Janet Hoskins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78969 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janet Hoskins |
| NOMBRES | Janet |
| APELLIDO | Hoskins |
| FIRMA | HOSKINS J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1459-2487 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 415 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1936 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia
"Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 23(4-5), pp. 417–418
On not eating onions and grains
The conspicuous consumption of luxurious foods and goods is a way to display an elite standing in the material world. In Asian religions, the conspicuous non-consumption of certain foods can mark an elite standing in the spiritual world. Caodaism is a new Vietnamese religion founded in the early 20th century which combines Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism with Theosophy, French Spiritism and Roman Catholicism. Caodaism today is the third largest…
What's the Use of Art?
Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television br…
The Divine Eye and the Diaspora
What is the relationship between syncretism and diaspora? Caodaism is a large but almost unknown new religion that provides answers to this question. Born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, it is now reshaping the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, its "outrageous syncretism" incorporates Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as…
Globalizing Vietnamese Religions
Introduction| May 01 2017 Globalizing Vietnamese Religions Janet Alison Hoskins, Janet Alison Hoskins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Thien-Huong T. Ninh Thien-Huong T. Ninh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2017) 12 (2): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/jvs.2017.12.2.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supple…
Sacralizing the Diaspora
Diasporas are experienced and theorized by those who move from one country to another, who may narrate their lives as ones of exile and separation, or alternatively as part of a divinely coordinated plan for exodus. The perspectives of the modernist and syncretistic religion of Caodaism stress the trauma of colonial conquest, and incorporate many new external elements into a constantly expanding cosmopolitan cosmology, while followers of the spir…
Les Oracles du Cao Ðài
Reviewed by: Les Oracles du Cao Ðài: Étude d’un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux by Jérémy Jammes Janet Hoskins (bio) Les Oracles du Cao Ðài: Étude d’un mouvement religieux vietnamien et de ses réseaux [The oracles of Cao Đài: A study of a Vietnamese religious movement and its networks]. Preface by Georges Condominas. By Jérémy Jammes. Paris: Les Indes savants, 2014. xvi+ 614 pp. Les Oracles du Cao Đài is a very impressive work, o…
Symbolism in Anthropology
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer, director; Signe Byrge Sorensen, producer. Featuring Anwar Congo, Jusuf Kalla, etc. Produced by Final Cut for Real, Denmark, 2012; 159 or 115 mins. Available
Transpacific Studies
Transpacific Studies
The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilizations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The twentieth century, with wars fought in and over the Pacific, is only the most recent era to witness military strife and economic competition. Recognizing the increasing importance of the transpacif…
An Unjealous God
Despite the immense success of Christianity in many parts of the Global South, Asian intellectuals have often resisted actual conversion by incorporating Christian elements into new, more universal forms of spirituality. Caodaism, a syncretistic religion that emerged in French Indochina, offers one case study of this process, which is also found in Hinduism, Bahaism, and several Chinese redemptive societies. The place of Jesus within this new pan…
Biographical Objects
Biographical Objects
Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives explores the complex relationship between people and their possessions, demonstrating how objects act as repositories of memory, identity, and social relationships. Janet Hoskins argues that objects are not merely passive belongings but active participants in the construction and negotiation of biographies. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, the book examines how individ…
KIRSTEN W. ENDRES. Performing the Divine
stands on solid empirical and comparative grounds.But he fails to ask this crucial question to his respondents: have your lives improved considerably since the roads, schools and hospitals were built or improved?The book oddly says nothing about incomes and inequalities, content to rely on the vagueness of terms like development or improvement.We have no idea of how poor Suphanburi was before Banharn started pouring in infrastructure funds; neith…
A Posthumous Return from Exile
The 2006 return of the body Phạm Công Tắc, one of the founding spirit mediums of Caodaism and its most famous 20th century leader, re-awakened controversies about his life and legacy among Caodaists both in Vietnam and in the diaspora. This paper argues that his most important contribution lay in formulating a utopian project to support the struggle for independence by providing a religiously based repertoire of concepts to imagine national auton…
Diaspora as Religious Doctrine
Religion and nationalism are analytically separated and often even seen as opposing forces. But Cao Dài history and theology fuses religion and nationalism, and their relationship is the defining tension in the life of Ð? V?n Lý (1910–2008). As a revolutionary, diplomat, ambassador, and religious leader, he was both a political and a religious activist who articulated a vision of “Vietnamese exceptionalism” first announced in spirit messages from…
Seeing syncretism as visual blasphemy
The exuberant, eclectic architecture of the Caodai Holy See in French Indochina was described as a “grotesque combination” of European and Asian elements by several famous writers and this sense of horror served to construct a notion of “visual blasphemy” which merged aesthetic and ethical elements. Architecture is always read and misread though a cultural lens. It has been argued that the colonial “world as staged” (Mitchell 1999) produced its o…
When the Sun Rises
Biography
