Richard P Werbner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79255 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard P Werbner |
| NOMBRES | Richard P |
| APELLIDO | Werbner |
| FIRMA | WERBNER R P |
| AFILIACIONES | 1(University of Manchester, U.K. |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia
Holy Hustlers, Schism, and ProphecyApostolic Reformation in Botswana
This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. It focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana's capital. It shows how charismatic “prophets”—holy hustlers—diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. The book also shows how these healer…
Postcolonial subjectivities in Africa
Constitutional Ambiguities and the British Administration of Royal Careers Among the Bemba of Zambia
The Religious Imagination in New Guinea. Gilbert HERDT and Michele STEPHEN
Fambidzano
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Bwiti in Reflection
In a series of essays culminating in a powerful ethnography of the religion of Bwiti among the Fang of Gabon, James Fernandez has advancd a model of ritual, its sequencing and its tropes (1974; 1977; 1982; 1984; 1986). I want to take up his argument by seeing how it applies to movement and the unfolding of body imagery in the all-night vigil of Bwiti and, particularly, in its ascetic ordeal. The all-night vigil follows three movements or sequence…
Ulysses' Sail
What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be they Hindu pilgrims in India, Islamic scholars of West Africa, Navajo traders, or Tl…
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Anthropological Studies of Religion
In this important, scholarly and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many theoretical strategies in the study of religion that have been developed and explored by later anthropologists. Besides discussing the classical authors and the debates surrounding their work, Morris present…
Epilogue
Wyatt MacGaffey's paper shows that in looking upon Kongo min'kisi the European gaze turned the subjective phenomena into inert objects, at most of interest in the relations between a subject and the objects. The actual dynamics of min'kisi, the subject to subject relations fundamental for BaKongo themselves, were largely irrelevant for the misrecognition of min 'kisi as art or ethnographic curiosities. It was simply upon the basis of their own mo…
Dual Classification Reconsidered
Sacrifice in Africa
Settlement in Botswana
Land Reform in the Making
Land Reform in the Making
World Renewal
The Hidden Hippopotamus
The Quasi-Judicial and the Experience of the Absurd
The introduction of a quasi-judicial agency into a new nation in Africa brings with it many of the predicaments, dilemmas and contradictions that keep such agencies busy in Western countries. The power struggles, the encroachment on the rights of citizens, the problems of indeterminacy, apparent arbitrariness and uncertainty, all call to mind Western parallels, or rather, prototypes (cf. Handelman and Leyton 1978; Wraith and Hutcheson 1973; Bell …
Totemism' in History
The monolithic view of culture is inadequate for understanding the transformations which take place when strangers with heterogeneous sociocultural origins meet. Problems of the plurality of codes, of switching between alternatives, and the recoding of inequality and differentiation require special conceptualisation. Drawing on the careers of a series of personal security cults, including the External Boghar cult with its extension beyond Talelan…
Symbols and Sentiments
Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law
There is a familiar stereotype overrunning much of the anthropological literature on political and economic development in new nations. Brokers and big men have captured the stage, and their chains and alliances, their manipulations and calculations, their political games as men in the middle of centre-periphery relations have loomed larger than life in the literature. Indeed, it has come to be almost a matter of faith in certain studies of new A…
Postcolonial subjectivities in Africa
Holy Hustlers, Schism, and ProphecyApostolic Reformation in Botswana
This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana's time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. It focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana's capital. It shows how charismatic “prophets”—holy hustlers—diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. The book also shows how these healer…
Anthropological Studies of Religion
In this important, scholarly and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many theoretical strategies in the study of religion that have been developed and explored by later anthropologists. Besides discussing the classical authors and the debates surrounding their work, Morris present…
