Mark Jamieson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Jamieson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamieson |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIESON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2336-0398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond Pleasure and Purpose: The State of Being Theory of Happiness
This article introduces the state of being theory of happiness, a humanistic framework that defines happiness as an intrinsic condition of inner connection and coherence that is present beneath thoughts, emotions, and experiences. It builds upon the growing consensus among researchers that happiness reflects a unitive and holistic phenomenon. The theory is grounded in a mixed-method study of 497 survey responses across a broad, global demographic…
Las fiestas de Santo Domingo como rito subversivo: Percepciones miskitas de los rituales mestizos en Bluefields y Managua
This article examines the way in which a Miskito catholic catechist perceives the Santo Domingo festivities, an event that must be understood as a ritual that emphasizes the humiliation of the Saint, the unease of the sacred symbols and the regeneration. One can see that the horror that the catechist experiments, when he traveled with the anthropologist and he observed this type of ritual; it has little to do with the lack of balanced judgment fo…
El lenguaje y el arte del desconsuelo entre los miskitos
This article views two forms of actions, which are classified into anxieties and desires, resulted from the rituals referred to the imminent transition from adolescence into adulthood, among the Miskito adolescents. This first one is a mask dance, known as "Mosko", which is performed for the most part by single young men and women from the Kakabila community. The second one is a believed and clearly contagious condition known as "Grisi Siknis", w…
Reorienting Through the Body: The Correlation Among Self-Transcendent Emotion Experiences and Interoceptive Awareness
The primary research question guiding this study was: In what ways do self-transcendent emotion-experiences (awe, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness) correlate with interoceptive awareness? Two studies were implemented in 2024 to conduct the inquiry. The first was a correlational study involving a measure of interoceptive awareness and assessments of awe, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness. We recruited two diverse demographic samples of …
Television consumption drives perceptions of female body attractiveness in a population undergoing technological transition
Perceptions of physical attractiveness vary across cultural groups, particularly for female body size and shape. It has been hypothesized that visual media propagates Western "thin ideals." However, because cross-cultural studies typically consider groups highly differentiated on a number of factors, identifying the causal factors has thus far been impossible. In the present research, we conducted "naturalistic" and controlled experiments to test…
Theodicy and Lovindeer's 'Wild Gilbert' on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast
This article considers the impact of Lovindeer's reggae recording 'Wild Gilbert' on the people of eastern Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast who experienced Hurricane Joan in October 1988. Lovindeer's song which was released shortly afterwards offered a humorous account of Hurricane Gilbert providing a theodicy, examined here that made moral sense for the people of Nicaragua affected by Joan at the time and which was still very popular during the period …
Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua
Internalization of a thin ideal has been posited as a key risk factor in the development of pathological eating attitudes. Cross-culturally, studies have found a preference for heavier bodies in populations with reduced access to visual media compared to Western populations. As yet, however, there has been little attempt to control for confounding variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological facto…
Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations. Miskitu speakers in Nicaragua, however, have adopted new kin terms that appear to have fundamentally changed the idea system used to generate their kin terms historically. The shape of the changes that have occu…
Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
Journal Article Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body Get access Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 372. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 4535 0. Michelle Jamieson Michelle Jamieson University of New South Wales [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
A journey into symbolic disorder: Miskitu reactions to Mestizo Catholic ritual in Nicaragua
This article considers a Catholic Miskitu catechist's view of Managua's festival of Santo Domingo, an event that should be understood as a 'rite of reversal' emphasizing ritual humiliation of the saint, symbolic disorder and regeneration. It shows that the horror experienced by the catechist witnessing this series of rituals, then travelling with the anthropologist, had less to do with a lack of a relativist appreciation for the practices of othe…
Bloodman, Manatee Owner, and the destruction of the Turtle Book: Ulwa and Miskitu representations of knowledge and the moral economy
This article argues that comparative analysis in anthropology is particularly enlightening where contexts under study are most similar. Comparisons of this kind are especially useful in that they allow us to abstract the similarities, focus on the differences, and isolate the reasons for these. To demonstrate this the article considers how the peoples of Karawala and Kakabila, two Miskitu-speaking villages in Nicaragua, represent obscure aspects …
