R Morgain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 20234 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Morgain |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Morgain |
| FIRMA | MORGAIN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4847-7177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ethical, Altruistic, and Self-Transcendent Meanings of Pets to Older People
The literature on older people and pets predominantly emphasizes the meanings of pets for maintaining independence and good health in later life. Yet a survey question asking older Australians to talk about what their pet means to them unexpectedly yielded novel insights over and above these predominant foci. A broader typology of the many meanings of pets to older people was developed from the survey responses, to give voice to the diverse persp…
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions
Knowledge exchange is a broad and consequential undertaking, analysed by diverse scholars, and rapidly growing as a field of academic practice. Its remit is to strengthen ties between research generators and users to support better material outcomes for society. This review paper considers how this increasingly codified academic field might engage with the research-practice concerns identified in the Indigenous and decolonial literature. We do so…
Feminism and Anthropology
Many pioneers in feminist anthropology were among the United States' cultural anthropologists from the early 1920s. Most notable among these was Margaret Mead, whose cross‐cultural writings on gender and sexual roles influenced later movements for women's liberation. By the 1970s, feminists had begun to question what they saw as the marginalization of women's lives and concerns from traditional ethnographies. A key debate at this time concerned t…
Nature/Culture Distinction
The nature/culture distinction, whereby culture is depicted as what humans create out of nature, is one of several conceptual oppositions that are important in anthropology and broader Western knowledge. It is rooted in an idea of nature existing outside of and preceding social life. It has been significant in gender studies, particularly through the common distinction drawn between natural sex and cultural gender. Many anthropologists now critiq…
Wonders and tremors in the aftershocks of high energy physics
This article addresses the quality of wonder that surrounds contemporary sites of high-energy physics, and the ethical implications of seeking to engage with these sites as sources of wonderment. It focuses on three pivot points in the emergence of high-energy physics that radiate with a quality of uncanny awe: the first atomic test, conducted under the codename Trinity; the statue of the dancing Nataraja outside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN…
The Gendered Culture of Scientific Competence
‘Break Down These Walls’
Patterns of sociality in F ijian evangelical C hristianity differ from the mainline F ijian M ethodist church in being notably less integrated with relations of vanua and chiefly hierarchy, leading scholars to speculate as to whether such traditions are more individualised. Analysing teachings, hymns, worship styles and spatial arrangements within a prominent F ijian P entecostal ministry, I explore how sociality is produced through the interacti…
Transforming Relations of Gender, Person, and Agency in Oceania
This introduction contextualises the nine papers that make up the special issue G ender and P erson in O ceania . Gender and personhood represent core orienting concepts within Pacific anthropology, from the pioneering work of M arilyn S trathern's G ender of the G ift to more recent scholarly attention to the impact of C hristianity and modernity. The papers in this volume offer a comparative and critical perspective on long‐standing ideas of ‘r…
Sacred materialism
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote The Gift , the notion that things exchanged as gifts take a personalised social form, and that they partake of and mediate relational sociality, has held an important place in anthropology. Examining material practices among contemporary Pagans in the Reclaiming tradition, this article shows how they seek to imbue things with personhood, exploring the sacredness of things as alive, active and participating in social …
Living Water
In multiethnic Fiji, where ethnic relations are often seen as fraught and potentially charged with conflict, and where religion closely follows lines of ethnicity, attempts by Christian churches to mediate interethnic relations and build multiethnic congregations can face difficult challenges. In this article, two contrasting Christian theologies are explored, both of which draw on theologies of water as a means of mediating interethnic engagemen…
Navigating Inspiration, Intimacy, Conflict, and Sleep in a Pagan Community
In a grassy clearing framed with towering fir trees, seven adults in their 20s and 30s lie together, drifting toward sleep. It is a late summer night, under crystalline stars in the crisp air, high in the mountains of Oregon. Quiet conversations drift between pairs and triplets lying close to one another: of shared histories, new friendships, the gentle reconciling of recent conflicts. Our bodies are relaxed, infused with the soft numinosity of t…
