- Feb 2018
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www.jstor.org.ucc.idm.oclc.org www.jstor.org.ucc.idm.oclc.org
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ecognizable to the Western scholar, one might conclude that what the Beats practiced was spirituality (a messy, individualistic affair of no relevance to students of religion) rather than a properly Durkheimian religion (which requires overt signs
Again, some theoretical/anthropological background considering distinctions between spirituality and religion would be useful, although it would admittedly take much space.
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s such: "If we look at this enormous literature, claiming a disputed canonical authenticity, what we find in reality is a shifting mass of teachings with little or no central core, many of which are incompatible with each other and within which we can sometimes detect mutual criticism
This seems to be a good source as concerns Buddhism and its evasion, in its doctrine itself, of more "Western" notions of religion.
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"Religion" is not a native category. It is not a first person term of self-charac- terization. It is a category imposed from the outside on some aspect of native culture. It is the other, in these instances colonialists, who are solely respon- sible for the content of the term. -Smith 1998: 269
Again, this would be interesting to include when considering more anthropological notions. The writer here seems to be Jonathan Z. Smith, an American historian of religion (contemporary: he died las year). This could be an interesting essay by him on the topic of religions (quote comes from here): http://www.iupui.edu/~womrel/Rel433%20Readings/SearchableTextFiles/Smith_ReligionReligionsReligious.pdf.
This would support my view of religion as applied to the Beats.
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y learned elites rather than practitioners, and a Durkheimian assumption that religion is somehow at its most genuine when it is organized into church or sect rather than personal or familial in form (a "societal" element that somehow distinguishes "religion" from other categories such as "magic" and "spiritu- a
This could be very interesting and useful to my argument. In fact, if I want to make a point about Beat "embodiment" of their philosophy and literature, I might consider some anthropological notions which go back to performance and embodiment of abstract things by figures such as the shaman or the fool. Including anthropology (in this case anthropologist Durkheim) in ways which would oppose my thesis could be interesting as well, especially if I illustrate how this has been done by other scholars.
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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This is their ‘afterlife’!” They successfully transmitted some essence of their life to a world far beyond their own.
This is a very interesting way to think about it. Maybe we need to make sure we leave similar such traces behind.
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- Jan 2018
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www.inverse.com www.inverse.com
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While we are the only hominids to walk the Earth today, this year genomic evidence proved that the DNA of some people contains traces of Paleolithic trysts between humans and other Homo species, like the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.
The Denisovans? Never heard of them...
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- Oct 2017
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sk.sagepub.com sk.sagepub.com
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Geertz argued that the old functional, positivist, behavioral, and totalizing approaches to the human disciplines were giving way to a more pluralistic, interpretive, and open-ended perspective. This [Page 315]new perspective took cultural representations and their meanings as its point of departure. Calling for “thick descriptions” of particular events, rituals, and customs, Geertz suggested that all anthropological writings were interpretations of interpretations.
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- Sep 2016
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lawrenceacademy-my.sharepoint.com lawrenceacademy-my.sharepoint.com
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Ethnographic fieldwork is the hallmark of cultural anthropology
- Ethnographic fieldwork is the greeting card to cultural anthropology
- Cultural anthropology is when someone goes to another community and studying the culture
- ethnographic fieldwork is the work of describing a culture and the fieldwork is what they learn from the people rather than just studying them
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anthropologist goes to where peo-ple live and “does fieldwork.”
- Anthropologists go to where people live and by fieldwork it participates in activities, asks questions, watches ceremonies, etc.
- activities often obscures the nature the of most important task of doing ethnography
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- Sep 2015
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cms.whittier.edu cms.whittier.edu
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Ritual performances may also be viewed as the principal mechanism by which meaning in the built environment is activated (175) or as the key to investing domestic spaces with meaning and transforming their meaning
Can what we build come alive through ritual performances?
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schepers.cc schepers.cc
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historical political boundaries of the native Americans
We view the world in these simplified 2D representations of clearcut political entities. Fredrik Barth and Benedict Anderson have said quite a few important things about these issues of maps and boundaries.
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