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The anthropologist José Luis García and Asturias. In his memory

Obituary for José Luis García García, Professor of Social Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid, who developed much of his anthropological research in Asturias and died in Madrid on March 28, 2020.

Is There an Ibero-American “Youthology”? A Conversation

This article reproduces a conversation between Carles Feixa and Maritza Urteaga, researchers in youth studies, whose paths converge in the critical study of contemporary youth culture. Carles Feixa, PhD, is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Manizales (Colombia). He was previously a lecturer at the University of Lleida, and has been visiting scholar in Rome, Mexico City, Paris, Berkeley, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Newcastle and Lima. He has also been a public policy consultant for the United Nations and VP for Europe of the “Sociology of Youth” research committee of the International Sociological Association. In 2017 he was awarded the icrea Academia Award by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Maritza Urteaga, PhD, is Research Professor at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, and a level ii member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. This conversation reviews Feixa’s career, from its beginnings in the 80s to the present, to determine whether there is something that can be called Ibero-American “youthology”.

Gênero de uma perna só

Neste artigo, Marilyn Strathern busca construir uma teoria visual melanésia focando nos efeitos de tipos particulares de exibição, tais como práticas que acompanham iniciações ou trocas cerimoniais, tendo em vista que nesses contextos há um investimento na manipulação das formas por parte das pessoas. A autora busca responder, a partir dos matérias melanésios, o que seria ver para essas pessoas e que tipo de corpo é engendrado por uma prática visual em que o que se vê é deliberadamente tornado incompleto.

Diagrams

Previous articleNext article FreeDiagramsMAURO WILLIAM BARBOSA DE ALMEIDAMAURO WILLIAM BARBOSA DE ALMEIDAState University of Campinas Search for more articles by this author State University of CampinasPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreI am inspired by Marshall’s reading of Philippe Descola’s quadripartite ontological taxonomy. Actual ontologies are much more complex, as he points out. I wonder if diagrams could make this more explicit, and I attach a few suggestions.Diagram 1 is just Sahlins’ original diagram. Diagram 2 is a transformation of Sahlins’ original diagram (Diagram 1) suggested by Lévi-Strauss’ “totemic operator” (thanks to Kelly for the reminder).Diagram 3 introduces multiple combinations, many of them suggested by Sahlins himself. It suggests two possible readings of Sahlins’ point: one more concerned with “superstructures,” and the other more along the lines of an “order of orders” which connects “superstructures” and “infrastructures”.In Diagram 4 all hell breaks loose. No complete taxonomy of categories is possible.These diagrams have an interesting history which links two seemingly disparate sources: first, Lévi-Strauss’ totemic operator in La pensée sauvage (1962) and in his diagrams in Histoire de lynx (1991; transformed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro); second, “Galois lattices” invented by Barbut and Monjardet (1970) and put to use more recently by Parrochia and Neuville (2013).Diagram 1: Sahlins’ Lattices.View Large ImageDownload PowerPointDiagram 2: Totemic Operator Format.View Large ImageDownload PowerPointDiagram 3: Sahlins´ lattice in Galois–Lévi-Strauss format.View Large ImageDownload PowerPointDiagram 4: An order-of-orders version. In the line “open to multiple connections,” there could be as many lines as desired.View Large ImageDownload PowerPointReferencesMarc Barbut, Bernard Monjardet 1970. Ordre et classification. Paris: Hachette.First citation in articleGoogle ScholarClaude Lévi-Strauss 1962. La pensée sauvage. Paris: Plon.First citation in articleGoogle ScholarClaude Lévi-Strauss 1991. Histoire de lynx. Paris: Plon.First citation in articleGoogle ScholarDaniel Parrochia, Pierre Neuville 2013. Towards a general theory of classifications. Basel: Springer.First citation in articleGoogle ScholarMauro William Barbosa DE ALMEIDA is Professor of Social Anthropology at the State University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. His areas of research include Amazonia, extractive reserves, social diversity, and anthropological theory. He participated in the planning of Forest University (Universidade Federal do Acre—Forest Campus).MAURO WILLIAM BARBOSA DE ALMEIDA Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, State University of CampinasSão Paulo, Brazil[email protected]com.br Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Volume 4, Number 1Summer 2014 Published on behalf of the Society for Ethnographic Theory Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.14318/hau4.1.014 Views: 1187 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida. 2014.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Writing Historical Crime Novels: An Interview with Jenny White

