Hal B Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 89646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hal B Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hal B |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7101-802X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Paula Brown Glick
From time to time, readers and contributors to Oceania inquire whether we have published an obituary of a particular Oceanian scholar. Oceania does not routinely publish obituaries, but these enquiries reveal a desire to be reminded of or to have the chance to acknowledge an intellectual debt to a colleague. Consequently, short tributes to such scholars will appear as an occasional feature in Oceania. 'Paula Brown Glick: a Retrospective' is the f…
Status Rivalry and the Politics of Biculturalism in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
Could it be that despite a huge literature spanning decades from many disciplines, a corpus of writing that examines seemingly every twist and turn of a complex situation, we still are missing something basic and fundamental to a proper understanding of contemporary cultural politics in Aotearoa New Zealand? A thing so obvious and omnipresent, that it was characterized long ago in the anthropological literature as the fundamental dynamic of Polyn…
Divergent paths, the pursuit of cultural recognition in Aotearoa New Zealand
Stimulated by a recent government ban on kosher slaughter (shechita), and a whale stranding involving Ngāti Toa near Wellington, the author compares the quests of Indigenous and minority groups for cultural rights in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Observing Māori and Jews navigating in the contexts of the Treaty of Waitangi and human rights legislation, this paper provides concrete ethnographic examples that highlight how such claims articulate with the…
Visiting Tieke Kāainga
Whanganui National Park is one of New Zealand's leading tourist attractions. Tieke Kainga (Tieke settlement) is a Department of Conservation camp site in the middle reaches of the river that was occupied in the mid‐1990s by members of Tamahaki an indigenous group who claim that the land was taken from them illegally. Although a modus vivendi currently exists whereby the Department and Maori group co manage the site, Tamahaki's struggle for exclus…
Tieke
The Māori site of Tieke Marae is located on a Department of Conservation campsite in Whanganui National Park, New Zealand. It has been occupied for 16 years by members of the Tamahaki hapu (sub-tribe, known as Te Whanau o Tieke (the family of Tieke), and their supporters. Tamahaki maintain that Tieke Marae was confiscated illegally, and that they will remain in place until the New Zealand Government recognises their claim to 267 acres currently i…
Claiming Indigenous Rights to Culture, Flora, and Fauna
Maori individuals and groups in New Zealand have been active for many years claiming rights to property and resources guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. An important contemporary case, Wai 262, extends the scope of these claims to include ownership of Maori culture and its products. The tendency in this claim to reify culture, and to assert indigenous ownership of it, is common. However, New Zealand's approach to the issue of cult…
Lumpers, Splitters and Sagging Pillars
Anthropologists have been narrowing the scope of the discipline for a long time. It has become less comparative, less concerned with wide-ranging questions about human nature, more narrowly ethnographic and increasingly relativistic. These trends have become strong enough in recent times to seriously undermine anthropology’s fundamental project – to understand social and cultural reality. Personal experiences with researching and writing about et…
Como Sabes, Depresión
(2003). Como Sabes, Depresion. Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol. 7, Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists, pp. 75-77
Some Reflections on Samoan Cultural Practice and Group Identity in Contemporary Wellington, New Zealand
The relationships between social and cultural transformation and identity change are subtle and complex. This paper reflects on trends in these relationships in the Samoan community in Wellington, New Zealand through an examination of the content of interviews about an important cultural practice (fa'alavelave). After discussing fa'alavelave and its importance to Samoan life four themes are presented that show how our informants perceive the inte…
Gestational Surrogacy
Anthropological writing about the new reproductive technologies has focused on how they undermine presumed links between nature and culture in kinship. Surrogate motherhood in particular is said to show that facts serve as symbolic resources to facilitate choice, a key value of Western culture. This work has generated important insights into contemporary discourse about the social and cultural implications of reproductive technology. However, tre…
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Respectable Lives
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as w…
The secular ideology of jewish ethnicity in NEW Zealand
Making sense of Jewish ethnicity
Modern social life is sometimes characterized as 'post-traditional', an environment where personal identity is continually reconstructed. Concepts of ethnic identity on the other hand usually evoke some notion of tradition, continuity with the past, and intersubjectivity. This article discusses the personal accounts of Jewishness given by a sample of New Zealanders with 'mixed' (Jewish and gentile) backgrounds. It explores and analyses their use …
Cultural Politics in New Zealand
Steward Island
Pre-Capitalism and Cosmology
Entrepreneurship and Social Change
