Mathias Guenther
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3581027 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mathias Guenther |
| NOMBRES | Mathias |
| APELLIDO | Guenther |
| FIRMA | GUENTHER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 529 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
San Bushman Human–Lion Transformation and the “Credulity of Others
Lion transformation, among San-Bushmen, is arguably the most dramatic and spectacular instance of animal transformation. Transformation is a central component of San curing and initiation ritual and of certain San hunting practices. Moreover, it is a recurrent theme in San mythology, art and cosmology, all of them domains of San expressive and symbolic culture that are pervaded by ontological mutability (manifested most strikingly in the theriant…
The Politics of Egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Therianthropes in a Cartesian and an Animistic Cosmology
The nature of human-animal hybrid beings (or therianthropes) is examined in an Animistic (traditional San Bushman) and a Cartesian (Early Modern Western) cosmology. In each ontological ambiguity is imagined and conceptualized in different terms. One of them is through monstrosity, which, in the Western schema, is equated with human-animal hybridity. This equivalence threatens the boundaries and categories that buttress western cosmology, through …
Karla Poewe, The Namibian Herero
Karla POEWE, The Namibian Herero: A History of their Psychosocial Disintegration and Survival, Lewiston/Queenston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985. 364 pages. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 7, numéro 2, 1987, p. 3-79) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Humans and Elephants, Transforming and Transformed
Two myth texts were collected by the author from the Naro storyteller Qhomatcã in May 1995, on the motifs of ontological transformation and the equivalence of women and game. The animal featured in the two stories is the elephant, a species especially close in San myth and belief to humans, especially women. Transformation and woman–game conflation are both pan-San mythemes and premier manifestations of the cosmological theme of ontological mutab…
Nomadic peoples and human rights
This fascinating book is not easy to review as it straddles two disciplines, with distinct discourses and spheres of expertise: jurisprudence (specifically international and human rights law, the a
Therefore their parts resemble humans, for they feel that they are people
Despite resurrecting its central concept from one of the discipline’s Founding Fathers, the so-called ‘New Animism’ is very much a current branch of symbolic anthropology. With its focus on the rituals and beliefs and modes of thought specifically of simple hunters, hunter-gatherers, hunter-herders and hunter-horticulturalists, it is concerned with how humans conceive of their being in relation to non-human beings, in particular animals. Studies …
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
Meanderings and musings in the field of San and hunter-gatherer studies
The return of myth & symbolism’
Current Issues and Future Directions in Hunter-Gatherer Studies
Anthropos , Seite 371 - 388
N// e (?Talking?)
Like many other small-scale hunter-gatherers, the San (or Bushmen) of southern Africa have a vibrant oral culture and a society that is structurally loose. After first showing the multiple ways in which orality is manifest within the various institutional domains of San culture, the article examines the connection between orality and structural looseness. It is argued that, in playing itself out in San sociality, orality both underscores the loos…
San Spirituality Roots, Expressions, and Social Consequences
Obituary
Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics and the Primitivism Discourse
In recent years artists from two San communities in Botswana and Namibia have been producing paintings and prints which have become sought after by Western collectors, as instances of African primitive art. The art is produced in a context of intense identity politics, which in recent years have awakened the San politically and placed this hitherto passive ethnic minority on a course of political action. The art is especially relevant to the issu…
The Bushman Trickster
The Bushman Trickster:Protagonist, Divinity, and Agent of Creativity Mathias Guenther (bio) In a classic article and book on the subject, Carl Gustav Jung noted that "the so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster" (Jung 206). In this paper I would like to recall this virtually universal mythological and folkloric figure back to our civilized memory. I will draw most of my information from a tribal culture, the Bushmen of southern Africa…
Wandering God
