Cornelia Ann Kammerer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98424 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cornelia Ann Kammerer |
| NOMBRES | Cornelia Ann |
| APELLIDO | Kammerer |
| FIRMA | KAMMERER C A |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandeis University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Founders' cults in Southeast Asia
Merit and Blessing
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Descent, Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
This article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity intersect and interlock with the political system among Tibeto-Burman-speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance is not only compatible with egalitarian political organization but can also be constitutive of it. Uncovering the cultural nexus between descent and affinit…
Discarding the Basket
Protestant Akha highlanders of Northern Thailand held a Silver Jubilee in 1987 celebrating the initial conversions to Christianity twenty-five years earlier. The Akha-language translation of the passage from the Gospel of Matthew selected as the Jubilee's theme evokes the image of a laden basket from a pre-Christian folktale accounting for the differentiation of Akha from other ethnic groups, and the Protestant Akha used this traditional image to…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Sovereignty and Rebellion
Mother of Writing
Customs and Christian conversion among Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand
This article considers why Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand were reluctant to convert to Christianity in the past, why they have been converting in growing numbers in recent years, and, finally, why they convert at all. It argues that a key to answering these three questions is the nature of the traditional Akha cultural equivalent of the Western category "religion," especially its equation with ethnic identity. Since Akha Christianity does…
Customs and Christian conversion among Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand
This article considers why Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand were reluctant to convert to Christianity in the past, why they have been converting in growing numbers in recent years, and, finally, why they convert at all. It argues that a key to answering these three questions is the nature of the traditional Akha cultural equivalent of the Western category "religion," especially its equation with ethnic identity. Since Akha Christianity does…
Descent, Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
This article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity intersect and interlock with the political system among Tibeto-Burman-speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance is not only compatible with egalitarian political organization but can also be constitutive of it. Uncovering the cultural nexus between descent and affinit…
Discarding the Basket
Protestant Akha highlanders of Northern Thailand held a Silver Jubilee in 1987 celebrating the initial conversions to Christianity twenty-five years earlier. The Akha-language translation of the passage from the Gospel of Matthew selected as the Jubilee's theme evokes the image of a laden basket from a pre-Christian folktale accounting for the differentiation of Akha from other ethnic groups, and the Protestant Akha used this traditional image to…
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Customs and Christian conversion among Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand
This article considers why Akha highlanders of Burma and Thailand were reluctant to convert to Christianity in the past, why they have been converting in growing numbers in recent years, and, finally, why they convert at all. It argues that a key to answering these three questions is the nature of the traditional Akha cultural equivalent of the Western category "religion," especially its equation with ethnic identity. Since Akha Christianity does…
Mother of Writing
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Sovereignty and Rebellion
Discarding the Basket
Protestant Akha highlanders of Northern Thailand held a Silver Jubilee in 1987 celebrating the initial conversions to Christianity twenty-five years earlier. The Akha-language translation of the passage from the Gospel of Matthew selected as the Jubilee's theme evokes the image of a laden basket from a pre-Christian folktale accounting for the differentiation of Akha from other ethnic groups, and the Protestant Akha used this traditional image to…
Merit and Blessing
Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective
Descent, Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
This article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity intersect and interlock with the political system among Tibeto-Burman-speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance is not only compatible with egalitarian political organization but can also be constitutive of it. Uncovering the cultural nexus between descent and affinit…
Founders' cults in Southeast Asia
History (7 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Ethnology (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 obras)