Robert F Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 80529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 94 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1945 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The world, the text and the cricket
This article explores the ways in which Romesh Gunesekera’s novel The Match (2006) presents cricket as a versatile and democratic cultural practice. It argues that cricket is a worldly game in Edward’s Said’s sense, being both a versatile practice and an extremely mobile signifier. Cricket’s styles and meanings are radically refashioned by players and spectators alike, in different periods and, crucially, in different places across the diverse an…
Reworking postcolonialism
Reworking postcolonialism: globalization, labour and rights." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 634–635
The original 1939 notebook of a return to the native land
The original 1939 notebook of a return to the native land." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(4), pp. 492–493
Toussaint Louverture
There can be few, if any, of the last century’s foremost intellectuals who can have possessed anything like the expansive range of the inimitable C. L. R. James. The definitive historian of the Hai
The ‘War on Terror’ and the Backlash against Orientalism
The last few years have witnessed a vigorous backlash against Orientalism. Edward Said's most influential work has been accused of sweeping denunciations of Western scholarship about the Orient as well as knee-jerk anti-Americanism and even covert support for terrorism and radical Islam. His critical stance on Western colonialism and especially Zionism meant that Said was no stranger to abuse and misrepresentation, from Edward Alexander's coinage…
States of emergency
A Said dictionary
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the African dictator novel
This article places the Kenyan intellectual Ngũgũ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006) in what has until now been seen as a predominantly Latin American tradition of dictator novels. Dictator novels unmask the intrinsic fallibility of power. The purported omnipotence of the dictator is undermined by dictation: that is, by his power’s reliance on the shifty and ambiguous medium of language, which these novels reveal to be a medium of democratic…
Travel writing
Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and polit
Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
Refuse to Choose, or, How to Read The Satanic Verses
'We are embattled', Homi Bhabha wrote amidst the rumpus that greeted the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in 1988, 'in the war between the cultural imperatives of Western liberalism, and the fundamentalist interpretations of Islam, both of which seem to claim an abstract and universal authority' (Appignanesi and Maitland, 1990, 112; italics in the original). What Bhabha values in Rushdie's book is principally its capacity to que…
Ecocriticism in the colonial present
This article is a contribution to the growing critical debate about a possible rapprochement between the respective preoccupations of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism. It finds fault with the indebtedness of many ecocritics to what the Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno characterized as Martin Heidegger's 'jargon of authenticity'. That jargon, which entails a nostalgic and politically dubious advocacy of 'dwelling', has not served to disting…
"Salman Rushdie and the "war on terror
My aim here is to explain the topicality of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in the midst and aftermath of the so-called war on terror. The principal merit of the novel is that it sees fundamentalism not only in militant Islamism but also in the West's unselfconscious belief in its own social and economic practices. It engenders a kind of migrant sensibility that moves between and casts doubt on fixed cultural and ideological positions. Alas, …
Listening for the echo
Edward Said's Orientalism is an anomalous work in his oeuvre; unlike many of his later books its emphasis on the way in which cultures have been misrepresented and misused by colonial power is not matched by an equally voluble insistence on the need to contest those misrepresentations and therefore to develop more self‐conscious, sympathetic and egalitarian relationships with power's victims. The importance and availability of those relationships…
J. M. Coetzee and Colonial Violence
This essay offers an example of a form of literary criticism appropriate to an era that has demonstrated the manifest durability and even intensification of imperial ideologies and practices. The essay's premise is that one of criticism's chief aims should be to address the ways in which many literary texts succeed in fostering a critical and ultimately moral and political response to exclusionary ideologies and the violence that they engender. T…
Yogong
Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits
This Rough Magic’
Linguistics
Obituaries
The Native Americans
Anthropology through literature
James P. Spradley and George E. McDonough, eds. Anthropology Through Literature. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973. xviii + 412 pp. $5.95 (paper)
Migration and Anthropology
Ethnology
which is represented in the reports of Annandale and Robinson from Perak and Pattani in 1901 and 1902, in Skeat's Malay Magic compiled from late nineteenth century residence mainly in Selangor, in the reports of Cuisinier of the 1930s, and in many more recent works.This core culture lies at the level of an unconscious model, above the "traditional order" (p. 5) from which it is derived.This core may be adaptable, producing changing expressions in…
