F Allan Hanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 83175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Allan Hanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | F Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSON F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Technology and Cultural Tectonics
What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural instit
Meaning in Culture
Meaning in Culture explores how meaning is made in culture, examining the relationship between meaning, language, and thought. Hanson argues against the universality of human thought processes, emphasizing the cultural construction of meaning. He challenges the notion that language simply reflects pre-existing thoughts, proposing instead that language shapes and guides our understanding of the world. The book delves into various cultural examples…
Communitas
The Jurisprudence of the Christian Right
No issue is more hotly contested in the culture wars than the proper place of religion in public life. On the one side are those who insist that religion is a purely private matter with no place in government. In contrast are those who hold that government should adhere to religious principles and that certain religiously grounded imperatives are so necessary to the human condition that they should be binding on everyone. Prominent among the latt…
Trouble with Culture, The
Culture against society
The New Superorganic
Despite proposals by Kroeber and others that society and culture represent a distinct level of reality, the prevailing opinion has been that they are abstractions from the behavior of individuals. Recently that position, methodological individualism, has been challenged on several fronts. Especially with the incorporation of artificial intelligence into many aspects of social life, it is no longer feasible to consider the ultimate unit of social …
Donor Insemination
One concern regarding developments in genetics is that, when techniques such as genetic engineering become safe and affordable, people will use them for positive eugenics: to "improve" their offspring by endowing them with exceptional qualities. Another is whether new reproductive technologies are being used to improve the condition of women or as the tools of a patriarchal system that appropriates female functions to itself and exploits women to…
Zero effect
Usable Pasts
Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America. Tad Tuleja. ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997.336 pp
Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind
Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard. eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. 282 pp
Woven Gods
Political Expression and Ethnicity
Testing Testing
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The Art of Oceania
Transformations of Polynesian Culture . Antony Hooper and Judith HUNTSMAN
Strictures and Ratiocinations
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Counterpoint in Maori Culture
Understanding Cultures
Actions, Norms and Representations
The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory
Time and the Other
Syntagmatic structures
Donor Insemination
One concern regarding developments in genetics is that, when techniques such as genetic engineering become safe and affordable, people will use them for positive eugenics: to "improve" their offspring by endowing them with exceptional qualities. Another is whether new reproductive technologies are being used to improve the condition of women or as the tools of a patriarchal system that appropriates female functions to itself and exploits women to…
Testing Testing
Does God Have a Body? Truth, Reality and Cultural Relativism
Rapan Lifeways
Actions, Norms and Representations
Political Change in Tahiti and Samoa
The experimental method is often taken to be a private domain of natural science. Indeed, many hold it to be responsible for the fabled progress and exactitude of the natural sciences as contrasted with the more intuitive approach and pedestrian advance of a discipline like social anthropology. Yet the thesis of this paper is that the experimental method is by no means a monopoly of natural science. I shall attempt to demonstrate that it can be u…
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory
The Rapan Theory of Conception
People in Rapa, French Polynesia, attempt to limit their families by abstaining from intercourse during the time they think the woman is most likely to conceive. They have little success with this method of contraception, largely because they believe conception occurs during the three or four days immediately following menstruation. This placement of the fertile period is based on a theory of reproduction quite different from that currently preva…
Culture against society
The New Superorganic
Despite proposals by Kroeber and others that society and culture represent a distinct level of reality, the prevailing opinion has been that they are abstractions from the behavior of individuals. Recently that position, methodological individualism, has been challenged on several fronts. Especially with the incorporation of artificial intelligence into many aspects of social life, it is no longer feasible to consider the ultimate unit of social …
Usable Pasts
Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America. Tad Tuleja. ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997.336 pp
Woven Gods
Time and the Other
The Parental Figures and the Representation of God
La route des morts
Models and Social Reality
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The Problem of Other Cultures
The Problem of Other Cultures
The Rapan Theory of Conception
People in Rapa, French Polynesia, attempt to limit their families by abstaining from intercourse during the time they think the woman is most likely to conceive. They have little success with this method of contraception, largely because they believe conception occurs during the three or four days immediately following menstruation. This placement of the fertile period is based on a theory of reproduction quite different from that currently preva…
Rapan Lifeways
The Problem of Other Cultures
The Problem of Other Cultures
Political Change in Tahiti and Samoa
The experimental method is often taken to be a private domain of natural science. Indeed, many hold it to be responsible for the fabled progress and exactitude of the natural sciences as contrasted with the more intuitive approach and pedestrian advance of a discipline like social anthropology. Yet the thesis of this paper is that the experimental method is by no means a monopoly of natural science. I shall attempt to demonstrate that it can be u…
Rapa
Les affaires du corps s’opposent aux affaires de l’esprit, le côté aliments au côté croyance. Ce sont là des manières différentes d’exprimer un clivage fondamental de l’existence et de l’univers tels qu’ils sont perçus par les Rapas. Essentiellement, c’est la distinction entre le profane et le sacré. En d’autres termes, les Rapas incluent dans le « coté nourriture » pae ma’a ou dans le « côté corps » pae tino ces aspects de la vie que nous avons …
Rapa
Place Name Types and Cultural Sequence in Polynesia
Meaning in Culture
Meaning in Culture
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Meaning in Culture. By F. Allan Hanson. (London Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1975. Pp. xi + 127. Price £3.95) Dan Rashid Dan Rashid Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 105, October 1976, Pages 384–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218878 Published: 01 October 1976
On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
Symbolic readings of ritual acts rely on a distinction between the symbolic and the instrumental that is hard to sustain. In order that we take public lectures and academic papers-which are certainly ritual acts-intellectually seriously, it is enough that they not be obviously false. A further argument against reading them symbolically is that the symbolic reading involves projection of hidden meanings which have not been intentionally put there.…
Models and Social Reality
Meaning in Culture
The wife's brother's wife and the marriage contract
While doing fieldwork on the French Polynesian island of Rapa, one of the authors (Hanson) was puzzled by an adamantly stated prohibition against sexual relations with the WiBrWi. Rapans characterize this kind of adultery as hupehupe or filthy ? the strongest word they know in this context. The very idea arouses horror and revulsion akin to that engendered by the notion of incest. While it is not surprising that such an adulterous liaison should …
Does God Have a Body? Truth, Reality and Cultural Relativism
On Fitzgerald's Review of Tapu Removal in Maori Religion
La route des morts
Ethnology
Meaning and Change
Syntagmatic structures
The Parental Figures and the Representation of God
Time and the Other
Counterpoint in Maori Culture
Understanding Cultures
Actions, Norms and Representations
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