John Clammer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86746 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Clammer |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Clammer |
| FIRMA | CLAMMER J |
| AFILIACIONES | O. P. Jindal Global University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3222-9582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 117 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 434 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Mapping the Sociology of the Arts in Contemporary Japan
Despite the volume of scholarly work devoted to Japan, the sociology of art remains a neglected field. While art history flourishes and the study of popular culture is endemic, the sociological study of contemporary visual and performing arts lags behind. A survey of recent handbooks of contemporary Japanese culture shows clearly that with the exception of the popular and over researched forms of manga , anime , and film, little attention has bee…
Sociology and spirituality
The ideas of spirituality and sociology rarely occur together. Certainly, the sub-discipline of the sociology of religion is long established, but this is the sociological study of religion, not of the potential penetration of spirituality into sociology. Such a move suggests the possibility of transforming the discipline of sociology in general into something very different from its ‘traditional’ or more conventional forms. This essay, building …
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki
Addressing water scarcity in developing country contexts
Current conceptualizations of and approaches to scarcity tend to be economic-focused and institution driven with understated and underemphasized sociocultural dimensions. We address this lack in a socio-cultural orientation to natural resource scarcity and draw upon Vygotsky’s theorizations to do so. We rely on the existing literature and secondary sources of information to overview issues relating to water scarcity and the survival related chall…
Culture and Art
The Village Says “No”
This paper argues that online dispute resolution (ODR) has not been readily accepted in India’s rural hinterlands. This field study involved a trip to a “typical rural village” in North India with a population of approximately 3,000 people. Barriers to acceptance include IT literacy and connectivity, English language platforms and learning resources, reliance on and preference for village-based dispute-resolution systems, mistrust of external aut…
Localizing taste
The globalization of consumption or discourses of glocalization and hybridization dominate the extant literature on “consumptionscapes”. We introduce the “loctural consumptionscape” as an alternative that is centered on products of local-origin and draw upon conceptual metaphor theory to examine an Indian socio-cultural metaphor – traditional-sweets-consumption-as-shubh (auspicious). This metaphor involves the consumption of locally produced trad…
Can Art Embody Truth? Ethics, Aesthetics and Gandhi
The philosophical question of whether moral standards apply in art and the practical one of whether the arts can be vehicles of positive social transformation run through a great deal of social theory. In this article, these issues are discussed through an examination of Mahatma Gandhi’s approach to art and in particular his views on music and visual arts as they formed part of his personal world view and his socio-political programme. The articl…
Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965-1990
Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965-1990
First published in 1998, this volume explores Singapore as an ideal case study for the examination of the management of postcoloniality, social diversity and the pursuit of economic growth with ethnic harmony. Singapore has, since independence, evolved a unique mix of state directed capitalism, revamped Confucianism and a social order based on an ideology of multiracialism. The result has been a State with enormous sociological diversity held tog…
Theology for an Inclusive World, written by Felix Wilfred
Advancing Cultural Rights
Cultural Rights and Justice
Office Ladies
The term “office ladies” (usually abbreviated to “OLs”) is a common term in Japanese sociological and business discourse, and refers to female white collar workers employed in banks, large corporations, and in almost all small and medium‐sized enterprises. The majority of OLs have relatively short working lives of 2–6 years, usually prior to marriage and full‐time home‐making, although some middle‐aged women return to such positions later in life…
Cultural nationalism, consumption, and religion
On Chua Beng Huat's Liberalism Disavowed
Dialogue through the Image
This paper examines the relationship between the transmission of religion (specifically Christianity) and not texts but visual images, in this instance as embodied in Christian art. The paper is not an exercise in art history as such but an attempt to build a model of the multiple effects of the reception of a new visual culture on a range of cultural dimensions, and in particular the ways in which the new visual discourse transforms ideas about …
Cultural Rights and Justice
The Aesthetics of Development
Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) an
The fabric of indigeneity
The fabric of indigeneity: Ainu identity, gender, and settler colonialism in Japan." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(3), pp. 577–578
Economic anthropology and development alternatives
What (if anything) can economic anthropology say to neoliberal development? Toward new anthropologies of capitalism and its alternatives
Figured Worlds
Cultures of Transition and Sustainability
Contending that culture lies at the root of our current planetary and civilizational crisis, this book uniquely explores the nature of the specifically cultural dimensions of that crisis and how cultu
From white to yellow
This (literally) weighty volume is intended to be the first of a two book set that explores the evolution of European racial discourse about the Japanese from first contact (or rather hearsay) betw
The Sadness of Sweetness
The Trading Crowd
In 1992, there was an explosion of 'stock fever' in Shanghai. 'From the moment I set foot in Shanghai until my last day there, people from all walks of life wanted to talk to me about the market', Ellen Hertz writes. Her 1998 study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai society, and it probes the dominant role played by the state, which has yielded a stock market very different from those of the West. A trained anthropol…
The New Economic Anthropology
The institutionalization of ethnicity
1982). The institutionalization of ethnicity: The culture of ethnicity in Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 127-139
Strategies of Status Manipulation in the Wolof Greeting
Performing ethnicity
It is widely accepted that the notions of 'race' and 'ethnicity' are socially constructed: they refer in other words to culturally shaped conceptions of identity that may or may not have any specific relationship to underlying genetic or visible phenotypical characteristics of the individuals or groups in question. While this has allowed manifestations of racism to be identified for what they are - malignant myths - an over-sociological conceptio…
Minangkabau Social Formations
The Lineage-Village Complex in Southeastern China
Chinese Merchant Families in Iloilo
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
A Japanese Advertising Agency
