Cargando…
Radical egalitarianism : local realities, global relations /
Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Engaging Radical Egalitarianism; Religion, Trade, and Transnational Networks via Thailand; The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics, Amulets, and Tomb Shrines; Understanding Social Totalities: Stanley Tambiah's Early Contribution to Sociology of Thai Buddhism; Transnational Buddhism and the Transformations of Local Power in Thailand; A Muslim King and His Buddhist Subjects: Religion, Power, and Identity at the Periphery of the Thai State; Cosmologies, Ideologies, and Localities
- Economies of Ghosts, Gods, and Goods: The History and Anthropology of Chinese Temple NetworksTrade, Religion, and Civic Relations in the Manangi Long-Distance Trade Community; Cosmologies of Welfare: Two Conceptions of Social Assistance in Contemporary South Africa; "A Recurrence of Structures" in Collapsing Nigeria; People and Ideas Travel Together: Tambiah's Approach to Ritual and Cosmology in Brazil; Paradoxes of Order in Thai Community Politics; Violence, Political Confl ict, and Humanitarian Intervention; Structural Work: How Microhistories Become Macrohistories and Vice Versa
- Perspectives on the Politics of Peace in Aceh, IndonesiaA Tale of Two Affects: Humanitarianism and Professionalism in Red Cross Aid Work; At the Base of Local and Transnational Conflicts: The Political Uses of Inferiorization; Aft erword. Galactic Polities, Radical Egalitarianism, and the Practice of Anthropology: Tambiah on Logical Paradoxes, Social Contradictions, and Cultural Oscillations; notes; bibliography; contributors