Mother Scorpion: "Women's Politics and Affinal Relations among the Miskitu and other "Brideservice Societies
This article is concerned with modelling the logic of social processes and cultural representations that inform "politics and gender in simple societies" (Collier and Rosaldo 1981 Collier, J. F. and Rosaldo, M. Z. 1981. "Politics and Gender in Simple Societies". In Sexual Meanings, Edited by: Ortner, S. and Whitehead, H. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Google Scholar]), and considers the well-known ideal type presented by Collier and Rosal…
Sorcery, ghostly attack, and the presence and absence of shamans among the Ulwa and Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua
This article considers mystical violence and the role of shamans in two villages in eastern Nicaragua. In one of these villages - a predominantly Ulwa community called Karawala - sorcery accusations and intimations constitute an important area of discourse in discussions of the causes of misfortune, while in the other - a Miskitu community called Kakabila - ghostly attacks are much more significant. The analysis is comparative in focus, presentin…
Mask and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents
In search of the last 'wild' Apaches of the Sierra Madre
Miskitu Or Creole? Ethnic Identity And The Moral Economy In A Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article examines dual 'ethnic identity' in a bilingual and 'mixed' Miskitu and Creole village in eastern Nicaragua. Following Kindblad's (2001) discussion of the existence of Parry and Bloch's (1989) 'short-term' and 'long-term cycles of exchange', concerned respectively with individual appropriation and the reproduction of 'the social and cosmic order', among the Miskitu of neighbouring Tasbapauni, it concludes that the terms of 'ethnic ide…
Compassion, anger and broken hearts
Alas, mother, poor mother! alas, mother, where have you gone? Here are your children crying for you; Yesterday we were talking together, but now you are lying there. Alas, mother, did you go from among us in anger? Did we not love you? Your husband sits outside with his head hung down. Here the women are sitting with their heads covered, All for love of you. But you have abandoned us. Alas, that I shall never see your face again; That I shall nev…
Ownership of Sea-Shrimp Production and Perceptions of Economic Opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article on the catching and processing of sea shrimp investigates the relationship between differing degrees of access to the means of production and the generation of economic inequalities among the Miskitu people of Kakabila in Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon. The widely held Kakabila notion that the production of wealth among some entails a concomitant impoverishment of others (Foster's of the limited good) is shown, in the context of the local …
Masks and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents
This article considers two forms of action among Miskitu adolescents, both of which encode in ritualised form anxieties and desires concerned with the imminent categorical transition from adolescence to adulthood. The first of these is a masked dance known as 'mosko' which is performed mainly by both young unmarried man and women in the village of Kakabila. The second is a supposedly culture-bound, and evidently contagious, condition known as 'gr…
It's shame that makes men and women enemies: The politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila
This article argues that 'joking' and 'respect' among the Miskitu of Kakabila in Eastern Nicaragua are best understood as diametrically opposed performance styles or registers which mediate both symmetry in same-sex relationships between men and asymmetry in two quite different cross-sex relationships. It concludes by arguing that 'shame' in Kakabila is an important technique for ensuring that these performance styles, 'joking' and 'respect', are…
Exploratory Workshop on Anthropology and Policy
The Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Contemporary Anthropology and Studies of Identity and Social Change 2. Identity in the Broad Sense: The Other as Model 3. Literature as Mirror: Different Views of Social Change in Bororo Society 4. Self-Image as Formed in the Play of Mirrors: Structural Distance and Reference Values 5. The Salesian Missions in Mato Grosso 6. The Salesians and the Progressive Church: The Reshaping of an Image 7. Missionaries and Indians: Identification Created thr…
Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourses
The Place of Counterfeits in Regimes of Value: An Anthropological Approach
La facon dont copier et reproduire influe sur la valeur d'un objet original ne peut vraiment etre comprise, suggere l'A., que si l'importance premiere des mythes d'origine qu'on attribue a cet objet est prise en compte. Il examine quatre regimes de valeur distincts regulant la production et la distribution illegales de copies de disques de collection rares. Il demontre que les mythes d'origine qui accompagnent ces objets de prestige relevent soit…
The Place of Counterfeits in Regimes of Value: An Anthropological Approach
La facon dont copier et reproduire influe sur la valeur d'un objet original ne peut vraiment etre comprise, suggere l'A., que si l'importance premiere des mythes d'origine qu'on attribue a cet objet est prise en compte. Il examine quatre regimes de valeur distincts regulant la production et la distribution illegales de copies de disques de collection rares. Il demontre que les mythes d'origine qui accompagnent ces objets de prestige relevent soit…
Linguistic Innovation and Relationship Terminology in the Pearl Lagoon Basin of Nicaragua