Policy Studies and Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
An increasing number of anthropologists are involved in policy studies, studies which aim to change or to affect decision making with respect to important public issues. Characteristics of these studies are highlighted in contrast to traditional research assumptions given in the anthropological literature. It is the author's contention that research using traditional anthropological methods and techniques must be changed to accommodate policy stu…
Globalisation, Class, Consumption and Civil Society in South-east Asian Cities
Debates about the nature of globalisation have often taken a very abstract turn and have often failed to address the specificities of urban cultures and of the sociological as well as economic changes created by globalising forces. This paper examines the relationship between class, consumer culture and civil society in contemporary south-east Asian cities, particularly in the light of the region-wide economic crisis beginning in 1997. It attempt…
Jews in the Japanese Mind
Culture, Development, and Social Theory
Debates in development theory have recently swung back to taking seriously the relationship of culture to development, especially in the face of manifest failures of conventional approaches to economic growth and social transformation. This has happened at a moment when, especially within anthropology, the concept of culture itself is undergoing critical examination, and when cultural studies has emerged as a major challenge to anthropology's sel…
Chinese Family and Kinship
The fabric of indigeneity
The fabric of indigeneity: Ainu identity, gender, and settler colonialism in Japan." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(3), pp. 577–578
What (if anything) can economic anthropology say to neoliberal development? Toward new anthropologies of capitalism and its alternatives
Folk Art Potters of Japan
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world bring to bear different sets of values as they negotiate the meaning of mingei and try to decide whether a pot is 'art', 'folk art', or mere 'craft'. At…
Ethnicity and the Classification of Social Differences in Plural Societies
The management of ethnicity in highly plural societies continues to be a major social problem worldwide. One country that has achieved an excellent record of interethnic relations is Singapore. This paper deals with the ethnic situation in Singapore, modes of official and unofficial racial classifiation, questions of the situational selection of ethnic identity, and the relevance of the Singapore model for other multi-ethnic societies. In particu…
Making tea, making Japan
Economic anthropology and development alternatives
Remembering the Samsui Women
The dilemmas of the over-socialized intellectual
(2001). The dilemmas of the over-socialized intellectual: the universities and the political and institutional dynamics of knowledge in postcolonial Singapore. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 199-220
Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History
On Defining the Aesthetic Experience
Language Acquisition and Communicative Choice, Language in Sociocultural Change
Overseas Chinese Assimilation And Resinification
Exchange by Private Treaty
Lexical Reconstruction
Bahasa Malaysia
The objective of this paper is to examine the present state of language policy in Malaysia, and the relationship between that policy and the closely interrelated troika of language modernization, education and development, the latter conceived in the widest sense of the pursuit of social, economic and political goals of a generally higher standard than those currently prevailing. In practical terms, however, this problem is solved for us since, t…
Wittgensteinianism and the Social Sciences
Strategies of Status Manipulation in the Wolof Greeting
The New Economic Anthropology
The Ambiguity of Identity
The Straits Chinese (otherwise known as Babas or Peranakans) represent a unique blend of Chinese and Malay cultural traits and yet are quite distinct from both these two source cultures. Many rose to the positions of political and social prominence under British rule. The nature of this cultural and political accomodation and its dynamics provide an ideal ethnographic base for an exploration of ethnicity in Southeast Asia. This paper examines the…
Chinese Family and Kinship
From the archives
Short reviews
Ray Marshall, Charles B. Knapp, Malcolm H. Ligget, Robert W. Glover, EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: THE IMPACT OF LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES Praeger, New York, 1978, pp. 176, £15.50. Dan S. Green and Edwin D. Driver (eds), W. E. B. DUBOIS ON SOCIOLOGY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1978, viii + 320 pp., $21.00. Anthony D. Smith, NATIONALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Martin Robertson, 1979. 232pp., £3.…
Technological Change and the Social Organization of Agricultural Production [and Comments and Reply]
Each for different reasons, depending on the dominant theories of their disciplines, anthropologists, engineers, and economists have not paid sufficient coordinated attention to the technical knowledge found in local populations, different from the technology and the processes of social change that have been institutionalized by the capitalist system of production although not necessarily independent of them. In this paper we reconsider some conc…
Policy Studies and Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]
An increasing number of anthropologists are involved in policy studies, studies which aim to change or to affect decision making with respect to important public issues. Characteristics of these studies are highlighted in contrast to traditional research assumptions given in the anthropological literature. It is the author's contention that research using traditional anthropological methods and techniques must be changed to accommodate policy stu…
Ideologie et ethnicite
The New Economic Anthropology
Malay Society in Singapore
Short reviews
Malcolm Cross, URBANIZATION AND URBAN GROWTH IN THE CARIBBEAN, Cambridge University Press, 1979, xx + 174 pp., £10.50 (h.b.) £3.95 (p.b.). David G. Pearson, RACE, CLASS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM: A STUDY OF WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN, Famborough, Gower, 1981, 207 pp., £11.50. Arthur Helweg, SIKHS IN ENGLAND: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MIGRANT COMMUNITY, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979, 156 pp., £5.75. Roger L. Nichols, THE AMERICAN INDIAN: PAST AND PRES…
French Studies on the Chinese in Indochina
It is of some interest for the scholar of Southeast Asian subjects to note the way in which the different interests and cultural biases of the former colonial powers in the region have eventuated in the production of quite distinct historical and sociological literatures relating to their respective territorial possessions. Nowhere better than in the literature on the overseas Chinese is this point illustrated. The literature in English on the Ch…
Minangkabau Social Formations
The institutionalization of ethnicity
1982). The institutionalization of ethnicity: The culture of ethnicity in Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 127-139
Chinese Merchant Families in Iloilo
Village Communities and the Development Process in Singapore
Secularization and Religious Change in Contemporary Asia
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