The actions of entrepreneurial fishermen, and their effects on the social organization of the small community on Stewart Island, New Zealand, are discussed in this paper. An ethnographic approach is taken to exploring the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and social change on the island, which is currently experiencing resource decline. The material is used to present an argument that the stress on rational decision making and e…
Controlling Access
Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]
The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in …
Urbanization in Papua New Guinea
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply]
Family, fertility, and economics are inextricably intertwined. Yet despite intensive investigation, the interdependencies among these phenomena remain elusive. Expectations based on cross-cultural research and the theory of industrial society are contradicted by studies from throughout the industrial and industrializing world. Foundamental conceptual errors underlie these difficulties. This paper indicates how the interdependencies among family, …
Social Constructions and Urban Ethnicity
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]
The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in …
Gestational Surrogacy
Anthropological writing about the new reproductive technologies has focused on how they undermine presumed links between nature and culture in kinship. Surrogate motherhood in particular is said to show that facts serve as symbolic resources to facilitate choice, a key value of Western culture. This work has generated important insights into contemporary discourse about the social and cultural implications of reproductive technology. However, tre…
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply]
Family, fertility, and economics are inextricably intertwined. Yet despite intensive investigation, the interdependencies among these phenomena remain elusive. Expectations based on cross-cultural research and the theory of industrial society are contradicted by studies from throughout the industrial and industrializing world. Foundamental conceptual errors underlie these difficulties. This paper indicates how the interdependencies among family, …
Respectable Lives
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as w…
Cultural Politics in New Zealand
Controlling Access
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
Claiming Indigenous Rights to Culture, Flora, and Fauna
Maori individuals and groups in New Zealand have been active for many years claiming rights to property and resources guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. An important contemporary case, Wai 262, extends the scope of these claims to include ownership of Maori culture and its products. The tendency in this claim to reify culture, and to assert indigenous ownership of it, is common. However, New Zealand's approach to the issue of cult…
Urbanization in Papua New Guinea
Making sense of Jewish ethnicity
Modern social life is sometimes characterized as 'post-traditional', an environment where personal identity is continually reconstructed. Concepts of ethnic identity on the other hand usually evoke some notion of tradition, continuity with the past, and intersubjectivity. This article discusses the personal accounts of Jewishness given by a sample of New Zealanders with 'mixed' (Jewish and gentile) backgrounds. It explores and analyses their use …
Tieke
The Māori site of Tieke Marae is located on a Department of Conservation campsite in Whanganui National Park, New Zealand. It has been occupied for 16 years by members of the Tamahaki hapu (sub-tribe, known as Te Whanau o Tieke (the family of Tieke), and their supporters. Tamahaki maintain that Tieke Marae was confiscated illegally, and that they will remain in place until the New Zealand Government recognises their claim to 267 acres currently i…
Pre-Capitalism and Cosmology
Family, Fertility, and Economics [and Comments and Reply]
Family, fertility, and economics are inextricably intertwined. Yet despite intensive investigation, the interdependencies among these phenomena remain elusive. Expectations based on cross-cultural research and the theory of industrial society are contradicted by studies from throughout the industrial and industrializing world. Foundamental conceptual errors underlie these difficulties. This paper indicates how the interdependencies among family, …
Social Constructions and Urban Ethnicity
Indigenous Anthropology in Papua New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]
This paper describes the extent to which at this time anthropology in Papua New Guinea, defined as studies of traditional cultures and societies and of changing social structures, is beginning to be conducted by Papua New Guineans. From a growing literature the writer selects the work of 12 Papua New Guineans for detailed discussion. They are selected because their approach is more analytical than that of many other writers and because in various…
Urbanization in Papua New Guinea
Ecological Theory and Ethnic Differentiation Among Human Populations [and Comments and Replies]
The formation and maintenance of distinct ethnic populations within multiethnic communities is proposed to be functionally equivalent to the process of species diversification in multispecies communities. This paper suggests that while these processes operate through different selective mechanisms-one social and the other genetic-ethnic boundaries, like species boundaries, function to regulate the behavior of potentially competing populations in …
Controlling Access
Entrepreneurship and Social Change
The actions of entrepreneurial fishermen, and their effects on the social organization of the small community on Stewart Island, New Zealand, are discussed in this paper. An ethnographic approach is taken to exploring the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and social change on the island, which is currently experiencing resource decline. The material is used to present an argument that the stress on rational decision making and e…
