Thomas Gregor
Biographic Data
| ID | 107161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Gregor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregor |
| SIGNATURE | GREGOR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-139X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dialogue on the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
On the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Guilt by Association: The Culture of Accusation and the American Anthropological Association's Investigation of Darkness in El Dorado
The American Anthropological Association's investigation of the charges in Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney 2000) found that the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon harmed the Yanomami in the course of their research in Venezuela and Brazil, and that Chagnon had violated the ethics code of the association. The association's inquiry contravened its own policy prohibiting ethics adjudications and was structured not by the standards of an objective i…
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Comparing Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: A Theoretical Orientation
This chapter explores the sources and theoretical implications of remarkable similarities between societies in Amazonia and Melanesia, a comparison which combines the universalist and localist traditions and is the base of anthropological studies. It establishes a common discourse among scholars working with different cultures, stimulates new perspectives on findings from particular cultures, and allows searching for general principles. The chapt…
The Anguish of Gender: Men's Cults and Moral Contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia
There are remarkable resemblances between men's cults in Amazonia and Melanesia. The similarities include myths of matriarchy and role reversal; body imagery that merges male and female reproductive anatomy and physiology; rituals which assign generative, pseudoreproductive powers to men; hyperphallic cult objects in ritual; secrecy and constant vigilance against penetration of the cult by women and noninitiates; and terror and violence directed …
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the …
Gender in Amazonia and MelanesiaAn Exploration of the Comparative Method: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin, eds., Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 343 pages.This is a collection of 14 articles, the first of which is Thomas Gregor's and Donald Tuzin's theoretical orientation. ix). Taking the two regions as one (the imaginary Melazonia, as Hugh-Jones dubs it) is a big task, and one that I suspect many anthropologists have wondered…
Amazonia and Melanesia: Gender and Anthropological Comparison
A natural history of peace
stimulating and innovative consideration of the concept, causes, and practice of peace in societies both ancient and modern, human and primate.We know a great deal about aggression, conflict, and war, but relatively little about peace, partially because it has been such a scarce phenomenon throughout history and in our own times. is more than the absence of war. requires special relationships, structures, and attitudes to promote and protect it. …
The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence
At a time when war and other forms of violence seem to be ubiquitous and increasing, this refreshing book provides some hope by looking at the brighter side of human nature. Though not ignoring violence and war, the authors focus on nonviolence and peace by analyzing a broad sample of indigenous societies. Included are the Mehinaku of Brazil, the Zapotec of Mexico, the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories, the Semai of Malaysia, and the Ki…
Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
The Héta Indians: Fish in a Dry Pond . Vladimír Kozák, David Baxter, Laila Williamson , and Robert L. Carneiro
“Far, Far Away My Shadow Wandered…”: The dream symbolism and dream theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil
The Mehinaku Indians of Brazil make a deliberate effort to recall and interpret their dreams. The interpretations, most of which are based on a metaphoric relationship between the dream symbol and its meaning, suggest a concern with the physical and psychological boundaries of the individual. This pattern is part of a larger system of beliefs that reflects the relative absence of bounded social groups and a “person‐centered” system of conferring …
A Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams
Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village
Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village
Thomas Gregor's Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village offers a detailed ethnographic account of the Mehinaku, an indigenous group residing in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil. Gregor's study, based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1970s, explores the complexities of Mehinaku social life, focusing on their unique cultural practices, kinship system, rituals, and cosmology. The book delves into the dynamics of eve…
Publicity, Privacy, and Mehinacu Marriage
Exposure and Seclusion: A Study of Institutionalized Isolation among the Mehinacu Indians of Brazil
Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village
Thomas Gregor's Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village offers a detailed ethnographic account of the Mehinaku, an indigenous group residing in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil. Gregor's study, based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1970s, explores the complexities of Mehinaku social life, focusing on their unique cultural practices, kinship system, rituals, and cosmology. The book delves into the dynamics of eve…
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the …
Gender in Amazonia and MelanesiaAn Exploration of the Comparative Method: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin, eds., Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 343 pages.This is a collection of 14 articles, the first of which is Thomas Gregor's and Donald Tuzin's theoretical orientation. ix). Taking the two regions as one (the imaginary Melazonia, as Hugh-Jones dubs it) is a big task, and one that I suspect many anthropologists have wondered…
Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
Guilt by Association: The Culture of Accusation and the American Anthropological Association's Investigation of Darkness in El Dorado
The American Anthropological Association's investigation of the charges in Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney 2000) found that the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon harmed the Yanomami in the course of their research in Venezuela and Brazil, and that Chagnon had violated the ethics code of the association. The association's inquiry contravened its own policy prohibiting ethics adjudications and was structured not by the standards of an objective i…
A Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams
Exposure and Seclusion: A Study of Institutionalized Isolation among the Mehinacu Indians of Brazil
Amazonia and Melanesia: Gender and Anthropological Comparison
Exposure and Seclusion: A Study of Institutionalized Isolation among the Mehinacu Indians of Brazil
Publicity, Privacy, and Mehinacu Marriage
Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village
Thomas Gregor's Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village offers a detailed ethnographic account of the Mehinaku, an indigenous group residing in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Brazil. Gregor's study, based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1970s, explores the complexities of Mehinaku social life, focusing on their unique cultural practices, kinship system, rituals, and cosmology. The book delves into the dynamics of eve…
Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village
“Far, Far Away My Shadow Wandered…”: The dream symbolism and dream theories of the Mehinaku Indians of Brazil
The Mehinaku Indians of Brazil make a deliberate effort to recall and interpret their dreams. The interpretations, most of which are based on a metaphoric relationship between the dream symbol and its meaning, suggest a concern with the physical and psychological boundaries of the individual. This pattern is part of a larger system of beliefs that reflects the relative absence of bounded social groups and a “person‐centered” system of conferring …
A Content Analysis of Mehinaku Dreams
The Héta Indians: Fish in a Dry Pond . Vladimír Kozák, David Baxter, Laila Williamson , and Robert L. Carneiro
Anxious Pleasures: The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence
At a time when war and other forms of violence seem to be ubiquitous and increasing, this refreshing book provides some hope by looking at the brighter side of human nature. Though not ignoring violence and war, the authors focus on nonviolence and peace by analyzing a broad sample of indigenous societies. Included are the Mehinaku of Brazil, the Zapotec of Mexico, the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories, the Semai of Malaysia, and the Ki…
A natural history of peace
stimulating and innovative consideration of the concept, causes, and practice of peace in societies both ancient and modern, human and primate.We know a great deal about aggression, conflict, and war, but relatively little about peace, partially because it has been such a scarce phenomenon throughout history and in our own times. is more than the absence of war. requires special relationships, structures, and attitudes to promote and protect it. …
Amazonia and Melanesia: Gender and Anthropological Comparison
Comparing Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: A Theoretical Orientation
This chapter explores the sources and theoretical implications of remarkable similarities between societies in Amazonia and Melanesia, a comparison which combines the universalist and localist traditions and is the base of anthropological studies. It establishes a common discourse among scholars working with different cultures, stimulates new perspectives on findings from particular cultures, and allows searching for general principles. The chapt…
The Anguish of Gender: Men's Cults and Moral Contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia
There are remarkable resemblances between men's cults in Amazonia and Melanesia. The similarities include myths of matriarchy and role reversal; body imagery that merges male and female reproductive anatomy and physiology; rituals which assign generative, pseudoreproductive powers to men; hyperphallic cult objects in ritual; secrecy and constant vigilance against penetration of the cult by women and noninitiates; and terror and violence directed …
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the …
Gender in Amazonia and MelanesiaAn Exploration of the Comparative Method: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin, eds., Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 343 pages.This is a collection of 14 articles, the first of which is Thomas Gregor's and Donald Tuzin's theoretical orientation. ix). Taking the two regions as one (the imaginary Melazonia, as Hugh-Jones dubs it) is a big task, and one that I suspect many anthropologists have wondered…
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Guilt by Association: The Culture of Accusation and the American Anthropological Association's Investigation of Darkness in El Dorado
The American Anthropological Association's investigation of the charges in Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney 2000) found that the late James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon harmed the Yanomami in the course of their research in Venezuela and Brazil, and that Chagnon had violated the ethics code of the association. The association's inquiry contravened its own policy prohibiting ethics adjudications and was structured not by the standards of an objective i…
Dialogue on the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
On the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report
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