N Ross Crumrine
Biographic Data
| ID | 124516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Ross Crumrine |
| GIVEN NAMES | N Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Crumrine |
| SIGNATURE | CRUMRINE N R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse
First published in 1990, this linguistic study of the Kuna Indians of Panama is now available only from UNM Press
Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Volume 1: Readings in Southwestern Folklore; Old Villages and A New Town: Industrialization in Mexico; The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life:P…
Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Volume 1: Readings in Southwestern Folklore; Old Villages and A New Town: Industrialization in Mexico; The Zinacantecos of Mexico: A Modern Maya Way of Life
Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Volume 1: Readings in Southwestern Folklore. Juan R. García (editor) and José R. Reyna (issue editor). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. 154 pp. $15.00 (paper). ISBN (not available). Old Villages and. New Town: Industrialization in Mexico. Frank C. Miller. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1990. 177 pp. $9.50 (paper). ISBN 0‐88133‐487‐1. The Zinacantecos of Mexico:. Modern Maya Way of Life. E…
Myths & Symbols in Pagan Europe
Pilgrimage in Latin America
Journal Article Pilgrimage in Latin America, edited by N. Ross Crumrine and E. Alan Morinis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991, xvi + 432 pp. $45.00 Get access Stephen D. Glazier Stephen D. Glazier University of Nebraska-Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 424–425, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710862 Published: 01 December 1991
Linguistic Anthropology: Rarámuri Souls: Knowledge and Social Process in Northern Mexico. William L. Merrill
Linguistic Anthropology: People of Pascua. Edward H. Spicer
Healers of the Andes: Kallawaya Herbalists and Their Medicinal Plants
Ejidos and Regions of Refuge in Northwestern Mexico
The Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations
Yaqui: Resistance and Survival. The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1910
Among Mexico's indigenous populations, the Yaqui Indians of Sonora have most successfully repelled threats to their identity, land, and community. Interested in explaining how the relatively small nation withstood four centuries of contact with white culture, Evelyn Hu-DeHirt focuses here on the Indians' response to shifting environmental pressures in the period 1820 to 1910 an increasingly violent, and ultimately decisive, chapter in their lives
The Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
The Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
This collection of papers, presented at the 42nd International Congress of Americanists, considers the interplay between the mask, the mask bearer, and the audience. The studies concentrate on the idea of masking as a transformational ritual in which the human actor is transformed into a being of another order. The authors use examples from various cultures and in their analyses argue for particular sets of relationships as being crucial to the u…
Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
Antropologia Medica y Medicina Tradicional en Colombia . Xochitl Herrera, Miguel Lobo-Guerrero. ; Antropologos y Medicos Frente al Arte Guajiro de Curar . Michel Perrin
Musical Artifacts of Pre-Hispanic West Mexico: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Peyote: The Divine Cactus . Edward F. Anderson
The Ritual of the Cultural Enclave Process: The Dramatization of Oppositions Among the Mayo Indians of Northwest Mexico
Identity and Religion: International, Cross-Cultural Approaches
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
Ritual Symbolism in Folk and Ritual Drama: The Mayo Indian San Cayetano Velacion, Sonora, Mexico
SINCE THE STUDIES OF CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS and Victor Turner and, earlier, Clyde Kluckhohn, the student of anthropology or folklore may no longer accept a single direct explanation of mythology, folk drama, and ceremonialism. Shown to consist of oppositions and reversals as well as homologies, metaphors, and metanyms, myth and are complexly related to the everyday way of life of human groups. As a partial response to such analysis, ceremonialism ha…
The Mayo Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die
Mediating Roles in Ritual and Symbolism: Northwest Mexico and the Pacific Northwest
Les pouvoir relies a la personnification ceremonielle, aux pitreries rituelles, au fripon, et a d'autres roles mythico rituels sont presentes comme enracines dans leur capacite de mediation. Les modes d'analyse developpes par Levi-Strauss, Leach et Victor Turner sont utilises pour etudier les roles des protagonistes dans les ceremonies de Paques des Mayo, du Nord-Ouest du Mexique, et d'autres roles analogues au Sud Est et au Nord-Ouest de PAmeriq…
Healers of the Andes: Kallawaya Herbalists and Their Medicinal Plants
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply]
An examination of Maya art from southern Mesoamerica shows the following art motifs appearing with some regularity throughout the archaeological record, from Pre-Classic to Post-Conquest times: (a) mushroom stones and mushroom pottery, (b) the frog/toad motif, and (c) the water lily motif. The thesis of this papers is that these flora and fauna represented in art are related to and influenced by the psychotropic properties of the mushroom, toad, …
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourse
First published in 1990, this linguistic study of the Kuna Indians of Panama is now available only from UNM Press
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
Capakoba, the Mayo Easter Ceremonial Impersonator: Explanations of Ritual Clowning