Pre-Capitalism and Cosmology
Cultural Politics in New Zealand
Steward Island
The secular ideology of jewish ethnicity in NEW Zealand
Making sense of Jewish ethnicity
Modern social life is sometimes characterized as 'post-traditional', an environment where personal identity is continually reconstructed. Concepts of ethnic identity on the other hand usually evoke some notion of tradition, continuity with the past, and intersubjectivity. This article discusses the personal accounts of Jewishness given by a sample of New Zealanders with 'mixed' (Jewish and gentile) backgrounds. It explores and analyses their use …
Respectable Lives
Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath the social hierarchy. Hatch describes a cultural theory of social hierarchy that defines not only the local system of social rank, but personhood as w…
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Como Sabes, Depresión
(2003). Como Sabes, Depresion. Journal of Lesbian Studies: Vol. 7, Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists, pp. 75-77
Some Reflections on Samoan Cultural Practice and Group Identity in Contemporary Wellington, New Zealand
The relationships between social and cultural transformation and identity change are subtle and complex. This paper reflects on trends in these relationships in the Samoan community in Wellington, New Zealand through an examination of the content of interviews about an important cultural practice (fa'alavelave). After discussing fa'alavelave and its importance to Samoan life four themes are presented that show how our informants perceive the inte…
Gestational Surrogacy
Anthropological writing about the new reproductive technologies has focused on how they undermine presumed links between nature and culture in kinship. Surrogate motherhood in particular is said to show that facts serve as symbolic resources to facilitate choice, a key value of Western culture. This work has generated important insights into contemporary discourse about the social and cultural implications of reproductive technology. However, tre…
Lumpers, Splitters and Sagging Pillars
Anthropologists have been narrowing the scope of the discipline for a long time. It has become less comparative, less concerned with wide-ranging questions about human nature, more narrowly ethnographic and increasingly relativistic. These trends have become strong enough in recent times to seriously undermine anthropology’s fundamental project – to understand social and cultural reality. Personal experiences with researching and writing about et…
Claiming Indigenous Rights to Culture, Flora, and Fauna
Maori individuals and groups in New Zealand have been active for many years claiming rights to property and resources guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. An important contemporary case, Wai 262, extends the scope of these claims to include ownership of Maori culture and its products. The tendency in this claim to reify culture, and to assert indigenous ownership of it, is common. However, New Zealand's approach to the issue of cult…
Visiting Tieke Kāainga
Whanganui National Park is one of New Zealand's leading tourist attractions. Tieke Kainga (Tieke settlement) is a Department of Conservation camp site in the middle reaches of the river that was occupied in the mid‐1990s by members of Tamahaki an indigenous group who claim that the land was taken from them illegally. Although a modus vivendi currently exists whereby the Department and Maori group co manage the site, Tamahaki's struggle for exclus…
Tieke
The Māori site of Tieke Marae is located on a Department of Conservation campsite in Whanganui National Park, New Zealand. It has been occupied for 16 years by members of the Tamahaki hapu (sub-tribe, known as Te Whanau o Tieke (the family of Tieke), and their supporters. Tamahaki maintain that Tieke Marae was confiscated illegally, and that they will remain in place until the New Zealand Government recognises their claim to 267 acres currently i…
Status Rivalry and the Politics of Biculturalism in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
Could it be that despite a huge literature spanning decades from many disciplines, a corpus of writing that examines seemingly every twist and turn of a complex situation, we still are missing something basic and fundamental to a proper understanding of contemporary cultural politics in Aotearoa New Zealand? A thing so obvious and omnipresent, that it was characterized long ago in the anthropological literature as the fundamental dynamic of Polyn…
Divergent paths, the pursuit of cultural recognition in Aotearoa New Zealand
Stimulated by a recent government ban on kosher slaughter (shechita), and a whale stranding involving Ngāti Toa near Wellington, the author compares the quests of Indigenous and minority groups for cultural rights in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Observing Māori and Jews navigating in the contexts of the Treaty of Waitangi and human rights legislation, this paper provides concrete ethnographic examples that highlight how such claims articulate with the…
Paula Brown Glick
From time to time, readers and contributors to Oceania inquire whether we have published an obituary of a particular Oceanian scholar. Oceania does not routinely publish obituaries, but these enquiries reveal a desire to be reminded of or to have the chance to acknowledge an intellectual debt to a colleague. Consequently, short tributes to such scholars will appear as an occasional feature in Oceania. 'Paula Brown Glick: a Retrospective' is the f…
Sociology (19 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)