A L Epstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Epstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Epstein |
| SIGNATURE | EPSTEIN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0778-6072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 504 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Postmodernism in Pieces
Postmodernism in Pieces and Lyrical Strategies, two valuable new studies of American fiction, are quite different—in approach and methodology, in the novels they address, in the shibboleths they want to challenge—but they are united in their attempt to shake up our engrained habits when reading twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction. The conclusions each author draws differ in part because of the contrasting critical orientations they bring …
In the Midst of Life
The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. In his new book, A. L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they a…
Epilogue
Military Organisation and the Pre-Colonial Polity of the Bemba of Zambia
The Bemba today are numerically the largest and one of the most important ethnic groups in Zambia. This chapter shows that consideration of the issues may illuminate some other aspects of pre-colonial Bemba polity and society. It attempts to trace out some of the implications these had for other aspects of the pre-colonial Bemba social system. The chapter emphasizes on military power leads to a reappraisal of certain aspects of their political sy…
The Case Method in the Field of Law
Few topics in the entire range of anthropological literature can have been so bedevilled by the problems of definition as that of primitive law. Indeed, so much of the discussion in this field has revolved around the terminological wrangles of jurists and anthropologists about the meaning of the term &s;law&s; that it would seem at times as though the critical issues for debate were of a semantic rather than a sociological kind. Disputes in any s…
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Injury and Liability
The Paranoid Ethos in Melanesia
In 1973 in an article based on his fieldwork on Manus, Theodor Schwartz postulated a paranoid ethos in Melanesia. This paper seeks to test the hypothesis on material from the ethnography of the Tolai, another people in the Bismarck Archipelago. (It is important to emphasize that there is no suggestion in either of these accounts that the peoples concerned are paranoid in a pathological or clinical sense). The paranoid ethos finds its expression a…
Tolai Sorcery and Change
Strange Encounters
The material for this paper is drawn from essays written, as part of their ordinary class work, by a group of Papua New Guinea High School students, under the title ‘Recently I had a Dream’. The paper offers a content analysis of this material. The categories employed to present and analyse the data are rooted in the assumption that a dream may be likened to the performance of a play or a film viewed on the screen. The dream, that is, tends to be…
In the Midst of Life
Adoption among the Tolai
Epstein Arnold Leonard. Adoption among the Tolai. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 99, 1994-2. pp. 141-157
Privacy And The Boundaries Of The Self
Chez les Tolai de Matupit (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee), la notion d'intimite, de vie privee ainsi que celles de la modestie et de la honte se rapportent a la sexualite, a la defecation et aux menstruations. Le corps ne definit pas les limites du soi meme s'il en est la carapace. Le soi est aussi lie a d'autres formes de propriete comme la monnaie-coquillage. De plus la maison est la representation spatiale des relations privees d'un couple. Parall…
Scenes from African Urban Life
In the Midst of Life
Scenes from African Urban Life
In the Midst of Life
In the Midst of LifeAffect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, they remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. This book develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrange…
Changing Patterns of Tolai Residence and Marital Choice
The striking changes in marriage and family in many societies of the Third World, as well as changes in aspects of social behavior commonly associated with them, have been well documented in many excellent ethnographic accounts (e.g., Richards 1940; Barnes 1951), and analyzed more generally in various works of synthesis (e.g., Goode 1964; Phillips 1953; Mair 1972). Despite a wealth of scholarship, much about the processes at work requires to be c…
Matupit revisited
By 1960, after almost a century of close involvement with the wider society created by colonialism, the people of Matupit had come to be known as among the most 'westernized' in Papua New Guinea. It turned out in fact that, despite the marked degree of cultural erosion in their social life, local organization was still governed by traditional structural principles of residence and descent. Now fieldwork conducted a generation later suggests, even…
The Spirit and the Drum
Social Facts and Fabrications
The Experience of Shame in Melanesia
Urbanisation and Kinship
Urbanization and Kinship
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Politics in an urban African community.
