Charles William Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1566988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles William Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles William |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3042-9938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 601 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1834 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Caribbean–Mediterranean counterpoint
This afterword comments on the articles collected in this special issue dedicated to the counterpoint between the Mediterranean where Fernando Ortiz grew up, and the Caribbean where he lived most of his life. Under the influence of Lombroso, Ortiz began his career with now highly objectionable views of ritual practices of African origin in Cuba. By the early 1920s he had moved to the opposite position and begun to valorize retentions from Africa.…
Uncanny History
Post-Ottoman temporal topologies—cases where the past, \npresent, and future may be bent around one another rather than ordered linearly—may produce uncanny histories. The uncanny is activated, as Freud noted, when something secret comes to light, but also \nwhen the expectations of a given genre are exceeded. In these cases, \nthe genre of historicism has been violated. Rather than contending that \nthe post-Ottoman world is entirely different f…
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
What constitutes a history? Is this term to be restricted to the works of recognized historians? Or can information about the past gained through dreams, spirit possession rituals, or dancing performances also count as histories? Instead of dismissing such productions as myth or religion, Charles Stewart contends in Dreaming and Historical Consciousness that our definition of history must be widened. This move is crucial in a global setting where…
Ethnographies of Austerity
This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural thought, provoking people to rethink their relationship to time. The argument is developed with particular reference to the ethnographies of living with austerity inside the eurozone contained in this special issue. The studies identify the ways the past may b…
Historicity and Anthropology
Historicity has emerged within anthropology to refer to cultural perceptions of the past. It calls attention to the techniques such as rituals that people use to learn about the past, the principles that guide them, and the performances and genres in which information about the past can be presented. The concept is in essential tension with the meaning of the term as "factuality" within the discipline of history and in wider society. Anthropologi…
Honor and Shame
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness
Juliet du Boulay, Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village. Limni, Evia
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Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture
This article examines its title words as descriptions of cultural fusion. Some critics have asserted that the idea of cultural mixture posits two pure cultures that come into contact, thereby trapping one in the very logic of purity that these terms promise to transcend. Although this view is found to be unpersuasive, it does call attention to the temporality of mixture. Mixed entities form, become naturalized as coherent, and then mix again to f…
Le Diable chez les Grecs à l'époque contemporaine
Si le Diable est bel et bien un personnage du christianisme orthodoxe, l'attitude populaire envers Satan, en Grèce, ne saurait se résumer à une simple « croyance ». Certaines personnes instrumentalisent l'idée du Diable pour duper leurs co-villageois ; d'autres sont sceptiques à son sujet ; beaucoup s'attachent à évaluer les histoires dans lesquelles le Diable figure pour savoir ce qui pourrait s'y cacher ; et presque tout le monde a un usage mét…
Secularism as an impediment to anthropological research
Honour and sanctity
Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia and the Greek Diaspora
An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by …
Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia, and the Greek Diaspora
An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by …
Introduction
This article seeks to clarify the concept of "historicity" and how it might guide ethnographic research. The argument is developed with particular reference to the eight studies of historicity in diverse societies ranging from the Pacific to North America contained in this special issue. The authors contend that the standard Western concept of "history" is culturally particular and not necessarily the best tool for cross-cultural investigations. …
Introduction
This article introduces a special issue on anthropological approaches to dreaming. A running history of dreams in the field of anthropology serves as a device for contextualizing the articles. The narrative identifies perennial areas of interest such as the question of why some societies value dreams while others do not. Anthropological approaches have varied from Victorian evolutionism to contemporary psychoanalysis and reflexivity. Each new the…
Dreams of Treasure
This article observes that dreams of treasure may not only be about getting rich. In Greece, a country with an illustrious ancient past and a less glorious present, history represents a vital national resource and enduring topic of social concern, not to say anxiety. Dreams of treasure arise as unconscious by-products of this intense historical consciousness in Greece. The treasures considered here are secretions of history, deposited at the mome…
Erotic Dreams And Nightmares From Antiquity To The Present