Writing Historical Crime Novels:An Interview with Jenny White Donald A. Yerxa JENNY WHITE HAS WRITTEN A SERIES OF PAGE-TURNER, historical crime novels that capture the political and social upheaval of the late Ottoman Empire: The Sultan's Seal (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Abyssinian Proof (W.W. Norton, 2008); and The Winter Thief (W.W. Norton, 2010). Her protagonist, Kamil Pasha, is a Western-trained Istanbul magistrate who exposes a variety of threats to the empire. White, a professor of social anthropology at Boston University, effectively evokes the vibrant cosmopolitanism of a dying empire. Senior editor Donald A. Yerxa interviewed White in April 2010. Donald A. Yerxa: I'm intrigued—and probably more than a tad jealous—that a tenured professor of anthropology at a major research university has written three very successful historical crime novels. What prompted you to write historical crime novels? And is it difficult combining these two careers? Jenny White: I have always considered myself to be a writer. I write about observations made during my field research, and I write stories from my imagination. Good anthropological writing also tells a story, but one based on factual data and analysis. Since I was a child, I've wanted to write fiction, and I compulsively filled notebooks with story ideas and word sketches. But I was also fascinated by science, particularly social science. I ended up pursuing the latter as a career partly because I had a clue as to how to go about it (go to graduate school, get a Ph.D., apply for a teaching position). I didn't know how to get fiction published. I pored over the Writer's Digest, but it seemed an impenetrable world to me. Both career paths use similar skills—research, close observation, pulling a coherent story out of the messiness of daily life. While teaching anthropology and doing ethnographic research and writing, I continued on the side to write poetry and kept up my notebooks. I started a few novels, but never had an opportunity or the time to finish writing one. When I got tenure at Boston University, I had written two scholarly books, and I felt the need to do something different. One day out of the blue I just started writing The Sultan's Seal. I was walking around Jamaica Pond and the words popped into my head. I didn't have a pen with me, so I ran home to write it all down, and kept writing. By then I had reconnected with an old friend in the Boston area who was a novelist and she took me by the hand and walked me through the process of finding an agent and getting a novel published. And to my great surprise and joy, it worked. I hadn't expected that they wanted more, but now three Kamil Pasha novels have stepped out into the world. I'm back writing a scholarly book again—on Turkish nationalism—but I do admit it's more fun to just make things up. I have, however, done a lot of research for the novels, which are all set in 1880s Istanbul. The physical setting and historical events and characters are as close to life as possible. This has taught me a lot about Turkish history, which deepens my appreciation for and understanding of the present. So one "career" feeds into the other in productive ways. My colleagues have been very supportive, and they shared my joy at publication. The department has a custom of framing faculty book covers whenever a new book comes out, and they framed and hung my novel covers to go along with the scholarly ones on the walls. Click for larger view View full resolution Jenny White. Photo by Bethany Versoy Yerxa: While I want to keep the focus of our conversation on your historical crime novels, I don't want to dismiss your scholarship. So would you speak briefly about your work as an anthropologist? White: I've been engaged with a number of projects over the years. I spent two years in Istanbul in the 1980s working on my dissertation. I was intrigued by the economic transformation that occurred when...

A transnational cosmopolitan

An interview with Ulf Hannerz,Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. He is Sweden’s most famous anthropologist and well known internationally for his contribution to the anthropological study of globalization.

In Memoriam: Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham died on 3 December, 2006, at the age of 83 after a longish illness. Influenced by Evans-Pritchard, he has been called the foremost British anthropologist of his day. He was Professor of Social Anthropology in Oxford from 1976 to 1990. Although far from being enamoured with the work of Durkheim, he showed a strong sympathy for the work of some of his disciples and was instrumental in bringing their work to the notice of English-speaking scholars. Amongst his great output of books and articles – about four hundred – there appeared in 1960 a translation of two essays by Robert Hertz with the title, Death and the Right Hand.

Borders

International Social Science JournalVolume 49, Issue 154 p. 537-548 Borders Ulf Hannerz, Ulf Hannerz Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, email: ulf.hannerz@socant.su.se, and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He has taught at several American, European and Australian universities and has done research in the United States, West Africa and the Caribbean. His current research is on transnational cultural processes, and his most recent books are Cultural Complexity (1992) and Transnational Connections (1996).Search for more papers by this author Ulf Hannerz, Ulf Hannerz Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, email: ulf.hannerz@socant.su.se, and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He has taught at several American, European and Australian universities and has done research in the United States, West Africa and the Caribbean. His current research is on transnational cultural processes, and his most recent books are Cultural Complexity (1992) and Transnational Connections (1996).Search for more papers by this author First published: 02 September 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.1997.tb00043.xCitations: 14 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume49, Issue154December 1997Pages 537-548 RelatedInformation

John Blacking: a personal tribute

John Blacking was sixty one when he died on 24 January, 1990. I knew him for the last twenty five of those years: first as one of my teachers, soon as a loyal friend, fmally as a colleague. The boundaries between these were never rigid - not even when I was an undergraduate and he a lecturer (and then Professor of Social Anthropology) at the U Diversity of the Witwatersrand.

Malinowski Go Home: Reflections on the Malinowski Centenary Conferences

Ernest Gellner is professor of social anthropology at Cambridge. The Elgin Marbles may or may not be returned to Greece; but one thing which did happen in 1984 was that Malinowski was returned to Poland. In fact, the Polks aided by some others, such as Edwin Ardener and Robert Thornton took the Master back. That much was evident from the two conferences, one held in London and the other in Cracow, which marked the centenary of Malinowski's birth. Under the pretext of conferring an honorary degree, with a moving ceremony, on Malinowski's successor and most distinguished pupil, Raymond Firth, the Poles firmly re-located Malinowski's spirit in a Polish and also, one should stress, a European context. Hitherto, the Malinowskian revolution was an event in British, Anglophone, or Western anthropology. It was not, it would seem, an event in Polish social thought. As Jerzy Szacki, one of the many Poles to make a most interesting contribution to the centenary conferences, puts it: It is a fact that [Malinowski's] works neither aroused any marked interest in this country [Poland] nor exercised any major influence. This was so during his life-time and for many years also after his death. This applies not to sociology alone, but also includes ethnography ... ('Malinowski and the Development of Polish Social Science', to be published, ed. R. Ellen, in the Proceedings of the Cracow Malinowski Centenary Conference.)

Prof. A. M. Hocart

WE regret to record the death of Prof. A. M. Hocart, professor of social anthropology in the University of Cairo, which took place on March 9 at the age of fifty-five years.