The Superabundance of Understanding
Anthropological studies of divination have given much attention to decision making at seances and the allocation of blame for specific complaints or misfortunes. Less attention has been paid to the various courses of communication which people pursue at distinct kinds of seance. This article analyzes the use which Kalanga of Botswana make of stylized rhetoric in one kind of seance, the domestic seances where all the congregation are kin or neighb…
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Symbols and Sentiments
Totemism' in History
The monolithic view of culture is inadequate for understanding the transformations which take place when strangers with heterogeneous sociocultural origins meet. Problems of the plurality of codes, of switching between alternatives, and the recoding of inequality and differentiation require special conceptualisation. Drawing on the careers of a series of personal security cults, including the External Boghar cult with its extension beyond Talelan…
Local Adaptation and the Transformation of an Imperial Concession in North-Eastern Botswana
Opening ParagraphThe main subject of this paper is the way in which patterns of settlement and modes of working and holding land are transformed and adapted to diverse political and economic relations. The changes discussed occurred in adjustment, under British Imperial rule, between a large-scale, commercial landlord-initially a mining and trading company-and local rulers and residents in the area of the landlord's monopoly in north-eastern Bots…
Federal Administration, Rank, and Civil Strife among Bemba Royals and Nobles
Opening ParagraphIn the latter half of the nineteenth century, a change came about in the hereditary régime of the Bemba kingdom during civil strife between members of the kingdom's royal and noble strata. The rulers of the kingdom, who shared in the Central African trade of slaves and ivory for guns and calico, fought to defend their positions and to meet the competition from opponents who could enter into new relations of power. Past conception…
Bwiti in Reflection
In a series of essays culminating in a powerful ethnography of the religion of Bwiti among the Fang of Gabon, James Fernandez has advancd a model of ritual, its sequencing and its tropes (1974; 1977; 1982; 1984; 1986). I want to take up his argument by seeing how it applies to movement and the unfolding of body imagery in the all-night vigil of Bwiti and, particularly, in its ascetic ordeal. The all-night vigil follows three movements or sequence…
World Renewal
The Analysis of Social Change
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
Epilogue
Wyatt MacGaffey's paper shows that in looking upon Kongo min'kisi the European gaze turned the subjective phenomena into inert objects, at most of interest in the relations between a subject and the objects. The actual dynamics of min'kisi, the subject to subject relations fundamental for BaKongo themselves, were largely irrelevant for the misrecognition of min 'kisi as art or ethnographic curiosities. It was simply upon the basis of their own mo…
Symbolic Dialogue and Personal Transactions among the Kalanga and Ndembu
African Background
Atonement Ritual and Guardian-Spirit Possession among Kalanga
Opening ParagraphFor Kalanga of Southern Rhodesia hereditary guardian spirits known as mazenge are a sanction on correct relations among kinsmen and affines. Only women are possessed by these captious guardian spirits; and I shall refer to such spirit-possessed women as mazenge hosts. Kalanga perform a ritual of atonement seasonally and whenever the illness of the host or of any of her kinsfolk, particularly children, is attributed to the afflict…
Land Reform in the Making
The argument in and about oratory
Atonement Ritual and Guardian-Spirit Possession among Kalanga
Opening ParagraphFor Kalanga of Southern Rhodesia hereditary guardian spirits known as mazenge are a sanction on correct relations among kinsmen and affines. Only women are possessed by these captious guardian spirits; and I shall refer to such spirit-possessed women as mazenge hosts. Kalanga perform a ritual of atonement seasonally and whenever the illness of the host or of any of her kinsfolk, particularly children, is attributed to the afflict…
African Background
Federal Administration, Rank, and Civil Strife among Bemba Royals and Nobles
Opening ParagraphIn the latter half of the nineteenth century, a change came about in the hereditary régime of the Bemba kingdom during civil strife between members of the kingdom's royal and noble strata. The rulers of the kingdom, who shared in the Central African trade of slaves and ivory for guns and calico, fought to defend their positions and to meet the competition from opponents who could enter into new relations of power. Past conception…
The Analysis of Social Change
