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Condensed Reality

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Author : Pieter ter Keurs
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2006

Condensed Reality written by Pieter ter Keurs and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.

Since the 1980s, the study of material culture has become a central focus in cultural anthropology. This book explores the philosophical roots and reviews recent studies of this anthropological discourse. Based on his own experience of working intensively with museum collections throughout the world, Pieter ter Keurs proposes a new approach towards material objects. It is now generally acknowledged that material objects are dynamic entities in culture. In this study the author suggests that this flexible approach towards form and meaning is, however, not useful without fully recognizing the materiality of the object. He argues that the inherent static nature of matter is crucial in shaping cultural realities. Objects are best seen as items in which reality is materialized, or condensed . Apart from condensation he looks at the opposite process of evaporation, namely of extracting meanings from their material bases when viewed in different contexts. The concrete ethnographic examples illustrating this model come from Papua New Guinea (the Siassi Islands) and Indonesia (Enggano Island). On the Siassi Islands extensively decorated wooden bowls play a major role in local ritual life and in the trade with neighbouring people. The designs on the bowls can be interpreted as being part of the mariam complex: a system of mythical beings that was of crucial importance in pre-Christian Siassi. The mariam beings no longer appear during rituals, but their presence is secured (condensed) in the carvings the Siassi people still make. On Enggano Island the main designs used in the woodcarvings represent images of slain enemies. In former ritual life the carvings were meant to secure the welfare of society and to stimulate fertility of the people and the soil. Nowadays the people of Enggano no longer remember much of their old culture. In Jakarta their woodcarvings have acquired a new meaning, in the sense that they are found for sale as tourist items representing indigenous "primitive" objects. The author introduces the concept evaporation to indicate that although the materiality of the objects is similar (they "look" the same), their meanings have completely changed.

Puspakrema

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Author : Dick van der Meij
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Puspakrema written by Dick van der Meij and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Javanese literature categories.

Language Endangerment And Endangered Languages

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Author : Leo Wetzels
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2007

Language Endangerment And Endangered Languages written by Leo Wetzels and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The studies gathered together in this book were originally presented at two conferences sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which were held at the VU University Amsterdam, in late August 2004. The first part Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages deals with issues related to language endangerment and the problems linguists and other researchers encounter when documenting these languages, both in general terms and with an eye on the Andean/Amazonian situation. The second part, Specific Studies: Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area, contains three sections. The first deals with topics that relate to the Maku peoples and languages of Brazil (Eastern Maku) and Colombia ( Western Maku ). The second section features papers that address anthropological and grammatical issues concerning the Nambikwara peoples and languages (Brazil). The third section discusses various other languages in the Andean/Amazonian border area.

Cnws Publications

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Author : Rijksuniversiteit Leiden Onderzoeksschool CNWS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Cnws Publications written by Rijksuniversiteit Leiden Onderzoeksschool CNWS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.

European Review Of Latin American And Caribbean Studies

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

European Review Of Latin American And Caribbean Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Caribbean Area categories.

Furs And Fabrics

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Author : Cunera Buijs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Furs And Fabrics written by Cunera Buijs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Ammassalimiut Eskimos categories.

This is a book about the Tunumiit of East Greenland and their perspective of dress and identity. It examines the relationship between dress and identity in local society over a period of more then hundred years.

Connecting And Correcting

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Author : Barbara Helen Miller
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2007

Connecting And Correcting written by Barbara Helen Miller and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medical categories.

Connecting and Correcting is a case study of Sami healers in Porsanger, Finnmark, Norway, and focuses on two Coastal Sami healers, their worldview and healing practices. Barbara Miller explores the cultural and historic context of Sami healing practices, most notably Sami folk beliefs, the Laestadian branch of Lutheranism, and the changes in the discourse on the noaidi , a Sami term that is often translated as shaman. As she point out, healers today may be connected historically to the noaidi of the past, but they cannot be identified with the noaidi . The healers are Christian and conceive of their healing gift as a special connection to God. This gift resembles important Laestadian concepts. In Laestadianism the ?congregation of the reborn' holds the Keys to Heaven, which are the binding and unbinding keys received from the Savior.

Contribuciones Seleccionadas Del 50 Congreso Internacional De Americanistas En Varsovia Y Del Taller Spinoza De Lenguas Amerindias En Leiden 2000

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Contribuciones Seleccionadas Del 50 Congreso Internacional De Americanistas En Varsovia Y Del Taller Spinoza De Lenguas Amerindias En Leiden 2000 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Indians of South America categories.

Chinese Democracies

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Author : Bingling Yuan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Chinese Democracies written by Bingling Yuan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Chinese categories.

Merchant In Asia

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Author : E. M. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Release Date : 2006

Merchant In Asia written by E. M. Jacobs and has been published by Leiden University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.

For much of its two centuries of existence (1602 to 1799), the VOC, the Dutch East India Company was the largest trading company in the world. Although the VOC was established to operate primarily as a trading company, it soon also came to play a prominent military, diplomatic and political role on the Asian stage and eventually it laid the foundations of the Dutch colonial empire in the Indonesian Archipelago. Merchant in Asia is the first study to pay attention to the full breadth and width of the VOC commercial activities in Asia. It looks at the company from the peak of its fame until its final decline at the end of the eighteenth century. The study focuses on the main trade goods - spices, Indian textiles, Chinese tea and Javanese coffee - and their specific by-products. Els Jacobs has analyzed in detail the VOC trade in fifteen of the most important commodities that together made up 85% of the total turnover. This innovative study is based on extensive research of the VOC archives and many other Dutch sources, as well as a detailed quantitative analysis of the VOC bookkeeping records. In the study the author sketches in vivid detail how the merchants of the VOC sold, bought, and even supervised the production of tropical products and how they dealt with Asian suppliers and consumers. In addition, she looks at the range of problems the merchants encountered in the maritime trade from Yemen and Persia in the West to China and Japan in the East, including India, Ceylon, Malacca, and the Indonesian Archipelago.