Diana De G Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 172911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana De G Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana De G |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil. Annette Leibing. ed. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1997.245 pp
Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
Religion, Class, and Context: Continuities and discontinuities in Brazilian Umbanda
Earlier research on Afro-Brazilian religions, influenced by static and simplistic models of syncretism and acculturation, underestimated their fluid and politically sensitive nature. Recent ethnographic and historical approaches to these religions show a complex interplay among elements of Catholicism, African, and other religious practices that responds to changing political and social conditions. This processual complexity is illustrated in the…
Religion, Class, and Context: Continuities and discontinuities in Brazilian Umbanda
Earlier research on Afro-Brazilian religions, influenced by static and simplistic models of syncretism and acculturation, underestimated their fluid and politically sensitive nature. Recent ethnographic and historical approaches to these religions show a complex interplay among elements of Catholicism, African, and other religious practices that responds to changing political and social conditions. This processual complexity is illustrated in the…
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil. Annette Leibing. ed. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1997.245 pp
Religion, Class, and Context: Continuities and discontinuities in Brazilian Umbanda
Earlier research on Afro-Brazilian religions, influenced by static and simplistic models of syncretism and acculturation, underestimated their fluid and politically sensitive nature. Recent ethnographic and historical approaches to these religions show a complex interplay among elements of Catholicism, African, and other religious practices that responds to changing political and social conditions. This processual complexity is illustrated in the…
Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil
The Medical Anthropologies in Brazil. Annette Leibing. ed. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1997.245 pp
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Acculturation (1 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (1 works)