William Rodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 107001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Rodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodman |
| SIGNATURE | RODMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commentary/Commentaire: After the Fox: Griaule, Griots, and Griottes
Speaking of Witchcraft ( Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours, and Gossip , Pamela J. Stewart and AndrewStrathern)
Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology
Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xiii + 222 pages (paper).Reviewer: William RodmanMcMaster UniversityThis is a book as much about ways of knowing as ways of seeing. It is a volume appropriate to the first years of the new millennium, because it carries forward in innovative new directions some of the themes and theoretical advances that emerged during the crisis in representation in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the long…
Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. Don Fowler and Donald Hardesty, eds
Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy
Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value.-William Rodman, Anthropologica A major contributi…
Sorcery and the Silencing of Chiefs: "Words on the Wind" in Postindependence Ambae
In this paper I discuss what I learned from being the "son" of a Pacific island chief who was accused of committing murder by magical means. My research on Ambae in Vanuatu lends cross-cultural support to the idea in current African ethnography that sorcery often serves as an idiom for discourse about local power and privilege in "weak" postcolonial states. On Ambae, as in the Cameroons, sorcery accusations are a leveling discourse, a protest on …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project. Miles Richardson
The Fictional, the Factual, and the True
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Literature and Anthropology . Philip A. Dennis and Wendell Aycock , eds
The Hundred Days of Sara Mata: Explaining Unnatural Death in Vanuatu
Who or what killed Sara Mata? During the hundred days of mourning that followed the young woman's “unnatural” death, residents of Aoba, an island in Vanuatu, sought to discover the cause of Sara's death. Alternative local explanations of the death highlight the ambiguity that characterizes Aoban beliefs about people's ability to cause death by supernatural means. We show the conventional anthropological categories of poison, sorcery, and witchcra…
Sorcery and the Silencing of Chiefs: "Words on the Wind" in Postindependence Ambae
In this paper I discuss what I learned from being the "son" of a Pacific island chief who was accused of committing murder by magical means. My research on Ambae in Vanuatu lends cross-cultural support to the idea in current African ethnography that sorcery often serves as an idiom for discourse about local power and privilege in "weak" postcolonial states. On Ambae, as in the Cameroons, sorcery accusations are a leveling discourse, a protest on …
The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology
Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xiii + 222 pages (paper).Reviewer: William RodmanMcMaster UniversityThis is a book as much about ways of knowing as ways of seeing. It is a volume appropriate to the first years of the new millennium, because it carries forward in innovative new directions some of the themes and theoretical advances that emerged during the crisis in representation in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the long…
Speaking of Witchcraft ( Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours, and Gossip , Pamela J. Stewart and AndrewStrathern)
The Hundred Days of Sara Mata: Explaining Unnatural Death in Vanuatu
Who or what killed Sara Mata? During the hundred days of mourning that followed the young woman's “unnatural” death, residents of Aoba, an island in Vanuatu, sought to discover the cause of Sara's death. Alternative local explanations of the death highlight the ambiguity that characterizes Aoban beliefs about people's ability to cause death by supernatural means. We show the conventional anthropological categories of poison, sorcery, and witchcra…
The Fictional, the Factual, and the True
The Hundred Days of Sara Mata: Explaining Unnatural Death in Vanuatu
Who or what killed Sara Mata? During the hundred days of mourning that followed the young woman's “unnatural” death, residents of Aoba, an island in Vanuatu, sought to discover the cause of Sara's death. Alternative local explanations of the death highlight the ambiguity that characterizes Aoban beliefs about people's ability to cause death by supernatural means. We show the conventional anthropological categories of poison, sorcery, and witchcra…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Literature and Anthropology . Philip A. Dennis and Wendell Aycock , eds
The Fictional, the Factual, and the True
Sorcery and the Silencing of Chiefs: "Words on the Wind" in Postindependence Ambae
In this paper I discuss what I learned from being the "son" of a Pacific island chief who was accused of committing murder by magical means. My research on Ambae in Vanuatu lends cross-cultural support to the idea in current African ethnography that sorcery often serves as an idiom for discourse about local power and privilege in "weak" postcolonial states. On Ambae, as in the Cameroons, sorcery accusations are a leveling discourse, a protest on …
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project. Miles Richardson
Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy
Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value.-William Rodman, Anthropologica A major contributi…
Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. Don Fowler and Donald Hardesty, eds
The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology
Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xiii + 222 pages (paper).Reviewer: William RodmanMcMaster UniversityThis is a book as much about ways of knowing as ways of seeing. It is a volume appropriate to the first years of the new millennium, because it carries forward in innovative new directions some of the themes and theoretical advances that emerged during the crisis in representation in the late 1980s and 1990s. In the long…
Speaking of Witchcraft ( Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours, and Gossip , Pamela J. Stewart and AndrewStrathern)
Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
Commentary/Commentaire: After the Fox: Griaule, Griots, and Griottes
Sociology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Citation (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Law (3 works)