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  • Persons of Courage and Renown

    Tuareg Actors, Acting, Plays, and Cultural Memory in Northern Mali

    par Susan Rasmussen ...
    Persons of Courage and Renown is a theoretically engaged ethnography by a social/cultural anthropologist that explores issues of culture, memory, creativity, and power by analyzing beloved, yet vulnerable, actors, acting, and play performances in Tamajaq-speaking, predominantly Muslim, traditionally stratified, and semi-nomadic Tuareg communities in northern Mali. The town and region of Kidal are ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

  • Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes

    Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond

    par Susan Rasmussen ...
    This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and in stratified but ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

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  • The Forest People

    par Colin Turnbull ...
    The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist’s incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and love of life.In this bestselling book, Colin Turnbull, a British cultural anthropologist, details the incredible Mbuti pygmy people and their love of the forest, and each other. Turnbull lived among the Mbuti people for three years ... En savoir plus

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  • Black Atlantic Religion

    Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

    par J. Lorand Matory ...
    Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African ... En savoir plus

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  • A Year in White

    Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States

    par C. Lynn Carr ...
    In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices—called iyawo—endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent this initiation ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Price of Freedom Denied

    Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    par Brian J. Grim, Roger Finke ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Gurindji Journey

    A Japanese Historian in the Outback

    par Minoru Hokari ...
    After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of ... En savoir plus

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  • Spirited Things

    The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions

    Modifié par Paul Christopher Johnson ...
    The word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher ... En savoir plus

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  • Dancing with the Gods

    Essays in Ga Ritual

    par Marion Kilson ...
    Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas ... En savoir plus

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  • London Youth, Religion, and Politics

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    For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but also by other fervent new arrivals such as Pentecostal Christians. London Youth, Religion, and Politics focuses on young adults of ... En savoir plus

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  • Theocratic Democracy

    The Social Construction of Religious and Secular Extremism

    par Nachman Ben-Yehuda ...
    The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state. Ever since, the tension between the two has been a central political, social, and moral issue in Israel, resulting in a cultural conflict between secular Jews and the fundamentalist, ultra-orthodox Haredi community. What is the nature of this cultural conflict and how is it ... En savoir plus

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