The Customary Laws of Succession in Central Africa. By Narana Coissoró. [Doctoral thesis, University of London, 1962.] Lisbon
The Customary Laws of Succession in Central Africa. By Narana Coissoró. [Doctoral thesis, University of London, 1962.] Lisbon: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1966. (Estudos de Ciências Políticas e Sociais, 78.) Pp. li, 412, bibl. 60 escudos. - Volume 41 Issue 2
Symbolic Dialogue and Personal Transactions among the Kalanga and Ndembu
Local Adaptation and the Transformation of an Imperial Concession in North-Eastern Botswana
Opening ParagraphThe main subject of this paper is the way in which patterns of settlement and modes of working and holding land are transformed and adapted to diverse political and economic relations. The changes discussed occurred in adjustment, under British Imperial rule, between a large-scale, commercial landlord-initially a mining and trading company-and local rulers and residents in the area of the landlord's monopoly in north-eastern Bots…
The Superabundance of Understanding
Anthropological studies of divination have given much attention to decision making at seances and the allocation of blame for specific complaints or misfortunes. Less attention has been paid to the various courses of communication which people pursue at distinct kinds of seance. This article analyzes the use which Kalanga of Botswana make of stylized rhetoric in one kind of seance, the domestic seances where all the congregation are kin or neighb…
Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law
There is a familiar stereotype overrunning much of the anthropological literature on political and economic development in new nations. Brokers and big men have captured the stage, and their chains and alliances, their manipulations and calculations, their political games as men in the middle of centre-periphery relations have loomed larger than life in the literature. Indeed, it has come to be almost a matter of faith in certain studies of new A…
The argument in and about oratory
Symbols and Sentiments
Totemism' in History
The monolithic view of culture is inadequate for understanding the transformations which take place when strangers with heterogeneous sociocultural origins meet. Problems of the plurality of codes, of switching between alternatives, and the recoding of inequality and differentiation require special conceptualisation. Drawing on the careers of a series of personal security cults, including the External Boghar cult with its extension beyond Talelan…
The Quasi-Judicial and the Experience of the Absurd
The introduction of a quasi-judicial agency into a new nation in Africa brings with it many of the predicaments, dilemmas and contradictions that keep such agencies busy in Western countries. The power struggles, the encroachment on the rights of citizens, the problems of indeterminacy, apparent arbitrariness and uncertainty, all call to mind Western parallels, or rather, prototypes (cf. Handelman and Leyton 1978; Wraith and Hutcheson 1973; Bell …
The Hidden Hippopotamus
World Renewal
Settlement in Botswana
Land Reform in the Making
Land Reform in the Making
Sacrifice in Africa
Anthropological Studies of Religion
In this important, scholarly and wide-ranging text, Brian Morris provides a lucid outline of the nature of the explanations of religious phenomena offered by such great thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber. In doing so he also unravels the many theoretical strategies in the study of religion that have been developed and explored by later anthropologists. Besides discussing the classical authors and the debates surrounding their work, Morris present…
Epilogue
Wyatt MacGaffey's paper shows that in looking upon Kongo min'kisi the European gaze turned the subjective phenomena into inert objects, at most of interest in the relations between a subject and the objects. The actual dynamics of min'kisi, the subject to subject relations fundamental for BaKongo themselves, were largely irrelevant for the misrecognition of min 'kisi as art or ethnographic curiosities. It was simply upon the basis of their own mo…
Dual Classification Reconsidered
Bwiti in Reflection
In a series of essays culminating in a powerful ethnography of the religion of Bwiti among the Fang of Gabon, James Fernandez has advancd a model of ritual, its sequencing and its tropes (1974; 1977; 1982; 1984; 1986). I want to take up his argument by seeing how it applies to movement and the unfolding of body imagery in the all-night vigil of Bwiti and, particularly, in its ascetic ordeal. The all-night vigil follows three movements or sequence…
Ulysses' Sail
What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be they Hindu pilgrims in India, Islamic scholars of West Africa, Navajo traders, or Tl…
Ritual Passage, Sacred Journey
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