The history of erotic dreams, nightmares, and erotic nightmares offers a valuable opportunity to study how such dreams tested Western ideas about the self, desire, and self-control. Like Foucault, I find it more productive to analyse these dreams, and the struggles to introject them, as sites of self-making rather than of repression. Erotic dreams and nightmares have been inflected by various historical strategies of self-making, themselves produ…
Secularism as an impediment to anthropological research
Dans cet article, l'A. souleve la question de la place des croyances et attitudes religieuses dans la recherche anthropologique, de la laicite en anthropologie, en tant qu'elle peut constituer un obstacle a la recherche
Syncretism and Its Synonyms
The subject matter of anthropology has gradually changed over the last twenty years. Nowadays ethnographers rarely search for a stable or original form of cultures; they are usually more concerned with revealing how local communities respond to historical change and global influences. The burgeoning literature on transnational flows of ideas, global institutions, and cultural mixture reflects this shift of attention. This increased awareness of c…
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. STEPHEN D. GLAZIER, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. viii + 542 pp., select topical bibliography, contributors, index
Who Owns the Rotonda
Description d'un conflit entre l'Etat grec et l'Eglise orthodoxe au sujet de l'attribution de la Rotonda, bâtiment historique de l'epoque romaine, a la Thessalonique : monument seculier ou lieu de culte sacre ? L'A. analyse ce conflit comme l'expression d'une opposition plus permanente entre l'Eglise orthodoxe et l'Etat grec quant a la legitimite pour definir les criteres de l'identite nationale et ethnique. L'Eglise met en jeu son autorite pour …
Religion
Religion:. Humanist Interpretation. Raymond Firth. London: Routledge, 1996. + 243 pp., notes, references, Index
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Introduction
This article seeks to clarify the concept of "historicity" and how it might guide ethnographic research. The argument is developed with particular reference to the eight studies of historicity in diverse societies ranging from the Pacific to North America contained in this special issue. The authors contend that the standard Western concept of "history" is culturally particular and not necessarily the best tool for cross-cultural investigations. …
Ethnographies of Austerity
This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural thought, provoking people to rethink their relationship to time. The argument is developed with particular reference to the ethnographies of living with austerity inside the eurozone contained in this special issue. The studies identify the ways the past may b…
Demons and the Devil
In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local …
Historicity and Anthropology
Historicity has emerged within anthropology to refer to cultural perceptions of the past. It calls attention to the techniques such as rituals that people use to learn about the past, the principles that guide them, and the performances and genres in which information about the past can be presented. The concept is in essential tension with the meaning of the term as "factuality" within the discipline of history and in wider society. Anthropologi…
Syncretism and Its Synonyms
The subject matter of anthropology has gradually changed over the last twenty years. Nowadays ethnographers rarely search for a stable or original form of cultures; they are usually more concerned with revealing how local communities respond to historical change and global influences. The burgeoning literature on transnational flows of ideas, global institutions, and cultural mixture reflects this shift of attention. This increased awareness of c…
Dreams of Treasure
This article observes that dreams of treasure may not only be about getting rich. In Greece, a country with an illustrious ancient past and a less glorious present, history represents a vital national resource and enduring topic of social concern, not to say anxiety. Dreams of treasure arise as unconscious by-products of this intense historical consciousness in Greece. The treasures considered here are secretions of history, deposited at the mome…
Fields in dreams
In this study of Greek dreams at moments of illness and anxiety I explore the relationship between individual experience and cultural representation. Ethnographic data and textual sources show that the image of fields recurs in dreams, thus throwing into question the uniqueness of personal experience as well as the concept of "experience" as something separate from cultural narratives. Yet these same images might also be independently generated "…
Erotic Dreams And Nightmares From Antiquity To The Present
The history of erotic dreams, nightmares, and erotic nightmares offers a valuable opportunity to study how such dreams tested Western ideas about the self, desire, and self-control. Like Foucault, I find it more productive to analyse these dreams, and the struggles to introject them, as sites of self-making rather than of repression. Erotic dreams and nightmares have been inflected by various historical strategies of self-making, themselves produ…
Who Owns the Rotonda
Description d'un conflit entre l'Etat grec et l'Eglise orthodoxe au sujet de l'attribution de la Rotonda, bâtiment historique de l'epoque romaine, a la Thessalonique : monument seculier ou lieu de culte sacre ? L'A. analyse ce conflit comme l'expression d'une opposition plus permanente entre l'Eglise orthodoxe et l'Etat grec quant a la legitimite pour definir les criteres de l'identite nationale et ethnique. L'Eglise met en jeu son autorite pour …
Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture
This article examines its title words as descriptions of cultural fusion. Some critics have asserted that the idea of cultural mixture posits two pure cultures that come into contact, thereby trapping one in the very logic of purity that these terms promise to transcend. Although this view is found to be unpersuasive, it does call attention to the temporality of mixture. Mixed entities form, become naturalized as coherent, and then mix again to f…
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Dreaming and Historical Consciousness
Le Diable chez les Grecs à l'époque contemporaine
Si le Diable est bel et bien un personnage du christianisme orthodoxe, l'attitude populaire envers Satan, en Grèce, ne saurait se résumer à une simple « croyance ». Certaines personnes instrumentalisent l'idée du Diable pour duper leurs co-villageois ; d'autres sont sceptiques à son sujet ; beaucoup s'attachent à évaluer les histoires dans lesquelles le Diable figure pour savoir ce qui pourrait s'y cacher ; et presque tout le monde a un usage mét…
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. STEPHEN D. GLAZIER, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. viii + 542 pp., select topical bibliography, contributors, index
Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia and the Greek Diaspora
An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by …
Art. XXVIII.— Biographical Sketches of the Mogul Emperor Jehángír; his Sons Sultán Khurram and Sultán Parvíz; his Grandson Sultán Shujá; and the principal Personages of his Court
This very curious and highly-finished painting represents the court of the Emperor Jehángír at Agra, apparently at night. The name of the artist does not appear on the picture; but as the emperor's grandson, Sultán Shujá, who is here portrayed as a boy of about nine years of age, was twenty-four years old when appointed to the government of Bengal in a.d. 1639, the date of the painting may be assumed to be about a.d. 1625
Premarital Counseling, a Manual for Ministers
Mixed Marriages
Counseling the divorcee
The religious experience of two adolescent girls
The unmarried or formerly married
A child in our midst
Behind the mask of conformity
Adolescent Religion
How effective are our marriage ministries? A critical survey
Demons and the Devil
In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local …
Strategies of suffering and their interpretation(s)
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation of religions may be validated as a mode of resistan…
The Social Production of Indifference
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Fields in dreams
In this study of Greek dreams at moments of illness and anxiety I explore the relationship between individual experience and cultural representation. Ethnographic data and textual sources show that the image of fields recurs in dreams, thus throwing into question the uniqueness of personal experience as well as the concept of "experience" as something separate from cultural narratives. Yet these same images might also be independently generated "…
Ordered Universes
Ordered Universes: Approaches to the Anthropology of Religion. MORTON KLASS. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. xiv + 177 pp., notes, bibliography, Index
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. STEPHEN D. GLAZIER, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. viii + 542 pp., select topical bibliography, contributors, index
Who Owns the Rotonda
Description d'un conflit entre l'Etat grec et l'Eglise orthodoxe au sujet de l'attribution de la Rotonda, bâtiment historique de l'epoque romaine, a la Thessalonique : monument seculier ou lieu de culte sacre ? L'A. analyse ce conflit comme l'expression d'une opposition plus permanente entre l'Eglise orthodoxe et l'Etat grec quant a la legitimite pour definir les criteres de l'identite nationale et ethnique. L'Eglise met en jeu son autorite pour …
Religion
Religion:. Humanist Interpretation. Raymond Firth. London: Routledge, 1996. + 243 pp., notes, references, Index
Syncretism and Its Synonyms
The subject matter of anthropology has gradually changed over the last twenty years. Nowadays ethnographers rarely search for a stable or original form of cultures; they are usually more concerned with revealing how local communities respond to historical change and global influences. The burgeoning literature on transnational flows of ideas, global institutions, and cultural mixture reflects this shift of attention. This increased awareness of c…
Secularism as an impediment to anthropological research
Dans cet article, l'A. souleve la question de la place des croyances et attitudes religieuses dans la recherche anthropologique, de la laicite en anthropologie, en tant qu'elle peut constituer un obstacle a la recherche
Erotic Dreams And Nightmares From Antiquity To The Present
The history of erotic dreams, nightmares, and erotic nightmares offers a valuable opportunity to study how such dreams tested Western ideas about the self, desire, and self-control. Like Foucault, I find it more productive to analyse these dreams, and the struggles to introject them, as sites of self-making rather than of repression. Erotic dreams and nightmares have been inflected by various historical strategies of self-making, themselves produ…
Dreams of Treasure
This article observes that dreams of treasure may not only be about getting rich. In Greece, a country with an illustrious ancient past and a less glorious present, history represents a vital national resource and enduring topic of social concern, not to say anxiety. Dreams of treasure arise as unconscious by-products of this intense historical consciousness in Greece. The treasures considered here are secretions of history, deposited at the mome…
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