. Exploring this high valuation of personal autonomy, she asserts that a person in East Greenland is a highly permeable entity that is neither bounded by the body nor even necessarily human. In so doing, she also puts forward a new approach to the anthropological study of communication. An important addition to the corpus of ethnographic literature about the people of East Greenland, Elixhauser‘s work will be of interest to scholars of the Arctic and the North, Greenland, social and cultural anthropology, and human geography. Her conclusion that, in East Greenland, the ‘inner’ self cannot be separated from the ‘public’ persona will also be of interest to scholars working on the self across the humanities and social sciences.
Integrating Strangers in Society
This book provides a uniquely positioned contribution to the current debates on the integration of immigrants in Europe. Twelve social anthropologists—“strangers by vocation”—reflect upon how they were taken in by those they studied over the course of their long-term fieldwork. The societies concerned are Sinti (northern Italy), Inuit (Canadian Arctic), Kanak (New Caledonia), Māori (New Zealand), Lanten (Laos), Tobelo and Tanebar-Evav (Indonesia), Banyoro (Uganda), Gawigl and Siassi (Papua New Guinea) and a township in Odisha (India). A comparative analysis of these reflexive, ethnographic accounts reveals as yet underrepresented, non-European perspectives on the issue of integrating strangers, enabling the reader to identify and reflect upon the uniquely Western ideals and values that currently dominate such discourse.
Water in North American Environmental History
Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and United States history. Water has served a myriad of purposes historically as human sustenance, agricultural irrigation, sanitation, fire protection, military defense, power generation, transportation, and much more. Water and its uses provide an excellent entrée into the study of humans and the environment, not only because water is a vital resource for life, but also because water as a medium is so intimately woven into the everyday experiences of humans and into society’s economic, political, and social fabric. A North American p...
Green green grass
Preface Working on an interpretation of the story of The Feeding of the Five Thousand in Marks gospel, I penciled down some ideas. When I reached the words green grass, I put my pencil down and leaned back. A gentle breeze blew away task and desk. The fresh meadow scent of an early summer eve caressed my nose and a friendly voice said, Come, sit down and eat with us. Before me, a small group of people picnicked on a blanket in lush grass, serving one another crispy bread and fried fish, peaches and all kinds of other delicacies. We all ate heartily and there was so much leftover that it would not fit into the original picnic basket! How could this be? I laid down on the blanket, blinked into...
Cree and Christian
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2023 Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing Cree and Christian develops and applies new ethnographic approaches for understanding the reception and indigenization of Christianity, particularly through an examination of Pentecostalism in northern Alberta. Clinton N. Westman draws on historical records and his own long-term ethnographic research in Cree communities to explore questions of historical change, cultural continuity, linguistic practices in ritual, and the degree to which Indigenous identity is implicated by Pentecostal commitments. Such complexity calls for constant negotiation and improvisation, key elements of Pent...
Papers of the Fortieth Algonquian Conference
The papers of the Algonquian Conference have long served as the primary source of peer-reviewed scholarship addressing topics related to the languages and societies of Algonquian peoples. Contributions, which are peer-reviewed submissions presented at the annual conference, represent an assortment of humanities and social science disciplines, including archeology, cultural anthropology, history, ethnohistory, linguistics, literary studies, Native studies, social work, film, and countless others. Both theoretical and descriptive approaches are welcomed, and submissions often provide previously unpublished data from historical and contemporary sources, or novel theoretical insights based on fi...
Community at Play
This study shows, by examining ways of social and religious life in a modern Inuit community and the annual ten days of Christmas festival, that after more than 100 years of being Christians and about 50 years after moving from nomadic hunting camps to mo
Und in allem Gott
Und in Allem: Gott. Mit diesen Worten schließt der Zwischenruf von Pfarrer Eckhardt Loer vom 9. September 2000. Dies ist meines Erachtens eine gute Überschrift für diese Auswahl von Zwischenrufen, die zwischen 2000 und 2013 in den Samstagsausgaben des Stadtspiegel Bochum erschienen sind. Mitglieder der christlichen Kirchen sowie der jüdischen und muslimischen Gemeinden in Bochum - Theologinnen und Theologen wie auch sogenannte Laien - haben ihre Gedanken über Gott und die Welt zu Papier und in die Herzen vieler Bochumerinnen und Bochumer gebracht. Vielen sind die Zwischenrufe immer noch ein Begriff, sie erinnern sich gern an sie. Die Texte sprechen in den Lebensalltag hinein. Sie bezieh...
