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Virginialee Webb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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foreign bodies performance art and Symbolic Anthropology
Museum Anthropology, 1993Co-Authors: Virginialee WebbAbstract:Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology, A. David Napier. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 223 pp., 47 b/w Illustrations,. color plates. $35.00 (cloth).
David A Napier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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foreign bodies performance art and Symbolic Anthropology
1992Co-Authors: David A NapierAbstract:An understanding of what is foreign is typically based on a radical differentiation between the self and that which we call the "other". In five wide-ranging essays, Napier examines a different process. He explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of one's cultural identity rather than as something outside of it. Preclassical Greece, Baroque Italy and Western post-modernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the Symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine. In each instance, Napier argues that assimilation is most successful when a culture is confident enough about itself to engage its core cultural images in a Symbolic dialogue with those foreign images it perceives as most alien.
Fadwa El Guindi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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shared knowledge embodied structure mediated process the case of the zapotec of oaxaca
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2006Co-Authors: Fadwa El GuindiAbstract:Shared Knowledge, Embodied Structure, Mediated Process The Case of the Zapotec of Oaxaca Fadwa El Guindi (elguindi@usc.edu) Department of Social Sciences, University of Qatar Doha, Qatar Long-term Field-based Data References Analysis of primary data gathered from intensive fieldwork among the Zapotec of Mexico (El Guindi 1986, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1977a, 1977b, 1973; El Guindi & Read 1979a, 1979b; El Guindi & Selby 1976) suggest that implicit knowledge underlies culture and shapes structure. Formal models of analysis are formulated to reveal the structuring process manifested in cultural activities. To demonstrate, this presentation explores aspects of the Zapotec wedding ceremony in which live turkeys and raw food gifts are literally waltzed with in musical processions around the village for ceremonial delivery and reciprocal exchange of gifts to specific kin, drawing the boundary of social and cultural geography and kin universe. Kin categorizations are fluidly defined and redefined in dynamic transformations but within specific paramaters (Fig 1). Embedded shared knowledge is revealed in imaginative cultural manifestations. El Guindi, F. (1986). The Myth of Ritual: A Native's Ethnography of Zapotec Life-Crisis Rituals. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press. El Guindi, F. (1983). Some Methodological Considerations for Ethnography: Concrete Fieldwork Illustrations. In J. Oosten & A. de Ruijter (Eds.). The Future of Structuralism. Germany: Edition Herodot. El Guindi, F. (1982).. Internal and External Constraints on Structure. In I. Rossi (Ed.). The Logic of Culture: Advances in Structural Theory and Methods. New York: J. F. Bergin Pubs., Inc. El Guindi, F. (1981). Some Methodological Uses of Structural Analysis for Ethnography: Concrete Fieldwork Illustrations. In Proceedings of the Symposium 'The Future of Structuralism'. IUAES Intercongress, April 23- 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. El Guindi, F. (1977a). Lore and Structure: Todos Santos in the Zapotec System. Journal of Latin American Lore 3(1), El Guindi, F. (1977b). The Structural Correlates of Power in Ritual. In R. Fogelson & R. N. Adams, (Eds.). The Anthropology of Power. New York: Academic Press. El Guindi, F. (1973). The Internal Structure of the Zapotec Conceptual System. Journal of Symbolic Anthropology l (l): 15-34. El Guindi, F. & Read, D. (1979a). Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology 20(4): 761- El Guindi, F. & Read, D. (1979b). Reply to Comments on Mathematics in Structural Theory. Current Anthropology El Guindi, F. & Selby, H. (1976). Dialectics in Zapotec Thinking. In K. Basso & H. A. Selby, (Eds.). Meaning in Anthropology. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. Some Conclusions Underlying culture is coherent web of shared knowledge about all aspects of life. Culture domains (sacred, secular, spatial, political, social and religious, life and death) are linked into a whole. Process of structuring & restructuring creatively occurs within and across social-cultural domains. Whole knowledge is mastered by a few in the culture (the scientists of the group). Implicit knowledge is concretely (explicitly) manifested in beliefs & ritual practices (both are same level). Anthropologist constructs analytic formulations to reveal it in analysis. Figure 1 Complex Transformationality of Kin
David M - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE LITERARY TURN IN CONTEMPORAR Y Anthropology* Review Article
2016Co-Authors: Bob Scholte, David S. Kemnitzer, David MAbstract:hesitates to enumerate recent ’classics’, representative ’readers’, or crucial journals in contemporary Anthropology. The risk of intellectual-historical reification or self-serving historiography is simply too great, the more so since the recent past is still so very near. Besides, almost every living anthropologist is an interested party to his or her own favorite mouvement, scientific tradition, intellectual style, etc. including their attendant textbooks, readers, classics and journals. Hence the specific choices one makes are likely to reveal current preoccupations and personal prejudgements rather than judicious disciplinary judgements or sedimented historical evaluations. Still, in order to review Writing Culture with a certain intellectual historical depth and philosophical sophistication, I am going to have to make provisional choices and I shall. I would argue that the recent history of Anglo-American cultural Anthropology (and I shall limit myself to that traditon) is largely defined by at least three interrelated mouvements. There is firstly, critical Anthropology. Its representative reader is Dell Hymes ’ Reinventing Anthropology ( 1974); a recent classic is Eric Wolf s Europe and the People without History (1982); its most prominent journals are Critique of Anthropology and Dialectical Anthropology. Secondly, there is feminist Anthropology. A representative reader is Rayna Reiter’s (now Rapp) Towards an Anthropology of Women ( 1975); a recent classic is Marjorie Shostak’s Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman (1981); an important journal is Signs. Lastly, there is Symbolic Anthropology.
Chen Y - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a study on tujia nuo from the perspective of Symbolic Anthropology
Journal of Huaihua University, 2009Co-Authors: Chen YAbstract:This paper analyses the ritual of Tujia Nuo from the perspective of Symbolic Anthropology and explains metaphor and symbol on the basis of the internal structure of the ritual.The content involves the nature of ritual space,the intrinsic characteristics of the conversion in the process of ritual and certain aspects of ideology,which contain rich cultural connotation in the Tujia Nuo.