Data, describing and analyzing the anomalous role of the Mexican Mayo Indian ritual impersonator are utilized to evaluate four explanations of ritual impersonation: historical, psychological-affective, sociological, and cultural-cognitive. The cultural-cognitive explanation interprets the fact that Napakobam protect the customs while at the same time they are burlesquing them. They know no shame yet they confess on behalf of the community. This a…
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
The Mayo Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die
Three North Mexican Folk Saint Movements
In each of the three cases presented, the changing role of the folk saint as well as the development of the movement indicate that a four-stage transformation is in operation:(1) The 'call' by means of a supernatural experience or 'vocational struggle' occurs in the future folk saint's life and initiates his career.(2) Offering a practical religion with solutions to physical and personal problems, the saint attracts individuals who are seeking su…
Mannerism and Cultural Change: An Ethnomusicological Example [and Comments and Reply]
Based on a systematic analysis of musical materials of three generations of Aleppo Jews in Israel, a theory of the initial stages of one type of culture change is proposed. The central proposition of the theory is that the apparent resistance to acceptance of majority group culture may be expressed in "manneristic" terms, i.e., in terms of the exaggeration and embellishment of those elements of traditional culture by means of which the majority i…
Anthropological Antinomy: The Importance of an Empirical Basis for a Concept of Anthropological Fact
Among some anthopologists as well as some other scientists one often hears following sort of reply to questions of a theoretical or philosophical nature, all I want are facts, man, bare facts! This paper will focus upon question of meaning of statement, the hard, bare facts. Or in other words, what type of facts do anthropological facts seem to be? At first this appears to be a simple common sense matter which can be glossed over without further …
Ejidos and Regions of Refuge in Northwestern Mexico
The Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations
Ritual Symbolism in Folk and Ritual Drama: The Mayo Indian San Cayetano Velacion, Sonora, Mexico
SINCE THE STUDIES OF CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS and Victor Turner and, earlier, Clyde Kluckhohn, the student of anthropology or folklore may no longer accept a single direct explanation of mythology, folk drama, and ceremonialism. Shown to consist of oppositions and reversals as well as homologies, metaphors, and metanyms, myth and are complexly related to the everyday way of life of human groups. As a partial response to such analysis, ceremonialism ha…
Ritual Drama and Culture Change
In this paper we wish to postulate and examine kinds of relationships between ritual dramas, ceremonials, and culture change. A number of individual studies concerned with this question deserve to be seen as focusing upon a unitary phenomenon. By this we have in mind ceremonies or ritual dramas which symbolically mediate structural conflicts or oppositions either within a society or between societies. Max Gluckman (1954) and Hilda Kuper (1947, 19…
Where Mayos Meet Mestizos: A Model for the Social Structure of Culture Contact
Even though a great deal has been written about culture change and the conditions and social structure of culture contact, many anthropologists are dissatisfied concerning the progress in culture change studies, as has been recently noted by Robert B. Taylor. It is his fundamental question - "Why do participants of given cultures react as they do to customs which are new to them?" - that we wish to consider here. We hypothesize that part of the r…
The study of man: The Problem of Ethnic Identity
Ancient and Modern Mayo Fishing Practices
The Mayo Indians of Northwest Mexico have a fiesto economy, which at first seems as though it should be incompatible with a conservation value for natural resources. However a conservation ethic exists wheere other traditional values and types of labor practices persist among Mayos. In other Cahitan, or Yaqui and Mayo villages, the conservation ethic disappears as commercial exploitation of natural resources increases
The House Cross of the Mayo Indians of Sonora, Mexico: A Symbol in Ethnic Identity
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Anthropological Antinomy: The Importance of an Empirical Basis for a Concept of Anthropological Fact
Among some anthopologists as well as some other scientists one often hears following sort of reply to questions of a theoretical or philosophical nature, all I want are facts, man, bare facts! This paper will focus upon question of meaning of statement, the hard, bare facts. Or in other words, what type of facts do anthropological facts seem to be? At first this appears to be a simple common sense matter which can be glossed over without further …
Capakoba, the Mayo Easter Ceremonial Impersonator: Explanations of Ritual Clowning
Data, describing and analyzing the anomalous role of the Mexican Mayo Indian ritual impersonator are utilized to evaluate four explanations of ritual impersonation: historical, psychological-affective, sociological, and cultural-cognitive. The cultural-cognitive explanation interprets the fact that Napakobam protect the customs while at the same time they are burlesquing them. They know no shame yet they confess on behalf of the community. This a…
Where Mayos Meet Mestizos: A Model for the Social Structure of Culture Contact
Even though a great deal has been written about culture change and the conditions and social structure of culture contact, many anthropologists are dissatisfied concerning the progress in culture change studies, as has been recently noted by Robert B. Taylor. It is his fundamental question - "Why do participants of given cultures react as they do to customs which are new to them?" - that we wish to consider here. We hypothesize that part of the r…
Mannerism and Cultural Change: An Ethnomusicological Example [and Comments and Reply]
