A discussion forum for the anthropologists amongst us.
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Sonia Silva deposited Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoIn Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how the Angolan refugees living in Zambia during the Angolan civil war used their divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. To many people, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of small articles drawn in…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Vidas em Jogo: Cestas de Adivinhacao e Refugiados Angolanos na Zambia in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoAs cestas de adivinhação de Angola, da Zâmbia e da República Democrática do Congo tornaram-se mundialmente conhecidas pelo seu fascinante conteúdo: várias dezenas de peças imbuídas de simbolismo. Vidas em Jogo apresenta este simbolismo em acção. As cestas de adivinhação, transformadas em oráculos, são entendidas pelos seus utilizadores c…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Remarks on Similarity in Ritual Classification: Affliction, Divination, and Object Animation in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agon her article, Silva considers the significance of similarity and polythetic classification in ritual practice and ritual theory. Inspired by Wittgenstein’s concept of family resemblances and his descriptive method, and building on the work of R. Grimes, R. Needham, and, J. Z. Smith, Silva bring out the similarities among three different types o…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Mind, Body and Spirit in Basket Divination: An Integrative Way of Knowing in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThe statements of researchers on the topic of basket divination and the statements of basket diviners in northwest Zambia, Africa, do not fully agree. While researchers rightly stress the importance of observation, analysis and interpretation in basket divination, going so far as to describe diviners as scientists, they fail to recognize that…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Object and Objectivity in Divination in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoIn this article, the author explores basket divination, a technique found in Zambia and neighboring countries, as a form of material religion. Mores specifically, the author shows that in basket divination the idea of objectivity (objective knowledge) is directly associated with the materiality of the oracle used for divining. In the Luvale…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Witchcraft and the Gift: Killing and Healing in Northwest Zambia in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThis chapter on witchcraft in northwest Zambia shows that forms of asking and giving may be deployed to suspend suspicion about the motives of others, even as they possess the potential to kill. When a woman asks a witch for a gift of salt to flavor her food, the witch feigns generosity but forces that woman to join the coven in recompense. In…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Political Evil: Witchcraft from the Perspective of the Bewitched in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoInstead of asking what evil is, let us see where evil takes us. Based on many conversations on the topic of witchcraft in northwest Zambia, Africa—conversations in which witchcraft is presented from the perspective of the bewitched—the concept of evil takes us to a ghastly realm of destruction and transfiguration where the discourse of mor…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoSamuzala lived through colonialism in Angola, the liberation war, the civil war that followed independence, forced displacement to Zambia, and a landmine accident resulting in amputation. At different points in his life, Samuzala was a trader, a migrant, a refugee, and an amputee. In engaging with Samuzala’s life story, a narrative of movement, w…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Reification and Fetishism: Processes of Transformation in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoReification, fetishism, alienation, mastery, and control – these are some of the key concepts of modernity that have been battered and beaten by postmoderns and nonmoderns alike, with Bruno Latour, a nonmodern, discarding them most recently. Critical of this approach, which creates a rift between moderns and nonmoderns, the author engages in d…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoBased on a case study, the paper analyses the possibilities of social media as a tool for science communication in the context of information and communication technology (ICT) usage in archaeology. Aside from discussing the characteristics of digital archaeology, the social networking sites (SNS) Twitter, Sketchfab, and ResearchGate are…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited The politics of diaspora and the morality of secularism: Muslim identities and Islamic authority in Mauritius in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 weeks agoPrevious work on inter-ethnic coexistence in Mauritius has portrayed secularism as the only possible site of the national, which is at the same time described as clearly separated from religious traditions. In contrast, focusing on understandings of secularism among Mauritian Muslims in the context of a politics of diasporic ‘ancestral c…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited From Language to Religion in Mauritian Nation-Building in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month agoIn its strategy of postcolonial nation-building with a highly diverse population Mauritius has opted for a multicultural highlighting of the differences in ethnicity and religion among its population. Akin to a mosaic, the Mauritian state officially recognizes the existence of several “ancestral cultures” of its citizenry, above all those of Ind…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Die methodologische Signatur von Forschungsprogrammen in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Kulturelle und ethische Dimensionen methodischer Tier-Mensch-Interaktionen in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited An Indian Ocean Creole island? Language and the politics of hybridity in Mauritius in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoFor decades researchers have been intrigued about the historical connections and parallels between the Caribbean and Indian Ocean worlds, in particular between the French Antilles and the Mascarenes. Linking the Caribbean with the Indian Ocean, a shared history of French colonial rule and settlement, slavery, plantation capitalism, together with…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Linguistic ethnonationalism in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe scholarly treatment of linguistic ethnonationalism is intimately linked to the question of the origins of the nation. A main division in scholarship on nationalism, between those who conceive the nation as an entirely modern phenomenon and those who trace its roots further back in time, has also resulted in contrasting positions regarding the…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDraft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]
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Cousateca Project deposited Filosofía Cousateca in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoFilosofía del proyecto: http://www.cousateca.info
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Cousateca Project deposited NIVELES RELACIONALES: HACIA UNA PERSPECTIVA ESENCIAL DE LAS COSAS in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoEsquemas para una visión de filosofía Cousateca según el modelo del prof. Remo Bodei en La vida de las cosas.
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