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The Anthropology of Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 501

The Anthropology of Values

Georg Pfeffer, b. 1943, German ethnologist; contributed articles.

Subaltern Sovereigns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Subaltern Sovereigns

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems - both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Children of the Earth Goddess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Children of the Earth Goddess

The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as the real “Avatars” because they successfully fought a multinational company’s plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.

A Monograph of the Existing Crinoids
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

A Monograph of the Existing Crinoids

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1941
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Making Place through Ritual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Making Place through Ritual

Indian indigenous societies are especially known for their elaborate rituals, which offer an excellent chance for studying religion as practice. However, few detailed ethnographic works exist on the ritual practices of these societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jharkhand, India this book offers insights into contemporary, previously not described rituals of the Santal, one of the largest indigenous societies of Central India. Its focus lies on culturally specific notions of place as articulated and created during these rituals. In three chapters the book discusses how the Santal "make place" on different local, regional and global levels through their rituals: They reaffir...

Modern Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Modern Nature

In Modern Nature,Lynn K. Nyhart traces the emergence of a “biological perspective” in late nineteenth-century Germany that emphasized the dynamic relationships among organisms, and between organisms and their environment. Examining this approach to nature in light of Germany’s fraught urbanization and industrialization, as well the opportunities presented by new and reforming institutions, she argues that rapid social change drew attention to the role of social relationships and physical environments in rendering a society—and nature—whole, functional, and healthy. This quintessentially modern view of nature, Nyhart shows, stood in stark contrast to the standard naturalist’s orie...

Constructing Indian Christianities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Constructing Indian Christianities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.

Kraken and The Colossal Octopus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Kraken and The Colossal Octopus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 2003. From Part One: ‘Our ignorance of the marine world is much greater still. It is such that I do not hesitate to claim that, in the ocean, everything is still possible! Faced with the immensity of Neptune's realm, a certain degree of gullibility is preferable to blind incredulity. If it was claimed tomorrow that a real mermaid had been captured – not just an ugly manatee, but a creature boasting Marilyn Monroe's bust and the tail of a coelacanth - the attitude of the zoologist who wished to see it would be much more scientifically justifiable that that of his colleague who would merely shrug the news away. The sea covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, but our ships cross it only along rather narrow and fixed paths.’ This book looks at the science behind the stories.

Report of the ... International Geographical Congress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1142

Report of the ... International Geographical Congress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Compte-rendu du Congrès des sciences géographiques, cosmographiques et commerciales
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1140

Compte-rendu du Congrès des sciences géographiques, cosmographiques et commerciales

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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