Cet article se propose de tracer les changements dans la terminologie miskitu de relations au sein de l'histoire plus generale de la langue miskitu et des peuples de langue miskitu. En se concentrant specifiquement sur les Miskitu bilingues anglophones du bassin de la Lagune des Perles au Nicaragua, l'A. demontre qu'une approche ethnographique sensible a l'etude des systemes de terminologie de relations et des transformations subtiles de ces syst…
It's shame that makes men and women enemies: The politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila
This article argues that 'joking' and 'respect' among the Miskitu of Kakabila in Eastern Nicaragua are best understood as diametrically opposed performance styles or registers which mediate both symmetry in same-sex relationships between men and asymmetry in two quite different cross-sex relationships. It concludes by arguing that 'shame' in Kakabila is an important technique for ensuring that these performance styles, 'joking' and 'respect', are…
Sorcery, ghostly attack, and the presence and absence of shamans among the Ulwa and Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua
This article considers mystical violence and the role of shamans in two villages in eastern Nicaragua. In one of these villages - a predominantly Ulwa community called Karawala - sorcery accusations and intimations constitute an important area of discourse in discussions of the causes of misfortune, while in the other - a Miskitu community called Kakabila - ghostly attacks are much more significant. The analysis is comparative in focus, presentin…
Miskitu Or Creole? Ethnic Identity And The Moral Economy In A Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article examines dual 'ethnic identity' in a bilingual and 'mixed' Miskitu and Creole village in eastern Nicaragua. Following Kindblad's (2001) discussion of the existence of Parry and Bloch's (1989) 'short-term' and 'long-term cycles of exchange', concerned respectively with individual appropriation and the reproduction of 'the social and cosmic order', among the Miskitu of neighbouring Tasbapauni, it concludes that the terms of 'ethnic ide…
Masks and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents
This article considers two forms of action among Miskitu adolescents, both of which encode in ritualised form anxieties and desires concerned with the imminent categorical transition from adolescence to adulthood. The first of these is a masked dance known as 'mosko' which is performed mainly by both young unmarried man and women in the village of Kakabila. The second is a supposedly culture-bound, and evidently contagious, condition known as 'gr…
Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua
Internalization of a thin ideal has been posited as a key risk factor in the development of pathological eating attitudes. Cross-culturally, studies have found a preference for heavier bodies in populations with reduced access to visual media compared to Western populations. As yet, however, there has been little attempt to control for confounding variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological facto…
Ownership of Sea-Shrimp Production and Perceptions of Economic Opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article on the catching and processing of sea shrimp investigates the relationship between differing degrees of access to the means of production and the generation of economic inequalities among the Miskitu people of Kakabila in Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon. The widely held Kakabila notion that the production of wealth among some entails a concomitant impoverishment of others (Foster's of the limited good) is shown, in the context of the local …
The Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Contemporary Anthropology and Studies of Identity and Social Change 2. Identity in the Broad Sense: The Other as Model 3. Literature as Mirror: Different Views of Social Change in Bororo Society 4. Self-Image as Formed in the Play of Mirrors: Structural Distance and Reference Values 5. The Salesian Missions in Mato Grosso 6. The Salesians and the Progressive Church: The Reshaping of an Image 7. Missionaries and Indians: Identification Created thr…
Bloodman, Manatee Owner, and the destruction of the Turtle Book: Ulwa and Miskitu representations of knowledge and the moral economy
This article argues that comparative analysis in anthropology is particularly enlightening where contexts under study are most similar. Comparisons of this kind are especially useful in that they allow us to abstract the similarities, focus on the differences, and isolate the reasons for these. To demonstrate this the article considers how the peoples of Karawala and Kakabila, two Miskitu-speaking villages in Nicaragua, represent obscure aspects …
Reorienting Through the Body: The Correlation Among Self-Transcendent Emotion Experiences and Interoceptive Awareness
The primary research question guiding this study was: In what ways do self-transcendent emotion-experiences (awe, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness) correlate with interoceptive awareness? Two studies were implemented in 2024 to conduct the inquiry. The first was a correlational study involving a measure of interoceptive awareness and assessments of awe, gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness. We recruited two diverse demographic samples of …
Television consumption drives perceptions of female body attractiveness in a population undergoing technological transition
Perceptions of physical attractiveness vary across cultural groups, particularly for female body size and shape. It has been hypothesized that visual media propagates Western "thin ideals." However, because cross-cultural studies typically consider groups highly differentiated on a number of factors, identifying the causal factors has thus far been impossible. In the present research, we conducted "naturalistic" and controlled experiments to test…
Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations. Miskitu speakers in Nicaragua, however, have adopted new kin terms that appear to have fundamentally changed the idea system used to generate their kin terms historically. The shape of the changes that have occu…
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourses
Contratos con los dawanka y procesos productivos entre los miskitos de las comunidades costeras de la Raas
Este artículo examina el rol de los 'espíritus dueños' o dawanka quienes para los miskitos controlan la disponibilidad de peces y animales de caza, al igual que el acceso a otros recursos. Mientras que la literatura existente sobre las relaciones entre seres similares y otros pueblos amerindios tiende a demostrar una reciprocidad balanceada o generalizada que enfatiza la reproducción social, las relaciones entre los dawanka y los miskitos de Kaka…
Contratos con los dawanka y procesos productivos entre los miskitos de las comunidades costeras de la Raas
Este artículo examina el rol de los 'espíritus dueños' o dawanka quienes para los miskitos controlan la disponibilidad de peces y animales de caza, al igual que el acceso a otros recursos. Mientras que la literatura existente sobre las relaciones entre seres similares y otros pueblos amerindios tiende a demostrar una reciprocidad balanceada o generalizada que enfatiza la reproducción social, las relaciones entre los dawanka y los miskitos de Kaka…
Linguistic Innovation and Relationship Terminology in the Pearl Lagoon Basin of Nicaragua
Cet article se propose de tracer les changements dans la terminologie miskitu de relations au sein de l'histoire plus generale de la langue miskitu et des peuples de langue miskitu. En se concentrant specifiquement sur les Miskitu bilingues anglophones du bassin de la Lagune des Perles au Nicaragua, l'A. demontre qu'une approche ethnographique sensible a l'etude des systemes de terminologie de relations et des transformations subtiles de ces syst…
Exploratory Workshop on Anthropology and Policy
The Play of Mirrors: The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other
Contemporary Anthropology and Studies of Identity and Social Change 2. Identity in the Broad Sense: The Other as Model 3. Literature as Mirror: Different Views of Social Change in Bororo Society 4. Self-Image as Formed in the Play of Mirrors: Structural Distance and Reference Values 5. The Salesian Missions in Mato Grosso 6. The Salesians and the Progressive Church: The Reshaping of an Image 7. Missionaries and Indians: Identification Created thr…
Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna Culture through Its Discourses
The Place of Counterfeits in Regimes of Value: An Anthropological Approach
La facon dont copier et reproduire influe sur la valeur d'un objet original ne peut vraiment etre comprise, suggere l'A., que si l'importance premiere des mythes d'origine qu'on attribue a cet objet est prise en compte. Il examine quatre regimes de valeur distincts regulant la production et la distribution illegales de copies de disques de collection rares. Il demontre que les mythes d'origine qui accompagnent ces objets de prestige relevent soit…
It's shame that makes men and women enemies: The politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila
This article argues that 'joking' and 'respect' among the Miskitu of Kakabila in Eastern Nicaragua are best understood as diametrically opposed performance styles or registers which mediate both symmetry in same-sex relationships between men and asymmetry in two quite different cross-sex relationships. It concludes by arguing that 'shame' in Kakabila is an important technique for ensuring that these performance styles, 'joking' and 'respect', are…
Masks and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents
This article considers two forms of action among Miskitu adolescents, both of which encode in ritualised form anxieties and desires concerned with the imminent categorical transition from adolescence to adulthood. The first of these is a masked dance known as 'mosko' which is performed mainly by both young unmarried man and women in the village of Kakabila. The second is a supposedly culture-bound, and evidently contagious, condition known as 'gr…
Compassion, anger and broken hearts
Alas, mother, poor mother! alas, mother, where have you gone? Here are your children crying for you; Yesterday we were talking together, but now you are lying there. Alas, mother, did you go from among us in anger? Did we not love you? Your husband sits outside with his head hung down. Here the women are sitting with their heads covered, All for love of you. But you have abandoned us. Alas, that I shall never see your face again; That I shall nev…
Ownership of Sea-Shrimp Production and Perceptions of Economic Opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article on the catching and processing of sea shrimp investigates the relationship between differing degrees of access to the means of production and the generation of economic inequalities among the Miskitu people of Kakabila in Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon. The widely held Kakabila notion that the production of wealth among some entails a concomitant impoverishment of others (Foster's of the limited good) is shown, in the context of the local …
Miskitu Or Creole? Ethnic Identity And The Moral Economy In A Nicaraguan Miskitu Village
This article examines dual 'ethnic identity' in a bilingual and 'mixed' Miskitu and Creole village in eastern Nicaragua. Following Kindblad's (2001) discussion of the existence of Parry and Bloch's (1989) 'short-term' and 'long-term cycles of exchange', concerned respectively with individual appropriation and the reproduction of 'the social and cosmic order', among the Miskitu of neighbouring Tasbapauni, it concludes that the terms of 'ethnic ide…
