Steven Carlisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 129012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Carlisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlisle |
| SIGNATURE | CARLISLE S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Holds People Together? First-Person Anthropology and Perspective-Taking in Thai Ghost Stories
What allows people to share cultural realities? Many theories imply that people orient themselves directly to abstract cultural structures or toward a set of powerful discourses which shape them. But because cultural worlds are understood practically and experienced and communicated through first-person perspectives, people must engage in empathicperspective taking-orienting themselves toward one another's perspectives-instead. This article explo…
Creative Sincerity: Thai Buddhist Karma Narratives and the Grounding of Truths
How do people become sincerely committed to shared beliefs? Many theories explain how people come to claim beliefs publicly, but provide inadequate explanations as to why they take these ideas seriously. I resolve this by adapting a form of practice theory to conceptualize shared meanings not as externally imposed social products, but as a creation of active psychosocial negotiations that reflect autobiographical narratives. Although the Thai Bud…
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
Creative Sincerity: Thai Buddhist Karma Narratives and the Grounding of Truths
How do people become sincerely committed to shared beliefs? Many theories explain how people come to claim beliefs publicly, but provide inadequate explanations as to why they take these ideas seriously. I resolve this by adapting a form of practice theory to conceptualize shared meanings not as externally imposed social products, but as a creation of active psychosocial negotiations that reflect autobiographical narratives. Although the Thai Bud…
Creative Sincerity: Thai Buddhist Karma Narratives and the Grounding of Truths
How do people become sincerely committed to shared beliefs? Many theories explain how people come to claim beliefs publicly, but provide inadequate explanations as to why they take these ideas seriously. I resolve this by adapting a form of practice theory to conceptualize shared meanings not as externally imposed social products, but as a creation of active psychosocial negotiations that reflect autobiographical narratives. Although the Thai Bud…
Believing Selves: Negotiating Social and Psychological Experiences of Belief
The authors in this issue provide ethnographic explorations of believing and beliefs-that is, subjective commitments to truths as being true-situated within a range of religious traditions and social contexts. Anthropology has struggled with belief-its meanings, its uses, and even its validity outside of the Christian contexts from which it entered the field. This discomfort grows in large part from the fact that belief can refer both to internal…
What Holds People Together? First-Person Anthropology and Perspective-Taking in Thai Ghost Stories
What allows people to share cultural realities? Many theories imply that people orient themselves directly to abstract cultural structures or toward a set of powerful discourses which shape them. But because cultural worlds are understood practically and experienced and communicated through first-person perspectives, people must engage in empathicperspective taking-orienting themselves toward one another's perspectives-instead. This article explo…
Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Negotiation (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works)