Wandering God is the third of a remarkable trilogy on the evolution and diversity of the patterns thought and consciousness of Homo sapiens through the ages. Their manifestation, in spirituality and corporeality, were the themes of the previous two books, respectively, The Reenchantment of the World (1981) and Coming to Our Senses (1989). What Berman deals with in the present book, with impressive intellectual scope and erudition, is the shift of…
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
One of the world's oldest continuing societies, the Ju/'hoansi, or Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert offer profound insights into what is fundamental to human existence. In the face of outside pressures that threaten the complete disruption of their communal way of life, the Ju/'hoansi find deep spiritual resources in their traditional healing dance. Their indigenous method of healing individuals is also a powerful affirmation of the community, and …
Whither--Withering(?)--Hunter-Gatherer Studies? Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research. Ernest S. Burch Jr. , Linda Ellanna
Errors Corrected or Compounded? A Reply to Wilmsen
Contested images, contexted texts
The Trance Dancer as an Agent of Social Change among the Farm Bushmen of the Ghanzi District
About two-thirds of the approximately 10 000 farm Bushmen (or San2) of the Ghanzi District have undergone quite extensive socio-cultural change as a result of contact with white (immigrants from South Africa) and black (Kgalagari, Herero and Tswana) ranchers who settled in the district around the turn of the century. This contact has been disruptive in a number of respects and has created what the local farmers and administrators refer to as the …
The Nharo bushmen of Botswana
From 'Brutal Savages' to 'Harmless People'
J. D. Lewis-Williams
Territoriality Among Human Foragers
Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature sources for four Bushman groups, however, indicate that the most territorial of these groups are found where resources are sparsest and most variable. This paper has as its aim the extension of the animal models of territoriality to make them more widely applicabl…
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Oxen or Onions? The Search for Trade (and Truth) in the Kalahari
Problems in Kalahari Historical Ethnography and the Tolerance of Error
The !Kung San or Bushmen of Namibia and Botswana are one of the most thoroughly documented hunting and gathering societies in the annals of African anthropology. In recent years two radically different views of the !Kung San have emerged in the anthropological literature. One sees the !Kung as hunters and gatherers living under changed circumstances and maintaining an old but adaptable way of life: the characteristic features associated with the …
Therefore their parts resemble humans, for they feel that they are people
Despite resurrecting its central concept from one of the discipline’s Founding Fathers, the so-called ‘New Animism’ is very much a current branch of symbolic anthropology. With its focus on the rituals and beliefs and modes of thought specifically of simple hunters, hunter-gatherers, hunter-herders and hunter-horticulturalists, it is concerned with how humans conceive of their being in relation to non-human beings, in particular animals. Studies …
San Spirituality Roots, Expressions, and Social Consequences
Errors Corrected or Compounded? A Reply to Wilmsen
The Bushman Trickster
The Bushman Trickster:Protagonist, Divinity, and Agent of Creativity Mathias Guenther (bio) In a classic article and book on the subject, Carl Gustav Jung noted that "the so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster" (Jung 206). In this paper I would like to recall this virtually universal mythological and folkloric figure back to our civilized memory. I will draw most of my information from a tribal culture, the Bushmen of southern Africa…
Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics and the Primitivism Discourse
In recent years artists from two San communities in Botswana and Namibia have been producing paintings and prints which have become sought after by Western collectors, as instances of African primitive art. The art is produced in a context of intense identity politics, which in recent years have awakened the San politically and placed this hitherto passive ethnic minority on a course of political action. The art is especially relevant to the issu…
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
Contested images, contexted texts
Humans and Elephants, Transforming and Transformed
Two myth texts were collected by the author from the Naro storyteller Qhomatcã in May 1995, on the motifs of ontological transformation and the equivalence of women and game. The animal featured in the two stories is the elephant, a species especially close in San myth and belief to humans, especially women. Transformation and woman–game conflation are both pan-San mythemes and premier manifestations of the cosmological theme of ontological mutab…
Current Issues and Future Directions in Hunter-Gatherer Studies
Anthropos , Seite 371 - 388
N// e (?Talking?)