Ethos and identity
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years anthropologists have been taking an increasing interest in the process of urbanization in Africa, usually seen as an aspect of the wider issue of social and/or cultural change. As individual studies accumulate, we need to develop a framework within which to examine the variables that shape the structure of social relations in modern African towns and cities. Three main determinants of urban social structure are isolated and analyz…
Occupational Prestige and Social Status among Urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia
Opening ParagraphA significant aspect of the newly developed towns of Central and Southern Africa is the degree to which social relationships in certain situations are being organized in terms of social strata. It is not always easy, however, to secure data on the nature of the system of stratification-there are, in fact, very few substantial studies available. One method of approach, which promises to be fruitful, is through the study of the ran…
Urbanization and Kinship
Ethnopsychoanalysis
Politics in an Urban African Community
In the Midst of LifeAffect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, they remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. This book develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrange…
The Experience of Shame in Melanesia
The Reasonable Man Revisited
The reasonable man is recognized as the central figure in all developed systems of law, but his presence in simpler legal systems has not been noticed." With this two-pronged assertion Max Gluckman (1955: 83) introduces a major theme of his analysis of the judicial process in Barotseland. The book in which he attempts this task has been widely and deservedly acclaimed, not only as a landmark in the study of primitive law, but also as an important…
The Paranoid Ethos in Melanesia
In 1973 in an article based on his fieldwork on Manus, Theodor Schwartz postulated a paranoid ethos in Melanesia. This paper seeks to test the hypothesis on material from the ethnography of the Tolai, another people in the Bismarck Archipelago. (It is important to emphasize that there is no suggestion in either of these accounts that the peoples concerned are paranoid in a pathological or clinical sense). The paranoid ethos finds its expression a…
Tolai Sorcery and Change
Privacy And The Boundaries Of The Self
Chez les Tolai de Matupit (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee), la notion d'intimite, de vie privee ainsi que celles de la modestie et de la honte se rapportent a la sexualite, a la defecation et aux menstruations. Le corps ne definit pas les limites du soi meme s'il en est la carapace. Le soi est aussi lie a d'autres formes de propriete comme la monnaie-coquillage. De plus la maison est la representation spatiale des relations privees d'un couple. Parall…
The Politics of Dependence
This book is the record of a most unusual experiment: observations of politics at the grassroots during the second Papua New Guinea general elections by a team of distinguished anthropologists and political scientists. The outcome is a study of political change that enables a better understanding of political processes in emerging nations. It shows how the imported institutions of democratic elections and parliamentary government are perceived by…
Urbanisation and Kinship
Linguistic Innovation and Culture on the Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia
Adoption among the Tolai
Epstein Arnold Leonard. Adoption among the Tolai. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 99, 1994-2. pp. 141-157
Changing Patterns of Tolai Residence and Marital Choice
The striking changes in marriage and family in many societies of the Third World, as well as changes in aspects of social behavior commonly associated with them, have been well documented in many excellent ethnographic accounts (e.g., Richards 1940; Barnes 1951), and analyzed more generally in various works of synthesis (e.g., Goode 1964; Phillips 1953; Mair 1972). Despite a wealth of scholarship, much about the processes at work requires to be c…
Matupit revisited
By 1960, after almost a century of close involvement with the wider society created by colonialism, the people of Matupit had come to be known as among the most 'westernized' in Papua New Guinea. It turned out in fact that, despite the marked degree of cultural erosion in their social life, local organization was still governed by traditional structural principles of residence and descent. Now fieldwork conducted a generation later suggests, even…
Black and White Elites in Rural Rhodesia
Injury and Liability
The Spirit and the Drum
Military Organization and the Pre-Colonial Polity of the Bemba of Zambia
Politics in an urban African community.
Politics in an Urban African Community
Politics in an Urban African Community
Occupational Prestige and Social Status among Urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia
Opening ParagraphA significant aspect of the newly developed towns of Central and Southern Africa is the degree to which social relationships in certain situations are being organized in terms of social strata. It is not always easy, however, to secure data on the nature of the system of stratification-there are, in fact, very few substantial studies available. One method of approach, which promises to be fruitful, is through the study of the ran…
Linguistic Innovation and Culture on the Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia
The Economy of Modern Matupit1
Variation and Social Structure
Occupational Prestige on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain
Urbanization and Social Change in Africa [and Comments and Reply]
In recent years anthropologists have been taking an increasing interest in the process of urbanization in Africa, usually seen as an aspect of the wider issue of social and/or cultural change. As individual studies accumulate, we need to develop a framework within which to examine the variables that shape the structure of social relations in modern African towns and cities. Three main determinants of urban social structure are isolated and analyz…
Linguistic Innovation and Culture on the Copperbelt, Northern Rhodesia
The Craft of Social Anthropology
The Craft of Social Anthropology
Matupit
Matupit
Autonomy and identity
The Mataungan Association is a political body whose central purpose, from its inception in 1969, has been to mobilize Tolai opposition to the Gazelle Multi‐Racial Council, which replaced the former all‐Tolai Gazelle Local Government Council. This paper seeks to set these events in a wider perspective by relating the emergence of Mataungan to a range of forces which are changing the social and political structure of the area, and in particular to …
Dispute Settlement Among the Tolap1
Matupit
City Politics
The Reasonable Man Revisited
The reasonable man is recognized as the central figure in all developed systems of law, but his presence in simpler legal systems has not been noticed." With this two-pronged assertion Max Gluckman (1955: 83) introduces a major theme of his analysis of the judicial process in Barotseland. The book in which he attempts this task has been widely and deservedly acclaimed, not only as a landmark in the study of primitive law, but also as an important…
The Politics of Dependence
This book is the record of a most unusual experiment: observations of politics at the grassroots during the second Papua New Guinea general elections by a team of distinguished anthropologists and political scientists. The outcome is a study of political change that enables a better understanding of political processes in emerging nations. It shows how the imported institutions of democratic elections and parliamentary government are perceived by…
Black and White Elites in Rural Rhodesia
Military Organization and the Pre-Colonial Polity of the Bemba of Zambia
Ethos and identity
The Craft of Social Anthropology
The Disputing Process Law in Ten Societies
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