Steven Lee Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Lee Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN S L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
Chain Marriage among the Shuar
Circulation, Accumulation, and the Power of Shuar Shrunken Heads
In this article, I discuss the changing meanings of tsantsas, the shrunken heads of enemies slain in war, for Shuar, a group indigenous to the Ecuadorian Amazon. By the time Ecuadorian authorities put an end to warfare in the 1950s, Shuar had exchanged all of their tsantsas with European and Euro-American collectors in return for trade goods. I focus on the continuing significance for Shuar of tsantsas, despite their absence, and the impact of th…
On the Importance of Visions among the Amazonian Shuar
This essay involves a set of speculations concerning the role plant-granted visions play in the formation of the Shuar subject. It also reflects on the need for an ethnography of secrecy and the ineffable. In both these tasks I seek to engage psychoanalytic theory. Jacques Lacan's distinction between the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic helps analyze the relationship between the discourse and the silence of the unconscious. His essay on the …
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · History (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Bourgeoisie (1 works) · Circulation (fluid dynamics (1 works) · Citation (1 works)