The use of biography in the social sciences has come to new prominence in recent decades because of disciplinary shifts towards narrative analysis, reflexivity, phenomenology and hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism, as well as the persistence of Marxist and feminist thought. The longer history of biography goes back to humanistic portraits of “great men” enshrined in literary biographies and historical studies. Still earlier models in…
Afterword-gendering religious objects
The articles in this special issue demonstrate how objects can be interpreted as agents, as gendered images that make a statement, and how their impacts can be understood and assessed by human actors. They are differentially placed in matrices of power, and they can be manipulated to shift genders, to play with gendered combinations, to expand the limits of a particular gendered domain, to creatively play with reproductive imagery, and even to se…
Agency, Biography and Objects
Slaves, brides and other ‘gifts’
Marriage is an occasion at which questions of rank come to the surface in the ‘house’ based societies of Eastern Indonesia and it is also an occasion when notions of family and alliance flirt with
Modernity and Re-Enchantment
Domesticating Animals and Wives
Biographical Objects
Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives explores the complex relationship between people and their possessions, demonstrating how objects act as repositories of memory, identity, and social relationships. Janet Hoskins argues that objects are not merely passive belongings but active participants in the construction and negotiation of biographies. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, the book examines how individ…
Purity, Soul Food, and Sunni Islam
Contemporary African American followers of Sunni Islam are self-consciously articulating a form of eating that they see as liberating them from the heritage of slavery, while also bringing them into conformity with Islamic notions of purity. In so doing, they participate in arguments about the meaning of "soul food," the relation between "Western" materialism and "Eastern" spirituality, and bodily health and its relation to mental liberation. Deb…
The Materiality and Locality of Everyday Lives
Biographical Objects
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
Contributors 1. Introduction: headhunting as practice and trope Janet Hoskins 2. Lyric, history, and allegory, or the end of headhunting ritual in upland Sulawesi Kenneth M. George 3. Headtaking and the consolidation of political power in the early Brunei state Allen R. Maxwell 4. Severed heads that germinate the state: history, politics, and headhunting in Southwest Timor Andrew McWilliam 5. Buaya headhunting and its ritual: notes from a headhun…
The Headhunter as Hero
After independence, a search for national heroes in the Indonesian struggle against colonialism drew attention to Wona Kaka, a Sumbanese headhunter who raided Dutch forces in 1911. Praised by some as the first figure in a common national history, he is also used as a champion of local tradition who resists integration into the "imagined community" of the Indonesian state. Controversy over efforts to "call back his soul" from Java shows the ideolo…
So my name shall live
In many different parts of Indonesia, people have built large and im pressive graves for the dead, and have marked their burial with elaborate rituals and lavish distributions of food. The flamboyance of Balinese cremations, Toraja cave burials, Batak sarcophagi and Borneo mauso leums are by now familiar to wider audiences. The explicit links between the splendor of the funeral ceremonies and the social status of the deceased are also clear. In t…
Violence, Sacrifice, and Divination
Classical theorists have focused on the "gift of life" in sacrifice and its reinforcement of hierarchical divisions, but have paid little attention to the violent "taking of life" and the divinatory significance of the body. This case study from the Kodi people of Sumba examines what is at stake in the bloody struggle between sacrificers and their animal victims. Social relations between juniors and seniors are dramatized by the subjugation and k…
On Losing and Getting a Head
The taking of bloody heads in vengeance raids on neighboring peoples defined the parameters of leadership and political relations on the Eastern Indonesian island of Sumba a century ago. After pacification in the 1920s, exchange values of fierceness, military skill, and violent conquest were transformed into modern ones of rivalrous diplomacy, feasting, and alliance. Yoseph Malo, a prominent figure in these transformations, decided to negotiate w…
Predatory Voyeurs
Tourism has been theorized in a new ethnography of modernity, stressing the museumization of the premodern and its production as spectacle. In this article, I explore the voice and perspective of the "tribal culture" recently exposed to a new type of gaze. Tourists are perceived as predatory voyeurs on Sumba, a once remote area now receiving increasing numbers of foreign visitors. An idiom of visual consumption encodes a critical awareness of glo…
The drum is the shaman, the spear guides his voice
An Unjealous God
Despite the immense success of Christianity in many parts of the Global South, Asian intellectuals have often resisted actual conversion by incorporating Christian elements into new, more universal forms of spirituality. Caodaism, a syncretistic religion that emerged in French Indochina, offers one case study of this process, which is also found in Hinduism, Bahaism, and several Chinese redemptive societies. The place of Jesus within this new pan…
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Laurie Sears. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pp
Burned paddy and lost souls
O Koni of a single fruit O
A Life History from Both Sides
Anthropological uses of life histories are reexamined in relation to a spontaneously created poetic text reflecting on personal experience and especially the consequences of participating in anthropological research. The life of an important traditional chanter on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is presented in both his own words and mine, illustrating ways in which the critical and inquisitive skills of a good informant can both awaken so…
Slaves, brides and other ‘gifts’
Marriage is an occasion at which questions of rank come to the surface in the ‘house’ based societies of Eastern Indonesia and it is also an occasion when notions of family and alliance flirt with