In search of the last 'wild' Apaches of the Sierra Madre
Mask and madness. Ritual expressions of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents
Sorcery, ghostly attack, and the presence and absence of shamans among the Ulwa and Miskitu of eastern Nicaragua
This article considers mystical violence and the role of shamans in two villages in eastern Nicaragua. In one of these villages - a predominantly Ulwa community called Karawala - sorcery accusations and intimations constitute an important area of discourse in discussions of the causes of misfortune, while in the other - a Miskitu community called Kakabila - ghostly attacks are much more significant. The analysis is comparative in focus, presentin…
Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
Journal Article Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body Get access Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 372. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 4535 0. Michelle Jamieson Michelle Jamieson University of New South Wales [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
A journey into symbolic disorder: Miskitu reactions to Mestizo Catholic ritual in Nicaragua
This article considers a Catholic Miskitu catechist's view of Managua's festival of Santo Domingo, an event that should be understood as a 'rite of reversal' emphasizing ritual humiliation of the saint, symbolic disorder and regeneration. It shows that the horror experienced by the catechist witnessing this series of rituals, then travelling with the anthropologist, had less to do with a lack of a relativist appreciation for the practices of othe…
Bloodman, Manatee Owner, and the destruction of the Turtle Book: Ulwa and Miskitu representations of knowledge and the moral economy
This article argues that comparative analysis in anthropology is particularly enlightening where contexts under study are most similar. Comparisons of this kind are especially useful in that they allow us to abstract the similarities, focus on the differences, and isolate the reasons for these. To demonstrate this the article considers how the peoples of Karawala and Kakabila, two Miskitu-speaking villages in Nicaragua, represent obscure aspects …
Mother Scorpion: "Women's Politics and Affinal Relations among the Miskitu and other "Brideservice Societies
This article is concerned with modelling the logic of social processes and cultural representations that inform "politics and gender in simple societies" (Collier and Rosaldo 1981 Collier, J. F. and Rosaldo, M. Z. 1981. "Politics and Gender in Simple Societies". In Sexual Meanings, Edited by: Ortner, S. and Whitehead, H. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Google Scholar]), and considers the well-known ideal type presented by Collier and Rosal…
Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity
Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations. Miskitu speakers in Nicaragua, however, have adopted new kin terms that appear to have fundamentally changed the idea system used to generate their kin terms historically. The shape of the changes that have occu…
Television exposure predicts body size ideals in rural Nicaragua
Internalization of a thin ideal has been posited as a key risk factor in the development of pathological eating attitudes. Cross-culturally, studies have found a preference for heavier bodies in populations with reduced access to visual media compared to Western populations. As yet, however, there has been little attempt to control for confounding variables in order to isolate the effects of media exposure from other cultural and ecological facto…
Theodicy and Lovindeer's 'Wild Gilbert' on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast
This article considers the impact of Lovindeer's reggae recording 'Wild Gilbert' on the people of eastern Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast who experienced Hurricane Joan in October 1988. Lovindeer's song which was released shortly afterwards offered a humorous account of Hurricane Gilbert providing a theodicy, examined here that made moral sense for the people of Nicaragua affected by Joan at the time and which was still very popular during the period …
Television consumption drives perceptions of female body attractiveness in a population undergoing technological transition
Perceptions of physical attractiveness vary across cultural groups, particularly for female body size and shape. It has been hypothesized that visual media propagates Western "thin ideals." However, because cross-cultural studies typically consider groups highly differentiated on a number of factors, identifying the causal factors has thus far been impossible. In the present research, we conducted "naturalistic" and controlled experiments to test…
Las fiestas de Santo Domingo como rito subversivo: Percepciones miskitas de los rituales mestizos en Bluefields y Managua
This article examines the way in which a Miskito catholic catechist perceives the Santo Domingo festivities, an event that must be understood as a ritual that emphasizes the humiliation of the Saint, the unease of the sacred symbols and the regeneration. One can see that the horror that the catechist experiments, when he traveled with the anthropologist and he observed this type of ritual; it has little to do with the lack of balanced judgment fo…
El lenguaje y el arte del desconsuelo entre los miskitos
This article views two forms of actions, which are classified into anxieties and desires, resulted from the rituals referred to the imminent transition from adolescence into adulthood, among the Miskito adolescents. This first one is a mask dance, known as "Mosko", which is performed for the most part by single young men and women from the Kakabila community. The second one is a believed and clearly contagious condition known as "Grisi Siknis", w…
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