Based on a systematic analysis of musical materials of three generations of Aleppo Jews in Israel, a theory of the initial stages of one type of culture change is proposed. The central proposition of the theory is that the apparent resistance to acceptance of majority group culture may be expressed in "manneristic" terms, i.e., in terms of the exaggeration and embellishment of those elements of traditional culture by means of which the majority i…
Ritual Service and Blood Sacrifice as Mediating Binary Oppositions: A Structural Analysis of Several Mayo Myths and Rituals
Lynne S. Crumrine, N. Ross Crumrine, Ritual Service and Blood Sacrifice as Mediating Binary Oppositions: A Structural Analysis of Several Mayo Myths and Rituals, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 83, No. 327 (Jan. - Mar., 1970), pp. 69-76
Ritual Drama and Culture Change
In this paper we wish to postulate and examine kinds of relationships between ritual dramas, ceremonials, and culture change. A number of individual studies concerned with this question deserve to be seen as focusing upon a unitary phenomenon. By this we have in mind ceremonies or ritual dramas which symbolically mediate structural conflicts or oppositions either within a society or between societies. Max Gluckman (1954) and Hilda Kuper (1947, 19…
Three North Mexican Folk Saint Movements
In each of the three cases presented, the changing role of the folk saint as well as the development of the movement indicate that a four-stage transformation is in operation:(1) The 'call' by means of a supernatural experience or 'vocational struggle' occurs in the future folk saint's life and initiates his career.(2) Offering a practical religion with solutions to physical and personal problems, the saint attracts individuals who are seeking su…
The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply]
An examination of Maya art from southern Mesoamerica shows the following art motifs appearing with some regularity throughout the archaeological record, from Pre-Classic to Post-Conquest times: (a) mushroom stones and mushroom pottery, (b) the frog/toad motif, and (c) the water lily motif. The thesis of this papers is that these flora and fauna represented in art are related to and influenced by the psychotropic properties of the mushroom, toad, …
God's Daughter-in-Law, the Old Man, and the Olla: An Archaeological Challenge
This report demonstrates a need for archaeological research in the Mayo Indian area of southwestern Sonora and northwestern Sinaloa, Mexico. A recently collected Mayo myth describes the violation of an original reincarnation pot which produced children from the bodies of old people. Although no reports of systematic archaeological excavations exist for the Mayo area, treasure hunters describe pot burials. Thus I postulate a Mayo basic belief stru…
Mediating Roles in Ritual and Symbolism: Northwest Mexico and the Pacific Northwest
Les pouvoir relies a la personnification ceremonielle, aux pitreries rituelles, au fripon, et a d'autres roles mythico rituels sont presentes comme enracines dans leur capacite de mediation. Les modes d'analyse developpes par Levi-Strauss, Leach et Victor Turner sont utilises pour etudier les roles des protagonistes dans les ceremonies de Paques des Mayo, du Nord-Ouest du Mexique, et d'autres roles analogues au Sud Est et au Nord-Ouest de PAmeriq…
Ritual Symbolism in Folk and Ritual Drama: The Mayo Indian San Cayetano Velacion, Sonora, Mexico
SINCE THE STUDIES OF CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS and Victor Turner and, earlier, Clyde Kluckhohn, the student of anthropology or folklore may no longer accept a single direct explanation of mythology, folk drama, and ceremonialism. Shown to consist of oppositions and reversals as well as homologies, metaphors, and metanyms, myth and are complexly related to the everyday way of life of human groups. As a partial response to such analysis, ceremonialism ha…
The Mayo Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die
Mathematics in Structural Theory [and Comments and Reply]
Levi-Strauss, amongst other anthropological theorists, has argued for the incorporation of mathematical formalization into anthropological theorizing. The integration of mathematical formalization with anthropological theory is examined in this article through the structural analysis of fandango (wedding) ritual as it is practiced among the Zapotec in a small village near Oaxaca, Mexico. The correspondence that is found between the details of the…
Movements Toward Understanding Humans Through the Anthropological Study of Dance [and Comments and Reply]
An attempt is made to identify the study of dance as a specialization and peripheral interest within each of the four fields of anthropology, in order to suggest how our understanding of Homo sapiens may be enhanced by dance study. The neglect, gestation, and emergence of the anthropological study of dance, its theoretical and methodological areas of consensus and disagreement, and some specific approaches and their strengths and limitations are …
Identity and Religion: International, Cross-Cultural Approaches
The Ritual of the Cultural Enclave Process: The Dramatization of Oppositions Among the Mayo Indians of Northwest Mexico
Peyote: The Divine Cactus . Edward F. Anderson
The Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
This collection of papers, presented at the 42nd International Congress of Americanists, considers the interplay between the mask, the mask bearer, and the audience. The studies concentrate on the idea of masking as a transformational ritual in which the human actor is transformed into a being of another order. The authors use examples from various cultures and in their analyses argue for particular sets of relationships as being crucial to the u…
Power of Symbols: Masks and Masquerade in the Americas
Antropologia Medica y Medicina Tradicional en Colombia . Xochitl Herrera, Miguel Lobo-Guerrero. ; Antropologos y Medicos Frente al Arte Guajiro de Curar . Michel Perrin
Musical Artifacts of Pre-Hispanic West Mexico: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations
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