Changing Lives, Changing Rites
Afterword-gendering religious objects
The articles in this special issue demonstrate how objects can be interpreted as agents, as gendered images that make a statement, and how their impacts can be understood and assessed by human actors. They are differentially placed in matrices of power, and they can be manipulated to shift genders, to play with gendered combinations, to expand the limits of a particular gendered domain, to creatively play with reproductive imagery, and even to se…
The Play of Time
The Menstrual Hut and the Witch's Lair in Two Eastern Indonesian Societies
Janet Hoskins, The Menstrual Hut and the Witch's Lair in Two Eastern Indonesian Societies, Ethnology, Vol. 41, No. 4, Special Issue: Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution (Autumn, 2002), pp. 317-333
Seeing syncretism as visual blasphemy
The exuberant, eclectic architecture of the Caodai Holy See in French Indochina was described as a “grotesque combination” of European and Asian elements by several famous writers and this sense of horror served to construct a notion of “visual blasphemy” which merged aesthetic and ethical elements. Architecture is always read and misread though a cultural lens. It has been argued that the colonial “world as staged” (Mitchell 1999) produced its o…
Sacralizing the Diaspora
Diasporas are experienced and theorized by those who move from one country to another, who may narrate their lives as ones of exile and separation, or alternatively as part of a divinely coordinated plan for exodus. The perspectives of the modernist and syncretistic religion of Caodaism stress the trauma of colonial conquest, and incorporate many new external elements into a constantly expanding cosmopolitan cosmology, while followers of the spir…
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer, director; Signe Byrge Sorensen, producer. Featuring Anwar Congo, Jusuf Kalla, etc. Produced by Final Cut for Real, Denmark, 2012; 159 or 115 mins. Available
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba. Joel C. Kuipers. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 185 pp
The Anthropology of Time
National Public Works— Addendum, Vol. II
National Public Works— Addendum, Vol. II J. K. Hoskins CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.1.81-a Published Online: August 29, 2011
A Life History from Both Sides
Anthropological uses of life histories are reexamined in relation to a spontaneously created poetic text reflecting on personal experience and especially the consequences of participating in anthropological research. The life of an important traditional chanter on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is presented in both his own words and mine, illustrating ways in which the critical and inquisitive skills of a good informant can both awaken so…
So my name shall live
In many different parts of Indonesia, people have built large and im pressive graves for the dead, and have marked their burial with elaborate rituals and lavish distributions of food. The flamboyance of Balinese cremations, Toraja cave burials, Batak sarcophagi and Borneo mauso leums are by now familiar to wider audiences. The explicit links between the splendor of the funeral ceremonies and the social status of the deceased are also clear. In t…
The Headhunter as Hero
After independence, a search for national heroes in the Indonesian struggle against colonialism drew attention to Wona Kaka, a Sumbanese headhunter who raided Dutch forces in 1911. Praised by some as the first figure in a common national history, he is also used as a champion of local tradition who resists integration into the "imagined community" of the Indonesian state. Controversy over efforts to "call back his soul" from Java shows the ideolo…
The drum is the shaman, the spear guides his voice
Burned paddy and lost souls
O Koni of a single fruit O
On Losing and Getting a Head
The taking of bloody heads in vengeance raids on neighboring peoples defined the parameters of leadership and political relations on the Eastern Indonesian island of Sumba a century ago. After pacification in the 1920s, exchange values of fierceness, military skill, and violent conquest were transformed into modern ones of rivalrous diplomacy, feasting, and alliance. Yoseph Malo, a prominent figure in these transformations, decided to negotiate w…
Changing Lives, Changing Rites
Where Are YOU/SPIRITS
Tobelo Marriage . 1982 (released in U.S. 1990). 106 minutes, color. A film by Dirk Nijland
Rice, Rupees, and Ritual
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Violence, Sacrifice, and Divination
Classical theorists have focused on the "gift of life" in sacrifice and its reinforcement of hierarchical divisions, but have paid little attention to the violent "taking of life" and the divinatory significance of the body. This case study from the Kodi people of Sumba examines what is at stake in the bloody struggle between sacrificers and their animal victims. Social relations between juniors and seniors are dramatized by the subjugation and k…
From a Shattered Sun
The Play of TimeKodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange
This book provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, it focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. The book explores the cont…
The Anthropology of Time
Alternative Realities
The Play of Time
This book provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, it focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. The book explores the cont…
Social Being and Time
Letter for an Angel
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia
Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Laurie Sears. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 350 pp
The Play of Time
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
Contributors 1. Introduction: headhunting as practice and trope Janet Hoskins 2. Lyric, history, and allegory, or the end of headhunting ritual in upland Sulawesi Kenneth M. George 3. Headtaking and the consolidation of political power in the early Brunei state Allen R. Maxwell 4. Severed heads that germinate the state: history, politics, and headhunting in Southwest Timor Andrew McWilliam 5. Buaya headhunting and its ritual: notes from a headhun…
The Materiality and Locality of Everyday Lives
Biographical Objects
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