Peter Metcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 85551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Metcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalf |
| SIGNATURE | METCALF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1550-0783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Effects of Trust, Public Engagement, Conflict, and Social Networks on Satisfaction with Ecological Restoration
River restoration is one of the most common, expensive, and environmentally influential forms of restoration, but has little post-restoration assessment of social success. In this study, we use social network theory and analysis (SNA), an emerging approach for understanding social dynamics in restoration projects, to examine the social connections, perceptions of project success, and attitudes of stakeholders involved in a river restoration proje…
The Anthropology of Religion
This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments. Its climax was Frazer’s Golden Bough, which is a pillar of modernity …
Anthropology of Religion
Critical Anthropology
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text provides an…
African Political Systems
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text provides an…
The Life of the Longhouse
For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pr…
Unravelling Ritual
As a pioneer in the interpretation of ritual, Victor Turner showed us how to access other peoples' deepest understandings about the nature of life. In the process, he encountered problems of presentation that ethnographers still have to confront. This paper explores Turner's solutions to these problems, and how subsequent authors have modified them. Keywords: ritual, ethnography, Victor Turner
Anthropology
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text provides an…
The forest, source of life
Global "Disjunctive" and the "Sites" of Anthropology
Film reviews
Xingú: Body and soul Body and Soul (O Corpo e os Espímtos). Directed by Mari Corréa; camera, Dado Aguiar; sound, Myaú Kayabi. 1996; 54 mins., color. Portuguese narration; English subtitles. Distributor: Les Films du village, 24–26 rue des Prairies, 75020, Paris, France. Emancipation Efforts of African Women: Two Activist Films I Have a Problem, Madam. Directed by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele. 1995, 59 minutes, VHS, color. Distributed by Fir…
The Dark Side of Humanity
Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the College de France, shows his own ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to clarify the circumstances leading up to his apparently gratui…
The Coming of the Gods
The Book in the Coffin
For the Sake of Our Future
For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp
Voilà ce que je dis
Metcalf Peter. « Voilà ce que je dis » : la projection de la parole dans la prière berewan. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°132. Anthropologie de la prière. pp. 59-76
Where Are You/Spirits
Aban Jau's Boast
Who this rajah was, and what constituted the sultan's fence, will require some explanation. The thrust of Aban Jau's boast seems plain enough, however; it is an assertion of independence, the flat refusal of a small-scale society of the sort that used to be called primitive to be drawn into a repressive world order. It is an instance of the struggle that Pierre Clastres has characterized as Society against the State.'
Nomades et sédentarisation à Bornéo
Celebrations of Death
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as we…
Where Are You/Spirits? Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer
On the Meaning of Death
Where Are You Spirits
Wine of the Corpse
Research Article| January 01 1987 Wine of the Corpse: Endocannibalism and the Great Feast of the Dead in Borneo Peter Metcalf Peter Metcalf Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1987) 17: 96–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043794 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
The Honey Tree Song
Celebrations of Death
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as we…
Meaning and Materialism
A Borneo Journey Into Death
The unusual and symbolically complex funerary rites of the Berawan of central Borneo are here analyzed in the first such full-length study based on modern ethnographic research. Metcalf demonstrates how the ritual sand social organization of death serve as a crucial point of entry into the cosmology of a non-Western culture
Global "Disjunctive" and the "Sites" of Anthropology
The Dark Side of Humanity
Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the College de France, shows his own ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to clarify the circumstances leading up to his apparently gratui…
On the Meaning of Death
The Life of the Longhouse
For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. The key factor was a pr…
Birds and deities in Borneo
From the earliest days of contact, Western observers have been struck by the deep significance of birds in Bornean religions. Birds are a well nigh universal feature of religious symbolism, but in Borneo systems of augury are found that are unparalleled in their complexity and in the compelling nature of the omens taken from them. Not only the domain of ritual, but also economic activity, social organisation, even warfare, are in part regulated b…
Anthropology
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text provides an…
The Book in the Coffin
For the Sake of Our Future
For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp
Wine of the Corpse
Research Article| January 01 1987 Wine of the Corpse: Endocannibalism and the Great Feast of the Dead in Borneo Peter Metcalf Peter Metcalf Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1987) 17: 96–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043794 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Voilà ce que je dis
Metcalf Peter. « Voilà ce que je dis » : la projection de la parole dans la prière berewan. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°132. Anthropologie de la prière. pp. 59-76
Aban Jau's Boast
Who this rajah was, and what constituted the sultan's fence, will require some explanation. The thrust of Aban Jau's boast seems plain enough, however; it is an assertion of independence, the flat refusal of a small-scale society of the sort that used to be called primitive to be drawn into a repressive world order. It is an instance of the struggle that Pierre Clastres has characterized as Society against the State.'
Who Are the Berawan
Birds and deities in Borneo
From the earliest days of contact, Western observers have been struck by the deep significance of birds in Bornean religions. Birds are a well nigh universal feature of religious symbolism, but in Borneo systems of augury are found that are unparalleled in their complexity and in the compelling nature of the omens taken from them. Not only the domain of ritual, but also economic activity, social organisation, even warfare, are in part regulated b…
Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology
Meaning and Materialism
A Borneo Journey Into Death
The unusual and symbolically complex funerary rites of the Berawan of central Borneo are here analyzed in the first such full-length study based on modern ethnographic research. Metcalf demonstrates how the ritual sand social organization of death serve as a crucial point of entry into the cosmology of a non-Western culture
Books of Death
Mortality and Immortality
A Borneo Journey into Death. Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals (Symbol and Culture)
A Borneo Journey into Death
"On Uchibori's Review of "A Borneo Journey into Death
The Honey Tree Song
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Wine of the Corpse
Research Article| January 01 1987 Wine of the Corpse: Endocannibalism and the Great Feast of the Dead in Borneo Peter Metcalf Peter Metcalf Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1987) 17: 96–109. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043794 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
On the Meaning of Death
Where Are You Spirits
Celebrations of Death
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as we…
Where Are You/Spirits? Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer
Where Are You/Spirits
Aban Jau's Boast
Who this rajah was, and what constituted the sultan's fence, will require some explanation. The thrust of Aban Jau's boast seems plain enough, however; it is an assertion of independence, the flat refusal of a small-scale society of the sort that used to be called primitive to be drawn into a repressive world order. It is an instance of the struggle that Pierre Clastres has characterized as Society against the State.'
Nomades et sédentarisation à Bornéo
Voilà ce que je dis
Metcalf Peter. « Voilà ce que je dis » : la projection de la parole dans la prière berewan. In: L'Homme, 1994, tome 34 n°132. Anthropologie de la prière. pp. 59-76
The Coming of the Gods
The Book in the Coffin
For the Sake of Our Future
For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp
Film reviews
Xingú: Body and soul Body and Soul (O Corpo e os Espímtos). Directed by Mari Corréa; camera, Dado Aguiar; sound, Myaú Kayabi. 1996; 54 mins., color. Portuguese narration; English subtitles. Distributor: Les Films du village, 24–26 rue des Prairies, 75020, Paris, France. Emancipation Efforts of African Women: Two Activist Films I Have a Problem, Madam. Directed by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele. 1995, 59 minutes, VHS, color. Distributed by Fir…
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