Michael Oppitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 189246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Oppitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Oppitz |
| SIGNATURE | OPPITZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beauty in life and in death
Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. "Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 51-70
Nachruf für Prof. Dr. Lorenz Georg Löffler
Ritual Objects of the Qiang Shamans
Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
This work is a bilingual (Nepali an English) edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past 20 years in Jajarkot district, western Nepal. Throughout that area, shamans continue to fulfil important therapeutic roles, diagnosis problems, treating afflictions, and restoring order and balance to the lives of their clients and their communities. Each of these efforts incorporate extensive, meticulously me…
Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs
Drawings on Shamanic Drums
Le tambour rẽ et son pouvoir
Le tambour rẽ est reparti dans a une aire relativement restreinte de l’Himalaya nepalais, ayant pour centre le pays des Magar septentrionaux etablis au sud-ouest du massif de Dhaulagiri. Les membres de ce groupe ethnique par ailleurs heterogene connaissent la meme langue, le kham (c’est pourquoi on les appelle aussi Kham Magar), le meme systeme d’alliance avec mariage preferentiel de cousins croises matrilateraux, ainsi que des pratiques religieu…
Frau fur fron: Die dreierallianz bei den Magar West-Nepals
Shooting Shamans
“Shooting Shamans” is an extract from a long conversation between Michael Oppitz, the author of several anthropological books and director of the film Schamanen im Blinden Land, and Ahmed Alasti, who has filmed documentaries in Iran and is writing a thesis on Jean Rouch, drawn from a seminar on the theme “Words and Images in Anthropology” offered at the University of Texas in 1985–86. The text of the film, Shamans in a Blind Land, is analyzed in …
Eagle/Pipe/Urinal
There is no need for Marcel Broodthaers's objects to struggle to assert their claim to mythical status, for they already possess it-on two levels, in fact. First, because they are indeed exhibited as museum pieces; second, because, as signs, they already bear a heavy symbolic burden. The eagle, in whatever form it is encountered, is after all strongly invested with emblematic, mythological significance. It variously connotes strength, virility, r…
Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel
Oppitz Michael. Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel. In: L'Homme, 1974, tome 14 n°3-4. pp. 59-83
Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs
Drawings on Shamanic Drums
Frau fur fron: Die dreierallianz bei den Magar West-Nepals
Shooting Shamans
“Shooting Shamans” is an extract from a long conversation between Michael Oppitz, the author of several anthropological books and director of the film Schamanen im Blinden Land, and Ahmed Alasti, who has filmed documentaries in Iran and is writing a thesis on Jean Rouch, drawn from a seminar on the theme “Words and Images in Anthropology” offered at the University of Texas in 1985–86. The text of the film, Shamans in a Blind Land, is analyzed in …
Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel
Oppitz Michael. Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel. In: L'Homme, 1974, tome 14 n°3-4. pp. 59-83
Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel
Oppitz Michael. Shangri-la, le panneau de marque d'un flipper. Analyse sémiologique d'un mythe visuel. In: L'Homme, 1974, tome 14 n°3-4. pp. 59-83
Eagle/Pipe/Urinal
There is no need for Marcel Broodthaers's objects to struggle to assert their claim to mythical status, for they already possess it-on two levels, in fact. First, because they are indeed exhibited as museum pieces; second, because, as signs, they already bear a heavy symbolic burden. The eagle, in whatever form it is encountered, is after all strongly invested with emblematic, mythological significance. It variously connotes strength, virility, r…
Shooting Shamans
“Shooting Shamans” is an extract from a long conversation between Michael Oppitz, the author of several anthropological books and director of the film Schamanen im Blinden Land, and Ahmed Alasti, who has filmed documentaries in Iran and is writing a thesis on Jean Rouch, drawn from a seminar on the theme “Words and Images in Anthropology” offered at the University of Texas in 1985–86. The text of the film, Shamans in a Blind Land, is analyzed in …
Frau fur fron: Die dreierallianz bei den Magar West-Nepals
Le tambour rẽ et son pouvoir
Le tambour rẽ est reparti dans a une aire relativement restreinte de l’Himalaya nepalais, ayant pour centre le pays des Magar septentrionaux etablis au sud-ouest du massif de Dhaulagiri. Les membres de ce groupe ethnique par ailleurs heterogene connaissent la meme langue, le kham (c’est pourquoi on les appelle aussi Kham Magar), le meme systeme d’alliance avec mariage preferentiel de cousins croises matrilateraux, ainsi que des pratiques religieu…
Drawings on Shamanic Drums
Naxi and Moso Ethnography: Kin, Rites, Pictographs
Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts
This work is a bilingual (Nepali an English) edition of three complete, representative repertoires of shaman texts collected over the past 20 years in Jajarkot district, western Nepal. Throughout that area, shamans continue to fulfil important therapeutic roles, diagnosis problems, treating afflictions, and restoring order and balance to the lives of their clients and their communities. Each of these efforts incorporate extensive, meticulously me…
Ritual Objects of the Qiang Shamans
Nachruf für Prof. Dr. Lorenz Georg Löffler
Beauty in life and in death
Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. "Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth." Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 51-70
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