The Native Americans
Ecocriticism in the colonial present
This article is a contribution to the growing critical debate about a possible rapprochement between the respective preoccupations of postcolonial studies and ecocriticism. It finds fault with the indebtedness of many ecocritics to what the Marxist philosopher Theodor Adorno characterized as Martin Heidegger's 'jargon of authenticity'. That jargon, which entails a nostalgic and politically dubious advocacy of 'dwelling', has not served to disting…
The Mind of Germany. The Education of a Nation
States of emergency
Culture Process and Intellectual Current
Native Myth and Modern Religion among the Klamath Indians
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the African dictator novel
This article places the Kenyan intellectual Ngũgũ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006) in what has until now been seen as a predominantly Latin American tradition of dictator novels. Dictator novels unmask the intrinsic fallibility of power. The purported omnipotence of the dictator is undermined by dictation: that is, by his power’s reliance on the shifty and ambiguous medium of language, which these novels reveal to be a medium of democratic…
Religion and Change in Contemporary Asia
The Annamese Kinship System
Reworking postcolonialism
Reworking postcolonialism: globalization, labour and rights." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(5), pp. 634–635
Indonesian Sociological Studies
The original 1939 notebook of a return to the native land
The original 1939 notebook of a return to the native land." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(4), pp. 492–493
Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits
Wilson D. Wallis 1886-1970
The Social Context of Modern Turkish Names
Japanese-American Language Behavior
IN THE years following the end of the recent war, the Japanese-American minority has begun to achieve a status approaching near equality in terms of the contemporary society of the United States.' Since the group remains racially distinct, it is doubtful that it will ever be completely assimilated. The present situation is such that the members of the group are forced into a caste-like structure which, although emulating more and more the prevail…
Notes on a Bachelor House in the South China Area
"Salman Rushdie and the "war on terror
My aim here is to explain the topicality of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in the midst and aftermath of the so-called war on terror. The principal merit of the novel is that it sees fundamentalism not only in militant Islamism but also in the West's unselfconscious belief in its own social and economic practices. It engenders a kind of migrant sensibility that moves between and casts doubt on fixed cultural and ideological positions. Alas, …
Listening for the echo
Edward Said's Orientalism is an anomalous work in his oeuvre; unlike many of his later books its emphasis on the way in which cultures have been misrepresented and misused by colonial power is not matched by an equally voluble insistence on the need to contest those misrepresentations and therefore to develop more self‐conscious, sympathetic and egalitarian relationships with power's victims. The importance and availability of those relationships…
Anthropology through literature
James P. Spradley and George E. McDonough, eds. Anthropology Through Literature. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973. xviii + 412 pp. $5.95 (paper)
Religion and Myth
General and Ethnology
Ethnology
Aspects of Turkish Kinship and Social Structure
Robert F. Spencer, Aspects of Turkish Kinship and Social Structure, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, Modern Community Studies in the Circum-Mediterranean Area (Special Issue) (Jan., 1960), pp. 40-50
An Ethno-Atlas
The Annamese Kinship System
The Phonemes of Keresan
Spanish Loanwords in Keresan
Social Structure of a Contemporary Japanese-American Buddhist Church
Notes on a Bachelor House in the South China Area
Oregon Ball
Europe
Japanese-American Language Behavior
IN THE years following the end of the recent war, the Japanese-American minority has begun to achieve a status approaching near equality in terms of the contemporary society of the United States.' Since the group remains racially distinct, it is doubtful that it will ever be completely assimilated. The present situation is such that the members of the group are forced into a caste-like structure which, although emulating more and more the prevail…
Notes on the Japanese Kinship System
Other
Lamet, Hill Peasants in French Indo‐China . K arl G ustav I zikowitz
In San Carlos the price of psychological security is the loss of individual spontaneity.How widely can this equation be generalized?BENJAMIN D
Native Myth and Modern Religion among the Klamath Indians
The Arabian Matriarchate
Anthropological Perspective
The Blind Man and the Loon
Ethnology and Ethnography
General and Theoretical
Ethnology and Ethnography
General and Theoretical
Indonesian Sociological Studies
Ethnology and Ethnography
Book reviewed in this article: Probleme der Vor‐Völker‐Forschung: Grundzüge Einer Ethnologischen Urgeschichte . F ritz H aensell Theorie der kulturellen Ähnlichkeit . W ilhelm M ilke
General and Theoretical
Gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse der Ngadha. Paul Arndt
An Ethno-Atlas
An Ethno-Atlas
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