The alchemy of life
Reclaiming is a contemporary Pagan tradition rooted in the understanding that sacrality infuses the cosmos. Reclaiming teachers critique the ‘mechanistic’ basis of modern science and its rejection of magical thought, implicating this worldview in oppression, environmental devastation and colonialism. Their concerns resonate with an emerging critique among historians, who argue that the Enlightenment's rejection of Europe's ‘superstitious’ past wa…
Ethnographic visions of hope and global change
My God, My Land
My God, My Land: Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji Jacqueline Ryle Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2010 xxxvi + 304 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7546-7988-2, US$124.95 Many an
On the use of the uncanny in ritual
In ‘The Future of an Illusion’, Freud suggested that religion allows a person to ‘feel at home in the uncanny’ – that unsettling interplay of suppression and memory that arises from living subject to fears and anxieties in an unpredictable world. Here, the author examines a ritual called the ‘Wild Hunt’ that occurred during her ethnographic research among contemporary Pagans to explore how uncanny encounters within religious rituals can help part…
Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation
How does prayer change the person who prays? In this article, we report on a randomized controlled trial developed to test an ethnographic hypothesis. Our results suggest that prayer which uses the imagination-the kind of prayer practiced in many U.S. evangelical congregations-cultivates the inner senses, and that this cultivation has consequences. Mental imagery grows sharper. Inner experience seems more significant to the person praying. Feelin…
Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation
How does prayer change the person who prays? In this article, we report on a randomized controlled trial developed to test an ethnographic hypothesis. Our results suggest that prayer which uses the imagination-the kind of prayer practiced in many U.S. evangelical congregations-cultivates the inner senses, and that this cultivation has consequences. Mental imagery grows sharper. Inner experience seems more significant to the person praying. Feelin…
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions
Knowledge exchange is a broad and consequential undertaking, analysed by diverse scholars, and rapidly growing as a field of academic practice. Its remit is to strengthen ties between research generators and users to support better material outcomes for society. This review paper considers how this increasingly codified academic field might engage with the research-practice concerns identified in the Indigenous and decolonial literature. We do so…
The Gendered Culture of Scientific Competence
Living Water
In multiethnic Fiji, where ethnic relations are often seen as fraught and potentially charged with conflict, and where religion closely follows lines of ethnicity, attempts by Christian churches to mediate interethnic relations and build multiethnic congregations can face difficult challenges. In this article, two contrasting Christian theologies are explored, both of which draw on theologies of water as a means of mediating interethnic engagemen…
On the use of the uncanny in ritual
In ‘The Future of an Illusion’, Freud suggested that religion allows a person to ‘feel at home in the uncanny’ – that unsettling interplay of suppression and memory that arises from living subject to fears and anxieties in an unpredictable world. Here, the author examines a ritual called the ‘Wild Hunt’ that occurred during her ethnographic research among contemporary Pagans to explore how uncanny encounters within religious rituals can help part…
Prayer as Inner Sense Cultivation
How does prayer change the person who prays? In this article, we report on a randomized controlled trial developed to test an ethnographic hypothesis. Our results suggest that prayer which uses the imagination-the kind of prayer practiced in many U.S. evangelical congregations-cultivates the inner senses, and that this cultivation has consequences. Mental imagery grows sharper. Inner experience seems more significant to the person praying. Feelin…
Navigating Inspiration, Intimacy, Conflict, and Sleep in a Pagan Community
In a grassy clearing framed with towering fir trees, seven adults in their 20s and 30s lie together, drifting toward sleep. It is a late summer night, under crystalline stars in the crisp air, high in the mountains of Oregon. Quiet conversations drift between pairs and triplets lying close to one another: of shared histories, new friendships, the gentle reconciling of recent conflicts. Our bodies are relaxed, infused with the soft numinosity of t…
The alchemy of life