Like many other small-scale hunter-gatherers, the San (or Bushmen) of southern Africa have a vibrant oral culture and a society that is structurally loose. After first showing the multiple ways in which orality is manifest within the various institutional domains of San culture, the article examines the connection between orality and structural looseness. It is argued that, in playing itself out in San sociality, orality both underscores the loos…
Märchen aus Namibia
Bushman Hunters as Farm Labourers
RÉSUMÉCette étude analyse les processus d'intégration et d'adaptation de la cinquième génération de Farm Bushmen (hommes de la brousse devenus travailleurs agricoles) dans la région de Ghanzi au Botswana, à la société de peuplement des éleveurs blancs qui a été implantée dans ce milieu. Ces processus sont analysés à partir des origines socio-économiques des Bushmen en tant que société de chasse et de cueillette—origines qui ont été en partie cons…
Transitions. Four Rituals in Eight Cultures , By Martha Nemes Fried and Morton H. Fried. W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 306 pages, 1980
"Transitions. Four Rituals in Eight Cultures, By Martha Nemes Fried and Morton H. Fried. W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 306 pages, 1980." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 13(1), pp. 109–110
Books/Livres
Territoriality Among Human Foragers
Cost-benefit models derived from evolutionary ecology have led to the general expectation that territoriality will be found where resources are most abundant and predictable. Literature sources for four Bushman groups, however, indicate that the most territorial of these groups are found where resources are sparsest and most variable. This paper has as its aim the extension of the animal models of territoriality to make them more widely applicabl…
Märchen aus Namibia
Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Bushman Folktales
Oxen or Onions? The Search for Trade (and Truth) in the Kalahari
The Pattern Is the Thing
Problems in Kalahari Historical Ethnography and the Tolerance of Error
The !Kung San or Bushmen of Namibia and Botswana are one of the most thoroughly documented hunting and gathering societies in the annals of African anthropology. In recent years two radically different views of the !Kung San have emerged in the anthropological literature. One sees the !Kung as hunters and gatherers living under changed circumstances and maintaining an old but adaptable way of life: the characteristic features associated with the …
Whither--Withering(?)--Hunter-Gatherer Studies? Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research. Ernest S. Burch Jr. , Linda Ellanna
Errors Corrected or Compounded? A Reply to Wilmsen
Contested images, contexted texts
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
One of the world's oldest continuing societies, the Ju/'hoansi, or Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert offer profound insights into what is fundamental to human existence. In the face of outside pressures that threaten the complete disruption of their communal way of life, the Ju/'hoansi find deep spiritual resources in their traditional healing dance. Their indigenous method of healing individuals is also a powerful affirmation of the community, and …
Wandering God
Wandering God is the third of a remarkable trilogy on the evolution and diversity of the patterns thought and consciousness of Homo sapiens through the ages. Their manifestation, in spirituality and corporeality, were the themes of the previous two books, respectively, The Reenchantment of the World (1981) and Coming to Our Senses (1989). What Berman deals with in the present book, with impressive intellectual scope and erudition, is the shift of…
The Bushman Trickster
The Bushman Trickster:Protagonist, Divinity, and Agent of Creativity Mathias Guenther (bio) In a classic article and book on the subject, Carl Gustav Jung noted that "the so-called civilized man has forgotten the trickster" (Jung 206). In this paper I would like to recall this virtually universal mythological and folkloric figure back to our civilized memory. I will draw most of my information from a tribal culture, the Bushmen of southern Africa…
Obituary
Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics and the Primitivism Discourse
In recent years artists from two San communities in Botswana and Namibia have been producing paintings and prints which have become sought after by Western collectors, as instances of African primitive art. The art is produced in a context of intense identity politics, which in recent years have awakened the San politically and placed this hitherto passive ethnic minority on a course of political action. The art is especially relevant to the issu…
San Spirituality Roots, Expressions, and Social Consequences
N// e (?Talking?)
Like many other small-scale hunter-gatherers, the San (or Bushmen) of southern Africa have a vibrant oral culture and a society that is structurally loose. After first showing the multiple ways in which orality is manifest within the various institutional domains of San culture, the article examines the connection between orality and structural looseness. It is argued that, in playing itself out in San sociality, orality both underscores the loos…
The return of myth & symbolism’
Current Issues and Future Directions in Hunter-Gatherer Studies
Anthropos , Seite 371 - 388
Meanderings and musings in the field of San and hunter-gatherer studies
War and peace among Kalahari San
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent ethnographic accounts, the former depicting the San as intensely warlike, the latter as basically peaceable. Design/methodology/approach – Review of historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic source material (reports, journal articles, monographs). Findings – The…
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