Knut Rio

Datos Biográficos

ID3637557
NOMBREKnut Rio
NOMBRESKnut
APELLIDORio
FIRMARIO K
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H1

  • Beyond Rationalism

    Rohan Bastin, Marit Brendbekken et al.BOOKBeyond rationalism2022Citada por: 1

    This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the tr…

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

    Open AccessKnut Rio, Michelle Maccarthy et al.BOOKPentecostalism and Witchcraft2017

    This chapter examines how witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are reproduced among the educated working and middle classes in Papua New Guinea. In a context where tertiary schooling is accessible only to a tiny segment of the population, many educated people in PNG feel anxious about their social position and worry that their upward mobility will provoke envy and resentment in the less fortunate. This anxiety is projected most strongly onto the “ples …

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

    Knut Rio, Michelle Maccarthy et al.BOOKPentecostalism and Witchcraft2017

  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

    Knut Rio, Michelle Maccarthy et al.BOOKPentecostalism and Witchcraft2017

    charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography

  • Exchange and sacrifice – Edited by Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew Strathern

    Open AccessKnut RioARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2010

  • Hierarchy

    Knut Rio, Olaf H SmedalBOOKHeirarchy2008

    Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middle East they challenge some current conceptions of hierarchical formations and reassess former debates - of post-colonial and neo-colonial agendas, ideas of…