Reclaiming is a contemporary Pagan tradition rooted in the understanding that sacrality infuses the cosmos. Reclaiming teachers critique the ‘mechanistic’ basis of modern science and its rejection of magical thought, implicating this worldview in oppression, environmental devastation and colonialism. Their concerns resonate with an emerging critique among historians, who argue that the Enlightenment's rejection of Europe's ‘superstitious’ past wa…
Ethnographic visions of hope and global change
My God, My Land
My God, My Land: Interwoven Paths of Christianity and Tradition in Fiji Jacqueline Ryle Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2010 xxxvi + 304 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7546-7988-2, US$124.95 Many an
Sacred materialism
Ever since Marcel Mauss wrote The Gift , the notion that things exchanged as gifts take a personalised social form, and that they partake of and mediate relational sociality, has held an important place in anthropology. Examining material practices among contemporary Pagans in the Reclaiming tradition, this article shows how they seek to imbue things with personhood, exploring the sacredness of things as alive, active and participating in social …
Living Water
In multiethnic Fiji, where ethnic relations are often seen as fraught and potentially charged with conflict, and where religion closely follows lines of ethnicity, attempts by Christian churches to mediate interethnic relations and build multiethnic congregations can face difficult challenges. In this article, two contrasting Christian theologies are explored, both of which draw on theologies of water as a means of mediating interethnic engagemen…
‘Break Down These Walls’
Patterns of sociality in F ijian evangelical C hristianity differ from the mainline F ijian M ethodist church in being notably less integrated with relations of vanua and chiefly hierarchy, leading scholars to speculate as to whether such traditions are more individualised. Analysing teachings, hymns, worship styles and spatial arrangements within a prominent F ijian P entecostal ministry, I explore how sociality is produced through the interacti…
Transforming Relations of Gender, Person, and Agency in Oceania
This introduction contextualises the nine papers that make up the special issue G ender and P erson in O ceania . Gender and personhood represent core orienting concepts within Pacific anthropology, from the pioneering work of M arilyn S trathern's G ender of the G ift to more recent scholarly attention to the impact of C hristianity and modernity. The papers in this volume offer a comparative and critical perspective on long‐standing ideas of ‘r…
The Gendered Culture of Scientific Competence
Wonders and tremors in the aftershocks of high energy physics
This article addresses the quality of wonder that surrounds contemporary sites of high-energy physics, and the ethical implications of seeking to engage with these sites as sources of wonderment. It focuses on three pivot points in the emergence of high-energy physics that radiate with a quality of uncanny awe: the first atomic test, conducted under the codename Trinity; the statue of the dancing Nataraja outside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN…
Feminism and Anthropology
Many pioneers in feminist anthropology were among the United States' cultural anthropologists from the early 1920s. Most notable among these was Margaret Mead, whose cross‐cultural writings on gender and sexual roles influenced later movements for women's liberation. By the 1970s, feminists had begun to question what they saw as the marginalization of women's lives and concerns from traditional ethnographies. A key debate at this time concerned t…
Nature/Culture Distinction
The nature/culture distinction, whereby culture is depicted as what humans create out of nature, is one of several conceptual oppositions that are important in anthropology and broader Western knowledge. It is rooted in an idea of nature existing outside of and preceding social life. It has been significant in gender studies, particularly through the common distinction drawn between natural sex and cultural gender. Many anthropologists now critiq…
Centring Indigenous peoples in knowledge exchange research-practice by resetting assumptions, relationships and institutions
Knowledge exchange is a broad and consequential undertaking, analysed by diverse scholars, and rapidly growing as a field of academic practice. Its remit is to strengthen ties between research generators and users to support better material outcomes for society. This review paper considers how this increasingly codified academic field might engage with the research-practice concerns identified in the Indigenous and decolonial literature. We do so…
Ethical, Altruistic, and Self-Transcendent Meanings of Pets to Older People
The literature on older people and pets predominantly emphasizes the meanings of pets for maintaining independence and good health in later life. Yet a survey question asking older Australians to talk about what their pet means to them unexpectedly yielded novel insights over and above these predominant foci. A broader typology of the many meanings of pets to older people was developed from the survey responses, to give voice to the diverse persp…
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